| Eve 6 – Open Road Song Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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What a lyrical genius this guy is, honestly he works words with some crazy talent. And he's a pretty decent singer too, haha. There's a lot to this song, at first I just thought, okay, road trippin' song, or driving song, but it's so much more, it totally describes the feeling when you just want to drive away, nowhere to go, but good to be alone in your car and speeding along. That freedom, that independence that many of us feel so well when we're driving alone at night, speeding down an empty highway to nowhere, though it feels like you're really going somewhere, a greater purpose, perhaps. And of course, what could improve that scene but music. The radio blaring in the background you're singing along, it's quite an emotional feeling, actually. When you've got something so built up and you're flying down the road with the windows open, the wind rushing by, and the radio blaring, singing along at the top of your voice, not caring what it sounds like, because it's perfect, and it's drowned out anyway. Ah, so nice. Quite a song. [Jware.] |
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| Eve 6 – Inside Out Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Very good song, and as many of you have already said, the tick-tock of the clock line is pretty amazing. Really describes how it feels when you get mad at the logical things, things that make sense, things that just just run on repetitively and without stop. And you just want to make it stop, because it so contradicts the world and life and everything human. It just at times seems so wrong, though it really is right, you just want to to stop, to stop mocking you and the mess of your life. The angry feeling that accompanies it, and the knowledge that you can through physical action, almost retalliation, make it stop, though you know it's done nothing to you. It's all you, or... it's all in your head, haha, no pun intended. I'm basically only going to discuss that part, because that's what I like the best, but I do believe that it is indeed, RINDS... [Jware.] |
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| Better Than Ezra – Misunderstood Lyrics | 18 years ago |
| "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall. Speak what you think now in hard words, and to-morrow speak what to-morrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said to-day. — 'Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood.' — Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. TO BE GREAT IS TO BE MISUNDERSTOOD." [Excerpt from "Self - Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson] | |
| Dispatch – Time Served Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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| Dispatch – Time Served Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song is amazing. Simply put. I'm going to have to generally agree with what everyone has said so far, except in the fact that I prefer the studio version of this one off of Who Are We Living For? I think this is somewhat because of the way the song sounds, but more importantly, because of what that album is all about, it just fits in better. The vocals shine out better, but the whole mood of Who Are We Living For? seems to just fit the song the best. As in the case of "Open Up," which I consider to be a closely related song, it has something to do with capital punishment. This song was also written by Chad who strongly opposes such inhumane and wrong practices, an activist as always through his writing. But as has already been stated, it has a lot to do with prison and of course being put there wrongly and unfairly, pointing out the imperfection of the United States, or any, system of trial and punishment. This is signified by the title, "Time Served," which is to say that for some confusing reason, human's are forced to serve time to others. Now, though, I think I'll consider the importance of the last two stanzas, which in my opinion hold the greatest meaning of the song. [But long before a single round was shot Word spread form block to block to cell block They're going to take him And make an example of him for the escapees to fear] This is speaking about FEAR. It's providing one of the reasons for imprisonment and punishment in general, it is to instill fear in the masses so that they will shy from committing a similar crime. Even if that person is innocent, he/she is a tool of the power to manipulate the people. And generally it is a relatively useful, if not acceptable method of making people do what they're supposed to. If you lock people up and publicize the reason for their punishment, many will avoid committing the same crime, because they don't want to face similar consequences. I'm sure many of you have read The Scarlet Letter, and when I had to read this for school all I could do was think of these lines, because Hester Prynne was used as an "example" against adultery, and every chance they got the ministers and leaders of Puritan society would point to her and preach using her as the example of what not to do, and what consequences you face if you do. I'm sure if you've read the book, no matter how horrible a read it is, you'll see the connection I've made. Now, in regards to the last stanza, the final two lines especially. I believe this is the part of the song, where Chad presents his greater purpose for writing the song. [You either die on the inside or trying to get out The choice is yours, the choice is here] This is about not conforming, about being an individual and presenting your own ideas for everyone to share and benefit from. Presented as a true activist. I believe it is to say, that you've got this time on earth here, but we're born into society, culture, and conformity, we're given a belief system and ideals to follow. To try and live outside of those boundaries is to truly live, but to do so is also disapproved of by power and leaders of the system, and so therefore the masses generally agree and condemn/persecute those who attempt to do so. You either die on the "inside," within the system, having