Prison Song


They're trying to
Build a prison
They're trying to
Build a prison

Following the rights movements
You clamped on
With your iron fists
Drugs became conveniently
Available for all the kids
Following the rights movements
You clamped on
With your iron fists
Drugs became conveniently
Available for all the kids

I buy my crack
I smack my bitch
Right here in Hollywood

Nearly 2 million Americans
Are incarcerated
In the prison system
Prison system
Prison system of the US

They're trying to
Build a prison
They're trying to
Build a prison
They're trying to
Build a prison
(For you and me
To live in)
Another prison system
Another prison system
Another prison system
(For you and me
To live in)

Minor drug offenders
Fill your prisons
You don't even flinch
All our taxes paying
For your wars
Against the new non-rich
Minor drug offenders
Fill your prisons
You don't even flinch
All our taxes paying
For your wars
Against the new non-rich

I buy my crack
I smack my bitch
Right here in Hollywood

The percentage of Americans
In the prison system
Prison system
Has doubled since 1985

They're trying to
Build a prison
They're trying to
Build a prison
They're trying to
Build a prison
(For you and me
To live in)
Another prison system
Another prison system
Another prison system
(For you and me
To live in)
For you and I
For you and I
For you and I

They're trying to
Build a prison
They're trying to
Build a prison
They're trying to
Build a prison
For you and me
Oh baby, you and me

All research and successful
Drug policy show
That treatment
Should be increased
And law enforcement decreased
While abolishing
Mandatory minimum sentences
All research and successful
Drug policy show
That treatment
Should be increased
And law enforcement decreased
While abolishing
Mandatory minimum sentences

Utilizing drugs to pay for
Secret wars around the world
Drugs are now your global policy
Now you police the globe

I buy my crack
I smack my bitch
Right here in Hollywood

Drug money is
Used to rig elections
And train brutal
Corporate sponsored
Dictators around the world

They're trying to
Build a prison
They're trying to
Build a prison
They're trying to
Build a prison
(For you and me
To live in)
Another prison system
Another prison system
Another prison system
(For you and me
To live in)
For you and I
For you and I
For you and I
They're trying to
Build a prison
They're trying to
Build a prison
They're trying to
Build a prison
For you and me
Oh baby, you and me

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Needles


I cannot disguise
All the stomach pains
And the walking of the canes
When you
Do come out
And you whisper up to me
In your life of tragedy

But I cannot grow
Till you eat the last of me
Oh when will I be free
And you, a parasite
Just find another host
Just another fool to roast

'Cause you
My tapeworm tells me
What to do
You
My tapeworm tells me
Where to go
Pull the tapeworm
Out of your ass, hey
Pull the tapeworm
Out of your ass, hey
Pull the tapeworm
Out of your ass, hey
Pull the tapeworm
Out of your ass, hey

I cannot deny
All the evil traits
And the filling of the crates
When you, do come out
And you slither up to me
In your pimpin majesty

But I cannot grow
Till you eat the last of me
Oh when will I be free
And you, a parasite
Just find another host
Just another stool to post

'Cause you
My tapeworm tells me
What to do
You
My tapeworm tells me
Where to go
Pull the tapeworm
Out of your ass, hey
Pull the tapeworm
Out of your ass, hey
Pull the tapeworm
Out of your ass, hey
Pull the tapeworm
Out of your ass, hey
Pull the tapeworm out of me?

I'm just sitting in my room
With a needle in my hand
Just waiting for the tomb
Of some old dying man
Sitting in my room
With a needle in my hand
Just waiting for the tomb
Of some old dying man?

'Cause you
My tapeworm tells me
What to do
You
My tapeworm tells me
Where to go
Pull the tapeworm
Out of your ass, hey
Pull the tapeworm
Out of your ass, hey
Pull the tapeworm
Out of your ass, hey
Pull the tapeworm
Out of your ass, hey
Hey, hey, hey, hey

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Deer Dance


Round, round

Circumventing circuses
Lamenting in protest
To visible police
Presence sponsored fear

Battalions of riot police
With rubber bullet kisses
Baton courtesy
Service with a smile

Beyond the Staples Center
You can see America
With its tired, poor
Avenging disgrace
Peaceful, loving youth
Against the brutality
Of plastic existence

Pushing little children
With their fully automatics
They like to push
The weak around
Pushing little children
With their fully automatics
They like to push
The weak around

Round, round

A rush of words
Pleading to disperse
Upon your naked walls
Alive
A political call
The fall guy accord
We can't afford to
Be neutral on
A moving train

