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Sick Of War
03:53
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This sickness takes on many forms
No panacea, no end to all these wars
Does a cure even exist?
Will time reveal a stronger medicine?
We repeat these same mistakes
Denying a history we cannot escape
To live, to push away this pain
To realize existence that we cannot explain
I’m sick, I’m so sick, I’m sick of war
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Like Gary Wilson Said
03:58
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Like Gary Wilson said
She is real, she is real
And some obsessions
Are hard to conceal
Like Gary Wilson said
I suspend myself in dreams
Because this world
Is just not what it seems
Like Gary Wilson said
You might think you know me
But some impressions
Are never revealed
Like Gary Wilson said
Let your spirit free
Some people die for love
And some for vanity
But if everybody knows
Please feed me to the crows
And toss what’s left in the river
My eyes, my heart, my liver
Like Gary Wilson said
If something’s too good to be true
Put your duck in the ocean
And see if she swims back to you
Like Gary Wilson said
You gotta lose control
Loneliness is a prison
That slowly kills your soul
But if everybody knows
Please feed me to the crows
And toss what’s left in the river
My eyes, my heart, my liver
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People and their fate
Life to contemplate
Seems so small sometimes
Dying to exist
Existentialist
You’re so young and fine
Something to connect
Spark our intellect
Feels so good sometimes
Trying to relate
We can procreate
I can fall in line
We cannot compare pain but we
Can give each other new reasons to exist
We can find a new place
I will take you there
Lying on the floor
This all came before
I repeat myself
People make mistakes
Learn to live this way
We still have our health
Something to correct
Souls will intersect
Love is such a find
Learn to live this way
Learn the things to say
I get by just fine
We cannot compare pain but we
Can give each other new reasons to exist
We can find a new place
I will take you there
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Ruled by experts
Ruled by whim
Ruled by the wealthy
Ruled by Him
Ruled by tyrants
Ruled by thieves
Ruled by pedants
Ruled by our fears
But you seem to be floating
You seem to be free
Ruled by bishops
Ruled by mobs
Ruled by squatters
Ruled by natural laws
Ruled by pundits
Ruled by slaves
Ruled by civil servants
Ruled to our graves
Soon we’ll be floating
Soon we’ll be free
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5. |
Natural Light
04:07
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Sunbreak, sunlight, new moon be pleased tonight
We brace for new life
Mended our old fences
Paint will fade, time will save
Show us the light, teach us new ways
We lift the shades, open our new senses
Warm sun behind your back
Cold wind direct attack
It’s hard to tell which way it’s blowing
Sometimes it’s better never knowing
You caught me with one look
Wrote me into your book
Sundazed, sun blind, new sun keep track of time
Embraced new life
We called her freedom
Darkness fades, longer days
Roll back the stone and leave the cave
Accept this change
The light of revelation
Warm sun behind your back
Cold wind direct attack
It’s hard to tell which way it’s blowing
Sometimes it’s better never knowing
You caught me with one look
Wrote me into your book
A natural light illuminating
Something so real we have created
Sometimes it’s better never knowing
A natural light is truly glowing
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6. |
They Are Bones
02:55
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Before there was an ending
Before there was a start
In the middle of the middle
In the heart of our hearts
I looked out on the world, thinking,
“They are aliens, they are bones”
I stood amidst our treasures
Small, but bright and ours alone
Ours alone
They’re ours alone
They’re ours
What they’ve taken, what we’ve lost
Does not define who we are
We are mineral, we are truth
We are nothing, we are proof
Knowing they can’t touch us
They can’t penetrate our skulls
Lure us with their promises
Or trap us with their rules
We are everlasting
We are night and day
We are water, we are sky
We are everlasting
And we’re all alone
All alone
We are
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7. |
Loma Prieta
02:41
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We never asked for this
Couldn’t feel it coming on
Implicit faith, we missed the signs, ignored the dogs
Red-faced new clown prince
Heir apparent, empty throne
Disown your army
Leave the rest of us alone
Beyond control
Loma Prieta
We lost our soul
Loma Prieta
You had a taste of it
Now you’re drinking from the cup
I’ll never take a sip
I’m not giving up
Now a beast is forming
No longer hides among the rest
His mouth is open as he rears his ugly head
Beyond control
Loma Prieta
We lost our soul
Loma Prieta
Can’t tell you when it started
Can’t save you from yourself
Can’t carry what’s been left behind
Can’t talk to you about it
Can’t save you from yourself
Can’t bury what’s been left behind
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Day to day it’s drudgery
Litter box and cutlery
But that’s what I do
I stay upstairs
Fixing old broken chairs
Because that’s what I do
I re-read books
About lechers, lepers, crooks
Yeah that’s what I do
And I don’t want to be defended
I studied your verses
So much voodoo, spells and curses
To do what you do
With no belief to be forsaken
Or miracle to be mistaken
I do what I do
No medals, no crosses
No weathermen, no bosses
I like what I do
And I don’t want to be defended
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9. |
Keys To The City
02:29
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Keys to the city
Wandering aimless
Lights to name us
Cracks in the ceiling
Walls are crumbling
I suspect it
Drunk on the Bowery
No reflection
I needed direction
Sirens were singing
Songs of love
And you returned it
Young and so pretty
Make out wasted
with perfect faces
Empire State leaning
New young rich
Need new perspectives
Watched all the hippies
Cash in stocks
For upstate houses
Broke out the bubbly
For trust fund kids
Pre-war apartments
I finally found a home
No I can’t get away
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Long before I came
Long before I found
The list beside your bed
With the future crossed out
I’d been standing at the border
Watching the changing of the guard
Watching the fire-breathing
And all the babies being born
I followed your sister
Into a crowded square
Where they hung all the traitors
From East German cranes
That’s when I knew
I’d left America
I left America
Long before I came
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SAVAK Brooklyn, New York
Formed in 2015 by members of The Obits, Holy Fuck and The Cops.
SAVAK is Sohrab Habibion, Michael Jaworski and Matt Schulz.
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