I wake up in the morning, I quit my yawning
Stand up straight with a lifetime dawning
Life won't wait so I better get on it
Gotta stand tall, gotta earn what I wanted
I come from a place where the fake is preferred
Where they take what you are away from you from birth
Where earth is a picture on your TV
The ground beneath is paved with concrete, I...

I searched and I found all the doors (but they all had locks)
All the batteries gone dead (and the beat just dropped)

I made a self incision, it was a tough decision
Removed my heart, held it to my ear to listen
Rhymed to the beat to search for what's missing
Picked up my scalpel and made a cut deep
Seeping in to my own skin, I can begin to let love in
Standing on a mountain, shouting at God
As if that shit mattered when your hopes shatter

I searched and I found all the doors (but they all had locks)
All the batteries gone dead (and the beat just dropped)

I'm alive on a rock that must be too
I can climb to the top, admire the view
I slew my demons with a sword of heart shards
I came in clean, I'm a leave with scars
I might've missed the point, I will pass the joint
Anointed at birth, realized heavenly worth
Is raining down in rhyming verse
So paint with blood, smell the flowers after the flood

I searched and I found all the doors (but they all had locks)
All the batteries gone dead (and the beat just dropped)

Liable to crack the code and break out
Bibles and bank accounts, hand to mouth
Out past the doubts, here inside the now
The how slips away, the day turns to night
Flight right suppressed, flesh indulgence
Senses messed with, minds disconnected
Flexin' power, now cower
Livin' life for dollars an hour

Privatized Survival!

How can we trust the sun? Was it stolen?
Will we stay or run? Holdin' on spawned mind police
The dawn comes, release
The day burns away, the day never stays
Play, close your eyes, piss away the day
Stay inside, hide, let the day die
We're flexin' power, now cower
Livin' life for dollars an hour

Privatized Survival!

What can I say here to change the world?
What can I do here to change myself?
What if health's possible?
Love's more than plausible
Deniability fed by civility, silly me
I thought it was over, the order of chaos
Embraced over eons, you dropped the baton
Flexin' power, cower
Livin' life for dollars an hour

Privatized Survival!

Tuning antennas to throb of the zeitgeist
Waking up naked, layin' upon the hot ice
Wet in the desert, bathed in black sunshine
Find the hidden key, ride the turbulent sea
Into the future to suit your needs
Here I bleed upon my white cross
When all is lost, TV set's on
Another holocaust, vicarious, hilarious, and sickening
Unplugged hearts exist without bickering
Unplugged minds achieve victory

Doom, doom, doom
All you hear everywhere
Future clouded, shrouded in despair
Staircase hidden, there is an exit here
Under the fear where the fire hides
Breathe in the air, the care cultivated
Elevated exultation above the mundane
Outside the insane, penetratin' the darkness
Spark this arsonistic, blissful fire
Unplugged hearts exist without bickering
Unplugged minds achieve victory

I, I wanna get away
I wanna leave this place
And find another space
That I can call my home
Cuz me I'll find another way
I don't need this today
I'll take 'em for all they
For all they got

Lying with our Cheshire grins on
Bring on the madness
We're basking in caskets to cling to
Who will save us now?
Now's getting' swallowed, lined up and followed again
We're all like "when will it end?"
Our friends don't know us
Below us the chasm is growing, slowing down bullets
Spittin' heart sprout seeds
The future keeps flowin' and we ride the zephyr with ease
Over the trees cuz we are evergreen
Ever seeing eye all seeing globally
So are we though, our weeds won't slow down
No sir, no how, we got new now know how
Unplugged hearts exist without bickering
Unplugged minds achieve victory

I, I wanna get away
I wanna leave this place
And find another space
That I can call my home
Cuz me I'll find another way
I don't need this today
I'll take 'em for all they
For all they got

We fight for the air
and reach for the sun
we don't let it go
(Bleed bleed bleed bleed bleed!)
So take all you want
take it all away from me
Take all that you need
(Bleed bleed bleed bleed bleed!)