Beyond the Staples Center
You can see America
With its tired, poor
Avenging disgrace
Peaceful, loving youth
Against the brutality
Of plastic existence

Pushing little children
With their fully automatics
They like to push
The weak around
Pushing little children
With their fully automatics
They like to push
The weak around

Push them around
A deer dance
Invitation to peace
War staring you in the face
Dressed in black
With a helmet, fierce
Trained and appropriate
For the malcontents
For the
Disproportioned malcontents
The little boy smiled
It'll all be well
The little boy smiled
It'll all be well

Pushing little children
With their fully automatics
They like to push
The weak around
Pushing little children
With their fully automatics
They like to push
The weak around
Pushing little children
With their fully automatics
They like to push
The weak around
Push the weak around
Push the weak around
Push the weak around
They like to push
The weak around

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Jet Pilot


Wired were the
Eyes of a horse
On a jet pilot
One that smiled when
He flew over the bay
Wired were the
Eyes of a horse
On a jet pilot
One that smiled when
He flew over the bay

My horse
Is a shackled old man
His, his remorse, was
That he couldn't survey
The skies, right before
Right before they went gray
My horse and my remorse
Flying over a great bay

Wired were the
Eyes of a horse
On a jet pilot
One that smiled when
He flew over the bay
Wired were the
Eyes of a horse
On a jet pilot
One that smiled when
He flew over the bay

My, source, is the
Source of all creation
Her, discourse, is that
We all don't survey
The skies, right before
Right before they go gray
My source, and my remorse
Flying over a great bay

Wired were the
Eyes of a horse
On a jet pilot
One that smiled when
He flew over the bay
Wired were the
Eyes of a horse
On a jet pilot
One that smiled when
He flew over the bay
Where were the
Eyes of a horse
On a jet pilot
One that smiled when
He flew over the bay
Where were the
Eyes of a horse
On a jet pilot
One that smiled when
He flew over the bay

Wired were the
Eyes of a horse
On a jet pilot
One that smiled when
He flew over the bay
Wired were the
Eyes of a horse
On a jet pilot
One that smiled when
He flew over the bay
Where were the
Eyes of a horse
On a jet pilot
One that smiled when
He flew over the bay
Where were the
Eyes of a horse
On a jet pilot
One that smiled when
He flew over the bay

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X


Tell the people
Tell the people
That arrive
Tell the people
Tell the people
That arrive
We don't need to multiply
We don't need to multiply
We don't need to multiply
We don't need to multiply
Die

Show your people
Show your people
How we died
Show your people
Show your people
How we died
We don't need to nullify
We don't need to nullify
We don't need to nullify
We don't need to nullify
No need to nullify
No need to nullify
No need to nullify
We don't need to nullify
Die

We don't need to
We don't need to
We don't need to
We don't need to

Ask your people
Ask your people
What is right
Ask your people
Ask your people
What is right
We don't need to multiply
We don't need to multiply
We don't need to multiply
We don't need to multiply
No need to multiply
No need to multiply
No need to multiply
We don't need to multiply

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Chop Suey !


Wake up (wake up)
Grab a brush and
Put a little makeup
I just crossed the feeling
With a shakeup
Why'd you leave
The keys up on the table?
Here we go
Ceate another fable
(You wanted to)

Grab a brush and
Put a little makeup
(You wanted to)
I just crossed the feeling
With a shakeup
(You wanted to)
Why'd you leave
The keys up on the table?
(You wanted to)

Well I don't think
You trust in
My self-rightous suicide
Why cry when angels
Deserve to

Die
(Growl)

Wake up (wake up)
Grab a brush and
Put a little makeup
I just crossed the feeling
With a shakeup
Why'd you leave
The keys up on the table?
Here we go
Create another fable
(You wanted to)

Grab a brush and
Put a little makeup
(You wanted to)
I just crossed the feeling
With a shakeup
(You wanted to)
Why'd you leave
The keys up on the table?
(You wanted to)

Well I don't think you trust in
My self-rightous suicide
Why cry when angels
Deserve to die
In my self-rightous suicide
I cry when angels
Deserve to die

Father (father)
Father (father)
Father (father)
Mother (mother)

Father, into your hands
I command my spirit
Father, into your hands
Why have you forsaken me

In your eyes
Forsaken me in your thoughts
Forsaken me in your hearts
Forsaken me oh oh
Trust in my self-righteous suicide
Why cry when angels
Deserve to die
In my self-rightous suicide
Why cry when angels
Deserve to die

