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10/10
01:41
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First in line makes me nervous
Second time it's the same
Third through nine makes a pattern
Ten times out of ten
Don't believe missing numbers
They won't fool me again
Perfect score it's familiar
Ten times out of ten
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2. |
The Great Barrier Riff
02:56
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Spent my fortune
I could use some wealth and fame
Good luck next time
We would've thanked you if you came
Don't say maybe
You gotta stand by what you said
Underwater
Let the waves crash on my head
I don't like it it's no good
Waking up the neighborhood
Respect your elders
They already fucked it up
Drink one for me
It's enough to fill my cup
Shake in my shoes
Keep on acting like I'm bored
Surf the waters
But I never surfed before
I don't like it nor should you
Will you change your point of view?
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3. |
Buyer's Market
03:20
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Separation takes its toll the world is full of scary folks and
There's only so far you detach before you know you've met your match
Separate the lie from fact
Our livelihood has been attacked by
The living dead that shuffle through
This gaping hole the size of you and
The metal girders twist and break
You'll never stop at second place til
The huddled masses writhe in pain at
Every mention of your cursed name
Carry on how can we carry on
Where are the lights at dawn
How did you turn that off?
Hold it because you stole it
And then you sold it and it's a buyers market
Try it before you buy it
Cause we supply it and we're engulfed in darkness
Hold it because you stole it
And then you sold it and it's a buyers market
Try it before you buy it
Cause we supply it and we're engulfed in darkness now
I'm so sick of dreams of me
So sick of dreams tomorrow brings and
It's funny how you watch us drown
So close to grab and drag you down so
You separate the lie from fact
It's always such a daunting task
When the bastards on the battlefields
Are using us as human shields
Carry on how can we carry on?
Can it be "moving on" when you're still in the same place?
Hold it because you stole it
And then you sold it and it's a buyers market
Try it before you buy it
Cause we supply it and we're engulfed in darkness
Hold it because you stole it
And then you sold it and it's a buyers market
Try it before you buy it
Cause we supply it and we're engulfed in darkness
It's the hardest part of living life
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4. |
Don't Debate Me
03:48
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Let us agree to disagree
Even at a price that isn't free
The terms and the circumstances changed
Ending with your face rearranged
Why must you be so belligerent?
Even with the time and money spent
It's clear that our plan has gone to hell
But who is at fault I'll never tell
Don't you debate me
Don't you berate me
Don't you debate me
Don't emulate me
Whoever said agree to disagree
Clearly they have never met me
So check all the tapes and photographs
You will see I have the last laugh
Can we talk about it? Not now
Bottle up your thoughts and write ‘em down
Can we talk about it somehow?
Yeah we can talk, right fuckin’ now!
Don't you debate me
Don't you erase me
Don't you debate me
Don't emulate me
You're wrong, you're so wrong (x4)
Don't you debate me
Don't you berate me
Don't you debate me
Don't emulate me
Don't you debate me
Don't you erase me
Don't you debate me
Don't emulate me
Don't you debate me
Don't you berate me
Don't you debate me
Don't emulate me
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5. |
The Scene's Obscene
04:16
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You show off your stick and poke
Of your own lyrics that you wrote
Two hours late, you bum a smoke
And a couple bucks, five dollars at the door
There is no room to breathe
At least you're in good company
Discerning taste and homemade tapes
Don't mean you're not all human waste
You're a symptom not the cause
And yet your symptoms give me pause
When your distressed Doc Martens came from Lands’ End
When your vintage jean jacket’s older than your girlfriend
If you feed them City Wides, then they won't run and hide
What makes all these basements bring out the worst in you?
The scene’s obscene
The scene it will never die
But for all it's done it oughta try
You mall punks and predators
Will come around and get what you deserve
Tube amps and analog
Just echo all your awful thoughts
That Big Muff Pi joke oughta die
It creeped her out the first time
When your distressed Doc Martens came from Lands’ End
When your vintage jean jacket’s older than your girlfriend
If you feed them City Wides, say it's cold out stay inside
If it worked for Dean Martin why won't it work for you?
