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Misinformed Children
03:47
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It’s a time to be
Something that you’ll want to see
We’ve been forced to feed
On a watered down fallacy
Never wanted anything more than change
Take them in so young
Easy then to make them yours
Call it an education
But it’s nothing more than
Assimilation for your ease of control
Reclaim the story while we can
History’s lie is in the heads
Of misinformed children
Winners write the books
To celebrate their victories
Heroes, I say crooks
Let’s end their perpetuity
Ask the ones who never had a choice
Ask the ones who never had a voice
Reclaim the land you held so strong
The future shouldn’t all belong
To misinformed children
Take back
Take back
Reclaim the story while we can
History’s lie is in the heads
Of misinformed children
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2. |
The Symptoms are Mine
05:02
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Hurry and mend it
It’s not a dare
Was it the real thing? Could be, we’ll see
I think I was there
A real man of passion
And sporadic desire
I’m giving up only, what I, think you
Can stand to acquire
Somedays, the stranger the times
Who can say they know what’s coming now?
Making up stories
Forgetting your part
You think it’s all nothing, but it’s, the way
You’re breaking my heart
Kids on the front line
Of radical change
We never equipped them, for the, mistakes
We shouldn’t have made
Somedays, the stranger the times
Always, blinded from the highs
Who can say they know what’s coming now?
I don’t have the answers
That’s not part of my job
Most of the time, I’m in line, fearing
That I got it wrong
Forgive the folk singer
His soul’s on the line
He carries on and on and on and on and on and on and on and
No one seems to mind
Somedays, the stranger the times
Always, blinded from the highs
I say, the symptoms are mine
Some hurt, but mostly I’m fine
Who can say they know what’s coming now?
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3. |
California
04:01
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I saw sunrise from your mountains
A light that bathed me in your sage
You’re not quite how I remember
But I forgive your need to change
All the inland hills and valleys
A place my mother used to roam
And carried me before I understood
That this would come to be my home
Take me back in California
I don’t know just why I run
Away from everything that made me
Into the person I’ve become
How could you grow me and not offer
A warning of the consequence
When the path away allured me
I knew not to what expense
I’ll drag my feet across your desert
Wash my sorrow in your rain
When the ocean takes my body
The waves will know my song of praise
Take me back in California
I don’t know just why I run
Away from everything that made me
Into the person I’ve become
Into the person I’ve become
Into what I might become
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4. |
Last of Me
05:19
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5. |
And We're Gone
02:06
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Clouds around a limping sun
Power lines, rivers that don’t run
Technology from another time
Drain the well, wake to find
Water’s gone, all along
Thoughtful plans, built to fall
Superhighway connects it all
Take your pick from what you lack
Guaranteed heart attack
By design, so benign
Is this the change in me I thought I’d know
So hard to say I guess I’m letting go
I’m sorry
Cactus mouth photograph your finds
Draw some blood, prick us with your lies
Say it all with nothing in your eyes
Take what’s left, a culture slowly dies
And it’s gone
Yeah it’s gone,
And we’re gone
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6. |
Hide in the Stars
04:42
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7. |
Up and Down
01:26
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Up and down
One more time...
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8. |
The Mood
03:03
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9. |
Oh Evan
02:08
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Words don’t come the way they used to
Thoughts too scattered to attend
Wrote some songs back in your twenties
But haven’t done too much since then
Pick the pieces up tomorrow
You’ve got a handle on tonight
Until the moment when you’ve lost it all
We’re still standing by your side
Oh sweet Evan
Don’t make us wait so long
Put the cocaine in your cheek
I heard the dentist fixed your smile
Got hard to hide it with your missing teeth
You’ve been at this for a while
Oh sweet Evan
I know you’ve prove them wrong
Pick the pieces up tomorrow
You’ve got a handle on tonight
Until the moment when you’ve lost your mind
We’re still standing by your side
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10. |
Karma Waves
03:57
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Sometimes it’s not their words
Closed mouths the silence hurts
Beauty has been ignored
I’m bold I wear my light
I won’t apologize
For being exactly who I am
Karma waves and she draws her breath again
Karma waves and I’m left out I understand
Nothing stays where I am
Bad days are only worse
Identity curse
Why should you want me more the same
Karma waves and she draws her breath again
Karma waves and I’m left out I understand
How it’s waves
How its’ waves
Nothing stays where I am
So what? But you don’t live with this
One life and you’d like me to miss
Why love is so hard for you
Who taught the leaves to change?
I want that and you call it strange
Out here in plain view I’m hiding
These walls don’t say my name
In me the hope’s the same
So tired of pretending for you
Karma waves and she draws her breath again
Karma waves and I’m left out I understand
How it’s waves
How its’ waves
How it’s waves
How its’ waves
How it’s waves
How its’ waves
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11. |
Bred
03:36
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We don’t want your homophobia
We don’t want your red dystopia
We don’t want your great America
We don’t need your fascist agenda
Too many years of oil addiction
Rewrite history into fiction
Sell the freedom you disguise
An empire you built on lies
It’s not alarming
Dysfunction is bred
We don’t want your homophobia
We don’t want your red dystopia
We don’t want your great America
We don’t need your racist media
Bought the path you walked to power
All you spoil the lives you sour
Take and take and you’ve forgotten
Your poison speech will turn us rotten
We don’t want your homophobia
We don’t want your red dystopia
We don’t want your great America
We don’t need your fascist agenda
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12. |
Can't Find My Way
02:45
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13. |
Everything We Needed
04:08
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Wake Up
Look around
In the mirror
Everything is moving
You and I
Growing up
Whoever thought of this condition?
Break the norm
Be the storm
That forces them to rebuild
Understand
Empathize
You’re everything they needed
Out with the old ways
And someone you don’t have to be again
Who asked?
I didn’t
You arrived
Just as you were meant to
Change minds
Open eyes
Live into your true self
Nothing fits
When you forget
Who you are is shining
Electric pink
In fairy wings
You’re everything I needed
Wake Up
Look around
In the world
Everything is better
Because of you
Being here
You’re everything we needed
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