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Bounce


Jump, bounce
Down, up

I went out on a date
With a girl, a bit late
She had so many friends
Gliding through many hands
I brought my pogo stick
Just to show her a trick
She had so many friends
Gliding through many hands

Jump pogo?
Bounce pogo
Down pogo, up pogo

Unannounced twister games
All players with no names
They lined up double quick
But just one pogo stick
Everyone gets to play
Runaway, expose
It was so exotic
But just one pogo stick

Jump pogo?
Bounce pogo
Down pogo, up pogo

Oh, I like to
Spread you out
Touching whoever's behind

Jump pogo?
Bounce pogo
Down pogo, up pogo

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Forest


Walk with me
My little child
To the forest of denial
Speak with me
My only mind
Walk with me
Until the time
And make the
Forest turn to wine
You take the
Legend for a fall
You saw the product

Why can't you see
That you are my child?
Why don't you know
That you are my mind?
Tell everyone in the world
That I'm you
Take this promise
To the end of you

Walk with me
My little friend
Take this promise
To the end
Speak with me
My only mind
Walk with me
Until the end
And make the forest
Turn to sand
You take the
Legend for a fall
You saw the product

Why can't you see
That you are my child?
Why don't you know
That you are my mind?
Tell everyone in the world
That I'm you
Take this promise
To the end of you

Take this promise
For a ride
You saw the forest
Now come inside
You took the legend
For its fall
You saw the
Product of it all
No televisions
In the air
No circumcisions
On the chair
You made the
Weapons for us all
Just look at us now

Why can't you see
That you are my child?
Why don't you know
That you are my mind?
Tell everyone in the world
That I'm you
Take this promise
To the end of you

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ATWA


Hey you, see me
Pictures crazy
All the world I've seen
Before me passing by
I've got, nothing
To gain, to lose
All the world I've seen
Before me passing by

You don't care about
How I feel
I don't feel it anymore
You don't care about
How I feel
I don't feel it anymore
You don't care about
How I feel
I don't feel it anymore
You don't care about
How I feel
I don't feel it anymore

Hey you, are me
Not so pretty
All the world I've seen
Before me passing by
Silent my voice
I've got no choice
All the world I've seen
Before me passing by

You don't care about
How I feel
I don't feel it anymore
You don't care about
How I feel
I don't feel it anymore
You don't care about
How I feel
I don't feel it anymore
You don't care about
How I feel
I don't feel it anymore
I don't see, anymore
I don't hear, anymore
I don't speak anymore
I don't feel

Hey you, see me
Pictures crazy
All the world I've seen
Before me passing by
I've got, nothing
To gain, to lose
All the world I've seen
Before me passing by

You don't care about
How I feel
I don't feel it anymore
You don't care about
How I feel
I don't feel it anymore
You don't care about
How I feel
I don't feel it anymore
You don't care about
How I feel
I don't feel it anymore
I don't sleep, anymore
I don't eat, anymore
I don't live anymore
I don't feel

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Science


Making two possibilities
A reality
Predicting the future
Of things we all know
Fighting off the
Diseased programming
Of centuries, centuries
Centuries, centuries

Science fails to
Recognize the single most
Potent element
Of human existence
Letting the reigns
Go to the unfolding
Is faith, faith, faith, faith

Science has failed
Our world
Science has failed
Our Mother Earth

Science fails to
Recognize the single most
Potent element
Of human existence
Letting the reigns
Go to the unfolding
Is faith, faith, faith, faith

Science has failed
Our world
Science has failed
Our Mother Earth
Spirit moves through all things
Spirit moves through all things
Spirit moves through all things
Spirit moves through all things
Spirit moves through all things
Spirit moves through all things

Letting the reigns
Go to the unfolding
Is faith, faith, faith, faith
Letting the reigns
Go to the unfolding
Is faith, faith, faith, faith

Science has failed
Our world
Science has failed
Our Mother Earth

Spirit moves through all things
Spirit moves through all things
Spirit moves through all things
Spirit moves through all things
Spirit moves through all things
Spirit moves through all things
Spirit moves through all things
Spirit moves through all things
Spirit moves through all things
Spirit moves through all things
Spirit moves through all things
Spirit moves through all things
Science has failed
Our Mother Earth

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Shimmy


Education, fornication
In you are, go
Education, subjugation
Now you're out, go
Education, fornication
In you are, go
Don't be late
For school again boy

I think me
I want life
I think me
I want a house and a wife
I want to shimmy
Shimmy, shimmy
Through the
Break of dawn, yeah

Education, fornication
In you are, go
Education, subjugation
Now you're out, go
Education, fornication
In you are, go
Don't be late
For school again girl

I think me
I want life
I think me
I want a house and a wife
I want to shimmy
Shimmy, shimmy
Through the
Break of dawn, yeah
I think me
I want life
I think me
I want a house and a wife
I want to shimmy
Shimmy, shimmy
Through the
Break of dawn, yeah

Indoctrination, of a nation
Indoctrination of a nation
Subjugation of damnation
Subjugation of damna?

