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.​.​.​And The Battle Begun

by RX Bandits

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Am I crazy because I want to touch your skin? is it ludicrous that I’ve got nothing to believe in that was built by human hands or controlled by demand? So if love is true, let’s burn the factory, take off your shoes it’s time for dancin’ I never leave the house without a pocket of pills, Operator, operator I’ve got no solitude from the digging hands (no way) I think I’m losing it and I can’t keep up Operator, operator it’s nothing personal but I’m choking tears, I’m thinking bout givin in. It’s no better than before, it’s just never mentioned. We keep running this race that can’t be won, I keep coming up empty Doctor doctor you know they try to sell my trust and then call me crazy Box to box you know it never stops, we’re playing boomerang highways In an endless search for meaning I pray for something real. one kiss for all the world, a taste for all that’s precious take it away release all your tension All their paper never feels like my lovers kiss or the warmth of her touch while we dream so if I’m insane so be it, I’ll trade in everything One kiss for all the world, one more for all that’s precious. Are we going nowhere? We need disaster, to love until we’re blinded indeed we are caught, what if we get free? Take it away and it’s all your strife Take it away release all your tension
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A blue square to numb the pain white hexagons to accelerate Swallow yellow to relax whisky and a green one to forget the past Speak to me now, won’t you put your guns in the ground? Let’s sing till our voices break the sound Doctors to say I’m sane white rectangles now to concentrate Another yellow to relax scribbled down solutions to erase the past Got me feeling like an outsider They’re in her drawer but she says she doesn’t take em Got me feeling like an outsider They’re in her drawer but she does not take em all Oh no now we’ve all been diagnosed oh no I can not feel at all Society creates symptoms; the system medicates them (there is no progress in a cure, they’ve got their eyes on the return It came from our own hand to squeeze the last survivor) Kiss me baby, make it better, kiss me baby you can make it better Would you, would you ever? could you, could you ever? (watch your life through a screen)
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There’s a girl stuck in the mirror she stares into my eyes, says she kiss me tender I say I don’t love her but I know it’s a lie and lately she’s been lonely, I couldn’t tell you why oh no, she lives without emotion, she makes me better Only for the night Last night I dreamt about her and our bodies mocked our minds Her taste was so familiar, I say that I don’t need her but I know it’s a lie I swear that it’s the last time that I lie down with her, she holds me when I’m shaking And it makes me better Only for the night I swear, I swear this is the last time I tie it She used to dream of moving pictures, now she slips into the skies And lately I’ve been lonely I couldn’t tell you why She lives without emotion, it makes me better.. Only for the night
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Well I got a reason my goals defined words in a line and my politics (Every word is true) Oh I got my lover with her legs up high, my fingertips on her light switch If someone found the way to save us from ourselves (oh dear you’re only dreaming) And you got a letter you got a number you got a dream you make your personal hell (yeah yeah....) And we got obligation to production we got the angels in a rubber cell with their hands tied up if you can find a way to make the world yourself (oh dear it’s only dreaming) There's a blue eyed pretty woman saying things that she don’t mean come on baby don’t you listen lock your doors up tight tonight cause there’s a million people dying and there’s bound to be more learned it just from listening to a faithful, faithful imitation cause we breathe in everything it’s in our eyes and it’s in our skin speaks a holy replication with her cheeks all sunken in, bloody nose and a plastic grin he needs a pill just to feel her insides, she needs a crutch just to wake her up ghost-eyed man and the walking dead what does feeling really feel like? digging up a body from a burial ground, wipe the bones off nice and clean mother don’t breast feed your children with a plastic mouse and a crystal screen now there’s more white people talking about a war that’s make believe doctor spins a word like freedom we pretend to know just what it means
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1980 03:03
And it’s your only day, do you got all the truth? oh you never feel the way you were… I must have seen it it’s so familiar oh she looks so familiar must have seen it, oh you look so familiar I must have seen her face before, I fell in love when I was born now they hide her with a whisper, it’s over So it goes, never been a better time might as well make it now! Oh it’s your only day and you got all the truth oh you'll never feel the way you were now it’s your only day is it all the truth? Oh you never feel the way you were The dead hand of the past only wishes to control your future I must have seen it it’s so familiar oh it looks so familiar must have seen it
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Yeah we all listen to everything the man says can’t speak a sentence, we got the words placed Stars keeping falling far from space, we’re a million miles an hour, fast asleep How do you feel, how do you feel when you’re alone? It’s time for action, they tried to take our love! where is your passion, where do you get yours? stars keeping falling far from space, we’re one million miles an hour fast asleep How do you feel, how do you feel when you’re alone Got our bodies squeezed into digital molds, we can’t breathe and were moving too slow God is sold between a video screen, a plastic wall and a broken material dream It's time to memorize your numbers, a code to signify your face Your thumb is pushing down on the plunger, pick up your feet so you can put em in place There's an inside rumor of a beggar, who got all that he need in his hands, he said he ain't no good with possession cause he can't keep track and he don't need a plan they say the old woman got the wisdom, cause she couldn’t read a clock anymore she said the numbers don’t represent the moments and she don’t see what all that ticking's for “they selling you time with repeat stimuli right in front of your eyes till you feel paralyzed you’re the only one who can define real” tell me right now how you really feel.
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Apparition 03:39