The scene’s obscene
So check the news, you'll be there soon here's
Advice to keep, don't be a fucking creep
So check the news, someday you'll be there soon oh
This shit's too deep, some day you will see
When your distressed Doc Martens came from Lands’ End
When your vintage jean jacket’s older than your girlfriend
If you feed them City Wides, then they won't run and hide
What makes all these basements bring out the worst in you?
The scene’s obscene
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6. |
Dumpster Full Of Bones
03:10
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You're cool, aloof, detached it seems
So am I but just about different things
It's a seller’s market I’m just a buyer
Hold me like you hold a towel from the dryer
With you it seems I can talk about anything
And that includes how I'm the worst for you
I've got a bad attitude I'll fucking prove it
Your sunny outlook I'll surgically remove it
Cleaning out my closet, I’m cleaning out my playpen
Get a big trash bag I've got a lot of skeletons
If I gave you a seventh chance
Does that count as romance?
I'm worse off not being hurt by you
Let's stop and think this through
You can't even call it a breakup
A dead elephant in the room
If nothing's intact in the first place you're screwed
You've got a bad attitude I'll fucking prove it
Your gloomy outlook I’ll forcibly improve it
Cleaning out my closet, I’m cleaning out your playpen
Get a big trash bag I've got a lot of skeletons
No I can't stand the hype ‘cause I know where it came from
You say you love me? Name three of my albums
You can't get to heaven with that tattoo
If you think that's all that's stopping you
Then BOY HAVE I GOT BAD NEWS FOR YOU
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7. |
Hold Her Hand
03:52
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Taking a stab at the options you have and they're running out
Losing the fight with the dogs at my throat and I'm bleeding out
Hop in my car and it's grinding my gears I can't breeze on through
But I forgot that now I became traffic by trying to get to you
I am so agreeable you'll see
One for you and 99 for me
You cannot hold her hand again, at least in this life
You beg and plead but what you need is a brand new life
You fabricate and validate a short forever
Well what I had meant is I'm awfully content to just kick the can
Before I retreat I pick it off the street and slice up my hand
So stab me with icicles, melt in the snow, it's untraceable
Stuck in a crowd of identical souls that are irreplaceable
Oh you're no good
Don't die right now
Oh you're still alive
Don't die on this hill
Oh admit you're wrong
Don't die for your sins
I am so respectable you'll see
It's a biohazard here with me
You cannot hold her hand again, at least in this life
You beg and plead but what you need is a brand new life
You fabricate and validate a short forever
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8. |
It Gets Worse
02:48
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Breath is fogging up in the frost
Dead deer bloating up as it rots oh
It's no metaphor it's the real thing
Juxtapose these radical feelings
Chase the horror with something special
Turn your brain off you're gonna stress yourself out
It gets worse from here on out
And It gets worse so far beyond your wildest dreams
It gets worse from here on out
And It gets worse so far beyond imagination
Fall in love fall head over heels
Check the dumpster for your next meal oh
Hate, despair, and love coexisting
See the beauty here, stop resisting
Give them something to laugh about
Break your nose the blood gushes out oh
Win them over, charm them instead
Don't let them know you're fucked in the head
If you remember times that were special
Just forget it, you're gonna stress yourself out
It gets worse from here on out
And It gets worse so far beyond your wildest dreams
It gets worse from here on out
And It gets worse so far beyond your wildest fears
It gets worse from here on out
And It gets worse so far beyond your wildest dreams
It gets worse from here on out
And It gets worse so far beyond imagination
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9. |
Rhiannon Herman
03:51
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Placed it seems in a dream
I hide in a house obscured by trees
And we meet:
“I don’t know you and you don’t know me
But I swear to God that you look familiar
Are we lovers in another life?”