conformed, accopmlished nothing, and died, leaving nothing behind. O you can try to get out, and you can make something of it, and although you'll still die, you'll have accomplished something and made a statement, something highly respectable, at least to Chad. In the final line, he simply puts it out there, it's your choice, there may be no reason to try and escape the conformity, you may just as well stay in the system and live the insulated life, but if you're not content with living that way, then do something about it, people who can't live that way, generally know it. I for one understand exactly what Chad's saying here, and these two lines really describe an awful lot of the things I believe in. So if you want to do something about your position, and you feel that you need change, then ACT, do something about it, and leave the conformity behind. You will know a greater success than has ever been accomplished by anyone who has simply submitted to crown. "Us Against the Crown," is the title of Chad's latest album, with his current band STATE RADIO, so if you like the message this song holds, or any of the other one's Chad wrote for Dispatch, you should definitely check them out. I had the benefit of seing State Radio live, and was overjoyed when they played "Time Served," it was an amazing experience. This song is so powerful, and is definitely a good one to get pumped up and ready to go. It's simply amazing. [Jware.] |
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| Dispatch – Time Served Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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This song is amazing. Simply put. I'm going to have to generally agree with what everyone has said so far, except in the fact that I prefer the studio version of this one off of Who Are We Living For? I think this is somewhat because of the way the song sounds, but more importantly, because of what that album is all about, it just fits in better. The vocals shine out better, but the whole mood of Who Are We Living For? seems to just fit the song the best. As in the case of "Open Up," which I consider to be a closely related song, it has something to do with capital punishment. This song was also written by Chad who strongly opposes such inhumane and wrong practices, an activist as always through his writing. But as has already been stated, it has a lot to do with prison and of course being put there wrongly and unfairly, pointing out the imperfection of the United States, or any, system of trial and punishment. This is signified by the title, "Time Served," which is to say that for some confusing reason, human's are forced to serve time to others. Now, though, I think I'll consider the importance of the last two stanzas, which in my opinion hold the greatest meaning of the song. [But long before a single round was shot Word spread form block to block to cell block They're going to take him And make an example of him for the escapees to fear] This is speaking about FEAR. It's providing one of the reasons for imprisonment and punishment in general, it is to instill fear in the masses so that they will shy from committing a similar crime. Even if that person is innocent, he/she is a tool of the power to manipulate the people. And generally it is a relatively useful, if not acceptable method of making people do what they're supposed to. If you lock people up and publicize the reason for their punishment, many will avoid committing the same crime, because they don't want to face similar consequences. I'm sure many of you have read The Scarlet Letter, and when I had to read this for school all I could do was think of these lines, because Hester Prynne was used as an "example" against adultery, and every chance they got the ministers and leaders of Puritan society would point to her and preach using her as the example of what not to do, and what consequences you face if you do. I'm sure if you've read the book, no matter how horrible a read it is, you'll see the connection I've made. Now, in regards to the last stanza, the final two lines especially. I believe this is the part of the song, where Chad presents his greater purpose for writing the song. [You either die on the inside or trying to get out The choice is yours, the choice is here] This is about not conforming, about being an individual and presenting your own ideas for everyone to share and benefit from. Presented as a true activist. I believe it is to say, that you've got this time on earth here, but we're born into society, culture, and conformity, we're given a belief system and ideals to follow. To try and live outside of those boundaries is to truly live, but to do so is also disapproved of by power and leaders of the system, and so therefore the masses generally agree and condemn/persecute those who attempt to do so. You either die on the "inside," within the system, having conformed, accopmlished nothing, and died, leaving nothing behind. O you can try to get out, and you can make something of it, and although you'll still die, you'll have accomplished something and made a statement, something highly respectable, at least to Chad. In the final line, he simply puts it out there, it's your choice, there may be no reason to try and escape the conformity, you may just as well stay in the system and live the insulated life, but if you're not content with living that way, then do something about it, people who can't live that way, generally know it. I for one understand exactly what Chad's saying here, and these two lines really describe an awful lot of the things I believe in. So if you want to do something about your position, and you feel that you need change, then ACT, do something about it, and leave the conformity behind. You will know a greater success than has ever been accomplished by anyone who has simply submitted to crown. "Us Against the Crown," is the title of Chad's latest album, with his current band STATE RADIO, so if you like the message this song holds, or any of the other one's Chad wrote for Dispatch, you should definitely check them out. I had the benefit of seing State Radio live, and was overjoyed when they played "Time Served," it was an amazing experience. This song is so powerful, and is definitely a good one to get pumped up and ready to go. It's simply amazing. [Jware.] |
