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Flowers
02:17
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Leaving flowers on her grave is all that she has left to satisfy
The feeling stuck inside, the one that fades a little more each time
And she knows that one day she won’t come back, she won’t come back at all
So she clings ahold of the little things that help ‘til mourning’s end
Leaving flowers once again
The ritual’s become her friend
Awaits the day when she won’t
Have to smell the flowers anymore
Memories of better days replaced by empty gestures of remorse
The clouds that loom above have steadily begun to dissipate
She can’t remember when the last time was she wiped her teary eyes
The guilt of vanishing grief is stronger than the sorrow that’s inside
Leaving flowers once again
The ritual’s become her friend
Awaits the day when she won’t
Have to smell the flowers anymore
Leaving flowers once again
The ritual’s become her friend
Awaits the day when she won’t
Hate the smell of flowers anymore
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No Place
03:55
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The neon lights, they burn your eyes
The city streets, congested gauntlets
The filthy air, water reeks of human waste
Suffocating, from claustrophobia
No place to run, no place to hide
No place to run, no place to hide
The nameless drones, humanity’s gone
No empathy, for fellow humans
The empty stares, blank faces passing by
No connection, to anyone at all
No place to run, no place to hide
No place to run, no place to hide
No place to run, no place to hide
No place to run, no place to
Hide, hide, hide, hide
Hide, hide, hide
And when I wanna get away
I lash out and destroy everything in my way
And when I wanna settle down
I listen to Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
The neon lights, they burn your eyes out
Suffocating, from claustrophobia
No place to run, no place to hide
No place to run, no place to hide
No place to run, no place to hide
No place to run, no place to hide
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Elephant
04:31
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Everybody knows but no one wants to talk about it
And you know we’re all the same
Conversations that will never call for indiscretion
Avoid discomfort out of shame
Imperfection doesn’t harmonize with narcissism
Accountability’s passé
Dirty secrets in the open for all to ignore and
Never cease deflecting blame
Elephant in the room, lend a blind eye to another
I for I and you for you, ignore the truth
Is crass hypocrisy akin to blatant narcissism?
Arrogance is on display
Inner demons hidden deep for nobody to see and
Cover ups are here to stay
Attacking others to avoid admitting weaknesses and
Locking skeletons away
Eventually the ugly truth will be revealed in spite of
This fabricated masquerade
Elephant in the room, lend a blind eye to another
I for I and you for you, ignore the truth
Everybody knows but no one wants to talk about it
And you know we’re all the same
Conversations that will never call for indiscretion
Avoid discomfort out of shame
Imperfection doesn’t harmonize with narcissism
Accountability’s passé
Dirty secrets in the open for all to ignore and
Never cease deflecting blame
Everyone knows, everyone cares
Polite discourse averts stares
Nobody says, nobody does
No progress
Can’t admit, you’re the elephant
Can’t admit, you’re the elephant
Won’t admit, you’re the elephant
Won’t admit, you’re the elephant
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Take your place, centerstage, where you focus all of your rage
And it feels, like you steal, when you deal in anger and fear
Play the game, fan the flame, redirecting all of the blame
And we hear, loud and clear, what you’re pumping into our ears
We’ll never fall, we’ll never submit, we’ll never give in to your cult of lies
We’ll never resign and we refuse to normalize
Polarize, hatred thrives, in a faux pious disguise
Make a deal, fake what’s real, amplify the things that they fear
Ignorance, is the stance, while you claim your innocence
Full of lies, cut and dry, anything to reach the prize
We’ll never fall, we’ll never quit, we’ll resist the cult of ignorance
We’ll never resign, and we refuse to compromise
Take your place, centerstage, where you focus all of your rage
And it feels, like you steal, when you deal in anger and fear
Play the game, fan the flame, redirecting all of the blame
And we hear, loud and clear, what you’re pumping into our ears
We’ll never fall, we’ll never submit, we’ll never give in to your cult of lies
We’ll never resign and we refuse to normalize
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venray Washington, D.C.
DC Power Slackers:
Tyler Bergin - Vox/Strings
Christopher Peli - Drums/Vox
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