1. |
Something Subversive
01:52
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Let's get some ground rules covered
Aliens exist
but we definitely haven't met them
there are just a lot of people
out there looking for some sort
of connection and it's easier
sometimes to imagine it
descending from the sky
than materializing here
in our everyday lives
What's the cost here
of speaking my mind?
I'd like to thank the family
for making this possible
Been paying attention
since I was in school
the cops and the klan
they're looking the same
to me
I wanna take one pill and have
that be it
(calm down)
Hit that sweet spot between
tough and considerate
One has to inventory their
heart, it's wounds and earnestness
before you hand it over to
another person, all spiky
(it's dangerous!)
When the cops get raises
(that's white supremacy)
sending soldiers to Iraq?
(that's white supremacy too!)
we built this whole place on someone
else's back and although I'm a fair skinned
man, continuing to do so doesn't
really benefit me
What's the cost here
of speaking my mind?
I'd like to thank my family
for making this possible
It gets harder and harder
to compromise
when love and subversion
feel much the same for me!!
Don't make me hug you
or tell me to smile
there ain't nothing safe about your brand of
lip service
You safety pin motherfuckers
can kiss my ass
the queer future's coming
please save a seat
for me!
Once, on my birthday,
someone told me I wasn't
allowed to be latino
Andate a la mierda, cabron!
My whole life, they've
been saying I can't dig
men and women at the
same time
Buscapleitos!
I don't want to fight you
don't want to start a war
but I will respond to micro
aggressions towards myself
and my loved ones with
macro aggressions
Straight up.
What's the cost here
of speaking my mind?
I'd like to thank this family
for making it possible
Strength is seeking
love on your owns terms
Let the heart-starved motherfuckers
save their energy
This is an age where
faith is uncool
but I believe in how
I feel about you babe
- now let me tell you something
truly subversive:
God is Great
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2. |
God is Great
02:29
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I won't say there's something missing
but I'm feeling an absence
an absence of faith
maybe baby
I won't hurt this Sunday morning
if I can keep my strength
god is great
say I wanna
Pretend that someone's always listening
cares about all my feelings
directs me towards you
each time I'm praying
to encounter nothing our love can't conquer
no one can go it alone
tonight I'll prove it to you
here in my country
they say the devil is in the details
right before they bury you
Cause if this world cannot get better
what the fuck
are we gonna go?
So I won't say there's something missing
but I'm feeling an absence
an absence of faith
MAYBE BABY!!!
I won't hurt this Sunday morning
if I can keep my strength
god is great
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3. |
Get Your Own Net Flicks
02:58
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Not sure that I heard you
can you repeat it again
we've come from all over
getting time to hear something else
I don't mean to scold (you)
yell about it
Don't think we're
meant to be friends
I'm exposing my insides
and outs over this
I'm a gift not a contract
getting time to be something else
I don't mean to scold (you)
yell about it
Don't think we're meant to
be friends
I'm all over it again
Right around the year 19(94)
I swore that I'd be
something else
a consummate giver
but boy
GET YOUR OWN NET FLICKS!
Separate
to preserve my being
I'm sorry
it's come down to this
but
I can't let you
hurt me again
Nothing that we do is
on purpose
except everything is
My brain's not broken on purpose
the sorta mind a
mother could love
I don't mean to scold (you)
yell about it
Don't think we're meant to
be friends
I'm all over it again
Right around the year 19(94)
I swore that I'd be
something else
a consummate giver
but boy
GET YOUR OWN NET FLICKS!
Separate
to preserve my being!
I'm sorry
it's come down to this
but
I can't let you
hurt me again
Whose job was it to
fill us with purpose
this boy's a tad overtone
My sense of safety's
a circus
it's this lottery I won
I'm not gonna scold you
or go on about it
but I don't think we're
meant to be friends
I'm finding all of my people
it's a shame you're not them
This decade's a long one
we'll find time to be
something else
I won't count you out
or forget about this
but today
I'm over it again.
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4. |
Monster Inside the House
03:13
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In order to start changing
a violence you
don't understand
stand and admit
the limitations of
being one man
omnipotence led us
to ruin so many
times before
if you wanna be different
stay silent some more
amazing what arrives
when you don't fill
the room with
your breathing
a growling on the rise
teeth sharp
take a step
and I'm leaving
I can say I'm sorry
a thousand times but
if nothing changes
every word was a lie
was raised by wolves
but we're all a lamb
inside our minds
(oh it's coming)
may we find peace this time
(oh it's coming on!)
Fear cannot keep us
apart forever
I'll keep on reaching and
nothing can stop me
gently
There's a monster
inside of my house
and I can't get it
out of here
much as I try
In order to stare down
the danger we all
must pretend
not to hear the
murder and maiming!
Trust is a long road
paved in the blood
of the damned
My veins are full
but they're rapidly
draining!
