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PACK YOUR BAGS
02:57
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howdy kids it's another war
just like all the other times before
you didn't vote for it but that's o.k.
either way you really have no say
answer when we sound the alarm
so what if you come home missing an arm
CHORUS
it don't matter why, when or where
war is money that's why we're there
don't ask what we're fighting for
pack your bags we're off to war
we need grunts and you fit the bill
you need only have the guts to kill
we're gonna make millions supplying the guns
oiled with human blood the war machine runs
gonna drop a ton of bombs
the long awaited sequel to vietnam
can't find a job come and enlist
a video game with a real death twist
with your tax dollars we'll put on a show
how bad it really is you'll never know
the goose that lays the golden eggs
so what if you come home without your legs
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screw you! i want it all! i'll have it all!
i'm needy! and greedy! and ruthless!
what's yours is mine! i'm a thief! a money pig!
screw you! i want it all! i'll have it all!
wake up kids it's not a dream it's even worse than it seems
it all goes down in a blinding flash and your whole future is neatly smashed
i'll take it all in the realest sense and when it's gone it'll make no sense
how i've come to rule the scene and how the scam came in to being
an armani suit with a smoker's hack can't wait to stab you in the back
sign along the dotted line and i will make the bright light shine
champagne and caviar so wish upon a shining star
so don't be late, set your sights for soon you'll see your name in lights
late at night when laying in bed pipe dreams of wealth will fill your head
meanwhile i've known all the time that in the end it will all be mine
robbing you blind is my career it's even worse than your worst fear
your life savings in my hand will slip between your fingers like sand
bigwigs like me of every sort can't wait to rob you of your shorts
it's all numbers on a screen and you'll know not what it means
i'll take your money and ruin your name human greed knows no shame
i'll tell what you want to hear "don't worry about a thing - sign here"
i'll promise you a world that's too good to be true
i'll rob you of all you have and leave your soul black and blue
i'll reach inside your trust and hope then it all goes to me
enough is never enough nor will it ever be
and i'll have it all !
my wicked twisted mind is infected with greed
i must always have far more than i really need
i'll get mine even if it once was yours
soon all you had will be behind locked doors
and i'll have it all !
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CUNT FACTOR
04:12
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She's not in the band but acts like she is
If the band was a soda she'd kill all the fizz
A first rate drama queen a pain in the ass supreme
Gives her opinnion when not asked to do so
A sure band killer a modern day Yoko
Vindictive as hell and selfish to the core as well
CHORUS:
Then before you know it what once was a band is dead
Once again the cunt factor rears its ugly head
You can't go to practice you'll stay home with me
As long as we're together that's how it will be
I'm jealous of the band now watch me wield my crushing hand
If you don't want my wrath you best stay here at home
I rule the ruste like the empress of Rome
I'll make your life hell and burn all your guitars as well
She's not in the band but acts like she is
If the band was a soda she'd kill all the fizz
A first rate drama queen a pain in the ass supreme
If you don't want my wrath you best stay here at home
I rule the ruste like the empress of Rome
I'll make your life hell and burn all your guitars as well
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NEGATIVE EMPOWERMENT
01:05
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I'm the bully your mother warned you about
If I can make you miserable I'm happy
I live for being a burden to others
It makes my day to see you cry
I'm the bitch entitled to do it
No one has suffered as bad as me
I show no mercy and feel no pity
Fuck you all if you don't like it.