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| Dispatch – Open Up Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Okay, I've done some thinking on this song, and I've read through some of your ideas, not all of them, so I don't know if anyone's said this stuff yet, but I'm pretty sure I'm on the right track. Chad wrote this song, and if you've paid any attention to Chad's ideas, he's an activist, and he's got strong opinions about a lot of controversial topics. Many related to government and politics, and the affairs of the world, BIG stuff; stuff that matters. So it that sense, a lot of what you said would be appropriate. I've read suggestions of it being about slavery and other things, but in fact I think it's about a more current issue that is completely relevant nowadays. I also get some of this from the music of State Radio, the band that Chad has gone on to form after the splitting of the Dispatch 3. So this is what I get: It comes from what has been one of the more controversial words of the song, that being row, which the meaning of in this song has been widely contested. What's it feel like to know you're going to die On the other side of the row "Death Row." It's as simple as that, he's talking about death row, and his widely known disagreement with the death penalty. Anyone who has researched anything on Chad knows that he is strongly against capital punishment, and I think this is his song for that. Obviously, that's not everything to this song, but I think that's a lot of it. The other part that really interests me is: So they took me down to the gallows And this boy he said to me Why do you smile when the rope's around your neck I said I tell you boy when I get back Because, this is about life and death, and what comes after death. The man isn't sure of what comes after death, but it's got to be better than this life he's been living falsely accused so some unknown crime. He's being hanged for his "crime," though he knows he hasn't committed it, so he has a smile on his face, because he knows he's going to a better place, although he's not sure exactly what it is. So when the boy asks why he smiles, he doesn't know how to answer him, but knows he could give him a good answer after he has died, though there's little likelihood that he'll ever have a chance to tell the boy what that is. The mystery of death... Anyways, that's my input, hopefully I haven't completely repeated you guys. I agree with most of what has been said, I jsut wanted to embellish on it. [Jware.] |
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| Red Hot Chili Peppers – Especially in Michigan Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Wow, I totally missed the sports reference, thanks for that one. I guess it helps to be a resident, haha. Too bad nobody has any reason to write a song about New Hampshire, haha. But yah, the bit about the Detroit Lions and Tigers is very helpful. [Jware.] |
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| Red Hot Chili Peppers – Slow Cheetah Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Good call, I like these thoughts also. [Jware.] |
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| Red Hot Chili Peppers – Death of a Martian Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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Well, I'm not going to lie, I absolutely love the outro, but am slightly confused by it. At times it appears to almost completely incoherent. It reminds me of something I tried once. I took a book in the library and would simply flip through to random pages and make sentences and rhymes and stuff from the different phrases and sentence parts on the different pages and sort of tell a vague story. I doubt that's what Anthony did here, but it reminds me of that. Any thoughts on the specifics of the outro? [Jware.] |
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| Red Hot Chili Peppers – Slow Cheetah Lyrics | 18 years ago |
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this is the winner off of stadium arcadium in my opinion. i absolutely love the new double album, but this is the one that stands out, i love the lyrics and the sound is just amazing, the outro is fantastic, the chorus sounds superb, and the softer slower really deep stanzas are just perfect, this song is awesome, and lahdee... did an excellent job, much to think about surrounding this one, though, so there's plenty more to be said. [Jware.] |
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| Alexi Murdoch – Orange Sky Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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i love this song, it totally rocks, i heard it for the first time on a honda advertisement, but i'm in the process of obtaining the EP that this song is off of, come on more people need to come in here, his music rocks!!! Peace, Jware |
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| Red Hot Chili Peppers – Cabron Lyrics | 19 years ago |
| literally it means bastard, my best friend is mexican, | |
| Red Hot Chili Peppers – Californication Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I didn't write this, but a kid on he RHCP message board did, and it describes the entire song, he did a lot of research and thinking, and it's awesome, ENJOY Peace, Jware Californication by Jacob Pointon Californication meaning… Now for years, everyone has always questioned the meaning behind 3 ballads off the Californication album : Scar Tissue, Otherside, and Californication. Now my debate is one the meaning behind all three songs, since they are the most popular of fans wanting to know the meaning of. It is rather extensive, so I broke the debate in 3 different parts, one for each song. This one is Californication. While there is some debate as to whether or not the meaning of Californication lies in the generalizations made about the crazy society evolving out on the west coast of the USA, or a more personal accounting of a pre-marital relationship as ranted about for a verse, I am