It's feeding, getting strong
eight feet tall
and thick in its knees
Its voice grinds my bones
to dust
inside my genes this
disease
The will to hate isn't
inherited, it's passed
on down
Will you still love me
when I'm buried
six feet underground?
all depends what I
say right here,
and right now
(oh it's coming)
I'd do anything
to keep you around
(oh it's coming on!)
Fear will not keep us
apart forever
I stand here open
let it come and
humble me
There's a monster
inside of my house
and I can't get it
out of here
much as I try
I know it's been
tearing at us for
so long
Hard to remember
a time before it
arrived
in our lives
There's a monster inside
of our house
and I can't get it out!
much as I try
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5. |
Bones Are Creakin
00:49
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unintelligible garbling
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6. |
Disaster Zone
02:48
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It shouldn't be too much to ask
to open up baby, see I have this wound
this gash
It's for the family that I left
let's circle round honey
bodies need more rest
we'll take it back!
All around
they reply with the same lies
insist that I deny what I
can see with my own two eyes
It's a disaster zone!
Pumped up chiropractors
riding the block chain
the chads and the ryans
all beginning to sound the same
it's a disaster zone
My governor says germs are bad
but freedom calls baby
keep them dying fast
and steeping in debt
Elon Musk says taxes are bad
the subprime animals are
chomping at our backs
they're built to last
Who are we working for?
(just who)
Just who are we working for?
(who)
Who are we working for?
(just who)
Just who are we working for?
All around me
they reply with the same lies
insist that I deny what I
can see with my own two eyes
It's a disaster zone!
Pumped up chiropractors
riding the block chain
the chads and the ryans
all beginning to sound the same
it's a disaster zone
Pumped up chiropractors
riding the block chain
the chads and the ryans
all beginning to sound the same
it's a disaster zone
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7. |
Who Failed Joe Mendez
03:03
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He's a dead man
with a broken heart
hatred tore him apart
He's a transplant
he's a former star
striking out from the start
don't forget what we are
Who failed Joe Mendez?
Was it you?
Was it me?
Ooo Ooo Ooo Ooo
Ooo Ooo Ooo Ooo
Man made me promise
son please don't
join the army
Come (stand here
and) tell me again!
Mutagenic
defoliant herbicide
dioxin pours from his eyes
Should have been there
I was only a child ...
couldn't have known what we are
tearing away at my heart
Who failed Joe Mendez?
Was it you?
Was it me?
Ooo Ooo Ooo Ooo
Ooo Ooo Ooo Ooo
Man made me promise
son please don't
join the army
Come (stand here
and) tell me again!
Ooo
Everyone knows not to
talk about that something
that lives inside the base
of your spine
cells went crazy
and rose above their
pay grade and starved
him out in front of our eyes
it sounded like this
Who failed Joe Mendez?
Was it you?
Was it me?
Ooo Ooo Ooo Ooo
Ooo Ooo Ooo Ooo
Man made me promise
son please don't
join the army
Can he see me now
and all that I'm up to
to spite his coroded
love
Incomplete
didn't get
the chance to correct you
that image of what
lives about
Come (stand here
and) tell me again!
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8. |
Looking Up
02:51
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I know your heart was broken
into a million little pieces
just like your mother's before you
sure it's a man's fault if you
go back far enough
But I never asked to be your child
I'm not indebted to your labor
you had a solemn responsibility
but lacked the skills and courage
to recognize me
You couldn't see color
tell the difference between
one place or another
my father was embarassed
bout speaking Spanish
at Christmas with your
Navy father and Navy brother
If they had all been drafted
at the same time, the same way
who would have come back in a box
who would have been infected
with agent orange?
I've been hanging on
and not tending to everything
cause I didn't know how
you know?
Kept telling me that your
husband had died (screaming
I knew
Kept telling strangers that
my father had died (begging)
you knew too
As I became an adult
you couldn't recognize my feelings
cause you never learned to
recognize yours
Love and control ain't the
same thing, you don't
building character sleeping
on floors but exposing your
heart vulnerably to the
people you dare call yours
I've been hanging on
and not tending to everything
cause I didn't know how
you know?
I've been hanging on
and not tending to everything
cause I didn't know how
you know?
Things are looking up!
Whenever you'd come to visit
I'd try to show you all
my favorite things
But you were way too busy
imparting lessons meant for
little kids
Other people can only reach you
if they lie
Re: what they're all
about, and the things they
feel inside because if you
can't control it, it's right
out your mind's eye
If you get your needs
met by screaming than you
don't deserve to have a child
Remember when those kids
called you a dumb
new age imperialist
well they were right
I've been hanging on
and not tending to everything
cause I didn't know how
you know
I've been hanging on
and not tending to everything
cause I didn't know how
you know
I've been hanging on
and not tending to everything
cause I didn't know how
you know
I've been hanging on
and not tending to everything
cause I didn't know how
you know
Things are looking up!