Unveiling humanity with strokes of insanity
animal side brightened to the point where it's blinding
all in the timing, finding a way out
saw ow if it hurts and i'll dig it in deeper
Bleeder, heart scars could sing the last song
in this blur, on this earth
Inside to outside, it's time to decide
it's time to decide

We fight for the air
and reach for the sun
we don't let it go
(Bleed bleed bleed bleed bleed!)
So take all you want
take it all away from me
Take all that you need
(Bleed bleed bleed bleed bleed!)

Awake and glowing
showing slowly the way out the cave
we're depraved but we're real
what we feel is surreal
steal this moment to bathe in
human's too human when bliss is enslavement
a maven for pain and enduring
i'm curing my brain with immediacy
this is carnal and free
bleed, bleed
bleed bleed bleed bleed bleed bleed bleed!!

We fight for the air
and reach for the sun
we don't let it go
(Bleed bleed bleed bleed bleed!)
So take all you want
take it all away from me
Take all that you need
(Bleed bleed bleed bleed bleed!)

Comfortable in my bubble while the world whimpers
simpler times chime, the back of mind
i'm thinking bout sugar, fixin to bug out
shrug doubts down past perception of now
sound of revelation muffled by occupation
preoccupied, incessant obsession
pacing, waiting, sighing, hiding, hiding from the why
while seeds silently ripen inside
fly away stoned, fly away stoned, fly away stoned
someday we will make it home....

We fight for the air
and reach for the sun
we don't let it go
(Bleed bleed bleed bleed bleed!)
So take all you want
take it all away from me
Take all that you need
(Bleed bleed bleed bleed bleed!)

When you can't inhale enough through the fluff
exhale the stuff that's causing the pain
switch up your angle, switch up your game
smooth out the tangles, relocate the frame
blame can't be placed, past is erased
disgrace is everyone's, the guns stay loaded
our hearts explode, golden now obscured by clouds
the hum's so loud down here on the ground
the sound of silent terror building
still we sit and wait for a sign
which one's god and who's the liar?
Fire in your heart, your eyes
your mind is mine and mine will fly
to sunbath heights, nights fly by
we are the ones, we are the lions

All my days have come (close your eyes)
to this moment, quietly kept (shed your disguise)
rise upon your feet (step into a place)
fan the flames, so they won't forget (where the limit's the sky)

Breathe in all the way, let it out
the doubt's a symptom, sick with ism
this is a prism, let yourself shine
everything's fine if you breathe through the pain
strangled screams, pouring rain
I know how it seems, it's just a game
help me forget, i'll help you remember
join in the fight, help me surrender
send a reminder into the future
mute yourself til it's time to scream
time to strike, create the dream
unite the team, deviate brightly
nightly, daily, keep fighting
claw and bite and flap your wings
we sing this song til everyone's free
breathe and smile, smile and breathe

All my days have come (close your eyes)
to this moment, quietly kept (shed your disguise)
rise upon your feet (step into a place)
fan the flames, so they won't forget (where the limit's the sky)
then take your jaws and wrap them (limit's the sky)
around my neck (limit's the sky)
cuz this is the way I chose to go (limit's the sky)
with no regrets

A light stays on (too blind to see, too blind to see me)
in this house (silently plant the seed, silently plant the seed)
at night, they all (too blind to see, too blind to see me)
they all come out (silently plant the seed, silently plant the seed)

All my days have come (close your eyes)
to this moment, quietly kept (shed your disguise)
rise upon your feet (step into a place)
fan the flames, so they won't forget (where the limit's the sky)
then take your jaws and wrap them (limit's the sky)
around my neck (limit's the sky)
cuz this is the way I chose to go (limit's the sky)
with no regrets

The bullshit parade is still marching strong
inhale from the bong and watch the veil fall off
rock microphones, droppin love bombs
slap awake drones with stoney peace songs
we are much stronger than this
hold on a little longer to this
love, this love is all there is
love, this love is all there is
cuz the universe is not just, it's balanced
kick the verse to rise to the challenge
kicks and snares dissipate, disappear
so kick the chorus, right now right here