She say she’s gonna come over tonight look like a ghost sound like a whisper shivering down my spine I’m just a traveling soul, say you’d never leave me low, tell me you need me so tonight she come creeping up slow I got no place, no place to go but now I’m feeling like I fell for you oh baby, no don’t you sell it story’s always different no matter who’s telling it, now I’m feeling like I fell for you Apparition I know she lurkin the streets tonight, sound like silence, slink like a drifter 'tween the darkness and the flickering light She’s just a wandering soul, oh I just can’t let it go, tell me it isn’t so tonight I swear I heard something sneaking through my corridor, memories float like specters, keeps on haunting me evermore
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Hey you with all your secrets the story has just begun we see right through your scare tactics and your feeble attempts at diversion Make no difference, make no difference who’s to blame cause the only thing left that’s constant is a change I say you better move if you can’t lend a hand cause were gonna make our own way, Sun is setting on your dark day whose to blame, said who’s to blame Yes you, Mr.Untouchable, your pointin all your fingers through putting guns in the hands of our children, are their lives just a game to you? Tell me is your money that good? Will it buy you love? Do you think that it could? The wheels still spinning and it’s coming around all it takes is a spark to burn it all down Move your body round, I say I won’t let it fade out move your body down, we can’t let it fade out You Mr. Elation, with all your perfect plans for peace, until the power of love can exceed the love of power you know it can never, never be, makes no difference, makes no difference who’s to blame cause the only thing left that’s constant is a change You better move if you can’t lend a hand cause were gonna make it our own way, Sun is rising to a brighter day who’s to blame
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Epoxi-Lips 06:04
This is how the story goes, I’ve got something that I stole A manuscript, a document, a failure, and an argument kiss to sleep right through the night promise me and I won’t fight, in an innocent way I shuttered sick scratched to solve the un-relievable itch They say the holy wars were all started by hired crooks if you believe in your heart, now it’s time let go forget tomorrow’s sermon or let the moment pass you by It’s too late Numbers keep climbing gotta keep up the pace uproot the lines as they grow on your face career is over time to take off your clothes feel the drip as it numbs all you know it’s only skin, oh it’s only skin and you can’t stop the reaper from the scythe that she’s swinging a cut, a shot, the heat of her thighs, eyes that are crazy cause you can't find a friend I said the time is now and we got all, the time is now we got it, got it all, we got it At the end of the world we'll all have a big party from sea to sea and into the desert sands we'll feel comfortable naked, won't need our prescriptions to say we're happy and admit we're all scared of growing old Now is the time, the time is now, it’s not too late forget tomorrow’s sermon… we're always runnin it's not too late we're running....
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The first step’s so called education, next chapter is assimilation We keep you pacified so you will follow It’s a stand in line conglomerate in a bigot worship mortuary We keep you satisfied so you will swallow It’s just beginners luck if you get out It’s just beginners luck if you get out This finely fashioned fairy tale spins a web that’s indestructible and rife with lies Soothe your senses til’ your mine Next we bring intimidation, social status segregation where you all justify and play consumer fear works further toward division, indiscriminate spastic decisions we keep you paranoid, so you can’t struggle It’s just beginners luck if you get out It’s just beginners luck if you get out This finely fashioned fairy tale spins a web that’s indestructible and rife with lies fill your pockets now your mine And if you can’t find a vein, I’ll be the medicine I’ll be the medicine for you My love only you, my love We weave a tale of our stark heroics, swaying the public from our bully pulpits Create illusions for imperial schemes, poor against the poor for democracy while we rape that word with a swift incision, snatch up the poverty to fill up the prisons boost economy with perpetual war, and everything you buy only feeds us more! (so just keep buying…)
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Written for you these words, the love of my life the world is yours to discover with brand new eyes you're no player in a game of roles assigned what you possess has no barter, no structure, no insurmountable walls, only barriers of perception Don't you ever be afraid of all of your beauty you can move without his words or a grant of submission Oh they try to smother you're righteous ambition and stifle your loving grace they tell you its a little girls place to alter your convictions no don't you wait... Put it down, rhetoric shake it out now baby They said you want it, they said you need it but you don’t need it anymore (and you never did) They thrust you their products by making you feel insecure the matriarch was murdered and now woman is a four letter word Put a price on your body to convince you that it's all you're worth they are afraid of the power they lose and the gift of creation so don't you ever listen!
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A new adventure to a place we can’t find With our hands in each others and a new world in our minds When I’m inside you baby your lips complete me I’m intrigued by your design The price of fame it don’t come cheaply, could you point me to the meaning Could you tell me what’s in store, we all want to live forever locked inside your myths complete me I’m intrigued by your disguise We need a rager, so we can burn it to the ground, it’s contagious we can’t slow down W need a rager, so we can burn it all to the ground, it’s contagious we can’t slow down The picket line and the placard sign, don’t mean nothing in the modern time The past will die before the future's born if living's what your looking for because they're the liars, cheats, victors in defeat, a hollow-eyed lover in a dirty magazine they are the loose stomach staple in a money machine add a little power and you know they’ll say anything Locked inside your myth completes me, I’m intrigued by your demise We need a rager, so we can burn it to the ground, it’s contagious we can’t slow down We need a rager, so we can burn it all to the ground, it’s contagious we can’t slow down Mother culture money dream, don’t sell me anything market facet free for all, you can never steal our love! Yeah, said you never mean it, I’m bleeding in here from my open wounds, all that we gain is something that we can not create, oh I never, no I never could come over to you. Locked inside your myth completes me, I’m intrigued by your disguise Take as the leavers vanish they came to steal the sun, quick like a laser beam let’s fall in love.

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