Toxicity
System of A Down
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1
Prison Song
03 : 21
2
Needles
03 : 13
3
Deer Dance
02 : 55
4
Jet Pilot
02 : 06
5
X
01 : 58
6
Chop Suey!
03 : 30
7
Bounce
01 : 54
8
Forest
04 : 00
9
ATWA
02 : 56
10
Science
02 : 43
11
Shimmy
01 : 51
12
Toxicity
03 : 38
13
Psycho
03 : 45
14
Aerials / Arto
06 : 11
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Track Lyrics
Prison Song Lyrics
[Intro: Serj Tankian]
They're tryna build a prison
They're tryna build a prison
Oh
[Verse 1: Serj Tankian]
Following the rights movements, you clamped down with your iron fists
Drugs became conveniently available for all the kids
Following the rights movements, you clamped down with your iron fists
Drugs became conveniently available for all the kids
[Pre-Chorus: Serj Tankian & Daron Malakian]
I buy my crack, my smack, my bitch
Right here in Hollywood
Nearly two million Americans are incarcerated
In the prison system, prison system of the U.S
[Chorus: Serj Tankian & Daron Malakian]
They're tryna build a prison
They're tryna build a prison
They're tryna build a prison
They're tryna build a prison
For you and me to live in
Another prison system
Another prison system
Another prison system
For you and me
[Verse 2: Serj Tankian]
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
[Pre-Chorus: Serj Tankian & Daron Malakian]
I buy my crack, my smack, my bitch
Right here in Hollywood
The percentage of Americans in the prison system
Prison system has doubled since 1985
[Chorus: Serj Tankian & Daron Malakian]
They're tryna build a prison
They're tryna build a prison
They're tryna build a prison
They're tryna build a prison
For you and me to live in
Another prison system
Another prison system
Another prison system
For you and me
For you and I, you and I, you and I, you and I
They're tryna build a prison
They're tryna build a prison
They're tryna build a prison for you and me
Oh, baby, you and me
[Bridge: Serj Tankian & Daron Malakian]
Oh, oh
All research and successful drug policy
Shows that treatment should be increased
Oh
And law enforcement decreased
While abolishing mandatory minimum sentences
Oh
All research and successful drug policy
Shows that treatment should be increased
Oh
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
[Pre-Chorus: Serj Tankian & Daron Malakian]
I buy my crack, my smack, my bitch
Right here in Hollywood
Drug money is used to rig elections and train brutal
Corporate sponsored dictators around the world
[Chorus: Serj Tankian & Daron Malakian]
They're tryna build a prison
They're tryna build a prison
They're tryna build a prison
They're tryna build a prison
For you and me to live in
Another prison system
Another prison system
Another prison system
For you and me
For you and I, you and I, you and I, you and me
They're tryna build a prison
They're tryna build a prison
They're tryna build a prison for you and me
Oh, baby, you and me
Needles Lyrics
[Verse 1: Serj Tankian]
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
'Til 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
[Pre-Chorus: Serj Tankian]
'Cause you, my tapeworm tells me what to do
You, my tapeworm tells me where to go
[Chorus: Serj Tankian]
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
[Verse 2: Serj Tankian & Daron Malakian]
I cannot deny
All the evil traits and the filling of the crates
When you, you, do come out, out
And you slither up to me in your pimpin' majesty
But I cannot grow
'Til you eat the last of me, oh, when will I be free?
And you, you, a parasite, site
Just find another host just another stool to post
[Pre-Chorus: Serj Tankian]
'Cause you, my tapeworm tells me what to do
You, my tapeworm tells me where to go
[Chorus: Serj Tankian]
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, out of me
[Bridge: Daron Malakian with Serj Tankian]
I'm 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!
[Pre-Chorus: Serj Tankian]
You, my tapeworm tells me what to do
You, my tapeworm tells me where to go
[Chorus: Serj Tankian]
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
[Outro: Serj Tankian]
Hey
Hey
Hey
Fuck me
Deer Dance Lyrics
[Verse 1]
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
[Pre-Chorus]
Beyond the Staples Center you can see America
With its tired poor avenging disgrace
Peaceful, loving youth against the brutality
Of plastic existence
[Chorus]
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
[Verse 2]
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
[Pre-Chorus]
Beyond the Staples Center you can see America
With its tired poor avenging disgrace
Peaceful, loving youth against the brutality
Of plastic existence
[Chorus]
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
[Bridge]
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
A little boy smiled, it'll all be well
And say a little boy smiled, it'll all be well
Pushing little children with their fully-automatics
They like to push the weak around
[Chorus]
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
[Outro]
Push the weak around
Push the weak around
Push the weak around
They like to push the weak around
Jet Pilot Lyrics
[Chorus: Serj Tankian]
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
[Verse 1: Serj Tankian]
My horse is a shackled old man
His, his remorse was that he couldn't survey
The skies right before, right before they went grey
My horse and my remorse flying over a great bay
[Chorus: Serj Tankian]
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
[Verse 2: Serj Tankian]
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 grey
My source and my remorse flying over a great bay
[Chorus: Serj Tankian]
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
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
[Instrumental Bridge]
[Chorus: Serj Tankian]
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
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
X Lyrics
[Verse 1: Serj Tankian]
Tell the people, tell the people that arrive
Tell the people, tell the people that arrive
[Chorus: Serj Tankian]
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
[Verse 2: Serj Tankian]
Show your people, show your people how we died
Show your people, show your people how we died
[Chorus: Serj Tankian]
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
[Bridge: Serj Tankian]
We don't need to (Ooh, ooh, ooh)
We don't need to (Ooh, ooh, ooh)
We don't need to (Ooh, ooh, ooh)
We don't need to
[Verse 3: Serj Tankian]
Ask your people, ask your people what is right
Ask your people, ask your people what is right
[Chorus: Serj Tankian]
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
Chop Suey! Lyrics
[Intro: Serj Tankian]
We're rolling "Suicide"
[Verse: Serj Tankian]
Wake up (Wake up)
Grab a brush and put a little makeup
Hide your scars to fade away the shakeup (Hide the scars to fade away the shakeup)
Why'd you leave the keys upon the table?
