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Age of Diagnosis
02:51
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In the age of diagnosis
We've all got something
Drive it past the killing fields
But keep the motor running
Bargain with the Devils
They were friends without warning
In the age of diagnosis
We've all got something
Battle tested hidden scars
You never see ‘em coming
The young ones think it's so bizarre
The old ones think it's slumming
Fend ‘em off with big cigars
Now everybody's staring
Battle tested hidden scars
Grow up and need repairing
Blowing out a birthday bar
On fire in the morning
Turning over new leaves
So predictable and boring
If you never go off script
How will you ever find your bearings?
Coach ‘em up from near and far
There's medicine in sharing
In the age of diagnosis
We've all got something
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2. |
Don't Let Me Go
05:54
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The downs have been way down
The ups they haven’t been coming around
The times will get tough
They tell me I’m tougher
But I don’t know if I’m tough enough
The answers I’ve found
Are lost among this loud city sounds
I want to move forward
But I’m stuck back here
With nothing but questions and nothing is clear
No one is wiser but everyone’s older
Repeating mistakes looking over our shoulders
Are we never gonna learn?
I want to escape, leave my troubles behind
But no matter where I go I’m stuck in my mind
And I really, really want to leave
So don’t let me go
Come close if you dare
My patience never comes up for air
I hear ‘em complaining
It’s always their fault
They never want to walk what they talk
If I knew a way
To drown it out, convince me to stay
Over and over the burden’s so much
I fall out of love with each thing that I touch
No one is wiser but everyone’s older
Repeating mistakes looking over our shoulders
Are we never gonna learn?
I want to escape, leave my troubles behind
But no matter where I go I’m stuck in my mind
And I really, really want to leave
So don’t let me go
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3. |
Come To Me
04:32
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Are you in a hurry?
Or is that how you walk?
A hero in your story
At least that’s how you talk
Faking up resistance
When the truth won’t do
Try to keep your distance
But we all know I’m due
You can call me Chaplin’s 'Kid'
Or hunger on a hook
It could be the life I lived
Or road I never took
I will be here waiting for you
When the lights have changed
Come to me
Oh won't you come to me
Come to me
Oh won't you come to me
Full of superstition
Who isn’t anymore
Your plan looks more like wishing
If you’re keeping score
My head is in a pillow
My neck is in a vise
These goals are growing anchors
Heavy with advice
Come to me
Oh won't you come to me
Come to me
Oh won't you come to me
Come to me
Oh won't you come to me
Come to me
Oh won't you come to me
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4. |
Nightbird
06:27
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I hear the night bird singing
Won’t it come take me away
With all the pain they’re bringing
I don’t know if I can stay
In here life is cold
Not the story you’ve been told
In here life is cold
We watch it all unfold today
I hear the night bird singing
It’s a comfort while I pray
You can have my soul
I wasn’t using it anyway
In here life is cold
Not the story you’ve been told
In here life is cold
We watch it all unfold
Can’t believe what were sold today
I see the noose is swinging
There is one more bill to pay
Even the jester’s cringing
We’ve run out of things to say
No tears when we get old
Nothing special, nothing bold
A walk we walk alone
Never send back what we know
The night bird starts to toll
And you can have my soul
And you can have my soul
And you can have my soul
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Time is a construct
So are your rules
So are your laws
That keep us in chains
These laws always change
What once was OK
It suddenly banned
No longer permitted
You’re criminals now
And that is a illegal
Till one day it’s not
What’s right’s always shifting
Yet we give it such weight
Yesterday’s innocent
is tomorrow’s shame
And vices reverse
Opinions will cave
We’ll build up the prisons
Every lock needs a key
And it won’t call ‘em slaves
If no one is free
Stay inside the lines
Cause riots cost lives
Instructions are blurry
By judge’s decree
The mob always decides
Who hangs and who flees
Outsiders are poison
Just do as we say
From pitchforks to nightsticks
Coliseums to courts
Go where they tell you
or they’ll move you by force
Your right have been wronged
Your right have been wronged
Your right have been wronged
Your right have been wronged
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6. |
Now’s The Time To Pay
04:25
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Fell in love with a beautiful story
Like a gleam in a tiger’s eye
Maybe bend a little
Never break
Always thought he was a comeback guy
Found out you have to wage the ferry
It doesn’t listen when you tell your lies
What you’re owing soon
Who’s it going to?
Ain’t no surprise
You had it your way
But now’s the time to pay
You had it your way
But now’s the time to pay
Walk around like might get even
On your shoulder till the getting's good
It out waits you
And sedates you
Keeps a secret locked underneath the hood
What a waste all this time and worry
The jury’s in and we all know now
Kick and bite a bit
Then you quit it
Run out of town
You had it your way
But now’s the time to pay
You had it your way
But now’s the time to pay
I’m sorry you aren’t special like you we always think we are
Our bag of bones are fragile
But we always love the scars
There’s no more hopes in books when it’s you they’re hunting down
Footsteps in your head
Approaching enemies to pound
You had it your way
But now’s the time to pay
You had it your way
But now’s the time to pay
Arm and arm with the devil’s season
Who’d have thought it ever end like that
Read the sand script
It's a big hit
Wound up dying in an alley flat
Wish I could paint you a prettier picture
Plenty round that can do it well
Took the big pills
Left the cheap thrills
In your own hell
You had it your way
But now’s the time to pay
You had it your way
But now’s the time to pay
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Mama was a gold dust digger
Papa was a fighter in the war
Left me to my own devices
Never knew what I was fighting for
Keep your arms warm around me
Keep your arms warm around me now
Keep your arms warm around me
Running out but never learning how
Sister was a nighttime dancer
Brother left when I was in the womb
Banking on my faded dreams
Leaving all my smiles up to you
Keep your arms warm around me
Keep your arms warm around me now
Keep your arms warm around me
Running out but never learning how
Uncle was a full-time runner
Grandma knew the secrets when and where
Bet it all on democratics
Lost another good one in the glare
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8. |
Unwound
04:19
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When cracks are showing my eyes will race
Uncounting stars in outer space
Can’t tune it out, can’t turn it off
Undress the elephants in the room
I’m send prayers to end it soon
My tunnel vision’s getting soft
My antenna’s up
I’m pulling in all sounds
I can’t unhear the heartbeat
Of the world around
The killer’s in the house
But I plan to bring him down
I can feel your everything
As I become unwound
To wage a war on many fronts
Where my needs outweigh my wants
I’ll bank the evidence where it counts
Safety last and Sunday’s worst
The fuse was lit September first
I’m trading up on the downs
The pilot’s lost his mind
And he’s headed to the ground
The fight is in the margins
As focus takes a bow
Start gathering defenses
And ammunition now
I can feel your everything
As I become unwound
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