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Best Intentions
02:40
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How long will it take for you before you lose all of your self respect and learn from your mistakes. The angel on your shoulder is dying. The chip on your shoulder binds you. Your reputation’s in decline and still you’re acting like a loose cannon. You’ve lost control and your mistakes are how you’ll be defined. There are no exceptions.
There is a problem with no solution. You want some real truth or subtle fiction? I don’t have to tell you. You know you’re running out of time. Your best intentions are nowhere near close so keep on trying to hide the guilt. I don’t have to tell you. You know you’re running out of time.
There are always expectations, certain things condoned. There are only so many chances. When your luck runs out the book is closed. You’ve got more excuses every time and everytime is going to be the last time. The last time until the next time temptation won’t leave you alone. You’ve lost control and your mistakes are how you’ll be defined. There are no exceptions.
There is a problem with no solution. You want some real truth or subtle fiction? Don’t have to tell you. You know you’re running out of time. Your best intentions are nowhere near close so keep on trying to hide the guilt. No one can help you. You know you’re running out of time.
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Suckerbait
01:53
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What’s the new obsession for the meaningless. Give us something to live for. We need an empty quest. We need a hero with corporate sponsorship. Commercials mold identities and make you try to live like those who don’t exist.
You’ve sucumbed to the next generation of suckerbait. 2D lives played out on a flat screen. Westernized bastardization is the product of economic masturbation. Buy what they sell so you can advertise. Sucker bait.
The red carpet is a model. Make your dreams come true. You too can be beautiful and be groomed to be used. They’ll make you feel guilty. They’re hunting you. They’ve waged a full scale war on a graphed out chart and the honeypot is you.
You’ve sucumbed to the next generation of suckerbait. 2D lives played out on a flat screen. Westernized bastardization is the product of economic masturbation. Buy what they sell so you can advertise. Sucker bait.
Dead minnows is a sucker’s bait. Like dead minnows you’re sucker bait. Dead minnows is a sucker’s bait. Like dead minnows you’re sucker bait. Dead minnows is a sucker’s bait. Like dead minnows you’re sucker bait. Dead minnows is a sucker’s bait. Like dead minnows you’re sucker bait.
Even if you quit you’ll be replaced.
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Take It
02:25
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What’s that part of you and then you’re life crushes it? Oh yeah, it’s your spirit. Once upon a time not so far from home this kid, he never bothered anybody. Then his life got the rug pulled from under him, dragged him through the gravel, and hung him out to dry. And I guess you’d blame yourself at a time like this but I don’t know why because I’m seeing things a different way.
Take it all you mother fuckers. You got everything you wanted. If you couldn’t handle it it’s not my fault. Take it. They want your blood. Take it. Take it all. Take it. They want your blood. Take it. Take it all.
You’ve got your whole life ahead of you if you don’t give it up for her. When you’re bleeding it’s so hard to see straight. I know that it’s different from the outside. We all get beat down from time to time, give in a little and bend our own rules. But with no revelations and no resolutions there’s an easy way out but I’m seeing things a different way.
Take it all you mother fuckers. You got everything you wanted. If you couldn’t handle it it’s not my fault. Take it. They want your blood. Take it. Take it all. Take it. They want your blood. Take it. Take it all.
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No Way Out
02:15
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There ain't no money. The liquor store is closed on Sundays. The tank is empty, man. We ain’t going nowhere. There’s no way out. There’s no way out. I’m just barely breathing. Would someone check my pulse or some other kind of vital signs. How have I become so fucking numb. There’s now way out.
There are very few things I need. It’s the little things that don’t make a difference anyway. There’s no way out of this. There’s no way out of this. I know I’m losing. This ain’t about being lazy and this ain’t about being fucked up. They call us fucked up. They call us lazy but we’re not lazy just bored.
The boiler’s broken. That bitch called looking for the rent again. I look around the house for something to sell. My credit has long been shot. There’s no way out.
I was bruised and I was broken when the words of wisdom were spoken, “Make a life, not a living”. I deal with this shit every fucking day. There's no way out.
There are very few things I need. It’s the little things that don’t make a difference anyway. There’s no way out of this. There’s no way out of this. I know I’m losing. This ain’t about being lazy and this ain’t about being fucked up. They call us fucked up. They call us lazy but we’re not lazy just bored.
I’m not complaining. It’s a no win situation. I’m all out of options and there’s no way out of this.
There’s no way out. There’s no way out.
All the strength that I’ve got is focused on survival. I’m not saying that I give up but, there’s no way out of this.
There’s no way out. There’s no way out.
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Misfits Blues
03:12
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They were just simple folk from the old country. Farmers on the countryside in nazi germany. The sleazy men with machine guns came for her every night until the day he stepped between them and took the bruises for her. She said, “I’m nothing without you”. She said, “I’m nothing without you”. The body quits when the mind is done and her mind is still with him.
They start a brand new life in a strange new land. He fixes shoes and feeds his family and kept his traditions, but the shop will never open up again since he left this world and all of us. It was all she ever knew. She said, “I’m nothing with you”. She said, “I’m nothing without you”. The body quits when the mind is done and her mind was still with him.
It only took a year or two or maybe even less. She’s talking to herself again disorder and unrest. She cried out in the night she swears he’s in the room with her. When we found her down the street we knew she decided her time. She said, “I’m nothing without you”. She said, “I’m nothing without you”. The body quits when the mind is done and now she’s going to be with him.
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The Numbskulls Worcester, Massachusetts
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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