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And Suddenly...a Riot
03:52
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we had a mundane conversation about the weather / he made inane comments about the women passing by / i've had 17 cigarettes since we've been together / that's at least 3 more than the last 6 days combined / i felt warmth drip down my throat and into my stomach / from a bottle hidden inside a paper bag / he laughed and sang as he fed the pigeons / i smiled, jealous of all the fun that we'd had / yeah / up a flight of stairs, into a back room bar speakeasy / where the marxist book club was known to hang around / they've got vodka on their breath and they talk of a revolution / upset at all the bullshit that has gone down / there's a march today to support the surviving family / of a young man beat to death by the boys in blue / they say this country's foundation is freedom / yet at every turn they try to incarcerate you / yeah / as the crowd grows violent, and the riots begin / i see a man on the street corner who is peeling off his skin / and injecting novocaine into the folds of his open heart / he says, 'the teeth of society are as long as they are sharp' / yeah / there's poison in the air / there's poison in my mouth / there are poison ingredients in our food that i can't pronounce / sit in lotus position, block distraction and desire / make some mental incisions and set malignant thought on fire / yeah / yeah
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Repeating
04:48
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go to work, slave away / make pennies for another day / when you get home, watch your tv / to distract you from your misery / everything, everything, everything / is repeating, repeating and repeating… / go to sleep, lay in your bed / with crazy thoughts spinnin' round your head / alarm goes off, you wish you were dead / prepare to do it all over again / everything, everything, everything / is repeating, repeating and repeating / microwave your frozen meal / to pay your bills - beg, borrow, steal / it's thursday night - take out the trash / when your lawn gets long / better mow your grass / first of the month, your rent is due / what's up, man? / nothing new / clocks spin round and time don't end / i've been here before / but i'm not sure when / everything, everything, everything / is repeating, repeating / and repeating
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A Protest Song
03:33
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explosions on the ground and drones in the sky / falling on your knees and asking why / you don’t understand it, others demand it / and still the bullets fly / when will they see that the lives they’ve lost / are more important than the battles that they’ve won? / will they ever see the falling sun? / men, women, and children all innocent / and yet they’re the ones that pay the price / while the powers that be still roll the dice / they’re gambling with our lives / when will they see that the lives they’ve lost / are more important than the battles that they’ve won? / will they ever see the falling sun? / bodies in the ground and ghosts in the sky / kneeling at the grave, you try not to cry / you don’t understand it, you took it for granted / you bought into the lie / when will they see that the lives they’ve lost / are more important than the battles that they’ve won? / will they ever see the falling sun? / when will they see that the lives they’ve lost / are more important than the battles that they’ve won? / will they ever pay for what they’ve done?
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25 Years Young
03:16
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25 years young / a quarter century gone / i only feel a few months older / than my unborn son / ain't it funny, things change / at the most alarming rate? / been here today, be gone tomorrow / still stuck in yesterday / i have a friend who's in the army / calls me a liberal / when he gets out he'll be a lawyer / future politico / his little brother was a smart kid / but to no avail / they caught him pushing marijuana / and sent his ass to jail / 25 years young / a quarter century gone / i know my salad days are over / and i have to move on / ain't it funny things change / at the most alarming rate? / been here today, be gone tomorrow / still stuck in yesterday / today i saw my former lover / in the grocery aisles / she told me she had gotten married / and was expecting a child / we talked about our buddy adam / who had passed away / and reminisced about the good times / we all had back in the day / 25 years young / a quarter century gone / the seasons just keep on passin' / nothing stays golden long / ain't it funny things change / at the most alarming rate? / been here today, be gone tomorrow / still stuck in yesterday
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5. |
It's All a Scam
02:45
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they glamorize the negatives / and push aside the positives / and now you got good kids growin' up to be the opposite / you need this, you need that / believe this, believe that / they'll lock up your future / won't tell you where the keys at / the system's made to hold you back / you're lookin' at a glass ceiling you can never crack / ask for more, but give you less / askin' you to break your back / until they lay you to rest / it's all a scam / it's all a plan / it's all a scam / it's all a plan / truth is you're disposable to them / you're just another tool to find a means to an end / and they keep askin' you to bend / cuz' they know in the end you'll break my friend / welfare, poverty - that's why they got the lottery / over taxed and underpaid / ain't that shit a mockery? / you ask for the truth, and all they tell is lies / steal the money from your pockets right in front of your eyes / it's all a scam / it's all a plan / it's all a scam / it's a master plan
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Beware!