In flames (light up your lighter, fly away higher)
we'll burn, burn! (bring babylon fire, babylon fire)

Pomegranate grenades, ego death detonation
bogus crusades bring alienation, patience
we keep riding forward, we just keep going
destroying all borders, order,
chaos, the dance lasts forever
hold on, this heart's getting better
love, this love is all there is
love, this love is all there is
cuz the universe is not just, it's balanced
kick the verse to rise to the challenge
kicks and snares dissipate, disappear
so kick the chorus, right now right here

In flames (light up your lighter, fly away higher)
we'll burn, burn! (bring babylon fire, babylon fire)

We gotta wait at least until the wounds are healed
when the love's revealed and the layers peel
concealed strain heartache, knuckle scrape breakdown
what's it gonna take to wake up this hero?
Bound gag order sorta drowning
don't doubt doggy paddle my way back
love, this love is all there is
love, this love is all there is
cuz the universe is not just, it's balanced
kick the verse to rise to the challenge
kicks and snares dissipate, disappear
so kick the chorus, right now right here

In flames (light up your lighter, fly away higher)
we'll burn, burn! (bring babylon fire, babylon fire)

LOVE! THIS LOVE IS ALL THERE IS!

Kept busy by means of bitchin and fussin
flowers grow in the ruts we get stuck in
i've been searchin, bet you have too been
yearning for a way out but I feel glued
cuz construed meanings never meet intentions
confused, reeling, static intervention
leaves us right here when our minds won't change
stuck in the cycle playing the game

There's someone I gotta see (How about now?)
There's so much that I need, that I need. (How about now?)
Is it hunger that I feed (How about now?)
Or it all for greed, all for greed (How about now?)

Another yawn, goddamn, tomorrow morning
I swear I won't waste half the damn day snoring
ignoring the taste of the bitterly boring
face in the mirror not crystal clear
seers are few and far between
but sight is nearer than you might think
so wash off doubt in a dingy sink
I think the brink of insight's in sight

There's someone I gotta see (How about now?)
There's so much that I need, that I need. (How about now?)
Is it hunger that I feed (How about now?)
Or it all for greed, all for greed (How about now?)

I rearrange the game, my outsane aim's
to face and maintain the future in the present
never hesitant to breathe, I see
boundaries and cages, ageless wisdom
boils and rages, gotta keep on filling up the pages
full speed ahead, head's up check the gages
gaze down from the top
at the life I hated

There's someone I gotta see (How about now?)
There's so much that I need, that I need. (How about now?)
Is it hunger that I feed (How about now?)
Or it all for greed, all for greed (How about now?)

Reactionary pattern, fascists tattered
the ashes reaching back, back
stack chips react faster, you bastard
after the fact, mastered an act
left behind blind, def, dumb, and alive
fly, own what you own, go, sober or stoned
flow show no slow doze awaken and glow
oh no, stuck on the couch about to flip the fuck out, shout

I pick it up, put it down!

Hypocritical typical individual me
it's a journey, come on, who's with me?
Gotta get gone on a brand new train
to tame the pain, change lame brains to magic
the tragic, frantic, saddened, fattened masses
fat asses laughin at plastic and saccharine
where fashion blots out style's sunshine
if you can see fine, all time is free time

I pick it up, put it down!

Subliminal ritual, mind numb dumb stupefied
pride instilled, thrills spilled and swept aside
dyed, whited out, bleached manikin
skin turn yellow in the sun, blot it out again
cleanliness jesus preferred, stirred blurred or shaken
forsakes the sacred lie
try to cling lies, til you sigh, realize
silent are the wisest right?

I pick it up, put it down!