Here you go, create another fable, you wanted to
Grab a brush and put a little makeup, you wanted to
Hide the scars to fade away the shakeup, you wanted to
Why'd you leave the keys upon the table? You wanted to
[Chorus: Serj Tankian, Serj Tankian & Daron Malakian]
I don't think you trust
In my self-righteous suicide
I cry when angels deserve to die
[Verse: Serj Tankian]
Rah, wake up (Wake up)
Grab a brush and put a little makeup (A little bit)
Hide the scars to fade away the (Hide the scars to fade away the shakeup)
Why'd you leave the keys upon the table?
Here you go, create another fable, you wanted to
Grab a brush and put a little makeup, you wanted to
Hide the scars to fade away the shakeup, you wanted to
Why'd you leave the keys upon the table? You wanted to
[Chorus: Serj Tankian, Serj Tankian & Daron Malakian]
I don't think you trust
In my self-righteous suicide
I cry when angels deserve to die
In my self-righteous suicide
I cry when angels deserve to die
[Bridge: Serj Tankian & Daron Malakian]
Father, father, father, father
Father, father, father, father
Father, into your hands I commend my spirit
Father, into your hands
Why have you forsaken me?
In your eyes, forsaken me?
In your thoughts, forsaken me?
In your heart, forsaken me? Oh
[Chorus: Serj Tankian & Daron Malakian]
Trust in my self-righteous suicide
I cry when angels deserve to die
In my self-righteous suicide
I cry when angels deserve to die
Bounce Lyrics
[Intro: Serj Tankian]
Jump! Bounce! Down! Up!
[Chorus: Serj Tankian]
Jump! (Pogo, pogo, pogo, pogo, pogo, pogo, pogo)
Bounce! (Pogo, pogo, pogo, pogo, pogo, pogo, pogo)
Down! (Pogo, pogo, pogo) Up! (Pogo, pogo, pogo)
Jump! (Pogo) Bounce! (Pogo) Up! (Pogo) Down! (Pogo)
[Verse 1: Serj Tankian]
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)
[Chorus: Serj Tankian]
Jump! (Pogo, pogo, pogo, pogo, pogo, pogo, pogo)
Bounce! (Pogo, pogo, pogo, pogo, pogo, pogo, pogo)
Down! (Pogo, pogo, pogo) Up! (Pogo, pogo, pogo)
Jump! (Pogo) Bounce! (Pogo) Up! (Pogo) Down! (Pogo)
[Verse 2: Serj Tankian]
Unannounced Twister games, all players with no names
They lined up, double quick (But just one pogo stick)
Everyone gets to play, runaway, exposé
It was so exotic (But just one pogo stick)
[Chorus: Serj Tankian]
Jump! (Pogo, pogo, pogo, pogo, pogo, pogo, pogo)
Bounce! (Pogo, pogo, pogo, pogo, pogo, pogo, pogo)
Down! (Pogo, pogo, pogo) Up! (Pogo, pogo, pogo)
Jump! (Pogo) Bounce! (Pogo) Up! (Pogo) Down! (Pogo)
[Bridge: Serj Tankian]
Oh, I like to spread you out
Touching whoever's behind
[Chorus: Serj Tankian]
Jump! (Pogo, pogo, pogo, pogo, pogo, pogo, pogo)
Bounce! (Pogo, pogo, pogo, pogo, pogo, pogo, pogo)
Down! (Pogo, pogo, pogo) Up! (Pogo, pogo, pogo)
Jump! (Pogo) Bounce! (Pogo) Up! (Pogo) Down! (Pogo)
Forest Lyrics
[Verse 1: Serj Tankian]
Walk with me, my little child, ah!
To the forest of denial, ah!
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
[Chorus: Serj Tankian]
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
[Verse 2: Serj Tankian]
Walk with me, my little friend!