Don't be late
For school again boy
Don't be late
For school again girl
Don't be late
For school again boy
Don't be late
For school again girl

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Toxicity


Conversion
Software version 7.0
Looking at life through
The eyes of a tire hub
Eating seeds as
A past time activity
The toxicity of our city
Of our city

New, what do you
Own the world?
How do you own
Disorder, disorder
Now, somewhere
Between the sacred silence
Sacred silence and sleep
Somewhere, between
The sacred silence and sleep
Disorder, disorder, disorder

More wood for their fires
Loud neighbours
Flashlight reveries
Caught in the
Headlights of a truck
Eating seeds as
A past time activity
The toxicity of our city
Of our city

New, what do you
Own the world?
How do you own
Disorder, disorder
Now, somewhere
Between the sacred silence
Sacred silence and sleep
Somewhere, between
The sacred silence and sleep
Disorder, disorder, disorder

New, what do you
Own the world?
How do you own
Disorder, disorder
Now, somewhere
Between the sacred silence
Sacred silence and sleep
Somewhere, between
The sacred silence and sleep
Disorder, disorder, disorder

When I became the sun
I shone life into
The man's hearts
When I became the sun
I shone life into
The man's hearts

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Psycho


Psycho, groupie
Cocaine, crazy
Psycho, groupie
Cocaine, crazy
Psycho, groupie
Cocaine, crazy
Psycho, groupie coke
Makes you high
Makes you hide
Makes you really
Want to go, stop

Psycho, groupie
Cocaine, crazy
Psycho, groupie coke
Makes you high
Makes you hide
Do you really want
To think and stop?
Stop your eyes
From flowing

Psycho, groupie
Cocaine, crazy
Psycho, groupie
Cocaine, crazy
Psycho, groupie coke
Makes you high
Makes you hide
Makes you really
Want to go, stop
Psycho, groupie
Cocaine, crazy
Psycho, groupie coke
Makes you high
Makes you hide
Do you really want
To think and stop?
Stop your eyes
From flowing out

So you want
The world to stop
Stop in and watch
Your body fully drop
From the time
You were a
Psycho, groupie
Cocaine, crazy

So you want to
See the show
You really don't
Have to be a ho
From the time
You were a
Psycho, groupie
Cocaine, crazy

Psycho, groupie
Cocaine, crazy
Psycho, groupie
Cocaine, crazy
Psycho, groupie coke
Makes you high
Makes you hide
Makes you really
Want to go, stop

Psycho, groupie
Cocaine, crazy
Psycho, groupie coke
Makes you high
Makes you hide
Do you really want
To think and stop?
Stop your eyes
From flowing out

So you want
The world to stop
Rushing to watch
Your spirit fully drop
From the time
You were a
Psycho, groupie
Cocaine, crazy

So you want to
See the show
You really don't
Have to be a ho
From the time
You were a
Psycho, groupie
Cocaine, crazy

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Aerials


Life is a waterfall
We're one in the river
And one again
After the fall

Swimming
Through the void
We hear the word
We lost ourselves
But we find it all?

'Cause we are the ones
That want to play
Always want to go
But you never
Want to stay

And we are the ones
That want to chose
Always want to play
But you never
Want to lose

Aerials, in the sky
When you lose small mind
You free your life

Life is a waterfall
We drink from the river
Then we turn around
And put up our walls

Swimming
Through the void
We hear the word
We lost ourselves
But we find it all?

'Cause we are the ones
That want to play
Always want to go
But you never
Want to stay

And we are the ones
That want to chose
Always want to play
But you never
Want to lose

Aerials, in the sky
When you lose small mind
You free your life
Aerials, so up high
When you free your eyes
Eternal prize
Aerials, in the sky
When you lose small mind
You free your life
Aerials, so up high
When you free your eyes
Eternal prize

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