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Manifest Destiny

by The Numbskulls

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Sitting by myself inside myself if nothing else i found out exactly what I believe. Uninfluenced by social standing or belonging as if it was my choice to make. I’m not special, not me. I’m not special, not me. I’m not special, not me. Who made you so special? I’m not special, not me. I’ll never forget the day when they were laughing at me and I wondered why i tried so hard to fit in. I turned on the radio and it shadowed my misery and then my misery just turned to rage. I’m not special, not me. I’m not special, not me. I’m not special, not me. Who made you so special? I’m not special, not me. Oh, you’ve got to just laugh about it. It doesn’t matter and someday you’ll know it never will. Embrace your identity. Mine is scaring me but every scratch and scar and bruise i can call my own. I’m not special, not me. I’m not special, not me. I’m not special, not me. Who made you so special? I’m not special, not me.
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Defeatist 02:19
Tell me what it’s like to be better than everyone. Every time you speak you have to shoot me down. Some times I think that it’s going to be alright but you’ve got to be the one to tell me I’m wrong. Always find fault in what I do. You can’t see anything but the chance of failure. You’re cynical. You’re arrogant. Your attitude, I’m sick of it. i don’t need you or your self righteous criticism. You’re a defeatist. I don’t need this. You’re an elitists. I don’t need you. You’re a defeatist. I don’t need this. You’re an elitists. I don’t need you. Raining on my parade gives you some satisfaction like you’re superior because you’ve given up the fight. Maybe I should be more like you because you’ve done so well with you’re own pathetic situation. Don’t tell me what it’s like to be better than everyone. Better yet don’t speak. I don’t want to hear you’re mouth. Your textbook intellect can’t replace experience. I see right through you and I’m not the only one. I’ve been you and then I grew out of it. What makes you think you would know better than me? I don’t have the patience for another empty lesson. Who the fuck are you? Who do you think you are? You’re a defeatist. I don’t need this. You’re an elitists. I don’t need you. You’re a defeatist. I don’t need this. You’re an elitists. I don’t need you.
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I Give Up 01:47
That sucks but it’s the way it is. I don’t like it either. What are you going to do cry about it or accept the fact that you can’t change it? Happy endings never really come and if they do they don’t last that long. Some fuck said, “Life ain’t fair,” but that depends on what you think the world owes you. I give up. I give up. I give up. Just sit back and watch the world end. I’m not like them. I’m just thrown in this mess and I get so fucking tired. Just sit back and watch the world end. I’ve got a bad feeling all of this is useless anyway. Everytime I try to get ahead something else gets in my way. I give up. I give up. I give up. Just sit back and watch the world end. I’m not like them. I’m just thrown in this mess and I get so fucking tired. Just sit back and watch the world end. I didn’t ask to be part of this at all and I’ve got nothing to lose. You never tried to see it my way. I’ve accepted being rejected. I’ve spent every anxious moment of my tortured life just trying to find a way to coexist with you people. I give up. I give up. I give up. Just sit back and watch the world end. I’m not like them. I’m just thrown in this mess and I get so fucking tired. Just sit back and watch the world end. Fuck them all. They’re not your friends. Just sit back and watch the world end.
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Dead People 02:58
Frankie's brother got killed. Laid waste to the street. He was somebody’s brother, a mother’s son, a lover. True I didn’t know him at all. It still made me sad though. Stevie crashed into a brick wall. He told me once what hardcore meant. I hope his kids got to know him. I always thought I’d see him again pumping gas or walking down the street. I knew him a little, I guess. It still made me sad though. Vincent was my best friend. He liked it simple. He loved his life. He never complained to me once about the things he wished that he could’ve changed. He caught some cancer wasted away in days in front of me. The morphine numbed him but couldn’t help me though. I don’t want to leave me house. Stalled with fear, this is my life. It’s not my death. I’m a coward for shedding tears. My guilt is by association. We’re all living on borrowed time. They never caught the guy. Frankie’s brother died without a reason. Another unsolved crime, why waste the time? It could have been me or it could have been you. I know that Frankie was sad. He said so on TV. I read it in the paper. It was all bad news. It was hard to believe. All the things he did in just 24 years. He died on a sunday, crashed and burned. I always like Stevie. I think he even liked me. Vincent haunts my dreams. I try not to be scared at night when his painted eyes are watching me. I could have thanked him more before he died, but I just left the room, fuck! I don’t want to leave me house. Stalled with fear, this is my life. It’s not my death. I’m a coward for shedding tears. My guilt is by association. We’re all living on borrowed time. Anyone can kill me. They’ll never catch them. My car could explode and I’ll be strapped in safe. Should I quit smoking. Should I quit breathing. Is this nature or evolution or just a fucking plague? Frankie's brother died. Stevie’s dead and so is Vincent. All the dead people that never mattered. The ones I loved, the ones I knew, and some I didn’t know at all. It still made me sad though. Dead people.