Take this promise to the end, ah!
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
[Chorus: Serj Tankian]
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
[Bridge: Serj Tankian]
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!
[Chorus: Serj Tankian]
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
ATWA Lyrics
[Intro: Serj Tankian]
Na-na-na-na-na, na-na
Na-na-na-na-na, na-na
[Verse 1: Serj Tankian, with Daron Malakian]
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
[Chorus: Serj Tankian]
You don't care 'bout how I feel
I don't feel there anymore
You don't care 'bout how I feel
I don't feel there anymore
You don't care 'bout how I feel
I don't feel there anymore
You don't care 'bout how I feel
I don't feel it anymore
[Bridge: Serj Tankian, with Daron Malakian]
Anymore, na-na-na, na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na
[Verse 2: Serj Tankian, with Daron Malakian]
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
[Chorus: Serj Tankian, with Daron Malakian]
You don't care 'bout how I feel
I don't feel there anymore
You don't care 'bout how I feel
I don't feel there anymore
You don't care 'bout how I feel
I don't feel there anymore
You don't care 'bout how I feel
I don't feel it anymore
[Post-Chorus: Serj Tankian & Daron Malakian]
I don't see (Anymore)
I don't hear (Anymore)
I don't speak (Anymore)
I don't feel...
[Bridge: Serj Tankian & Daron Malakian]
Na-na-na, na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na
Na-na-na, na-na-na-na, na-na-na-na
[Verse 1: Serj Tankian, with Daron Malakian]
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
[Chorus: Serj Tankian, with Daron Malakian]
You don't care 'bout how I feel
I don't feel there anymore
You don't care 'bout how I feel
I don't feel there anymore
You don't care 'bout how I feel
I don't feel there anymore
You don't care 'bout how I feel
I don't feel it anymore
[Post-Chorus: Serj Tankian & Daron Malakian]
I don't sleep (Anymore)
I don't eat (Anymore)
I don't live (Anymore)
I don't feel (Ugh!)
Science Lyrics
[Verse: Serj Tankian]
Making two possibilities a reality
Predicting the future of things we all know
Fighting off the diseased programming
Of centuries, centuries, centuries, centuries
[Pre-Chorus: Serj Tankian]
Science fails to recognize the single most
Potent element of human existence
Letting the reins go to the unfolding
Is faith, faith, faith, faith
[Chorus: Serj Tankian]
Science has failed our world
Science has failed our Mother Earth
[Pre-Chorus: Serj Tankian]
Science fails to recognize the single most
Potent element of human existence
Letting the reins go to the unfolding
Is faith, faith, faith, faith
[Chorus: Serj Tankian]
Science has failed our world
Science has failed our Mother Earth
[Post-Chorus: Serj Tankian]
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
[Instrumental Bridge]
Sim Hayastani de anush de im, arevaham barr nem sirum
[Pre-Chorus: Serj Tankian]
Letting the reins go to the unfolding
Is faith, faith, faith, faith
Letting the reins go to the unfolding
Is faith, faith, faith, faith
[Chorus: Serj Tankian]
Science has failed our world
Science has failed our Mother Earth
[Post-Chorus: Serj Tankian]
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
[Outro: Serj Tankian]
Science has failed our Mother Earth
Shimmy Lyrics
[Verse 1]
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
[Chorus]
I think me, I want a life
I think me, I want a house and a wife
I want to shimmy-shimmy-shimmy
Through the break of dawn, yeah
[Verse 2]
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
[Chorus]
I think me, I want a 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 a life
I think me, I want a house and a wife
I want to shimmy-shimmy-shimmy
Through the break of dawn, yeah
[Bridge]
Indoctrination of a nation
Indoctrination of a nation
Subjugation of damnation
Subjugation of damna-
[Outro]
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
Toxicity Lyrics
[Produced by Rick Rubin, Daron Malakian & Serj Tankian]
[Instrumental Intro]
[Verse 1]
Conversion, software version 7.0
Looking at life through the eyes of a tire hub
[Pre-Chorus]
Eating seeds as a pastime activity
The toxicity of our city, of our city
[Chorus]
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
[Verse 2]
More wood for their fires, loud neighbors
Flashlight reveries caught in the headlights of a truck
[Pre-Chorus]
Eating seeds as a pastime activity
The toxicity of our city, of our city
[Chorus]
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
[Instrumental Bridge]
[Chorus]
New, what do you own, the world?
How do you own disorder?
Now, somewhere between the sacred silence
Sacred silence and sleep
Somewhere between the sacred silence and sleep
Disorder, disorder, disorder
[Outro]
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 heart
Psycho Lyrics
[Intro]
Psycho! Groupie! Cocaine! Crazy!
Psycho! Groupie! Cocaine! Crazy!
[Chorus]
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
[Bridge]
Psycho! Groupie! Cocaine! Crazy!
[Chorus]
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
[Verse]
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!
[Chorus]
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
[Verse]
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!
[Instrumental Outro]