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I Am A Ghost
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When there’s no second chances
And when there’s no hope left
And your rights don’t exist
A worst case scenario is your best bet
And second chances
I’ve had a few
To make the best of the time you have
Well that’s up to you
So a fucking addiction makes me a criminal
Well then lock me away
A sober life’s no good
With TOMIS numbers as identities
I write this obituary for our long lost liberties
’Cause we don’t fucking know
Nor do we care about what exists out there
Nor do we care about what they say
I don’t, you don’t, we don’t and anyway
We just don’t give a shit anymore
We just don’t have the time to waste
On two faced liars who never gave a fuck anyway
I’ve pissed around the block and I’ve done my time
And I’ve covered those lines again
I’ve been around
I've been around
And the story goes I am a ghost
Half-dead in here and nobody knows
And these drugs, they work, so slow
We dig our own graves
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Police Cops
01:47
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Slit your wrists or burn off your fingertips
Baby, you’ve been labeled a terrorist
Hop a train, leave your life behind and change your name
Once you're numbered, to them, you know we're all the same
Everyday, yeah it’s still the same
Same old bullshit with a different name
Sheriffs, cops, those fucks, they’re all the same
Take your job
Take a life
Do it all and not think twice
It’s the same old game
They win, we play
Slit your wrists or
We take the brunt of the pain and agony they crave
We’re trapped like rats again
We're trapped like rats again
Throw down them bones
See what the future holds
It’s not fucking pretty
It's not fucking pretty
Throw down them bones
See that the seeds are sewn
Like cards, my feet shuffle
What were streets
Now impending rubble
We sacrifice
We give it all and they take our lives
The enemy is black and blue
And they look just like me and you
...Get on your bikes and ride!!
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Maybe what we need are more dead cops
Fewer laws and better paying fucking jobs
Do you know what I’m saying, don’t you?
Trade our ballots for barricades
Fuck everything that’s in the way
Of a right, that’s inborn and you can’t deny it
And I won’t give up on you
Maybe what we need doesn’t matter
Hell, and maybe it never will
But still, you’ve got to try
And you know, we can smell it
'Cause there’s a class war brewing in the kitchen
And you know if I can smell it
Don't those politicians gotta fucking smell it brewing too
But it doesn't matter anyway
Now tell the truth
What's inside?
And was it that hard to find?
It's that faith you keep holding to
And that's what's keeping you from pulling through
What we have is a lie and a hate and a fear
That keeps us from each other
Being one with all the others
What we have is a hate and fear
That we could be everything that we want to be
Regrettably division of all class has induced our liberties to fall through the cracks
And you see, this war it never stops
Have our liberties and choose death by cops
And we waste these years
Just digging out our ears
With plastic forks and knives
Anything to drown out the battle cries
Of a pointless war
That's right outside my door
And I just can't relate
Bombs and bullets were never really my thing
Look for our rights man
You're gonna find them
Dead in the street
For passers by to pass on by
Bleached by the sun
No one makes it out alive
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The Commonwealth Of American Natives Nashville, Tennessee
The Commonwealth Of American Natives formed out of the ashes of Nashville’s Fist Of The North Star and Murfreesboro’s Desperate Measures. Now after 10+ years they are still Nashville’s premier Gutter-Pop band. Coming up they will be dropping several releases starting with “Vol. 2: Cats, Plagues, and Evil Ways” due out before the end of the year. ... more
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