Stuck in the fold again, dry and glued up
no cracks to slip through, no place to get to
a plane laid out, no end in sight
it's this dawnless night, these clocks unwinding
these bending brains, insane behavior
curtailed observer, it's stranger than science
alliance with violence, mindless compliance
of hate bots accepting a fate of division

We stand here with our hands in the air
and they ignore us like we're not there
but if you weren't standing right here
you'd watch it on your tv screen

Lovebug cocoons, this skin's a prison
my mission shall bloom, my isness shall glisten
insistence on vision's a must
distrust all truth, there's no such thing
outsane disdain, so pained by the program
I am god, so get off your knees
see the stars shine, intertwined serpents climbing the sky
this season's for chaos, season for chaos

We stand here with our hands in the air
and they ignore us like we're not there
but if you weren't standing right here
you'd watch it on your tv screen
What if we just weren't afraid?
What if we just weren't afraid? (Like me...)
What if we just weren't afraid?
What if we just weren't afraid? (We stand alone...)
What if we just weren't afraid?
Not afraid, not afraid! (Alone we stand!)

Invert the perversion, take your heart back
soul crack's a version of truth you can't win at
I've been that and this both
Hidden, my wings have grown up and out
is the only place to get to, I spit you
a heart shard to pierce the veil with
I play with fire, I love to burn
I'm unconcerned now, jonesing for nothing
loving the struggle to crack the facade

We stand here with our hands in the air
and they ignore us like we're not there
but if you weren't standing right here
you'd watch it on your tv screen
What if we just weren't afraid?
What if we just weren't afraid? (Like me...)
What if we just weren't afraid?
What if we just weren't afraid? (We stand alone...)
What if we just weren't afraid?
Not afraid, not afraid! (Alone we stand!)

Nothing in the universe is perfect
except for everything
change is the only thing constant
today or tomorrow's
wether i'm a hero, a monster
an imposter, or the genuine article
my heart is so twisted up
but what's fucked up's bound to come down
down for what's up, get back up
fill my cup up to the brim
causing earthquakes on a whim
i'm him, infernal and majestic
no rest for the wicked, it's just another sick kid
flipping cryptic scripture, it's the cure for perjury
third eye prying surgery, before the jury of eternity
you and me will become we
when we see past it, so fast and it's gone
just as it's begun...

Put it in the blender, got that complex simplicity
don't listen to me, listen to the wind in the trees
I hear god talking to me, so
please believe while we're down here in the greaze
paying fees for diseases
where's jesus when you need him?
I seen him on TV last week
saying death to the meek, creature comforts
for the weak minded
all the time, it's time for expansion
the mansion of the mind is right here, let's walk in
plug in, turn it up, get to stomping
everybody jump in, if you can't swim
just trust in the universe, no rehearsal
just forward, no reversal
it's a curse you'll hafta live with
a gift you don't want
it blesses and haunts

nightmares or dreams
you get what you pay for
all of these things, they come knocking at your door
down through the roof or up from the floor
they feed on your, your core!

where you wanna go, whatcha wanna do
gonna bitch and moan, hold breath til you're blue
truth is a shimmering fib
tidbits on the right way to live get distributed
for a profit, every prophet's just a liar
every lie we get higher, throw another on the fire
at the end of the trial, best believe you're gonna burn
gonna learn better, never
better just accept it, don't regret it
sugar's sweet if you let it be
where we're headed's secondary
it's a scary place to be
inside this head being me

I don't give a shit how heavy it is
cuz this is the stone with my shoulders lift
carry down the road like a gift, stay lifted
no time for wallowing, time for drifting
straight ripped kid, my bid for sanity
have you seen distrust, lust, vanity
planet keep banging the beat of war drums
and the sample repeats
idiots bleat like sheep on the daily
maybe failing's a step on the road to success
I guess i'll confess my crimes to the sky
while I die inside, migrating outside
inside out, tide pulling me in
I don't gotta fight it, I don't need to win
sin after sin, cycle repeats again
mend separation

what if the sky falls?

(shut the fuck up receive the transmission
mission: translation
translated to language, each second is now
each moment is sacred)

you know me, i'll never ever be satisfied
no relief, just dreams of the other side
run and run gonna get there someday
some say today's the only one you need
I bleed, i'm a vampire too
no relief, these seams we're bursting through
won't budge, you know someday's so far
some say tomorrow's never guaranteed
we spark weed we tip bottles
search for a way to fill up the hollow
space, disgrace, this taste in my mouth
won't wash out, gotta zoom past doubt
put the microphone up to my mouth
ignite the torch again for the next generation
to hold up high, the king will die
the rats will flee our cages

what if the sky falls?

