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Tyrant
03:22
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A nation with tired eyes
wakes up to some new lies
Still everything is great
But outside the enemy waits
We call for all the people to be vigilant
We need you to judge by yourself
About whom to trust and who defines reality
Who does it better than yourself
You were the biggest crook
You took a page right out the tyrant's playbook
Said you were here to help
Then made it all about yourself
You promised to unite
Then you sowed the great divide
You want to make this country great
While from within the enemy waits
We call for all the people to be vigilant
We need you all to judge by yourself
About whom to trust and who defines reality
Who does it better than yourself
And play your part
the situation is dire
immunize against the virus
let your heart co-conspire
baby let your soul be your tyrant
It happened once in Germany
It couldn't happen here
It happened once in Germany
But it can never happen here
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2. |
Fourteen
02:58
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My taste in music stopped evolving at fourteen
At forty-one it's quite the same as it has been
And in a way I am still that little kid
In a room upstairs
These are the melodies, the harmonies
take me away
same ideals, liberties like yesterday
the energy, the instant feel, right away
from a room up by the stairs
This is a classic, this is 5/5
These guitars make me feel like I'm alive
These are the tunes that would be blasted out all night
In a room upstairs
These are the melodies, the harmonies
take me away
same ideals, liberties like yesterday
the energy, the instant feel, right away
from a room up by the stairs
These are the melodies, the harmony
of yesterday
The vivid dreams, the instant feel
run away
the memories, realities of yesterday
from a room up by the stairs
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3. |
Scared
03:49
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Getting wasted in the sun
at the lake to have some fun
all my friends told me to come
but I feel I gotta run
But I'm scared
Yes I'm scared
I know, I know, I feel it in my bones
All I really need is just an easy time
But I'm scared as heck of what might be this time
Yes I'm scared
Watching people in the sand
watching lovers hand in hand
Nobody would unterstand
Why can't I get some of that
But I'm scared
I know, I know, like everybody does
all I really need is just to get by
But I'm scared as heck of what will be this time
Let the rain pour down on me
I know, I know, I feel in my toes
there's too much going on inside my worried mind
But I'm scared as heck this state would ever end
Yes I'm scared
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4. |
Cape
03:16
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Fascists roaming
taking over
Claiming own zones
I put on my cape
I put on my cape
This calls for one to save the day
Wildlife on the brink
of going extinct
Heat is rising
I put on my cape
I put on my cape
This calls for one to save the day
Can you see the signal in the sky
calls on you to act and you know why
Put on your cape
put on your cape
This calls for one to save the day
This calls for you to save the day
This calls for us to save the day
And the next day
And the next day
And the next day
And the next day
...
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5. |
Smooth
04:00
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You know it's just a matter of days
The scarecrows scared the crows away
Different tales to relay
So smooth
You know it's just a matter of time
waiting for the stars to align
waiting for the thread to unwind
So smooth
And the we see it's gonna go down
Nothing's gonna stop us now
Ready to die with the sound
Right now
Everything is going smooth
The chickens come home to roost
Calm yourself and let it loose
Let it loose
You know it's just a matter of days
or just another week away
this fire is here to stay
So smooth
You know it's just a matter of months
We enter the penultimate run
We're here until the cows start to come
come home
And then we watch it crumbling away
the sparks give birth to a flame
A fire that cannot be tamed
Or erased
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6. |
Greta
02:54
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She's too young to know anything
She should just go to school again
Why don't she go to therapy
to put up with her anxiety?
Who cares what she has to say
climate changes anyway
She's totally uninteresting
They talk but they're not listening
Her face looks like the epitome
of fetal alcohol syndrome
A weirdo kid who isn't sane
oh, another article again
Her food was wrapped in plastic bags
A total sham and hypocrite
Stop putting her on my TV screen
they look but they refuse to see
Make the planet great again
Make the planet great again
Make the planet great again
Or it will just have to shake us off
She is just a kid that's being used
by environmental lobby groups
A PR tool meant to be cute
that's borderline child abuse
This autistic little brat
should not be put up front like that
A puppet on her parents' strings
They talk but they're not listening
Make the planet GRETAgain
Make this planet great again
Make this planet great again
Greta, we owe better to you
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7. |
Disobedient
03:01
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Kid, my generation
and the one of your granddad
we really fucked up badly
we took way more than our fair share
We left this earth in ruins
for you to inherit a mess
We waited much too long
Left it to you to make a change
Don't believe everything they say
This is not the only way
so much now to rearrange
challenge everything
you got to live a disobedient life
you got to live a disobedient life
The shit you learn in school
You'll never need it anyway
Forget historical dates
Just learn what to take away
Reject nationalism
Nothing good ever came from that
To make good things happen
We must unite behind the plan
Don't believe everything they say
This is not the only way
so much now to rearrange
challenge everything
you got to live a disobedient life
you got to live a disobedient life
You're more than a consumer
You can make a change
It all about the difference that you make
Don't believe everything they say
This is not the only way
so much now to rearrange
challenge everything
you got to live a disobedient life
you got to live a disobedient life
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8. |
Over
04:17
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The dust slowly settles, it's been here for a while
We kicked up the ground, stampede style yeah
The sun has risen, now we realize
Our eyes still blinded by the flashing lights yeah
The night sucked us in and now it spits us out
Crawl out of the womb that cradled us in the sound
Yeah we played until we played no more
and we drank until we were sober
and we went as we were pushed forward
Can't believe it's already over
over
However it feels, nothing ever lasts
Once you come down there is no going back yeah
Everyone knows and no one admits
Now it's time to leave the sinking ship
This fellowship is about to disband
So we all know we will be back again
Yeah we played until we played no more
and we drank until we were sober
and we went as we were pushed forward
Can't believe it's already over
over
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ampersandman Berlin, Germany
I put my pants on just like the rest of you -- one leg at a time. Except, once my pants are on, I make songs that no one cares about.
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