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One Beat Behind

by A Fish Called Bastard

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And when you fall onto your knees You will beg for their forgiveness and pray for sympathy Cos there’s no redemption for your tortured soul and there’s no peace to be found in this world my friend So down you go Bound by your own mistakes Unable to live from day to day There’s a war inside my head A constant battle between myself
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Crash & Burn 03:20
All the suffering of this world that we live in This world is filled with greed Too many starve, too many bleed Where does this all lead and what does it mean? Do you want to know Or do you need a change from what we have right now? I don’t know when and I don’t know how But things need to be changed around Through gritted teeth and clenched fists (still dragging my feet as my patience wears thin) With open eyes and open mind (they seem so hard to find) Why is it that we cant seem to find a way? We're desperate - you can see it in our eyes Wont hesitate - always apathetic towards the stream of hateful lies Its a matter of time before the tables turn And we'll take our place just in time to watch you burn A child lies on the street The helping hand too far to reach So many lessons we could teach on the subject of humanity But no one wants to know Don’t want to see a change, see the system rearranged Ignorant, they’ll turn away From whats staring them right in their face Stand on the rooftops and shout (before the right to speak is taken from the meek) Open those eyes open those minds (its not so hard you’ll find) Side by side, we will find our own way
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Build it up high & lock them in Cloud the skies - they’ll never see the sun again Who needs light? When we’ve been blinded by our innocence in the night A swarm of flies entrench the air Spreading disease amongst the minds of the people who cannot care And cannot see the gangsters and the pranksters fooling us with their trickery There’s no escaping from the building towering above our heads The dirty streets of broken cities are where our thoughts are laid to rest Understanding is a crime - we can’t see through the masquerade And if you let them they will lead you to your grave Televise your lies Infiltrate their homes Put your dirty stamp on everything you tell them they should own What do I need? Everything they show on my TV screen Hang them out to dry and reel them in.
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Justification of your addiction through beliefs shaped for todays youth (by the media) It’s a contradiction of all your views but it excuses all the bad you do (bad things you do) A cheap imitation of something this world professes to detest (so stand and protest) Another god who speaks of easy belief, for he provide your bread (no he won’t provide) Anything just like any god that’s ever been before (what are you praying for?) Enlightenment, insight in to, a reason why we put up with all this? (why do you need a reason?) You’re just enslaving yourself, not saving no one else (you're saving no one) This fragile mind was sold over time, but not to the right guy I’ve heard this tale a thousand times before But you don’t know the truth of what lies beneath I’ve heard this tale a thousand times before
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i tried my best to make it work but you wouldn’t meet me halfway no compromise and no words you say are gonna change my mind i tried to save you from the hurt but you wouldn’t let it be that way no compromise you were the one who dragged us down made it too hard to stick around made it impossible, improbable i was the one who tipped the scales but you sent them all the way crashing to the ground into pieces you stood your ground no room to move don’t understand the give or take if this how story ends then please let it be said i’ve no regrets you had to control it all until the day i told you i was leaving i couldn’t stay to watch you fall watch you self destruct and destroy everything everything you loved, everything we were everything that we were yet to be i lost belief, in you and me and all that we held dear this is how our story ends
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In The End 02:30
just to exist, yeh that was it enough to survive enough to stay alive i got fucked up and fell for love but it was just another means to an end, in the end bad decisions & stupid mistakes still somehow lead me here to this everything to my everything somehow you saved me from myself and from anyone else my own safety net the hand that catches me when i fall and its all i need, to drag me off the ground when i’ve got nothing left building up a wall so i couldn’t fall or feel or see, what’d become of me but we got fucked up and fell in love and i was the means to my end, once again. bad decisions and naive mistakes they all lead me here to this emptiness, to the edge of reality bad decisions and blind sightedness set me on the path to here to this end, to my end but i couldn’t see i saved you from yourself and from all the rest your own safety net the hand that propped you up, held you close for all these years til i had to let go, i couldn’t hold on any longer we lost sight of ourselves and of everyone else not a safety net but a weight tying us down clinging on to what was left did it mean anything? to either of us in the end
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Freedom 03:12
Once not that long ago I heard you speak the words I never thought I’d hear you say again The utterance was just enough to make my ears burn To pique my interest in the subject In our circumstance can it ever really be? Can you break away from the things that tie you down? What does it mean to actually be, is it something we can even do in our fucked up society? Freedom you read about you spoke about and now it’s time to be To be free Once you’ve broke down the walls what’s your next move gonna be? Can you pawns take your king unaided? Are you gonna take down all the upper classes in one fell swoop? Or are you content to leave then flailing?

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released December 8, 2016

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