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Jennifer Lost the War
02 : 35
2
Elders
02 : 11
3
Out on Patrol
02 : 32
4
Crossroads
02 : 48
5
Demons
03 : 10
6
Beheaded
02 : 52
7
Tehran
03 : 06
8
A Thousand Days
02 : 11
9
Blackball
03 : 24
10
I’ll Be Waiting
03 : 12
11
Kill the President
03 : 22
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Track Lyrics
Jennifer Lost the War Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Jennifer lost the war today
They'll find her burned and raped
Through it all, she must have wondered
"What have I done?"
But nobody really cares today
The world's a busy place
Guess she must have really sinned, now
Really sinned, now
[Chorus]
I guess we're all just soldiers
But she was only six years old
Left to die by strangers
Her family waits
And if we're all just soldiers
Is it so wrong to be afraid?
Jennifer lost the war
[Verse 2]
Phoebe lost the war today
There must be some mistake
Say it happens all the time
And it's said and done
And Little Miss 1565
Your soul remains unclaimed
Guess you must have really sinned, now
Really sinned, now
[Chorus]
Morality won't help her
When she lies silent in a morgue
And all our sorrows, well, just
Don't count at all
But will the morning headlines
Even say that it's a shame?
What are we heading for?
Jennifer lost the war
[Bridge]
Seen it all before
Silent on the ground
As he's walking away
And I wonder how many more
Everybody'll take it
Like they've nothing to say
Uh-huh, oh yeah
Jennifer lost, lost, lost, lost the war, now
[Chorus]
I guess we're all just soldiers
But she was only six years old
Left to die by strangers
Her family waits (yeah yeah yeah)
And will the morning headlines
Even say that it's a shame?
What are we heading for?
Elders Lyrics
[Verse 1]
When we were younger, there always seemed like some
Some perfect mold we were supposed to be
But now we're growing up and I see it's just not that way
Now I feel like someone's lied to me
[Chorus 1]
’Cause I've been true, made good for you
And now I feel used, I'm asking you:
How does it feel, how does it feel
How does it feel, how does it feel to be like you?
[Verse 2]
Tell me now, elders, what were your reasons for
Making it seem like you were so much more?
If you want to feel good because of our accomplishments
Why the fuck don't you just do it yourself?
[Chorus 2]
’Cause, man, I've tried, man, I've tried
While you just lied, so now just tell me:
How does it feel, how does it feel
How does it feel, how does it feel to be like you?
[Chorus 1]
’Cause I've been true, made good for you
And now I feel used, I'm asking you:
How does it feel, how does it feel
How does it feel, how does it feel to be like you?
[Outro]
Look at all the families now who don't talk and don't trust
Because of the way that things have been done
When will you finally learn to leave out the bullshit
And just be straight with us?
Out on Patrol Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Look at you, soldier boy, now
With that big gun in your little hand
As you patrol this foreign land
Hear the mine that clicks beneath your feet
[Chorus]
Hey, hey, whoa
Now do you see the light?
Fading while your world is crumbling
Out on patrol
And all you can do is sit and stare
What revelation have you now?
What culmination to your speck of life?
Your moment in time
[Verse 2]
As you sit here all alone
Will your buddies come and save your life?
But as the enemy appears
See your life flash before your eyes
[Chorus]
Hey, hey, whoa
Now do you see the light?
Fading while your world is crumbling
Out on patrol
And all you can do is sit and stare
What revelation have you now?
What culmination to your speck of life?
Your moment in time
[Chorus]
Hey, hey, whoa
Now do you see the light?
Fading while your world is crumbling
Out on patrol
And all you can do is sit and stare
What revelation have you now?
What culmination to your speck of life?
Your moment in time
[Outro]
It's your life
It's your life
It's your life
(Ohh, ohh, ohh)
It's your life
It's your life
It's your life
(Ohh, ohh, ohh)
Uno dos tres cuatro!
Crossroads Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Time has washed away and now I may wonder
How did it all slip by?