inclined to believe the former. Californication is a biting social criticism of the culture of excess we have. But the song isn't just about how things are in California. In itself, the descriptions in the song hold California up as a symbol itself for wider problems and issues we have. I found an interview from MTV, and Flea pretty much tells you what it’s about. Who better then the writers themselves to give you the meaning: It's not a sexual reference. "Californication" is really just the act of the world being affected and saturated by the art and the culture being born and raised in California. Traveling around the world, no matter how far I go, I see the affect that California has on the world. It's about that good and bad, beautiful and ugly. So let's hop to it. I can't promise I'll touch anything, or even get it "right," but it should be fun to try. First off we have: Psychic spies from China Try to steal your mind’s elation Little girls from Sweden Dream of silver screen quotations And if you want these kinds of dreams It’s Californication Here we already have a contrast between internal and external. The first half of the verse "Psychic Spies..." though "elation" represent a general paranoia people have of something beyond their control attempting to mess with their lives. The crackpot theories generally can be found in California. The rest of the verse, "Little girls from Sweden...” is how external people see something part of California is famous for (movie making) and how they dream of being able to enter into this dream world, totally naive and ignorant of the problems those within deal with. Last two lines let you know. Right off the bat, he's told you what Californication is. It’s the edge of the world And all of western civilization The sun may rise in the East At least it settles in the final location It’s understood that Hollywood sells Californication Here he's at first talking about how California is the "edge of the world in all of western civilization." Whether or not you find any deeper meaning in or not, it's a powerful enough line. Perhaps, when you link the term "civilization" with a description of the sun rising and setting, you get a metaphor saying that this is where the sun will set; this is the decline of civilization. This theme is again referenced later in the song. He ends the verse with the phrase, "It’s understood that Hollywood sells Californication" which is simple and obvious enough. Californication as defined above is a paradox between innocent desire for fame and recognition with a culture of irrational fears. This is what Hollywood sells. Everything out of that place will either be entirely self promoting and wrapped in a gaudy brilliance, or will play off your fears in some most unusual ways. Pay your surgeon very well To break the spell of aging Celebrity skin is this your chin? Or is that war your waging Simple enough. Here it's talking about how some people are consumed in a war against age, devoting so much of their time, energy, and life into combating it as to nullify any victory they have. Ultimate futility revealed in the form of a question at the end. Chorus: First born unicorn Hard core soft porn Dream of Californication Dream of Californication First born Unicorn is a nice rhyming phrase that holds a major symbol in it. What that symbol is can be confusing, depending on what your take for the general mythological meaning of a Unicorn is. Some say strength and independence, which would then mean perhaps a glimmer of hope in the song talking about defiance to the force of Californication. Others say a fearful, dreadfully powerful creature. It would then be talking about Californication itself, being a firstborn unicorn, our society's first and most dreadful force to effect change upon our world. Also in mythology, the Unicorn represents virginity, and you’re first born a virgin, and because of hardcore and soft porn, you get ideas of sex, have sex, and lose it. Phrase Hard Core Soft Porn is obviously a contradictory, and I would guess is meant as a jab for the other major marketing technique/aspect of Californication... They sell as much sex as possible, promote it as much as possible, but are never willing to outright go all the way with it, still attempting to uphold that innocent polished image. Marry me girl be my fairy to the world Be my very own constellation A teenage bride with a baby inside Getting high on information And buy me a star on the boulevard It’s Californication Because he is addressing directly someone in this verse, many people take this as evidence that the song is about a single person who he had a relationship with, perhaps a person who represented this whole culture. I'm still shaky on the grounds, but I think he's just addressing another archetype here, as symbol of the TYPE of person who gets caught up on the whole society, but not an actual person. And seeing how constellations can also determine your fate, he could be saying to this girl to marry him, be the one to take him around the world, and be the one to be his fate. And have you noticed that when young teenage girls get pregnant, they finally wake up and realize they need to get their act and life together. So they start working harder in school, keeping their face in the books, “getting high on information”, so they can make a better living form them and their future family. And who doesn’t want or get a star on the Hollywood Boulevard? A few non Hollywood actors have done so. Space may be the final frontier But it’s made in a Hollywood basement Cobain can you hear the spheres Singing songs off station to station And Alderon’s not far away It’s Californication In this verse he does three things. 1) He points out the fakeness of our attempts to explore "the final frontier" as we instead do it in a studio as opposed to spending that money to actually do any real exploration. It's also a Star Trek reference, of course, with that phrase. He referenced Hollywood again. He does it one more time in this verse, proving how he is a true geek at heart. 