As it all disappears...
Can't you see that I'm sneering from ear to ear?
I call it hardly a shame
No consistency sustained

It's synthetic to take your own advice
But you can't avoid it
Now it's dramatic to be your own disguise
When the butcher's hand is mine

There is no room to improve
There's no demand for the product of your next move
Fuel you were using to burn
Is charring you in return

It's synthetic to take your own advice
But you can't avoid it
Now it's dramatic to be your own disguise
When the butcher's hand is mine

Spare the world the speech
We're out of reach
As the tables turn
No blood for the leech
As the tables turn
Spare the world the speech
As the tables turn

Bad karma eats you alive
Contrived intentions will never be revived
Recalled to settle the score, less of you is more

It's synthetic to take your own advice
But you can't avoid it
Now it's dramatic to be your own disguise
When the butcher's hand is mine

Spare the world the speech
We're out of reach
As the tables turn
No blood for the leech
As the tables turn
Spare the world the speech
As the tables turn


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    Love the ending riff

    parabola 17on July 04, 2005   Link
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    its about stuck up celebritys who this there gods gift to the world and better than everyone and how they adventualy lose all there fame money and worship by the masses and become washed up nobodys that no one cares about.

    twilight_samon July 05, 2005   Link
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    This to me gets me psyched to fight the people that say that i am just a waste of flesh skid... the tables will turn when they pick a fight with the wrong person, there gonna get fucked up and the tables are gonna turn and the punks will be strong and united unlike the wiggers, and jocks and such... it just a song that i can hope will happen i dont want my kids to grow up and have to worry about getting there ass kicked cause they love good music and know there white... it pisses me off but this song helps me... THE TABLES WILL TURN!

    oldskoolpunker23on July 06, 2005   Link
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    this is what deron miller said this song is about celebrities and their shallow world. Believing they have it all and deserve it alll. Then a all of a suddden, no one cares about them. One of my favorite things in life is to watch a stuck up celebrity decline to a nobody. The tables turn Many times

    Ckyrockson August 02, 2005   Link
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    sick song

    AHOYon December 22, 2005   Link
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    it means how you see people all high and mighty completely above the world and when you see something bad to them you can't help having a sick satisfaction with their anguish

    Disengage12aon February 23, 2006   Link
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    funny enough this happens so much in society and i love the comment by old skool punker i hope u kick all the wiggers and jocks asses and the peolpe who hate cky

    Rio Bravo CKYon May 03, 2007   Link
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    funny enough this happens so much in society and i love the comment by old skool punker i hope u kick all the wiggers and jocks asses and the peolpe who hate cky and send them a big fuCKYou from me

    Rio Bravo CKYon May 03, 2007   Link

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