’Cause I always thought we had forever
Future calls to me to take me away from things
I don't want to leave behind
Like I'm slipping away
I can't hold on
[Chorus] x2
Find that path alone
Crossroads lead me away
But that's not what worries me
I just want to know what's home
Through it all my mind still wanders
To the one who touched my soul
Though her road leads away
She's still my
True love
I could believe
Say it again, again, again
Will is not enough when all those
Lost days stand in the way
She was all my hopes and dreams, my
Whole world
I could believe
Been a long time, won't be again
[Bridge]
I still want to know
Want to know
Who can see for me, yeah, yeah
Crossroads tell me
[Verse 2]
Now you'll have to trade
Your past away
And find another day
So is change a friend or an enemy
Through what comes to pass
I'll find my way
I've seen it all before
But is the best you can be
The best thing to be
[Outro]
Some people say
You're just wasting time
But that's not what worries me
I just want to know what's home
Demons Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Clouds pass over the moon
Like an eye that shows impending doom
Tension in this misty air
Souls pass into the room
Drawn in by a lost memory
You will join them in the moonlight
[Chorus 1]
You are my offering
Your soul transcends the centuries of pain
Your misery in life
Is your ecstasy in death
[Verse 2]
Time passes like the wind
As we race to beat days dusky grin
The mornings just a moment away
Your body glistens in candlelight
As we all look on in fiendish delight
The ritual is just beginning
[Chorus 2]
Come fulfill the prophecy
With our demons of debauchery
As virgins and spectress sing
This madness will never cease
[Verse 3]
In the dead of night
You will follow in the footsteps of many others
Who have come before
I will show you at the altar
Your Aztec eyes, Egyptian hair
Your beauty bestowed upon my lair
I've loved you before in other lives
But you've never meant as much to me
Never meant as much to me as now
In this night of sacrifice
Where blood is spilt
That will never spill again
But in your linen robes
We want you now[x2]
You could never ask for more than
[Chorus 1]
[Chorus 2]
Come fulfill the prophecy
With our demons of debauchery
This madness will never cease
Beheaded Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Mommy doesn't have a head anymore
Keep it underneath my bed on the floor
Well that's alright, man that's ok
She never really used her head anyway
Daddy called me a silly boar
Bet he won't say that anymore
Because the way his body is severed in two
His vocal cords are going to be hard to use
[Chorus]
Beheaded
Watch you squirt like a garden hose
Beheaded
Bloody mess all over my clothes
[Verse 2]
Watch my girlfriend come to the door
Chop off her head, she falls to the floor
Well watching my baby's jugular blow
Really makes my motor go
Wrap a towel round the bloody stump
Take my baby's body to the city dump
Then wipe the mess off the bloody axe
Scoop all the heads into my burlap sack
[Chorus]
Beheaded
Watch you squirt like a garden hose
Beheaded
Bloody mess all over my clothes
[Bridge]
All my collection
Adorns my room on bamboo polls
Used to be a little
But a little got more and more
Now I'm craving yours
Night brings bad dreams
Bad dreams and guillotines
Night brings bad dreams
Bad dreams and guillotines
Off with her head
Off with her head
Off with her head
Off with her head
Off with her head
Off with her head
[Verse 3]
Find another victim for my machine
Put them in a home made guillotine
Ah blade falls, gonna need a casket
Watch your head plop in a wicker basket
Leave the house at a quarter to four
Come back with sixteen or more
Because the more I walk, the more I see
I got a funny feeling coming over me
[Chorus]
Beheaded
Watch you squirt like a garden hose
Beheaded
Bloody mess all over my clothes
Tehran Lyrics
[Verse 1]
In your plane the blue sky
You roam again
Words that echo in your mind
Make your heart beat faster
This is no Vietnam
We will win in Iran
[Chorus]
The President said "Let it ride, ride"
Islam be damned
Make your last stand
In Tehran
[Verse 2]
Warrior, the time bombs
About to go
What will you feel
You ever wonder?
If the man that's in your sights
Ever kissed his girl goodbye
[Chorus]
The Captain said "Kill or die, die"
Islam be damned
Make your last stand
In Tehran
[Bridge]
Great Satan
Great Satan
Great Satan
(Our flags are burning)
Great Satan
(Our flags are burning)
Great Satan
(Our flags are burning)
(Aah)
Great Satan
(Our flags will burning)
(Aah)
[Pre-Chorus]
Soon, America may find its young men in the sand
Where the casualty is just a number in Iran
[Chorus]
The President said, "Let it ride, ride"
You will be damned
Make your last stand
In Tehran
In Tehran
In Tehran
A Thousand Days Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Ask me no questions and I'll tell you
I'll tell you no lies, when all is said and done
Does it really matter who's wrong or right?