2) a) He directly addresses Cobain, more likely than not Kurt Cobain, the man who kicked off a trend that was consumed, distorted, and then discarded by the force of Californication. He asks if he sees what has happened. b) Foo Fighters lead singer is the former drummer of Cobain’s Nirvana…..Foo Fighters, not the band, but real foo fighters fly in what looks like alien space crafts; the flying saucer type kind that in early days were called “spheres”……Station to Station is an album by David Bowie, and on that album you’ll find the track “The Man Who Sold The World”. During one of Nirvana’s final performances on MTV Unplugged, they performed that same song. After Cobain’s death and Dave Grohl started the Foo Fighters, they also played “The Man Who Sold The World” at their concerts in memory of Curt Cobain, which then got a lot of air play on the radio, I mean all the time when it first came out. So, do you kind of see the connection? He’s telling Kurt if he can hear how Dave Grohl and his band is still carrying the torch, and how they miss him and still live on his name. 3) And finally, he says, "And Alderon's not far away, It's Californication." This line is actually a Star Wars reference as is apparent in more knowledgeable circles. Sure the spelling is different, but maybe Anthony thought he spelled it right, but I do believe this is what he’s talking about….Planet Alderaan was the pristine home of Princess Leia, the first planet destroyed by the Death Star in the first Star Wars film. This is a major symbol because he is pretty much saying "our perfect world will be destroyed soon, it's Californication" by saying that Alderaan is no far away. Again he's touching upon the destructive nature of this force, a theme I poked earlier on. Born and raised by those who praise Control of population everybody’s been there and I don’t mean on vacation Everybody's been to this state of control, of being swept up by the force of Californication. As opposed to having gone to California on vacation. Destruction leads to a very rough road But it also breeds creation And earthquakes are to a girl’s guitar They’re just another good vibration And tidal waves couldn’t save the world From Californication Here he's taking the destructive foreshadowing from before, and saying "Yeah, but if you look at it in a certain way, it can be used as a creative energy. You cannot wipe out this force, even if California was wiped off the map." So then, find a way to transform the destructive earthquake of this force into a good vibration. (Also, there's a touch of irony in talking about earthquakes, seeing how California is rocked by them pretty constantly.) The earthquake to a guitar, as much damage as it may cause, to a guitar, is only another vibration... vibration on a guitat makes music. Creation from destruction. Californication is destructive, as he's shown, but again the hope glimmers through; it can be creative. Pay your surgeon very well To break the spell of aging Sicker than the rest There is no test But this is what you’re craving He returns to the waste of energy in the battle against the age, saying that perhaps there is something sick about it. The last line would be by far too ambiguous for me to really throw my opinion on. Are you craving Californication, or are you craving to escape it? We strive to be good people but we always fall back to the ways of evil. We come to the point that that is what we're craving. |
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| Red Hot Chili Peppers – Shallow Be Thy Game Lyrics | 19 years ago |
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I was not created In the likeness of a fraud -I was created in the likeness of god, and he's not a fraud Your hell is something scary I prefer a loving god -we were not all born sinners, my god is a loving god We are not the center Of this funny universe -god is above all, we make up his funny universe, but he still cares and doesn't abandon us And what is something worse I do not serve In fear of such a curse -I don't live my life that I was born damned, I don't fear god, I love him, as he loves me Shallow be thy game 2000 years look in the mirror -ever since Jesus was born, more and more have split from god's and Jesus' path, looking back, there have been those trying to tarnish god's name because of Jesus, You play the game of shame And tell your people live in fear -you make up lies about god and Jesus to scare your followers into fearing a hateful god that doesn't exist A rival to the way you see The bible let him be -your going against what the bible says, back off, and let those who believe read and believe the truth of the scriptures I'm a threat to your survival And your control company -I threaten your power, as I’m speaking out about your lies, and god's love shall overcome, CHORUS: You'll never burn me You'll never burn me I'll be your heretic You can't contain me I am the power free Truth belongs to everybody -I’m a heretic to the church, which clouds your mind with lies and hatred of a loving god, I’m speaking out of the truth, and you can't overcome me, because god is on my side To anyone who's listenin' You're not born into sin -you're not born into predestination, god hasn't decided your fate, although he knows what your prone to, but listen to me, I will tell of a good, and just god The guilt they try and give you Puke it in the nearest bin -don't listen to the bull that your born a sinner, humans make mistakes, and god forgives, don't believe that you screwed to begin with, it's not true Missionary madness Sweep up culture w/ a broom -the movement of the religious system has sucked up culture, and small groups' own religious beliefs Trashing ancient ways Is par for the course -we've gone from the course of old ways of god's love, and believe we were born sinners It's fucking rude To think that you're above The laws of nature is a joke -these religious leaders think they're above it all, and try to go against the real god, and teach of their own god for personal benefit Purple sashes feeding masses Smoke on which to choke I might be a monkey When it comes to being holy -I may not be the most holy, Fundamental hatred Get down on your knees and -but if your totally against god, shut up Peace, Jware |
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