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The Optimist

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The Pessimist 01:16
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Every song I hear Makes me feel so sick No one is sincere with anything Anymore It’s a bunch of bullshit Never any message The arrogance is real, and we’ve done nothing to stop it There’s no chorus to this song Just this one time I don’t care And I don’t give a fuck if you like But do you like it? Do you like it?
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Never Alone 01:57
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Thought too much Grew up too fast Held on to shit that didn’t last Fell in love too many times To really get to know myself I still don’t know what I’m doing I’ve entertained the thought That heaven is just a place we leave and maybe real righteousness Keeps us down, maybe it gets us down I struggle a lot but I’m not the only one The look in your eyes says I’m not alone I’m not alone Empty but not alone Crazy but not alone Jaded but not alone I wouldn’t be here if I was the only one I wouldn’t be here if I was alone If you’re losing faith know you’re not the only one If it keeps you alive know you’re never alone
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Waiting On Jesus 01:49
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I heard you got fired showing up strung out Everything is such a mess I saw your Facebook pictures Hanging out with trouble Getting into shit again I know what it feels like To think everybody in the whole world hates you But when you burn every fucking bridge It makes sense you’re going to have to take The long hard road alone I know what it feels like To be a Stupid Kid I know what it feels like My mom keeps asking me What you’ve been up to I’m too embarrassed to say Feels like I sold you out But you’re hard to be around It was hard to watch you fall I think back To when we were kids In the woods hiding from all the neighbors It’s fucked up We were just kids Waiting for somebody to save us It’s like we’re still kids in the woods still waiting on Jesus
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Enabler 01:38
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I’ve been falling behind Losing my Goddamn mind It’s like clockwork I don’t have the time And I don’t have the right Mind frame For these games I wasn’t built for this But when I woke up the morning after You said you fucked it all up again I was calling you back To come back over So we could talk and still be friends You make things hard It’s so fucking hard It’s so fucking hard To be your friend Everybody saw it coming You didn’t mean to be a burden But everybody saw it coming
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Rabbit Holes 01:44
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They got the money spent Before the checks even cashed No telling where it went Until we sift through the ash Can’t blame the government When it’s tangled in lies I know I’m sick of it Sick of the time Spent down rabbit holes Just to see how far it goes Optical illusions feeding off my ego It’s one step forward For three steps behind It’s like a mirror house of horror And we’re running out of time Can’t blame the president When you don’t even vote Can’t blame my mama’s kin We had no control Just smoking cigarettes We’re bottomless fools We don’t know anything Anything We don’t know anything We don’t know anything more than when I was a boy I don’t know anything I don’t know anything more than when I was a boy Jesus don’t need us I’m wondering if that was a lie Jesus won’t leave us I’m wondering if that was a lie too Faith, hope, trust It’s feeling like it’s all a lie I’m not a nihilist I’m still an optimist Just don’t know who to trust Not sure of anything Anymore
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Since I Was A Kid 01:42
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Not even noon and you’re passed out on the couch You hit the morning cocktail and it’s light out And it’s been this way Since I was a kid That’s why I spent so much time alone Too insecure with myself But unsafe in my home And it’s been this way Since I was a kid In a hospital room I saw your mind fading They’re still pumping you with drugs There’s no escaping The predictable end To a life spent quick And it’s been this way Since I was a kid And at your funeral I was in the back all alone And it’s been this way Since I was a kid
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Rachel's House 01:43
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I see you sneaking around Been trying to track you down Get a feel for who you are now And maybe get you off this shit I just want you to feel Just a little bit better Cause I miss how it feels Just a little bit better Hiding under your cloths In the middle of the summer Everyone knows You must think I’m as dumb as I was when we used to get high At Rachel’s house We got lost in the drugs we were acting like slugs At Rachel’s house Then Virginia got raped and everything changed At Rachel’s house Watching you stay as it all went to shit At Rachel’s house At Rachel’s house We lost it all
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The Labour Party 01:50
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Please just give me a job Give me that sweet exploitation Keep me in check Check my dreams Keep me sleeping Keep me bottled up Don’t shake us up Don’t let me drift my way to the top Stifle my revolution Stifle my revolution Stifle my revolution I am an American and I enjoy entitlement That I am not prepared to give up I am an American and I enjoy entitlement That I am not prepared to give up So please just give me a job Please just give me a job I am an American and I enjoy entitlement That I am not prepared to give up
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Psychopaths 03:52
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I found a way to be myself again Been in the dark for so long Just want to be alone We will never know Any more than tomorrow’s news I see your eyes stare into empty space You’re not here but you’re No other place Limbo A life worth living dies for something I don’t even want to know What you do when you’re home alone Because out here there’s no self-control Out here there’s no self-control I’m afraid That we’ve all lost our brain Have we all gone insane? Have we all gone insane? The atom bomb Bottomed out the brain It drove us all insane It drove us all insane We’re not supposed to kill this much We’re not supposed to live like this We’re not supposed to be so sick Fucking psychopaths Walking hand in hand in the land of Calvary They will kill their kings until the ground will cease to bleed Psychopaths All around us One of us We’re going to take too much one day (Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.) Modern psychology has a word that is probably used more than any other word in psychology. It is the word maladjusted. It is the ring and cry of modern child psychology. Maladjusted. Now of course we all want to live a well-adjusted life to avoid neurotic and schizophrenic personalities But as I move toward my conclusion I would like to say to you today in a very honest manner That there are some things in our society and some things in our world For which I am proud to be maladjusted. And I call upon all men of good will to be maladjusted to these things until the good society is realized I must honestly say to you that I never intend to adjust myself to racial segregation and discrimination I never intend to adjust myself to religious bigotry I never intend to adjust myself to economic conditions That will take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few and leave millions of God's children smothering in an air tight cage of poverty during an affluent society.

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released December 15, 2017

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