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History
04:20
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Do you think we'll have a future?
I'm asking for a friend
Can anything get better?
Will it all just end?
Will there be a history
To look back on these these days when they've passed?
We must live for posterity and perpetuity
Tied together by a thread of continuity
That can last
Can there be justice and freedom?
Can there be a better world?
Can the fascists be defeated?
Can we save this dying world?
Will there be a history
To look back on these these days when they've passed?
We must live for posterity and perpetuity
Tied together by a thread of continuity
That can last
Do you think we'll have a future?
I'm asking for a friend
Can anything get better?
Will it all just end?
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2. |
Austerity
03:26
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This material austerity
Can get the better of me
All weariness and stress
Never really getting any rest
All the scarcity all the paucity
Can get the best of me
Leaves me mired in need
Leaves me tired and weak
This emotional austerity
Can get the better of me
All emptiness and longing
Always never belonging
This spiritual austerity
Can take it all out of me
In waking life and shape shifting dreams
Does anything mean what it means?
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Route 2 Box 186
Campbell Swamp Road
Route 2 Box 186
A place that is no more
I hear the word "route" is pronounced "root"
And I'm sure it is
But in that place and time we said "rowt,"
So I'll say it that way instead
That place is not real
It's only in my mind
I try to gather up
What fragments I can find
In my head it's become an ideal place
Where nothing could go wrong
A place I somehow thought could never end
But I knew better all along
I hate the lonesome call of a place
Where I can never go
I hate the whisper of a peace
That I can never know
That place is not real
It's only in my mind
I try to gather up
All the pieces I can find
That place is not real
It's only in my mind
I try to gather up
What fragments I can find
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Homesickness
04:05
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I've got anticipatory grief
For the whole world
For everyone I meet
For those I've loved and love
I'm always mourning the passing
Before it's come to pass
Mourning each passing moment
That can never last
How can we say goodbye
In the final parting?
Leaving everything dead inside
And the world brokenhearted
The finality of never again
Never again
The longing of never again
Never again
How I miss it all
Before it's gone
How I miss it all
When it's gone
How I ache inside
From homesickness
How I break inside
With homesickness
Homesickness
Homesickness
Homesickness
Homesickness
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5. |
Camouflage
04:29
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Nature abhors a vacuum
The throbbing nothingness of the void
Consciousness is a vacuum
Through which all arises and is destroyed
Consciousness is a black hole in Being
An empty whirlpool drinking in everything
The way in which the universe knows itself
The way we know anything
Predator and prey
Winners and losers
The chosen and the choosers
Anything is possible
Nothing is probable
Anything is possible
Nothing is probable
I don't like that all life is vampiric
It seems to me a major design flaw
That all life preys on life just to stay alive
The camouflage, fang and claw
Predator and prey
Winners and losers
The chosen and the choosers
The used and the users
The abused and the abusers
Predator and prey
Winners and losers
The chosen and the choosers
The used and the users
The abused and the abusers
Anything is possible
Nothing is probable
Anything is possible
Nothing is probable
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6. |
Human Condition
04:38
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I've got the human condition
I've got it bad
I caught the human condition
It will drive you mad
I've got the human condition
The biggest decision I never had
It is the constant contagion that is history
The shameful infection inside you and me
I'm positive that it's all mostly negative
I'm positive that it's all mostly negative
I'm positive that it's all mostly negative
I'm positive that it's all mostly negative
I'm of the human persuasion
Trapped in the universal malady
No matter which time or nation
We share a hidden personal destiny
I've seen the human condition
In countless different stories
It's the human condition
It's the same old story
I'm positive that it's all mostly negative
I'm positive that it's all mostly negative
I'm positive that it's all mostly negative
I'm positive that it's all mostly negative
It's the human condition
Always stuck inside our heads
Carrying out the pointless mission
Of living until we're dead
And don't get me started
About my vicissitudes
Yeah baby, don't get my started
About my tribulations and vicissitudes
I'm positive that it's all mostly negative
I'm positive that it's all mostly negative
I'm positive that it's all mostly negative
I'm positive that it's all mostly negative
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7. |
Gibson Road Amble
02:22
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Regret
04:47
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Everything's breaking my heart
Just the way things are
All the sickness, sadness and death
I can't catch my breath
Everything's taken away
Day after day
There's no way to stop it
There's nothing to do
Is this the best we can hope for?
Is this all there is?
Still I'm grateful for it
In the midst of all the regret
Thankful that all that will be taken away
Hasn't all been taken yet
What does it mean to be a human being?
To be a human, to be a being?
What does it mean to be?
What does it mean to be?
How are we conscious of being conscious?
Consciousness of consciousness?
Aware of our awareness?
Aware of our being?
What does it mean to be?
What does it mean to be?
Is this the best we can hope for?
Is this as good as it gets?
Still I'm grateful for it
In the midst of all the regret
Thankful that all that will be taken away
Hasn't all been taken yet
Is this the best we can hope for?
Is this as good as it gets?
Still I'm grateful for it
In the midst of all the regret
Thankful that all that will be taken away
Hasn't all been taken yet
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9. |
Universal Blues
02:58
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Nothing can make it better
There's no cure
There's no solution
There's nothing anyone can do
That's just how it is
That's life on earth
Where loss, sorrow and death
Are encoded into birth
Where to live is to die
Where to have is to lose
How on earth can I forget
I've got these universal blues?
There's a downward spiral
Corkscrewing down to death
A whirlwind, a whirlpool, a vortex
Has it gotten hold of you yet?
Losing family, brothers, fathers, mothers
And with them a whole world
That can never be recovered
Never known or shared
It will all go with me
When consciousness flickers out
No one will know or remember
What it was all about
When the light goes out
The light goes out
When the flame flickers out
Flickers out
When the light goes out
Light goes out
When the flame flickers out
Flickers out
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10. |
Future Ghosts
04:04
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Future ghosts are haunting me
Those who are but will not be
The lurking loss that breaks the heart
Cast asunder and torn apart
As one by one we all depart
So many ghosts lie in wait for me
Linger around me now from the future
Whispering sadly what will be
Conspiring with ghosts of the past
And always eluding capture
Stop ghosting me, don't go away
Why can't anything or anyone ever stay?
Hungry ghosts are always feeding upon me
Eating me alive, leaving me empty
I'm in constant mourning
For the ghosts yet to come
Through the night, day and morning
Beneath the moon, under the clouds
Under the sun
I'm always saying goodbye
To everything and everyone
My heart is always breaking
Behind my eyes
Unraveling as I come undone
Stop ghosting me, don't go away
Why can't anything or anyone ever stay?
Hungry ghosts are always feeding upon me
Eating me alive, leaving me empty
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3 Humans are a power rock trio from the New Orleans Mississippi area.
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