Don't ask me for a reason, I can't explain
Why hurt one other again and again
See while I'm bleeding I still, still reach for you
[Chorus]
Thousand days, thousand days
Have passed away
Thousand days, thousand days
Were captured in her eyes
[Verse 2]
Your eyes are open now but you know
It's still hard to see inside
When the action and the intention are two separated things
Now I somehow wish I could explain
Why we hurt one another again and again
Like someone's dying breath I still, still reach for you
[Chorus]
[Verse 3]
Forever we've been
Trapped by our hearts
Trapped by our minds
So I'd like to leave
I'd like to win at love
But I just can't let it go
And I just can't watch it slipping away
And I just can't let it go
And I just can't stand another minute
May be now someday our shattered lives
Will mend themselves again
Every now a million miles away, I still reach for you
And though I somehow know, I can't explain
Why we hurt one other again and again
Like someone's dying breath I still, still reach for you
[Chorus]
Thousand days, thousand days
Aaa, aaa, ooo, aaa
Thousand days, thousand days
Blackball Lyrics
[Verse 1]
In this world of hate and shallowness
Where enemies become your consolation
And those of us who win the game
Give up their minds
I don't call that winning
Say this doesn't apply to you
But ask yourself first
What have I done today to win the game
And just what have I sacrificed
[Chorus 1]
Win the battle or lose the war
I know I've played the game before
When people were still real
I don't want this anymore
It's time for me to close the door
There's nothing left to feel
[Verse 2]
Reflect on all our yesterdays
My own words choke me
Why were they spoken
Regret for things I've said and done
Just can't compare with
Regret for those that I have never tried
So blame this world or blame yourself
It's really all the same
When you are standing on that precipice
From which you just cannot return
[Chorus 1]
Win the battle or lose the war
I know I've played the game before
When people were still real
I don't want this anymore
It's time for me to close the door
There's nothing left to feel
[Verse 3]
In the style of forgotten men
I look to my horizon
I see nothing
While thoughts of guns and desecration
Sweep through my mind
But only coffins and bones remain
As I look to you
The emptiness behind your eyes
Seals my decision
Can't carry on in a world of jugglers
Where all this thoughtlessness
And bludgeonings your key to success
What kind of tradition to carry on
[Chorus 2]
Blackball‚ The new disease
Blackball‚ The new disease
Blackball‚ Your evil ways have found
Their way inside me
Blackball‚ The new disease
Blackball‚ The new disease
Blackball‚ For a better life in this
High-tech dog-eat-dog existence
[Chorus 1]
Win the battle or lose the war
I know I've played the game before
When people were still real
I don't want this anymore
It's time for me to close the door
There's nothing left to feel
I’ll Be Waiting Lyrics
[Verse 1]
Once I had a friend that I could count on
So I thought, well, so it seemed
But times of need are not enough
To prove your friendship to me now
Once I saw a face that I believed in
But a mask was all there was
So who wears the masks and who wears the faces?
Well, I guess I'll never know
[Pre-Chorus 1]
But as I stand here alone in a room full of people
With nothing to say
Beer on their minds and smoke in the air
Call them friends, but they just don't care
[Chorus 1]
Friend for life
Such shallow words for broken minds
Show me a friend for life
Because I'll be waiting for that day to arrive
When I'll feel alive
I'll be waiting for that day
[Verse 2]
Once I found a love I had to know
Now we might know each other just too well
Because when we're together we just can't get enough
Or is it we just can't get what we want?
Once I saw a dream, I had to chase it
Dreams quickly turn to reality
Who's at fault in this game of yours and mine?
Well, I guess I'll never know
[Pre-Chorus 2]
But as I sit here alone
Think of the girl who came softly inside me
The look in her eyes, the smell of her hair
Call her my own, but is she really there?
[Chorus 2]
Love for life
Such noble words for noble minds
Show me a love for life
Because I'll be waiting for that day to arrive
When I'll feel alive
I'll be waiting for that day
[Breakdown]
[Chorus 1]
Friend for life
Such shallow words for broken minds
Show me a friend for life
Because I'll be waiting for that day to arrive
When I'll feel alive
I'll be waiting for that day
[Outro]
Once I had a friend that I could count
Times of need are not enough
Once I found a love I had to know
Now we might know each other just too well
Once I saw a dream I had to chase
Dreams quickly turn to reality
Now let me close my eyes
Because I don't want to see anything anymore
Kill the President Lyrics
[Pre-Chorus]
In a world without leaders
Who'd start all the wars?
The world that you're saving
Will always be yours
[Chorus]
Kill the President, voice of reason
Unify with that single line
Stop the man with the power of the government
A leader's not the center of democracy
[Verse 1]
In a world without leaders
Who'd make people starve?
The world that we're saving
Will always be ours
Everyone says, "Well, maybe I'll make a difference"
Thinking they've got plenty of time
But you're squeezed a little tighter everyday
Punished before you can commit a crime
[Pre-Chorus]
In a world without leaders
Who'd start all the wars?
The world that you're saving
Will always be yours
[Chorus]
Kill the President, voice of reason
Unify with that single line
Stop the man with the power of the government
A leader's not the center of democracy
[Verse 2]
America, all of your enemies
Come from within but you lash out
So it is seen like some frightened child
In an angry world or the fall of Rome
Your demise comes from your own, your own hands
[Pre-Chorus]
In a world without leaders
Who'd start all the wars?
The world that you're saving
Will always be yours
[Chorus]
Kill the President, voice of reason
Unify with that single line
Stop the man with the power of the government
A leader's not the center of democracy
[Outro]
Kill the President, kill the President
Kill the President, kill the President
Kill the President, kill the President now!