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We Were Sick

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We were sick!
We were sick at the talk!
So far from where we started,
too far along to stop!

We were sick!
We were sick at the thought!
We never lose our grip,
and end up sick at the bottom!

Fed on the dirt!
Laid on the land!
Never gave a day away!
Never gave a damn!
Read all we could!
Shed all we had!
Every dirty germ
another lesson that threads into man!

We were sick!
We were sick at birth!
Stuck around, had our fun!
Stuck a fork, we were done!

We were sick!
We covered the earth!
Us and all our friends,
and anyone getting us medicine!

We were sick!
Sick in the brain!
Too young to kill
Too old to contain!

Stick out our tongue catchin the acid rain!
We were high! We were alive! We were sick!

Never pure, Never aware
Never a cure, Never a care
Never a need, Never a damn, the legacy!

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emergency&me On Mar 17, 2009

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2009-03-17 02:20:11

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by LargeWhales

17y ago

This is my favorite from the new album. Is it about drug use? Probably not. I feel like it has to do with living minimally, like some vagrant or something.

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by N0Sferatu

17y ago

I think it’s about how we treat the earth. You know — the whole environment pollution thing. From the perspective of an teenager (or more something like “semi-grown-up” ).

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by LargeWhales 17y ago

I always hear him saying the line as "every dirty German," which I like more.

by the_clairvoyant 17y ago

Ha! Thats what I thought he kept saying too!

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by whybother737

16y ago

"Bred all we could," not "read"

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