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The Protest
04:18
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I control your breathing
And I control your feelings
And I am your voice now
And I am your voice now
Use me to tell all your friends
THIS IS NOT THE WAY THIS SHOULD END
Can't we just turn this thing around?
Use me as your voice to call out now.
HOORRAH HOORAH!
This war's gone on too long.
HOORAH HOORAH!
This nation's gone all wrong.
HOORAH HOORAH!
I can't just sing this song
We can't just sit here, waiting!
We can't just sit here so long.
I can't see you doing anything. (Don't worry it's under control.)
Well, I don't really believe anything. (Don't worry it's under control.)
Do you realize we see everything? (Don't worry it's under control.)
The idea of a citizen is everything! I know it's not under control!! (Don't worry it's under control!)
HOORAH HOORAH!
All I heard was clicks and static
HOORAH HOORAH!
And I was trying so hard not to panic
HOORAH HOORAH!
I cannot control this feeling anymore
HOORAH HOORAH!
Could you just tell me who you are fighting for?
HOORAH HOORAH!
And can I ask you just once more?
HOORAH HOORAH!
Just who you think you're fighting for?
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It only feels empty
At the end of the light
Where the darkness takes your sight
You can try to run from it all night
But in the end
All that avails is flight.
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3. |
Never Let This
03:44
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Can't you tell me from everyone else?
I've always been so secure in tracing thoughts back to our heads.
When they're gone it's like a freedom ends.
Tell me, why can't we bring ourselves to be a perfect world?
The information that's been taken away we cannot free ourselves.
Oh, we can never let this go.
We can never let this...
Would you care if I held my voice back
and dared to acquiesce?
I'll share this misery for eternity
If you need company.
Oh, we can never let this go.
We can never let this...
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4. |
Bystander Effect
00:27
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And why would we let this?
This tired little nation pulling itself along the rails at breakneck speeds
Waiting for the turn that knocks it off the line into the destructive state of mind to which we've been confined
The least we could do is try and get in front of that train and slow it down with as many tiny hands as we can
Before it's too late!
But it sounds to me like you don't even have a plan, so maybe it's already too late...
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Taking up all of our time
It's kinda like we only
See them when there isn't any light
We know that so now we're afraid of the night
'Cause the emptiness just seems to leave you so dry.
We left our coats in the closet
With a sense of our worth in the pockets
We'd forget our heads if they weren't plugged in
To the sockets
Taking up all of our time
It's kinda like we only
See them when there isn't any light
We know that so now we're afraid of the night
'Cause the emptiness just seems to leave you so dry.
But our pockets had holes in the stitching
And ambitions got lost in the pitching
As the emptiness cried
And it just seemed to leave you so dry.
Taking up all of our time
It's kinda like we only
See them when there isn't any light
We know that so now we're afraid of the night
'Cause the emptiness just seems to leave you so dry.
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6. |
A Dying World
00:48
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Today will be the day
Today I will pull these curtains aside
And nullify these lines we tell ourselves
That no person can derive the emotions in their minds
When they say there's something wrong inside
But insist that they were lying.
Today will be different.
I will make a difference
And if nobody hears me, good riddance.
They can remain locked inside their minds
Empty as an egg which cracked and split the insides
For ignored ambitions are like a baby bird
Which falls and never flies.
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7. |
Scylla
03:25
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Calm waters lead me farther
Towards decisions I'll make
If I sail too close to the edge
Then I might not prevail
On port side Scylla lies watching and waiting
To bring my ship to shore
And starboard the sea spins round,
awaiting a chance to swallow us whole.
And we thought we might make it
But...we didn't.
Six men lost
in Scylla's jaws!
Was this so smart?
I'm falling apart...
All because of you...
Scylla!
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8. |
Charybdis
03:00
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It's drawing us near
'Cause the consequences just weren't so clear.
And with all these unexplainable things we fear
It's like Charybdis wants to make us disappear.
Spinning round in circles
Ocean currents pull me in
The preparations that we've made
Have only led to our descent.
It's the calm before the storm
and we're a pile of cement
ready to harden in the waves
so to the bottom we can sink.
It's drawing us near
'Cause the consequences just weren't so clear.
And with all these unexplainable things we fear
It's like Charybdis wants to make us disappear.
It's taken a piece of your heart
And sucked it away to oblivion
Won't you please tell me
Another tale of when the emptiness failed?
'Cause it wants to prevail…
We go round and round and around and down.
We go round and round and around and round and down.
I'm stuck in the sea
treading in water that's far too deep
and it's getting so hard
not to fall asleep
when I
I could just fall...
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9. |
Hypnopædia
01:02
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And a speaker
In the mirror
On the dresser
By the bed
Was pumping tiny little voices
To the place they rest their heads
It was saying
"Go and live a lie,
And pretend you're not upset
Because the last thing this world needs from you
Is blood when you've been bled"
But they slept quietly all night
And in the morning woke to find
That all the while
They'd been the soldiers
In a desperate little fight
To take the thoughts from all our minds
And store them in little bins
To later take them out
And remove
Every little thing.
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Trusted Enemies
01:52
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Fall prey to the otherwise large source of entertainment
That we can place idle minds inside
And we built a tomb for shade
Where we emptied our pockets into our graves
And waved goodbye to every cent we saved
We sold our swords and traded all the parts,
Later felt the blades go through our hearts.
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11. |
Lost Souls
01:26
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And you feel eternal,
Moving into others
Do you believe the feeling
Hopelessness brings you?
Erase the feeling,
I've completed you.
We can tell the emptiness is through
Pull away the covers...
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12. |
The Dictator
04:42
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(Spoken by Charlie Chaplin in "The Great Dictator" - 1940, Copyright United Artists)
"I'm sorry but I don't want to be an Emperor, that's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible, Jew, gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another, human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful. But we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate; has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery we need humanity. More than cleverness we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood, for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me I say "Do not despair". The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress: the hate of men will pass and dictators die and the power they took from the people, will return to the people and so long as men die liberty will never perish. Soldiers: don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you, enslave you, who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel, who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men, machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts. You are not machines. You are not cattle. You are men. You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don't hate, only the unloved hate. The unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers: don't fight for slavery, fight for liberty! In the seventeenth chapter of Saint Luke it is written: "The kingdom of God is within man" Not one man, nor a group of men, but in all men; in you, you the people have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness. You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then in the name of democracy let us use that power, let us all unite! Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future, and old aged security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power, but they lie. They do not fulfill that promise, they never will. Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people! Now let us fight to fulfill that promise. Let us fight to free the world, to do away with national barriers, to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness. Soldiers! In the name of democracy, let us all unite!"
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Forgotten Citizen Florida
Forgotten Citizen is a one-man musical project which has evolved through and between multiple genres throughout the years. The ultimate goal is musical expression without trying to fit into a certain sound. Forgotten Citizen wears the mask and suit in an attempt to connect people to the music rather than the musician, and hear the message rather than watching the messenger. ... more
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