1. |
Stay Afloat
02:29
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What's the matter?
Can't be no one
That has made you this way
Has your heart 'til
Now been nothing
But a pain in your chest
You're too afraid to feel
So you pushed all of your loved ones
Away from this place you'll never go
'Til you change your own head
I will be here when you suffer
I will be here even if you are gone
I can't end, I'll carry on your name
But know that I'd hate you for leaving this way
Hold on through the rain and
Through the hurt and through the pain
Give me with what is left all you have to
Keep yourself afloat
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2. |
Gabe
02:19
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This week I read a post that said
The body of an 8-year-old boy was found
Passed out on the floor of his school and two days later
Hanging from the fan affixed to the ceiling of his bedroom
The noose that he learned how to tie on YouTube
'Cause it's not a thing that we're born to know
He heard the words but couldn't make any difference
His mom called, "Gabriel I'll never get through this"
If I believed I'd tell you god had a plan
Called his arch angel from the misery of man
But I don't so all I have are tired, trite cliched
Like man at least he has no more pain
I'm sad he had to die
To release all his pain
But not as sad as that
He felt he had no other way out
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3. |
Kids
03:12
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I crawled up the mountain, stared into the sun
Past a fence made with fingers, the shadows that run
Like a window with bars to keep fireworks out of my house
It's not funny, set yourself on fire
But what is a house, not a home, just a living room
Peering out into the world like a cell phone
This safety's not real and my own mind's a prison
I've never been home, am I waiting to get there?
I'm not taking time to breathe like I'm alive
I'm not taking time to find how it ends
I passed through the eye of a glass to myself
Like we used to with bee bees shoot beers on the shelf
'Til the shards fell like bullets and one of your guns went off
Into the distance, we stared out at nothing
But what are these feelings just lost in the ether
These wholes that we halve 'til there's nothing left in them
The sleep that you'd get when you laugh yourself stupid
I wish you remembered the last time I talked to you
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4. |
Exhausted and Excited
02:35
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I've been holding off my mind
On speaking words to other people
Like a kid stuck on a stage of
Fear brought on by others' meanings
To this life, he feels like anger's all he gets
From his siblings, teachers, parents, friends and enemies
Hold the start guns
Peel away
Step in line, we're killing for the half life
Hold the start guns
Peel away
I'm wasted, exhausted and excited
I spent years waiting and fearing
What they'd think about my mind
If they heard the thoughts trapped in my gut
And eating my insides
I'm a manic spin of a top, beating wings of a bird
Fleeting light like the sun left with darkness
Fall in line, coming down, crawling out
Like a cat in a box, dead, alive, fight to feel
Fight be to what it means to be you, to be me
Thumb print on the web of an on-demand
Society breaks down when you don't bend down to their rules
Fuck that, fool that they think of you
As a noose on a tree, a scab on the skin of the arms of history
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5. |
Bluebird
03:07
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I wake up cooling to the touch of a flame
From the forlorn sheets of the ocean in waves, suffocating
I wake up feeling moving's progress
But never move that far
Bluebird, perched on the window
Can you explain entertaining
This illusion that life calls enjoyment
Feasting on the delusion of fame
But it's not that we can't be free of our fear of moving out
It's that we're bound by the shackles of society that tells us to work
While we look up to the rich who don't play the same game
To slave away in these cubicles
I'm not jealous, I'm not blaming them
We did this to ourselves
I wake up angry to the cold tough of nightmares
Feasting on the dreams of my celebrity ghost
They tell you that you can make it someday
But you won't, and you can't
You can't have the same expectations laid out in a free market
That promotes mediocrity to the beat of our contentment
Well I don't want contentment, I want a life, not a sentence
And it's not that we cannot enjoy a sunset or a rainbow
It's that our brains get so fried by our jobs that I don't blame you for hating them
And what's money without happiness?
Is it worse that a poor man's family?
Entitlement, not enlightened
But I think I'd find peace if I had time to relax
Heaven leave us something on this planet
I'm not betting on your existence
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Faith that's given to a worse pain
So that me might feel that every turn we take ain't bad
Is another faith that I don't want to believe
And every fallen horse you beat is
A dead ringer for your grandfather's
Old heart breaks for a life that's run its course
And every holy ghost we never perceive
Is just another life we keep pinned down
I need to live
Attach my mask before I drown
Pick my up my loaded gun
I don't have time for you
Fit me through this loaded life
I cannot see this through
The chemicals are working and that scares me
We will be just fine
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7. |
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I'm jealous, I'm overzealous
When I'm down, I get real down
When I'm high, I don't come down
I get angry, baby, believe me
I could love you just like that
And I could leave you just this fast
But you don't judge me
'Cause if you did, baby, I would judge you too
'Cause I got issues
But you got 'em too
So give 'em all to me
And I'll give mine to you
Bask in the glory
Of all our problems
'Cause we got the kind of love
It takes to solve 'em
Yeah, I got issues
And one of them is how bad I need you
You do shit on purpose
You get mad and you break things
Feel bad, try to fix things
But you're perfect
Poorly wired circuit
And got hands like an ocean
Push you out, pull you back in
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8. |
Freedumb
02:23
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How many kids that have destroyed their lives?