03:43
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beware your golden age / the luster of your life will fade / beware your golden age / the luster of your life will fade away / never follow any scene / know what a clear conscience means / wear your smile with confidence / never neglect your common sense / go anywhere that you’d like to be / but take care to avoid the infirmary / you're nothing less than heaven sent / so don’t sell yourself short / your life is meant to be spent / and beware / and beware / beware / i said beware your golden age / the luster of your life will fade / beware your golden age / the luster of your life will fade away / to grey / to grey / to grey / stand up for what you believe / leave no day on this earth unseized / be who you are, you shouldn’t hide / find good friends to stand beside / you can’t replace your fucking face / the world is a very scary place / the only road to trust is truth / you can make a lot of money, but you can’t buy back your youth / so beware, and beware, and beware / beware, beware, beware / won't you please beware? / beware, beware, beware / won't you please beware? / beware your golden age / the luster of your life will fade / beware your golden age / the luster of your life will fade away / to grey / so beware / so beware / beware
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Taller Than the Sun
02:05
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bury me in kindness / deep in the ground / bathe me in your beauty / but don’t let me drown / let me grow until i become / taller than the sun / chop me down at the knees / and watch me fall in defeat / eat from my fruit / and leave me to decay / let me grow until i become / taller than the sun / take the seed from within / and place it in the Earth / let life begin again / another rebirth / let me grow until i become taller than the sun / let me grow until i become taller than the sun / let me grow until i become taller than the sun / let me grow until i become taller than the sun
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Do You Find?
02:48
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do you find / that it can be hard sometimes? / for your big free mind / to be trapped inside / of your body, confined / to the sacred space where your soul resides / it's the spark that keeps all alive / and the reason that we'll never, ever, never, ever, ever die / where did you go / as we stood there in the afterglow? / of the only light you'd ever known / you packed up your spark and you went home / left your body in time / to regain your place on the other side / won't you say hello to some friends of mine? / and rest in peace but never, ever, never, ever, ever die / do you find / that it can be hard sometimes? / for your big free mind / to be trapped inside / we'll never, ever, never, ever, ever die
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Beware! (Reprise)
02:41
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Same Old Routine
03:05
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what's the cost of your existence? / is there a need for your persistence? / i was lost somewhere along the line / and there's no time left to wonder / about the consequences of your blunder / it was but a brief second in time / a second in time / this has happened once before / i wound up at your door / rainy sunday with a rhyme / there's no reason to get snippy / this is where it all gets tricky / the angles just don't come together right / we're together, right? / there's no reason for it all / we stood up just to fall back on our asses once again / it seems to be routine now / and it still amazes me how / i am still a civil human being / i'm just a human being
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11. |
Sunset Violet
04:18
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as boys we spat and swore / our intentions for us to explore / the hillsides and caverns and wildernesses / that we'd only dreamt of before / that we'd only dreamt of before / do you remember the day / that we got caught in the rain? and your brother ran off and found us a cave / and we slept with our heads laying against / the warm stone / and your laughter and our merriment / rang out from the catacombs / our laughter and merriment / rang out through the catacombs / just a year has a past to think it is sad / since we sat, you said you felt powerless / in the sweet eclipse of silence / on the mountain top, sunset violet / as boys we spat and swore / our intentions for us to explore / the hillsides and caverns and wildernesses / that we'd only dreamt of before / that we'd only dreamt of before
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the clock blinks, cars on the street / cast shadows on my wall / as i yawn my mind regains its sense of 'here' / this multiverse has been picking on me / like splinters from a floor / where time and touch / have worn away veneer / specters, specters dance before me / in technicolored forms / hallucinations of what i could have been / fantastical nightmared visions split me into two parallels / a twilight zone where nothing is pretend / the most frightening realization / is a questioning of self / you wonder if who you've been is even real / you grab another bottle from that high liquor / because rest is easier when you can't feel
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Mattydale Music Collective Mattydale, New York
Mattydale Music Collective is a genre bending five piece band based out of Syracuse,
NY.
With the additions of a second guitarist, Matt Poworoznek, and a new drummer, Zach Shawwaf - the mainstays of the band Mat Wescott (guitar, etc.), Anthony Kratz (bass), and Lee Knapp (vocals) are raising the bar in their music.
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