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States
03:56
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Love or hate
Will seal our fate
Make us relate
Or doom us to the police state
Hope or fear
In the eyes and ears
Year after year
Broken clutch and grinding gears
Oh My my my what’s this state I’m in
You’re in
We’re in
Time and place
Faith and race
Our state of grace
Reduced to this paper chase
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2. |
Get My Head Right
04:49
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Breathing wouldn’t be so bad
Every day the worst that I’ve ever had
Living wouldn’t so hard on the veins
Wrecking these trains and crashing these planes
If I could only get my head right
Thinking wouldn’t be so trumped
Newswatchin not so far down in the dumps
World spinning off its axis again
Five steps forward and ten back again
If I could only get my head right
People wouldn’t be so cold
Their act has gotten so goddamn old
Running in circles with their eyes closed
Maybe not doing what we're always told
If we could only get our heads right
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3. |
Cages
04:35
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Right down through the ages
Locked inside our cages
We can’t see past our cells
And we can’t see past ourselves
I never hear from you
And you never hear from me
And all that we can see
Is all we think we’ll ever be
Can’t see through the bars
Can’t tell if there are stars
Left shining overhead
Left with this sense of dread
That we’ll always be alone
So far from home
Locked and thrown away the key
Blind and we’ll never see
We don’t know if we’re right
But we know you’re always wrong
And we hear you think the same
And we all love to plays this stupid game
We threw away the keys
So we’ll never see
A way out of these cells
A way out of this hell
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Nearly Halfway Down
03:15
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On the 32nd floor, I can’t take it no more
I walked through the door, and I know what’s in store
I’m gonna fly. Yeah, I’m gonna fly
Away from all this misery
All the shit you’ve done to me
I’m gonna fly. I’m gonna fly
A chance to stop the recordings
Of the voices always roaring
I'm Halfway down
I’m nearly halfway down
Stratus, cumulonimbus, me
Through your window you'll see
Out of the corner of your eye as I’m about to die
And as the ground comes rushing fast
I see the point of living at last
Ah… the irony and the thrill of speed
A chance with my final breath
To choose life over death
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Way OH
02:57
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Satellite day and night watching in the sky
Carbon count on the mount, oceans gonna rise
Poison air, we don't care, we’re all gonna die
Average Joe, he don’t know if it’s all a lie
So I say Way Oh Way Oh Way Oh Way!
Moscow doubled down, installed the orange clown
Russian spies in disguise, look just like our own guys
Electorate don’t know shit, that’s just the way it is
Trained for all these years to ignore its eyes and ears
We’re sounding the alarm
Cause mama’s gonna buy the farm
And there’s no escape
Shouting from beneath the waves
Kicking dirt of our own graves
But there’s no escape
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Venus ReduX
03:32
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When you dream is it copy and pasted?
Autotuned and desaturated?
Do you dream of hitting high notes on contest tv shows?
I’ve been up late theorizing
That it’s more like milk than new day rising
Stripped of any signs of human frailty
Quantized and sterilized so no one will ever see
Don’t hate us
We’re the last generation to rock
Don’t erase us
We're your middle children already forgotten
Hey, Venus!
Give us back those years of love
That burned down to the embers
Cause now there’s nothing left to remember
Hey, Venus!
Now all your gods and heroes
Just push play and spin the ones and zeroes
Heaven is a laptop in a lonely darkened room
Longing for screaming in sonic pastures
Oblivious to the drones and their masters
I miss the drummers pounding the beats
I miss the soundtracks for fighting in the streets
Hey, Venus!
Show these graying souls some love
Before we drift off into slumber
Alienated and outnumbered
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End
04:07
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Sun is still shining for now
Birds are still singing for now
Trees are still growing for now
I think I’m knowing, somehow
The world will be better without us anyhow
Rivers still flowing for now
Sweet breezes still blowing for now
Ground still below us for now
I think we know us, somehow
The world will be better without us anyhow
The world will keep turning without us anyhow
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Aquatic
07:12
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Chinese Herbal Medicine Los Angeles, California
CHM is 3-piece (plus guests) rock band in Los Angeles. Thom - drums, Philip - guitar and singing, Rich - bass and singing
Our 5th release "Bomb!" will come out in Summer 2023.
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