She said “You must be mistaken
For as you can see I am
Rhiannon Herman (x4)
I’m not your family (x4)
[Both, overlaid] (x4)
I scream but I am unheard
Attacked by my father’s doppelgänger
And I find the pictures hanging up on your wall
That were never taken in another universe
Friends and family that I can’t recall
I guess now I’m a stranger
For when I’m asleep you are
Rhiannon Herman (x4)
I’m not your family (x4)
Get out of my house now (x4)
Is this the real world or am I in Hell?
How can I trust you and how can I tell?
Your family’s my family but they’re not the same
Rhiannon Herman you know that you love me
This isn’t your maiden name
This world it means nothing there’s no repercussions
So look for me when I’m awake
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10. |
Beer Money
03:56
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I bust my ass
For cold hard cash
Day in, day out
Twist words, twist and shout
Who needs honey?
Just beer money
Silver and gold
To have and to hold
We are losing the war a decade before we fought a single battle
Treating your fellow man as best as you can is not this big a hassle
No incentive you gave successfully makes me want to sign that contract
We are losing the war a decade before it starts
You reveal your machinations
Just as you're too drunk to speak
If loose lips bring pink slips then I'll
Decorate my walls with fuchsia
We are losing the war a decade before we fought a single battle
We are losing the war a decade before we even have been drafted
Na (x74)
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11. |
Mixing Liquors
05:11
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When your intentions come as a surprise
Leg cramps and sprains on a mental exercise
Spending a decade buildings shacks of cards
When they collapse they will not crash too hard
And I think you're taking this far worse than you should
I wouldn’t worry if I were you
Rest your head
We should bury it
Carry on instead
Faction's reactions serve to separate
Blink once to learn why not to hesitate
And I think you're taking this far worse than you should
And your pained dramatic fainting does you no good
And our bluff has brought us far enough
Out of the ashes arise lighter ashes
That maybe get picked up by the wind
Their new purpose is to take purchase
In different soil where life can begin
I wouldn’t worry if I were you
Rest your head
We should bury it
Carry on instead
I wouldn’t worry if I were you
Rest your head
We should bury it
Carry on instead
(Underneath:
I think you’re taking this far
Far worse and I would rest your head
I think you’re taking this far
So carry on instead)
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12. |
Wreck Of The Old 476
06:51
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I am the cigarette you flicked out the window
Explosion of embers at a hundred miles an hour
I'm no longer there to stink your car up anymore
Light up another one to make your kisses taste sour
I am the Honda on the shoulder up ahead
Testing your stopping distance through a haze of booze
These are the times you tell your friends make life alive
Remember you told her that there's nothing left to lose
We can go and wreck ourselves
We can go and wreck our lives
We can go and wreck ourselves
We can never reconcile
I'm the decisions that led to this point tonight
A vodka-soaked argument that threw you out the door
This is the end result of having to be right
Collisions of steel and bone, well guess which always wins
We can go and wreck ourselves
We can go and wreck our lives
We can go and wreck ourselves
We can never reconcile
We are the architects of everyone's demise
Scanning the highways for the drivers down below
We're always and everywhere as far as I've surmised
No one expects today's the day that they are going to go
We can go and wreck ourselves
We can go and wreck our lives
OH.
We can wreck ourselves
We can wreck our lives
We can wreck ourselves
We can't reconcile
I'll rearrange your face
Can't hold her hand again
Got a bad attitude
Ten times out of ten
WRECK. OUR. SELVES.
WRECK. OUR. LIVES.
We can go and wreck ourselves
We can go and wreck our lives
We can go and wreck ourselves
We can never reconcile
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Tiger Castle Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
"Music that makes you wanna play Tony Hawk's Pro Skater."
Power pop but dumber, pop punk without
the baggage. If you like harmonized guitar leads, fast dense songs, sometimes being really dreamy, air-guitaring at the back of the basement show crowd, Jeff Rosenstock, Rozwell Kid, Diarrhea Planet, or PUP, you'll probably like us. Go Birds.
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