Born into a swarm of eyes
Where hoaxes grow like thorns
Distortion roams the forest floor
Deception flows from high
Every corner, every moment
Nowhere you can fly
Can’t run
There’s no escaping
Can’t hide
You’ve got to know how to fake your way through
The Age of Misinformation looms
Can’t run
It’s fast approaching
Can’t hide
It soon will take a hold of you
When The Age of Misinformation reigns
You’ll learn to take your place
Move into the city
To flee the changing tide
Where all your friends deny the truth
And every stranger lies
There’s nowhere you can go to,
So greet the new disease
Take your place
In The Age of Misinformation
Say your grace
And obey the rigged coronation
Sing in the chorus of fraud
Silence the facts with blind applause
Now you fit into its mold
Now you’re misinformed
Transformed every thought you had
There’s nowhere left to go
Don’t run
There’s no escaping
Don’t hide
Now you know how to fake your way through
The Age of Misinformation rules
Don’t run
It rules forever
Don’t hide
The truth is severed
and it won’t save you now
The Age of Misinformation reigns
So learn to take your place
Take your place
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Another night of pain in the alley
Sirens carry more to the morgue
I hear a mother’s wailing,
Cracked roads failing
A streetlight flickers
And fades to a dot
I’m a scrap of rags clinging to life,
The trash that the rats ignore
Yet my small hands hang on,
Still pray to the same god –
Statues of men
Who let it all rot
The suit wants to find a solution
The statesman will give it a shot
The priest declares his contribution
“Won’t that clear the air?”
But false prayers and thoughts
Are all that they’ve got
In secret they whisper:
“Let it all rot”
Another day of no rain in the valley
Towers bear down on my picket line
I scream for answers
to the slow-spreading cancer
A sickness
the wicked forgot
They say that they’ll fix their institution
They claim that they care a lot
They even promise they’ll buy me absolution
“Won’t that clear the air?”
“Won’t that clear?”
“Clear?”
Liars and deceivers
I try to believe
I could make them stop
But my drive is displaced
By the lies that I face
Now all I say is:
“Let it all rot!”
Liars, deceivers
I still don’t believe it
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She once had a simple love, a man of sweetness
She once had luck no one could touch
But the sour taste of easy green grew between them
Now he slaves to the neon hour, addicted to the rush
Bet on zero
Bet on zero once more
He’ll push her to the floor when she pulls him from the tables
He’d rather be dead than let her be right
He says: “failure only happens to the people in those fables”
But she’d rather nod yes than let him keep up a fight
Bet on zero
Bet on zero forever more
Five little shifty fingers clutch a tangled mess
A four-eyed spider stuck in his own web
She sheds three tears for the nest his greed broke
His two hands cut the one rope that kept them from the edge
Bet on zero
Zero
Life’s become a war, no victory in view
He’s off in blackjack jungles, battles for a winning game
She waits for him at home, hoping for something new
But she bet her life on zero, and he’s out of change
Bet on zero
Bet on zero forever more
Five little shifty fingers clutch a tangled mess
A four-eyed spider stuck in his own web
She sheds three tears for the nest his greed broke
But his two hands cut the one rope that kept him them the edge
Bet on zero
Zero
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If I freed your heart from a cold cave
If I pave the sinkhole and heal the scars
Would it hold?
Would it close our grief?
If we leave new marks and mold them in clay
If we lay old wounds and seal them in an ark
We could keep a peace that we’d never betray
But I fear it’s too late
to save a heart of coal
Now you lead me astray
burn me with the sparks of your
Dark secrets
erasing your soul
Dark secrets
gaining control
Dark secrets
taking a toll on us,
a toll on us
Your bold deceits carve our grave
You break our bonds and drive us apart
I see it’s too late
I forgave a heart of coal
So lead me astray
burn me with the sparks of your
Dark secrets
erasing your soul
Dark secrets
gaining control
Dark secrets
took their toll on us,
their toll on us
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I: The Cave
Lying
bound in a dim-lit prison
Sighing
sounds of flickering whispers
Crying
for crowns of wisdom
Held tight
Blinding
shadows are all we can see
Winding
they laugh as we crawl on knees
Finding
a path to be free
Ignite
Fighting
the darkness gripping our feet
Sighting
our marks of captivity
Lighting
dispel all the grief
Unite
It’s time to rise
Time to rise
Waking
pale eyes asleep in the maze
Breaking
the veiled minds of disarray
Aching
unchained from the haze
Inhale
Facing
the night won’t tempt us again
Bracing
endless light fills our temples
Racing
to exit the web
Exhale
Aiming
the fire will surge through our veins
Taming
the urge to crawl to the shade
Claiming
purge our minds and wait
Prevail
It’s time to rise
Time to rise
II: The Sky
Open eyes
Open minds
Lining to the light
Sprouting rose
Flowering grove
Open to the sky
Minds,
Now it’s time to rise
Minds,
Now it’s time to rise
Free to hear
Free to breathe
Minds that see what’s real
We will grow
We will flow
Free to live our lives
Minds,
Now it’s time to rise
Minds,
Now it’s time to rise
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Show me the color of flight
Tell me how to break through the black and white
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Feel the electric pulse on morning drives
Lift up your heart to the beating hillside
Speed through a sea of green and blinding white
Keep going now – your dazzling city shines for you
Chase down a snaking pass to thundering bays
Hear mountain air wail to rolling waves
Climb down the ancient walls to quaking caves
Go deeper down – beneath the city lies the truth
Down below, Málaga stories pour like rain
Memories of ghosts from centuries gone
And present vibrations build into song
Down below, Málaga stories pour like rain
Memories of ghosts from centuries gone,
The present vibrations build into song,
And a golden future lies in wait
So, race beyond the dawn
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The ocean is heavy,
It soaks me with dread
Deafening silence,
Echoes from the depths
Over and over, I fled this coastline
But I’m sinking in this moment
Again and again
A weight that holds me
Below the waves
Leaden devotion
To a terrible fate
Over and over, I wrestle with this moment,
Will I float over water?
Break free and escape?
I want to glide
To the edge of the earth
Shed the weight of the world
And I want to find
The end of my burden
Shed the weight of the world
All I have left
Is to let this weight go
Will I let it rest?
Let my destiny unfold?
The ocean resists
It sows my pain
Pensive emotions
Kept me alone in stasis
Over and over, I wrestle with this moment,
But one day I throw these thoughts,
Break free and escape
And I, I’ll glide
To the edge of the earth
Shed the weight of the world
And I, I’ll find
The end of my burden
Shed the weight of the world
It’s time
To break through the noose
Unload this heavy yoke
And be renewed
All I have left
Are memories of the load
But I won’t forget the journey
As my destiny unfolds
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