I'm right! X3
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BLACK RAT
05:41
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My shadow is now chasing me
And I can't even tell nightmare from dream
How I wish that I could come down
And get my mind's feet back on the ground
I only wanted to get high not divorced from my soul
In the blink of a bloodshot eye it's out of control
My world is melting and nothing makes sense
It triggered a nightmare I had no defense
The high is when the soul misbehaves
And the rest of the world breaks down into waves
So there it then went down my throat
And now the image of me in the mirror has the horns of a goat
Could this very well be the landslide that sends me to hell
I only really wanted the trip not a psychic jail cell
The walls are throbbing and reason stands still
What you'd never expect from a small harmless pill
Call in the kids and lock up the dogs
Anxiety is coming to town
Smell the fear it's like hell's foul breath
The black cloud is coming down
My world is melting and nothing makes sense
It triggered a nightmare I had no defense
The walls are melting and reason stands still
What you'd never expect from a small harmless pill
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GHOSTS OF GETTYSBURG
05:48
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a 19th. century battleground, the smell of sulfur all around
soldiers blue and gray are hitting the ground
cannonballs and musket flare cutting like razors through acrid air
corpses and souls are scattered all around
CHORUS
the rage of battle is over and done but ghosts care not who actually won
aparitions press on ahead don't even seem to know they're dead
the cries of the wounded fill the air, the cannon's loud blinding glare
spirits wandering blind and deaf and so they say some never left
walking the grounds many years on the blackness of night before the dawn
the sour smell of battle on every lawn
and though so many years have passed the presence of soldiers here to the last
their suffering screams of sorrow many years on
men fought on that tragic day blurring the lines between blue and gray
life was like garbage and thrown away
bullets were flying and soldiers were dying many souls lost and crying
blood stained flags flutter still to this day
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THE ONE PERCENT
05:48
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Oh what I would give to be part of your clique
Standing tall amongst the 'in' crowd that would be the trick
Oh how I would love to reek of cool, hip and slick
Then maybe you would wanna hang with me
Oh what I would give to be popular at school
To sleep with a cheerleader and be thought of as cool
To walk amongst the one percent I'd say that would rule
Then maybe they would wanna hang with me
A membership in your world an invite to the dance
Some would say that I don't stand a chance
Your high and mighty arrogant tribe don't need the likes of me
I guess some things were never meant to be
But then again your world may not be all it appears
And self entitled arrogance hides a whole host of fears
That beneath the mask the real you is drowning in tears
So maybe then I shouldn't hang with you
I see the world you live in a cold and barren place
You can't hide that you're dead inside you wear it on your face
And to think there really was a time when I thought you had it right
But a simple glimpse beneath the mask made me see the light
The beast within is nurtured and fed while the real you atrophies
The phony you beneath the skin takes hold like a disease
A sad pathetic game of chance where you can never win
Beneath the mask you're uglier than sin
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HAMMERS AND BRICKS
01:46
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A descent fucking wage, a descent day's pay
Is all I ask for my working day
But wealthy men of higher birth would refuse to pay what I was worth
And hired goons to stand in my way
And they dare to call me a communist while they're paying off the mob
And lobyists to legally steal and rob
A descent fucking wage, a descent day's pay
Is all I ask for my working day
Fists aloft with picket signs on trembling knees we stood in lines
With courage in our hearts we stood aligned
I seen hungry men form picket lines screaming for justice carrying signs
Out on the docks or down in the mines
But some men have the will to live and angry hearts that don't forgive
Who will insist on an even break and won't be nailed to no damn stake
A descent deal and descent pay ain't much to ask for the working day
So be a man and do the right thing and treat me like a human being
I ain't no beast I ain't no slave so don't make my working life my grave
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You waved goodbye in last night's dream, you held a bouquet of pain
I begged you to stay one last time my words all in vain
I hate and need you at the same time and yet miss you so bad
Like all the best times in my life have all been had
I really miss the joy of spring the sunset and when birds sing
My life's gone blind never seeing the simple joy in being
The child forgot how to play the rainbow turned gray
A lonely world of chilling frost where all seems lost
I invested so much more of myself than you ever could
And I gave up so much more of myself than you ever would
I took foolish risks and gambled my soul and then you got it all
I put up a defense but despite it all you tore down the wall
And I felt so foolish and out of control
But I couldn't help but play the role of no even if i lost my soul
Well perhaps then to put it another way I could win you back
And then you'd complete me without the real me and be all that I lack
Maybe the place I find myself in is not without hope
I need to believe it so very much otherwise I can't cope
And I felt so foolish and out of control
But I couldn't help but play the role of no even if i lost my soul
I gave up all my power to you it left me in a wreck
I stood still and let you put the noose around my neck
I was never victim I was always volunteer
Clinging on to hope despite knowing the end was never
You were both my dream girl and addictive like a drug
I let you walk all over me like some cheap dirty rug
You know where the door is and how to use it too
I'm better off without you and now I know it's true
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NOIR L.A. Los Angeles, California
NOIR L.A. IS:
DIMITRI MANDYLOR: Guitars
SHANE
WOOD:
Drums
ALEX CORTES: Bass and Vocals
Since everybody seems to be so obsessed with labels and "genres" these days NOIR L.A. would label itself "diversity metal". No schematic or floor plan. You never know where it's gonna go next. Alex writes what he wants to write and flat out refuses to be pinned down. Hopefully it all fits (of course it do).
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