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How can you win when you’ve lost all the faith in your life? Trust in yourself is all you’ve ever had. You’re feeling pain but you know it will be alright. You can’t find the cause to care at all. You’ve done some things in your lifetime. You throw it all away. Remember that time when you were on that sinking ship and you would have died but for your will to prove them wrong. Now those times have gone away and you’ve got no reason to stay, but you don’t want to die. They want to kill you. You’ve done some things in your lifetime. You throw it all away. You played their game and lost the dice. They stole your cards now you’ve got to fight or cheat yourself go kill them all dead.
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It’s gone away. There’s no fucking way. I can’t talk to her. I can’t tell her nothing anyway. She’s going to be a big star. She doesn’t know it now. She can’t find her way out. I hope someday she finds it. I hope someday she’s going to work it out. It breaks my heart to see her down. No words from me and no sympathy is going to make everything alright. I hope someday she finds her way out. She lost her way and she sees no end. She’s got a smile that I may never see again. She hasn’t always been pissed off. She fell on harder times. She can’t find her way out so she’s dropping out. I hope someday she finds it. I hope someday she’s going to work it out. It breaks my heart to see her down. No words from me and no sympathy is going to make everything alright. I hope someday she finds her way out. Reject yourself so they will never get the best of you. You’ve been knocked down. You’re tough as nails, bruised on the ground. That’s where you stayed and waited. I want to pick you up, but it’s not my problem. It’s not my problem and it’s not my fault. My intentions are in vain. My hands are tied until you realize it’s all about you.
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It’s so easy to break down doing the things you don’t want to do. Maybe tomorrow will be your last day and your life is left undone. You should be out having fun. All the time you want to think about nothing. I’m always asking myself, “What’s the reason for this hell? What am I doing here”. What am I doing here when I should be out doing all the things I ever wanted to? How did I get stuck here? All my life it has been my destiny to be successful, not in a way that’s easily understood. Somehow I’ve ended up this way and I am “happy” now. Am I happy when I’m asking myself, “Hell, What am I doing here?”? What am I doing here when I should be out doing all the things I ever wanted to? How did I get stuck here? It’s so easy to get worn down in a wasted life that isn’t you. Maybe tomorrow will be the first day that you don’t want to wake up dead. And if this is what you want, all this trouble that’s earning you nothing, me, I’m always asking myself, “What’s the reason for this hell? What am I doing here?”. What am I doing here?
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Disaster 02:50
You’ve become the symbol of every time I’ve failed, beat up and broken down with memories of glory days. Since then it seems that you’re running rough but you still turn over. Some time ago that I call it the good old days, you rise from the ashes and you’re back out on the street again. You lit it up. Now that the smoke show is over there’s a different fire burning. I can’t count the times that you left me stranded and I guess it was all my fault. Even after all this blood, sweat, and tears it’s beautiful (it’s a disaster). It’s beautiful (beautiful disaster). There was a time when I lost everything. that’s when I found you in the place where they left you to die. An abandoned landmine, you were waiting for something like a killer waiting for the night. I’ve got nothing. I pulled the trigger. I made the connection. There ain’t nothing better than the 350 screaming in the middle of the night and the shining of the chrome in the ‘96 summer street lights. I can’t count the times that you left me stranded and I guess it was all my fault. Even after all this blood, sweat, and tears it’s beautiful (it’s a disaster). It’s beautiful (beautiful disaster). And when you think of it we’re one in the same. We’ve got a common ground, a mirror of condition: shine when I’m high, broken down when I’m low, always one step away from total self destruction. So when I see you sinking in the ground again it reminds me of the same situation I’m in. We had it once but we lost it. We will ride again, I promise you. I promise you! I can’t count the times that you left me stranded and I guess it was all my fault. Even after all this blood, sweat, and tears it’s beautiful (it’s a disaster). It’s beautiful (beautiful disaster).
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I’m a ripped off, pissed off, tired boy. I’ve got a lot on my mind and I’m ready to explode. Please don’t confuse my apathy for arrogance. I really don’t care. You look like you want to fuck me or just come and fuck me up. You can’t look me in the eye. Why are you so scared? You just walk right by. You should come and say, “Hi”. Costume party mentality is killing me. Mental midgets on parade. Concentrated wasted flesh, since we’re all in the same place, just one bomb will solve it all. Fucked up retarded dudes and sluts who want to be seen or fucked are out on the town, dressed like clowns, and everyone pretends to have fun. Someone cries out, “Bring on the meat”. The drama queen smacks her best friend just for attention. She doesn’t really want him. Costume party mentality is killing me. Mental midgets on parade. Concentrated wasted flesh, since we’re all in the same place, just one bomb will solve it all. Just one bomb will solve it. Take away all of this suck. Just one bomb will solve it all.