(shut the fuck up receive the transmission
mission: translation
translated to language, each second is now
each moment is sacred)

somebody tell me the difference
between love and addiction
friction, fiction versus reality
how will we ever know which way to go
woah slow down, sew up your heart holes
mole hills erupt, struck me down again
beginnings and endings colliding
biding my time to climb higher, so listen
this is my time to stick to my mission
fishing for love in my hateful sea
tempestuous tendency
can't bleed it all out, i'm getting light headed
headed down this roundabout
can't get out, route's tried tested and false
mental holocaust
this lust for result's been killing my heart

(shut the fuck up receive the transmission
mission: translation
translated to language, each second is now
each moment is sacred)

Everyday is the name of the struggle
here and gone, we percolate, bubble
stumbled outta the gate and met fate head on
a collision with god
scrape me off the ground now, grind up my pigment
paint me infinite as the stars,behind red and white bars
as blue as my heart can get, stamped and locked down
eyes that look down, mouths whisper gossip
lockup looks just like the dream should
the wood where I would carve your heart
is the paper, as blank as my art...

if you're looking at your flag and you don't recognize it cuz it's true
that if we don't figure out this shit, then you and I, we might both wind up screwed
so make it red!
(the world that I would build for you
is not so red white and blue...
gonna make it red...)

We tried and tried, shackles are timeless
undressed, life is a hail storm
unborn, unlived, unloved
demon is calling the angel's bluff on my shoulder
war ongoing forever, better dig a hole, hide there
awake again, snoring, we should be soaring so high
our eyes scan the ground for crumbs
stumble's our walk now, beat down, drug out
existence exhausted, we had it, we lost it...

if you're looking at your flag and you don't recognize it cuz it's true
that if we don't figure out this shit, then you and I, we might both wind up screwed
so make it red!
(the world that I would build for you
is not so red white and blue...
gonna make it red...)

Take another rip, tonight's trip just jumped off
no soft pillows to land on, we stand on the edge
nothing is better than right here, right now
whatever, sever the past
open up, throw it back, train off the tracks
no time to relax, no time to react
til we're flat on our backs
staring at the sunrise, swollen red eyes
I died a thousand times last night
endless death rehearsal, this dirt will wash away
birth will wash away...

if you're looking at your flag and you don't recognize it cuz it's true
that if we don't figure out this shit, then you and I, we might both wind up screwed
so make it red!
(the world that I would build for you
is not so red white and blue...
gonna make it red...)

This right here's the pattern in static
the traumatic meets the ecstatic
just remember free will is automatic
something moves your hand and you grab it
is it the heart that's moving my mind
devil and god at the same damn time
wanna climb so high we fly
or sit back and wait for someone else to decide?
Genocidal, maniacal, watch it like it's sports
totally divorced from the vital
totally engorged on the bile
pick up your soul, put down your bible
2 triple zip, sanity on trial
know a lot about comfort, not about survival...

are we living or dead she said
I don't know and I turned and read the sign, this line
are we ever really here or there
in between the edges of where I lie or try

somebody gotta distill the listlessness
uncurse the gift and lift us up higher
i'll be the spark, you be the fire
i'm the ganja, love is the lighter
the ignitor of riotous thoughts
right on this spot I take my stand
wanna wring our hands and hope there's a plan?
Goddamn understand, you'll understand nothing and like it
fight it inside to speed your demise
tightly closed eyes, you writhe and cry
screaming to god why
but behind your eyes lie hell and paradise
a pair of dice to roll is all that you'll get...
a pair of dice to shoot so cut the shit loose...

are we living or dead she said
I don't know and I turned and read the sign, this line
are we ever really here or there
in between the edges of where I lie or try

build it up to tear it back down
that's the vision, this is the sound...