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Dead Lights
02:53
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A head on a door I've seen this place before
Am I stuck in a bad dream or in 1984?
Can they hear you sleeping? Did they Tuck you in?
Is that a voice in the distance or is that voice within?
Lights, camera and reaction
Counter movements gaining traction
Better watch what they throw at you
They'll kill you over a statue
Our feet held over the fire
As it burns brighter
Don't get caught in deadlights
Don't get caught in their deadlights
Lies! Lies! from the serpents tongue
If anyone calls out blasphemy
They'll cry, "What have you done"?
Strapped to a bomb dropped from a plane
I think I know where to assign the blame
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2. |
Rosswell Ends Well
02:48
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I lay awake inside a dream what does it mean my brain is busted
Ritually my misery will pull at me until I’m rusted and falling out again
I won’t sleep until I’m dead I will not wait for morning’s end
‘til everything around me feels just like it’s slowly falling down down
Pacing the room like it's my tomb what do I do I'm feeling nervous even now
Statistically its seems that we will mostly dream until our bodies give up on us
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3. |
Red Tape & Bullshit
02:55
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Those vacant eyes say nothing that I want to hear
There is a bridge coming don't forget to steer
Coughing up best regards you're laughing all the way
Fingers crossed behind your back you lied to my face
And now we'e back right at the start don't ever let go
Invested time and compromise still nothing left to show
Apparently strings were attached and you pulled everyone
And now I am stuck in the same spot this burden weighs a ton
And now we're right back at the start six goddamn years ago
Invested trust with boom and bust still so much left to know
So out of touch drinking too much your tired eyed our family ties
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4. |
Lake Effect
02:26
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20 degrees below freezing outside in the snow
A winter wonderland a hell on Earth you’ll never know
Well this is our rust belt bitter cold you’ve never felt
And if you’ve moved from here you know that feeling never melts
This lake effect has gotten the best of us
But we will not be left in the dust
Summer seems so far away I’ll just stay inside today
And avoid the cold darkness and blurry lines of white and grey
You’re sitting all alone waiting by your phone
These roads are treacherous so how am I to make it home
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Bread and Circus
02:15
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These mangled puzzle pieces will they fit back together
This quire of dangerous voice is out to get us
Is there any freedom left because we all look scared to death now
They twist the story as they sell us all away
I see the lines drawn in the sand that keep us separated
A false promise of something grand
Another wall to keep us all separated
Another pill that keeps us all sedated
They learned how to divide us now we only fend for ourselves
We were once united now they’ve torn us all apart
this was a place we all loved now fear has locked our doors
We watch our neighbors like strangers in the shadows
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6. |
Pray For Rain
03:41
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Staying up for days on end hoping that the tension breaks
I hope you now I’m not alright
The secrets told to us I’m scared to be alone
But I can't deal with anyone
Frightened of the future but haunted by my past
I exhale as I breathe my last
gasp out for air I’m drowning
Pull me out I think I’m dying
How can you say that the things you believed in
Are still the same today
Can you believe that the world we once knew
Has been packaged bought and sold away
Eyes toward the sky you keep praying for rain
The truth in your heart life is only what you make
Ear to the ground and hear that nothing will change
The truth in your heart life is only what you make
Convinced of the lies and half-truths that you can't believe
The arm gets twisted back
Pulling at the seams and bleeding from my ears
I can't believe it's been another year
Choking on the words you said a matter of life or death
Falling from my hands
I am shaking mind is breaking
Sink or swim I’m reaching up again
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Tale of Two Santas
03:13
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These frozen words in 4/4 time
Passages read in my mind
An anagram I can't make sense
This feeling here has become tense
So lock the door and throw away the key
There's no sense in retracing these
Footsteps back in winter snow
Please close the door I’m going home
Nowhere nothing
So cold freezing
Thrown out my sanity
Stayed in on Saturday
This broken door let's strangers in
There's no use in fixing it
My frozen hands can't hold a thing
Please close the door abandon me
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Swipe Left
03:28
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Moments are lost into the screen
Questioning every little thing
All that I see digitally
Empty faces slipping into obscurity
Obsession with bad news
Liking what’s untrue
our drunk on hateful views
Try living in your hopes
You’re blinded by your fear
One side is all you hear
You’re venting your frustrations
Gotta know when to light your fires
You’re venting your frustrations
Gotta stop listening to liars
Make something else inside my mind
Holding on to the hope to break away
Say what you want won't mean a thing
Narcissism conquers everything
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Dancing On Ashes
02:24
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Burning bridges turning tides worse decisions yet to find
Vilify opposing sides god forbid we try to hide
Strike the match set ablaze our empathy withered away
Words are lost we never say hoping for a better day
How can you dance on the ashes of all the things that we held dear
That sad fiddle ringing in our ear full of lies preying on our fear
Filling up your ears while ripping off your hands
You'll stand there defenseless while they shoot you where you stand
Fire in the streets a fire in the home
Hear that music in your head while lying there alone
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Black Box
02:34
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Disconnect the heart from the disconcerting plane wreck
That you thought you left behind somewhere in your mind
The trail of wreckage starts with the broken life you left behind
While "following your heart" and ignoring mine
Tailspin crashing ground no black box to be found
You said you were sorry I’ll never believe you
Frightened and afraid all mistakes that you’ve made
You said you were sorry I’ll never believe you
Crawling from the wreck of the things you thought that you escaped
While running with the pack is that what's in your head
You’re a blemish on a cyst a parasitic narcissist
A cancer of the mind and now it's our time
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11. |
Excelsis Dei
02:37
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Hand on the gun pull the trigger
There's no use fighting now
Our payment paid in full
The only way is down
Climbing up on wings of wax
We all know what happens next
We're all deafened by the sound
Slowly falling to the ground
Lights fading out on our descent
The cold wind hits my face
Our bodies burn on reentry
Staring into space
Every choice will be a burden
Every life will have an end
Every word will go unspoken
Every wound will never mend
Climbing up on wings of lead
Are we all better off dead
I will not be silenced now
Body lying on the ground
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12. |
Break The Divide
04:13
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On edge extinction
No time to be nice to each other anymore
Alone self-absorbed
Vanity takes the cake while kindness goes ignored
Static banter back and forth
Regurgitating talking points
Our conflicts remain unresolved
Take a look beyond the wedge
And search for common ground instead
Together we can break this divide
Break the divide break the divide
A shattered future it all seems like a lie
No hope for tomorrow was dead when arrived
Hold on if you can don’t believe what you see
A new civil war pretending we’re free
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New Architects Kalamazoo, Michigan
New Architects is a Kalamazoo based punkrock outfit driven by a buzzsaw rhythm section topped with infectious guitar riffs and raspy melodic vocals. This band aims to provide a departure from mid-tempo melodies and whimsical lyrics by not shying away from opportunities to play fast nor delving into the more pertinent issues of the parlance of our times. ... more
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