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I’ve got this neuro decay, not just an episode. The things I think about mean nothing to me. I know it appears I think slow. I’m far passed overloaded. I lose myself just staring into blank space. It’ll be alright. No, I don’t want to talk about it. It’ll be alright if I wasn’t so god damned lonely. I’ve got bruises that you can’t even see. It’ll be alright. It’ll be alright. It’ll be alright but not for me, just not for me. I’ve got no sense of humor when it comes to assimilation. I close my eyes sometimes and see them all on fire. You’ll find you’ll have a hard time if you try to get inside my head. You’re all insane. I know you’re out to get me. It’ll be alright. No, I don’t want to talk about it. It’ll be alright if I wasn’t so god damned lonely. I’ve got bruises that you can’t even see. It’ll be alright. It’ll be alright. It’ll be alright but not for me, just not for me. I’ve got ten of ten symptoms. I’m anxious clinically. I’d scare myself if this wasn’t what I’m used to. So what if I talk to myself? We believe our treatment is working. If I’m going to explode I just want to be alone. This doesn’t happen to normal people. It’ll be alright. No, I don’t want to talk about it. It’ll be alright if I wasn’t so god damned lonely. I’ve got bruises that you can’t even see. It’ll be alright. It’ll be alright. It’ll be alright but not for me, just not for me.
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Live Fast 02:02
What a waste of time, doing the right thing, the quote end quote right thing. To hell with the master plan. I don’t think the rules apply to me. I’m going to drink a lot. I’m going to smoke a lot. I’m going to be reckless even if it kills me. Life’s a waste of time if you can’t tell you’re alive. The end is going to come anyway. Live fast or not at all. Live fast. You know I want to die young. Live fast or not at all. Live fast. You know I want to die young. Build up your defence against the american dream or smother in successes walled up in picket fences. Finance this circus and mortgage your life away. I’m going to ride this out, sit back and watch it burn. Shaking the hand that appeases. These artificial smiles, this boring sitcom that I see, the lies that become our legacy. Live fast or not at all. Live fast. You know I want to die young. Live fast or not at all. Live fast. You know I want to die young. The easy way out is the way that they produce us. Then once in power, then they consume us. They trap us in this cycle with now way out and then they humor us with freedom. Live fast or not at all. Live fast. You know I want to die young. Live fast or not at all. Live fast. You know I want to die young.
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Enemies 01:50
I’ve always cut you slack and I’ve given you plenty of rope to hang yourself. You think you’ve got something over me because I don’t have to prove anything. You don’t know that I don’t need you. I’m going in for the kill. I’m taking back what’s mine. I’ve been too lazy for confrontation but now it’s time to make some enemies. Overexaggerated sense of self importance, then you go and stab me in the back. It makes me kind of laugh because you think you’ll get away with it, but how much leverage do you have? I’m going in for the kill. I’m taking back what’s mine. I’ve been too lazy for confrontation but now it’s time to make some enemies. Unsolicited favors are the way that you justify all the times you’ve acted like a dick. I never asked you for anything and I think you’ve worn your welcome out. Your dad and the cops will help you pack your shit. I’m going in for the kill. I’m taking back what’s mine. I’ve been too lazy for confrontation but now it’s time to make some enemies. I never liked you anyway.
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1984 02:16
See the masses suffering, they’re not like you at all. We’re here to help you. That’s all you need to know. And if you choose to resist we’ve got population control, by very effective means we will have you where we want you. We’ve got a lot of victims. They’re lined up waiting to win the lottery. Oh yeah. We’ve got a lot of victims and all their money. We don’t have to ask they come to us. See the thousands struggling with nowhere left to go. We’re here to save you. Don’t ask for anything else. And those who refuse, we will make an example of you. Our methods are very convincing. We will have you where we want you. We’ve got a lot of victims. They’re lined up waiting to win the lottery. Oh yeah. We’ve got a lot of victims and all their money. We don’t have to ask they come to us. (Inaudible. Email for transcript) We’ve got a lot of victims. They’re lined up waiting to win the lottery. Oh yeah. We’ve got a lot of victims and all their money. We don’t have to ask they come to us. We justify this violence. The services provided come at the price of force and fear. We must maintain disorder. See where you get without us. History will laugh at you. Oh yeah.
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The Numbskulls' first full length release "Manifest Destiny" has become a Wormtown punk standard. Every song is a classic. Every song is a hit.

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released November 8, 2003

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The Numbskulls are a four piece neo-traditionalist punk rock band from Worcester, Ma. They have been playing shows and have been self releasing their music since their start in 2001.

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