Triple D
Instrumental
Curious Yellow
Instrumental
Procession
Instrumental
Chariot
Instrumental
The Others
You have seen them fight
For their basic rights
You can tell that their chances might
Be not that bright
Then agree with those who
Say everything is alright
Even though you’ve seen
The motives in between
That's proceeding to feed this insidious machine
We need to intervene
Like the others before
Who knew the cost of our Dream
There's no time to pretend they'll suddenly try
When the market’s doing fine
Recognize we can find the enemy lines
Carved inside our own design
The economy
Appears designed to be
Quite dependent on acts of greed
That only feed
Those who need
To impede
The means to let us be free
They don't want us skilled
Or have our needs fulfilled
Hear our thoughts on the greater world we could rebuild
They'd rather have us killed
We can't have what they have
With their petty egos unfilled
Out of time to pretend they'll suddenly try
When the market’s doing fine
Recognize we can find the enemy lines
Carved inside our own design
And they say we should protest peacefully. Why?
If they won't listen we could die
If they someday awake
And want to fix their mistakes
Learned what they thought were just lies were true
There are guardrails in place
That will never displace
All of the damage that their kind do
If decisions are made
Risking shareholder gains
By benefiting the most over the few
The board would simply embrace
All their means to replace
Those who’d defy them with someone new
Who would do what they told them to
Out of time to pretend they'll suddenly try
When the market’s doing fine
Recognize we can find the enemy lines
Carved inside our own design
And they say we should protest peacefully. Why?
If they won't listen we could die
Cut You Out
Got greedy
Started taking too much
The aggressor is to blame
You were bold to
Think I’d accept it as such
And play along in your selfish game
Things were stable
Then you had to screw it all up
I’ll spare the confusion and lay it out plain
You want more than what I’m able to give you
Now needy
Keep on sharing thoughts of
Your endless pain throughout the day
When I told you
To stop, I had more than enough
There’s only so much of you I can take
Now unable
To work, I can’t focus because
You’ve got me surrounded, won’t let me escape
You want more than what I’m able to give you
Yes you, you want more than what I’m willing to give you
All I am asking, is to please stay away
I feel so drained
Toxic attention
Is truly killing me
So why can't you see
It's a big problem, every word that you say
Fills me with rage
Simple solution
Please just stay far away
For just a few days
It's easy
You just need to shut up
So find a way to just abstain
Be the old you
Who could remember somewhat
That this is not good for my mental state
It's a fatal
Mistake to provoke me this much
The final incentive to push you away
You want more than what I’m able to give you
Yes you, you want more, and more, and more, and more…
One final warning, please just stay far away
Completely drained
Your suffocation
Is truly killing me
So why can't you see
It's a big problem when each word that you say
Fills me with rage
Here's the solution
Please just stay far away
Before it's too late
Now is it too late?
As you severed all who surrounded
They took the time to include you and kept your life grounded
Didn’t believe that their efforts were worth being counted
Now your dumbfounded
That you're left with their debt and empty
You turn to me now for all their attention you're lacking
Can't give you that, I’m unable, and the pressure keeps stacking
Can't figure out how to deal with all your endless attacking
Now I’m done asking
I'll cut you out
Bending
One notable scene
From an old DVD
Popped into my head that day
I was initially amused
Until it wouldn't go away
So finally I decide
To take the time
I thought I’d try to verify
If the truth and my mind
Were still aligned
Skip most the way to the end
Hit play
Bi-centennial cake
Kicking off the parade
As 80’s dance music plays
And on top by a throne with crown
We see a purple dancing clown
He struts and pumps
His arms from up above
He asks the crowd “Who do you trust”?
Could've sworn he said ‘love’
That's close enough
Before the money flies out to the crowd
Hit pause
Now If I wanted to rewind
I'm pretty sure I’d find
That everyone was given ample time
To learn the clown was bad
But those in the streets
In all their greed
Just why couldn't they see?
Back then, that made me sad
But I feel a new way, from today
Hit play
We see an endless supply
Of twirling cash in the sky
As the clown and his floats pass by
And I couldn't understand
How those people never questioned why
And then the clown reveals the big surprise
He’s out of lies
Says that it's time
To now end all their lives
They're all despised
When they learn what he said
It's too late
They’re dead
Now In the moments that they had left
As they run away in dread
I find myself trying to guess instead
Just what's going through their heads
As the poison spreads
Do they regret
Anything that led
Them to their awful end?
And I used to believe that they did
But I can't anymore
Learned the issue at the core
They just aren't as good as I was told they were
If the parade took place
On a more recent date
Would everything stay the same?
I wonder what those in the crowd
Would be doing earlier that day
Would they be caking makeup on their face
Just to enrage all those they hate
Posting memes of the clown on their favorite page?
Did their families try to persuade
Them not to go to the parade
With tears in their eyes, presenting facts that state
The clown is utterly depraved
That he’s as bad as all they say
And if you love us, please promise us you’ll stay
And without a care, they go out anyway
“They can't tell me what to do”, they’d say
To themselves on their way to make the same mistakes
And I found I’m now glad they got what they deserved that day
The Old You
Tried to sort it all out, the way that I heard it
After all of your words aligned in my mind
Now confined, thought I’d try transcribing some lines
Making sure the last rhymes
With ‘I don't deserve this’
‘But maybe I do’ was the follow-up concept
After some time, to let the tension subside
Where I could try to unwind
Or demonstrate I acknowledge your side
But now’s not the time
I need to remind
You
It's completely your fault, your pent-up aggression
That always comes out when you get in this way
A single word misconveyed, your composure decays
Escalates into hate
Now back to the question
Do I deserve such an awful reaction?
The words that you scream make me feel like I do
But I learned to look through for a logical view
And discovered the truth
It's just you hating you, through
Me
You scream my efforts are a waste
You know that's not the case
You're just projecting your disgrace
That you aren't doing much these days
You scream my progress is a lie
That I’ve fallen way behind
Though I am growing all the time
In ways you’re too afraid to try
And why is due to your
View of the world, it's far from objective
And your hesitant eyes would rather stay blind
‘Cause if your view realigned you’d find you're wasting your time
Which you can't bare to find
So you trick your perspective
Hide it inside, all the truth that could hurt you
Decide that you’ll now push all reason aside
You won't deny that the pain and those thoughts coincide
So with your logic decried
Your emotional side
Is all you’ll confide in
But that's an immature move
A foolish conclusion
The emotional side was never designed
To devise what is wise, keep your body alive
And it's likely behind, your inherent confusion
Irrational waste, the trash that you treasure
The cancerous trench filled with fears and regrets
That likes to scream out at me every chance that it gets
So with all these events
I really must stress
That I don't deserve this
But maybe I do
The problem isn't new, so maybe I do
Deserve the blame, and all the pain
from getting me into
A situation that I knew
Would only bring out the mad you
Yeah maybe I do
Need to work on something too
What I’d want from you
Should not react when feel attacked
Know you're baiting me into your rage
To show me the depths of the pain
That makes you the sad you
But maybe you do
Need to see things from my view
See what I know’s true
See why I care, because I’m scared
See you making the wrong moves
I did and I want to prevent you
From doing harm to the real you
Yes maybe you do
Need to know just what you do
To those around you
The disrespect that you project
When you lose your temper
I hope you try to remember
There’s value lost from how we view
What's left of the old you