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9. |
Coyote
02:50
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Let's meet up at my place
for you, I'll share my love
We'll keep our troubles at bay
for you, I'll share my love
And much to my surprise
all the angles are swelling
BABY please
Can we double up and ride
for DAYS
I don't wanna go solo
into the night
Cause when the sun goes down
Papa gets a bit scroungy
My blood's part coyote
Baby
Oooooooo
Under pale moonlight
the soul it transforms me
and I don't wanna hide it away
Complicated younger days
Followed, a code of conduct
But when you strip the loneliness away
all's left, the stars and the starstruck
People only rise so high
before their temperament's changing
LATELY a lot
Everything considered you can't be
too SAFE
I don't wanna go solo
STAY and fight
Cause when the sun goes down
Paper gets a bit scroungy
My blood's part coyote
Baby
Oooooooooo
Under pale moodlight
the soul it transforms me
and I don't wanna hide it away
Cause when the sun goes down
Paper gets a bit scroungy
My blood's part coyote
Baby
Oooooooooo
Under pale moodlight
the soul it transforms me
and I don't wanna hide it away
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10. |
The War Outside
03:20
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Can smell a coward from
a mile away
and I can smell it on myself
at the end of the day
Can't do a thing about it
Well I might call you a sister
I might call you a friend
Costs a pretty penny
No matter how much you spend
Conditionally about it
Nobody's counting baby
nobody cares
Pile up your money
consolidate your shares
Operationally underfunded
Throw the book at you, baby
charge you with glee
Keep the peace
Keep it peckin
Long as you tone it down
around me
Can't stand to be around it
Think about it when
you're feeling macho
When you put down your rifle
to look more femme
Objectify all fruits and puddings
look your boo up on the internet
It's not enough for General Kelly
if you march to the beat
of your own drum
No it's not enough
I'm a young dumbass
HEY! I don't want another
NO, HEY!
I don't want another
It's not enough for General Kelly
Not enough for the way outside
No, it's not enough
Not enough
This iron that we're pumping
feels a little bit light
piling on the muscles
and we're itching to fight
But no one here's gonna
get off easy
Four more years!
before the violence seizes me
This man is a killer
he craves genocide
but he looks so sexy
with jeans riding high
There ain't no way
around it
Energy's toxic
he's a noxious gas
fill your lungs up with fluid
makes you feel like a piece
of ass
Shape your life!
around earning his sympathies
Still a slut!
with god's light in me
Think about it when
you're feeling macho
When you put down your rifle
to look more femme
Objectify all fruits and puddings
look your boo up on the internet
It's not enough for General Kelly
if your march to the beat
of your own drum
No it's not enough
I'm a young dumbass
HEY! I don't want another
NO, HEY!
I don't want another
Please, HEY!
I don't want another
It's not enough
It's never enough!
I don't know
what I would do
without you
I don't know
what I would do
without you
Never been enough
for General Kelly
Can't feed
the way outside
I swear we're enough
you're more than enough
I don't know
what I would do
without you
I don't know
what I would do
without you
I don't know
what I would do
without you
I don't know
what.
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11. |
Forgiveness
03:28
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Your forgiveness
is a drug
that you take
with a shrug
You say I'd rather
not heal
not stomach
my next meal
While I wait
(while I wait, while I wait)
(Your forgiveness)
Isn't something that I
count on, it's something
I earn
Not enough to say
I'm all about you
to love is to learn
(You say I'd rather)
Each of us still hanging on
the other
to what we deserve
what we deserve
my style might say fuck boy
but my heart it's all nerve
psychobonic nerve
While I wait
(while I wait, while I wait)
While I wait
(while I wait, while I wait)
While I wait
(while I wait, while I wait)
Your forgiveness
is a drug
Isn't something that I count on
it's something I earn
that you take
with a shrug
my style might say fuck boy
but my heart it's all nerve
You say I'd rather
not heal
this is a coming out party
I AM A VERB
not stomach
my next meal
all that we deserve
You say I'd rather
not heal
not stomach
my next meal
While I wait
(while I wait, while I wait)
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12. |
Mean Moms Club
03:21
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Mean moms club boyee
they're coming for you
It's time we start believing in something else
we all need something
Mean moms club
coming to your rescue
Feeling pretty normal to tell the truth
call a nighttime meeting
And I swear
this club will leave no member behind
this club's objectives are more divine
this club it's running out of time
Let's try our hand at necromancy
bring back all the dead dads
Time travel's no mere fantasy
Unhanging Florida's Chads
We'll beat back the fires and the rising seas
Before anyone's mad
When I'm dug in next to you I'm glad
When I'm dug in next to you I'm glad
Mean mom's club boyee
they know what to do
It's time we started healing each other's hearts
tend to our wounded
Mean mom's club
coming through when you're lonely
You're charming and worthy of love
don't you fucking forget it
Or I swear
this club will leave no member behind
this club's objectives are most divine
this club it's running out of time
Let's try our hand at necromancy
bring back all the dead dads
Time travel's no mere fantasy
Unhanging Florida's Chads
We'll beat the fires and the rising seas
Before anyone's mad
When I'm dug in next to you I'm glad
When I'm dug in next to you I'm glad
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