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Ordinary Life
02:36
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The screaming begins when you enter the world
It's never understood and seldom heard
Your list of grievances will not be addressed
Because they tell you not to question once the babbling turns to words
and as your dreams overtake the night, some things just don't seem right
These walls of wood and stone just don't feel like your home
and you're suffocating in the space inside, but soon the truth is set loose
bred to consume and produce mediocrity and ordinary life
You raise your hand, your preparation was the best
Everything so neat and organized
You've memorized the answers to the questions on the test
but once you grow up to a man you find out they were all just lies
and you'll hear that dissonant note as you punch the security code
These walls of wood and stone just don't feel like your home
now you're suffocating in the space inside. and now you're going insane
you wanna bash in your brain so you can't think about this ordinary life
This day's too much like the last one, somebody pulled a fast one
a clever bait and switch to ordinary life......
It's a joy to be a slave, goose stepping to the grave
These walls of wood and stone never felt like your home
Now you're suffocating in the space inside, locked in a prison of fear
existing between your ears, man you can't stand living this ordinary life
These layers of flesh and bone never feel like your own
and you're suffocating in the space inside, and you just want off the ride
maybe those pills you're prescribed can help to take you from this
Ordinary Life
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Take That!
02:23
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The papers say we've lost our way and haven't got a chance
The plots and schemes, those metric dreams
Still don't equal the dance
The stage is set, the pyro's lit opponent dead to right
The sun may shine on the daily grind, but chaos rules the night
Hook: GAME! SET! MATCH!
Push me I'll push right back!
One in the bag for us TAKE THAT!
The worst you've given me has left my confidence unbowed
It's not enough, I call your bluff and I ain't backing down
I've realized where data lies, it's buried where it failed
Go stratagise until you choke, we'll blow it all to hell
Repeat Hook 3xs
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Pandas
02:19
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I think about you as often as I think of pandas
Occasionally reminded by a picture or a book
You factor into my life about as much as pandas
A trivial amusement from useless lessons that I took
Hook: Pandas don't do much, they just sit around and eat bamboo
but the difference is I have seen a panda
and I've never seen you.
I dunno if you've got black and white fur, like many pandas
And I don't know if you live in China, like pandas do
I've never stopped to question my belief in pandas
But if I did I'd just go see one living in a zoo
Repeat Hook.
Pandas are primarily herbivores, and they live in mountains
below ten thousand feet
A "panda bank" guards spare change in a closet in my room
and that's more than you have ever done for me
I think about you as often as I think of pandas
Occasionally reminded by a picture or a book.
Repeat Hook.
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Broken Axis
02:04
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We laid our plans out so well, but they're not working anymore
And plotting personal hells can be such a chore
I threw a dart at the globe. I don't know where to go, and can't find it
Now the hole I just made's looking empty and vague, I'm reminded
Hook "The map is not the territory" .....and my compass never points true north
A Needle cannot spin on a broken axis
Now I'll disappear from sight, to a place I won't find any grief
Exploring brave new heights, of anonymity
Set adrift in a maze, feeling stuck in a cage, can't escape it
Now the pattern is set on repeat in my head, I can't break it
Repeat hook
"The map is not the territory" and a song that describes it ain't either
a clock hand cannot change......on a broken.....
Unconventional problems call for unconventional solutions
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Different
02:56
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Darlin' What are you doing here?
It's a question I keep asking every time I see your face
and Darlin' I cannot understand......
How beauty can survive or thrive in such an ugly place
Hook: You make me open up when I keep things tight to the vest
It's a blessing and a curse when you're so different from all the rest
These hours, just keep dragging on.
and your silence can convey much more than words could ever say
This day has not been a perfect one
But a perfect smile from you can turn it all around some way
Repeat hook.
Darlin, I must be going now.
But there will be a part of me that I will leave behind with you.......
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6. |
Two Card Monte
02:54
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Humanity's the target in the factory of fear
The crossbeams are the cross hairs, there's no crooked lines in here
They mold you into shape to become men who make the things
They bend you til you break or become part of the machine
The game is rigged, it's in the plans
The notion that you've got a choice is just part of the scam
If you shrug and say "Why Bother?"
I'd probably say that you are wise
When there just using us a fodder to fuel their personal paradise
Some men let it take them, it consumes them all in time
Some men fight against it, finding flaws in the design
That beast is hard to bring down, those convincing lies it sells
and he'll prey upon your differences so you fight amongst yourselves
Man, it's a con, You're the mark
When you step up to play the game they won't even need three cards
The infotainer is the joker
With a pair of loaded dice
You come up snake eyes when you throw them, flipping channels late at night
We're all lovin it!
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Tape Deck Memphis, Tennessee
Originally a three piece band formed in 2009. Tape Deck has evolved into Musical Collective that aims to Arrange the songs of Jason Pulley to a live band format.
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