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BARRICADES
02:49
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What’s on the other side?
Both near and far
The future holds to guarantees, alleys or boulevards
Make plans to all meet there
Take pains to stake claims there
To a place without lock or key
A lasting note to a future me
Drown us all
Build it new
Drown it out
Don’t look back
Barricades won’t exist
In a future that benefits
In a future that benefits
Barricades won’t exist
There to keep strangers out
Isolate and divide
The future has no boundaries
Fake lines surrounding me
No walls no borders there
Between us and them
To a place without lock or key
A lasting note to a future me
Drown us all
Build it new
Drown it out
Don’t look back
Barricades won’t exist
In a future that benefits
In a future that benefits
Barricades
Won’t
Exist
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2. |
TWIN LAKES
02:23
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Dirt under nails and breaks cut short
Give me 5 on pump 4
Next month we’ll be alright, forever
Skinned knees and crooked teeth
Bright White, Bright White
Line the streets with trees
Fill it with neighbors you’ll never see
When the gravel got paved
Memories of childhood games
Character building sportsmanship
Grass stained palms turned green
Ill fitting suit says war with a grin
Breakfast for dinner again and again
When the world wasn’t big
Make sure to be home before 10
Bright white, bright white
Line the streets with trees
Fill it with neighbors you’ll never see
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3. |
WORK/LIFE BALANCE
05:47
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Don’t take, take on too much
Devil’s in, in the details
Take on, on the devil
Details don’t take too much
Say no with a smile
Take charge of your loans
Meet the love of your life
Studies have shown
Unplug breathe deep
Perfection achieved
This work life, 9-5
Living on nights and weekends
If you’re lucky
Balance unperceived
4 to sleep, 9 to work
4 for laps, 2 for free
2 to shop, 2 for you, 2 for me
Just 1 for me
Say no with a smile
Just one for me
Say no
With a smile
Just one for me
Say no with a smile
Just one for me
Say no
Just one for me
Say no with a smile
Just one for me
Say no
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4. |
DOUBLE DOWN
02:35
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We know the rules you put in place
Pushed the paper, sealed the deal
Shook hands and smiled behind money
We know it’s all a fuckin’ ruse
Double down, double down
We know the names of those involved
We’ll set it right what you have wronged
It was you and you’re well aware
The problem is is you don’t care
Double down, double down
Got not to show my labor
Except your new BMW
From what I see is you’re well off
Then where am I, if not lost?
Double down, double down
You think it’s funny while I drown?
Down down down down
Scrooge swims in a pool of coin
And I can’t afford my own gd rent
Started ahead and say you worked hard
Trust fund didn’t help at all I’m sure
Choose to ignore what you can’t know
You’re daddy fought for that 5 car garage
Someone please explain to me
Why some live hand-to-mouth
While others make
Hand-Over-Fist
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5. |
PLASTIC CAGES
02:30
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Got a years worth of bad news
wrapped ‘round my head
Scored and scarred bits and pieces
That’s all you got still stuck in bed
Great men make sacrifices
It’s not you it won’t stop there
Pentagon makes plastic cages
Trapping people takin’ kids
Oh you’re angry well let’s see it
Can’t be that mad
Get out of your head
It ain’t some white guy dead
Get out of your head
It ain’t some white guy dead
And you’re still stuck in bed
And it’s all you got
Can’t get ahead
Let me tell ya Let me tell ya
Get out of your head
And we said never again
Never again
Never again
Never again
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6. |
LIARS
02:46
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Victims ignored, I’m sure
Wow I’m not surprised
Story’s filled with lies
Buddies believe all that you say
You get away okay
Because you control everything
I can’t believe you
That’s true
Spouting lies
Telling untruths
Discrepancies abound
Your storys fake as fuck
So are you
Justice? Yeah right
You’re as crooked as they come
You like beer it’s obvious
You said it so many times
Yeah we heard you the first time
Yeah we heard you the last time
You get away okay
Cuz you control everything
I can’t believe you
That’s true
Spouting lies
Telling untruths
Discrepancies abound
Your storys fake as fuck!
So are you
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7. |
WHITE KNUCKLES
03:41
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Stretch denim of a shit heel man
Piled high in the collection
Aggressively ordinary
Roasted, fine, combed (And minted)
Townie served and well offended
Dimly lit with Preacher’s pride
Clear browsers timed
Cough kids can die
Thankless smile is well intended
Gran-ma and pa can die
It’s fine
it’s fine
It’s fine
It’s fine
An empty man filled like a basement floor
of Columbia’s favorite hairhole
Suit, tie and gentle curves
Tell the kids they’ll just get over it
Like the rapes attached to all the kits
Sick, tired and re elected
You can die
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8. |
INSTRUCTIONS
04:25
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Think you know what I want
I don’t think that’s true
Everythin comes in pink
Or blue
Don’t tell me what to think
Don’t tell me what to do
Don’t tell me who I am
You have no clue
As the baby boomers die
One by one at a time
The old ways with them
Leaving us to be free
Don’t tell me what to think
Don’t tell me what to do
Don’t tell me who I am
You have no clue
No one wins in a race to the bottom.
As the baby boomers die
One by one at a time
The old ways with them
Leaving us to be free
No one wins in a race to the bottom.
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BLIGHTS Missouri
BLIGHTS are a 5-piece band that met and formed in Columbia Missouri USA. Their debut album 'Years of Bad News’ contains 8 songs about navigating life under late stage capitalism by saying no with a smile. It will be released on Phratry Records on October 1. ... more
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