(You waste your time)
Sleeping still won't ever bring you calm
(It's all your fault)
They looked to you for what they thought was hope
When everything was turned upside-down
Torn from home don't have a chance in hell
Your stupid tone just makes the hate sound real
America
Land of the fear
We take our poor, put them in jail
Celebrity
When you're in debt
You sell your soul, stay trimmed in gold
I'm not placing blame
I've been a part in playing
This unholy race of ours, the privileged lay
Atop the rest who dig their graves like beds
Just build another goddamn hotel
You fucking asshole
You ungrateful dickwad
You populist fascist
We're not gonna stand here
And watch you bend over
Our lady freedom
And fuck her for fame and
We're not gonna lie down
Without fighting back for
Our friends who came here
For a better life
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9. |
Wonder of Reality
02:29
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There ain't no fighting for reasoning that we must die
'Cause when we fall on breathing our final breaths the memory will keep us alive
For harm or healing our minds become lame
We wait and hope for our better days
Even when there's no hope for better days
Why we should try to make the best of today
I hear the laugh of an innocent child
And see the color in light from sunshine
This life is beauty, ecstatic and full
Of those, our loved ones, that they make us whole
And carry on 'cause what we do best
Is not forgot the ones we respect
Past days from best our love gives us breath
If just for one last hope that we rest
And I've never hoped, never been, never will
Be a part of the sorrow, never let it win
No more to life, not more to death than that of which we see
Doesn't mean it's not a life we can find worth in living
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10. |
Brothers & Sisters
03:10
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Trust, hunt's not following dust
Kicked up holes and they rust
To the beat of an airplane's jet engine
Wars, of the rich man's followed by us
And the poor man's fighting by dusk
O'er the sound of the air forced into his new lungs
And I'm not here to tell you I won't
Think of his friends as they walk
Through the bars, like a caravan careened off the coast
And I'm not here to tell you that
All the fighting has been all for not
But it's not the war that keeps us free
Guns won't help us fight poverty
Sociologically trapped by economies
You, your life is fundamentally changed
By how much or how little you grow up with
And just because your culture worships cash
Doesn't mean the others don't have value
6 million years since the
Advent of bipedal vertebrate land mammals
And what have we to show but clans
Fighting over land, sex, religion and policy
Brothers and sisters, I urge you to sing
With what's left of our breath that we might make a change
Put yourself in the shoes of someone else than you
Take a walk on a social foray
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11. |
Alexandra Coffin
03:37
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Another night you're held up in there
Bruised knees and blood in your hair
Hands tight around the porcelain, clenched jaw,
Empty stomach, throatless screams,
A noiseless cry, unheard, unseen
Pulled back against its brass
The door won't hold off too long
You feel your heart racing
Foot inside, sliver of light
A darkness pours like gasoline
I can't stand by to watch you subside
Left you faithless for pain left inside
Claimed your body but you have your mind
It's your turn to leave it behind
Alexandra, what has he put you through?
A romance with the bottle
Just to take it out on you
Alexandra, in this room you're left alone
But to keep her safe we won't take
Alexandra Coffin home
Black eyes through broken windows
Glass from inside that won't be swept up
Live life on pins and needles
Laugh off all recovered pride
That's blamed by your victimization
His fits have owned your silence
You owe him nothing but hate
Take off before he kills you
Have a chance for a new start
Don't fall for comfort's false forgiveness
I know your mother made a sacrifice and forced a filled vice of pills
To numb the nexus of a series of blows he swung and hurled to beat her little girl
She died to protect your life and now you owe it to her to take your life and
Move a thousand miles away from the pain 'cause the pain isn't what love is
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12. |
Stay Afloat (Acoustic)
02:48
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13. |
Gabe (Acoustic)
03:23
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The Nucken Futs Boston, Massachusetts
Boston-based gutter punk. We like to listen to The Descendents, Strung Out, Leftover Crack, A Wilhelm Scream, etc, etc.
Aaron Dojj—vocals, guitar
Jeremy Newstead—vocals, drums, bass
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