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A - Ronny
05:53
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Ronny, I saw you the other day
Ronny, they’re taking my pets away
They say it’s for my own good
They burned down the neighborhood
Nobody loves you, Ronny
Nobody
Ronny, I think you knew Rosalyn
Ronny, she lived in Room 11
They surgically removed her eyes
Now she’s been lobotomized
They’re making her well
She lives in a cell
I think it’s called Room 12
We eat the weak, Ronny
We eat the weak
Ronny, I only feel what I’m shown
Ronny, I know I’m gonna die alone
Ronny, in my next life I’ll be so good
Ronny, I’ll do everything I should
My soul will stay free of sin
I won’t let anyone in
My body will stand so true
Like an Egyptian statue
And I’ll keep my room so clean
Then I’ll learn to love the machine
Oh, Ronny
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2. |
A - The Armless Child
03:42
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The armless child born under the knife
Lives in doorless rooms her whole life
The armless child runs out into the night
Lives on everything yours leaves behind
No, you don’t hear them
No, you don’t see them
No, you don’t feel them
No, you don’t need them
Your hallucinations do not entertain them
Your 12 foot walls will never contain them
Father, I’m going out
Into a wall of snow
Will I ever come back home?
Body temperature becomes so low
The armless child thrown into the wild
A new caged hunt when your heart runs dry
The armless child, harmless by design
Reflects only what you have inside
No, you don’t hear them
No, you don’t see them
No, you don’t feel them
No, you don’t need them
Your myths try hard to miseducate them
Your magnetic heads cannot erase them
Going out across the sand
Save me from Americans
Can they see me? I don’t know.
Heart rate getting dangerously low
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3. |
A - The Chairman
02:12
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Come on down to the boardroom scene
Half dead men with skin of shagreen
Mastering human capital
See, we deal in futures
We sell out futures
What the chairman wants, the chairman receives
What the chairman wants, the chairman receives
Bring me a list of words with no meaning
The last living polar bear’s heart still beating
Show me a race war in the labor yard
The only way left for me to get hard
But don’t preach about inhumanity
It’s rule 1 of American Energy
What the chairman wants, the chairman receives
What the chairman wants, the chairman receives
When the chairman speaks, the chairman deceives
When the chairman speaks, nobody believes the chairman
What the chairman wants, the chairman receives
What the chairman wants, the chairman receives
When the chairman speaks, the chairman deceives
When the chairman speaks, nobody believes the chairman
What the chairman wants, the chairman receives
When the chairman speaks…
Why do you believe in chairmen?
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4. |
A - TrustCorp™
03:45
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There’s a new video game
Built to entertain
Maybe live another you
From a first-person point of view
Think you like what we’ve designed?
We sell fiction as real life
You know you really want to trust someone
When you’re alone
You know you really ought to trust someone
We’ll meet in the shadows there
To push old ladies down the stairs
Hunt the feral children down
You take the sewer, I’ll check downtown
Then I stopped there, mid-patrol
My brain skipped and got so cold
They made flesh and bones of me
“It’s like unplugging a TV”
Think escape is what you’d like?
We sell truth made out of lies
You know you really want to trust someone
When you’re alone
You know you really ought to trust someone
When you’re unknown
You know you really want to trust someone
When you’re alone
You know you really want to trust someone
When you’re alone
You know you really ought to trust someone
When you’re unknown
You know you really want to trust someone
When you’re alone
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5. |
A - Soul2Stone
03:37
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You’ve been caught feeding pigeons bread
And bringing seeds to mice
You’ve been found protecting ant mounds
It’s all here in your file
Oh boy, they’re turning soul to stone
Before you’re even grown
Never let them find you on your own
Never… never… no…
You’ve been seen dressed in forest green
When navy blue is what we chose for you
You’ve been heard circulating words
That we don’t think are true
And you’ve been known by a name you chose
But tell me, are you real or are you stone?
Oh boy, they’re turning soul to stone
Before you’re even grown
Never let them find you on your own
Never… never… no….
Never let them find you on your own
Never… never… no….
Oh boy, they’re turning soul to stone
Before you’re even grown
You’ll only ever find it on your own
You’ll only find it on your own
On your own
You’ll only find it on your own
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6. |
A - Hero Patrol
03:28
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Hero Patrol coming through
Tell you how to live
Take your dreams and steal your money
Hero Patrol nothing new
Making useless wounds
Swinging metal bars like monkeys
Hero Patrol makes you sick
If you ever sit
Sit right there and let it sink in
Hero Patrol showing you
What and when to fear
Picking fights then you say “thank you”
Hero Patrol choosing you
Though you’re fully grown
You want some daddy to look up to
Hero Patrol, what’s wrong with you?
What do you lack
That you think you’ll find in empty holes like that?
Those empty holes
Hero Patrol
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7. |
A - Mind Over Shadow
02:25
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So you lost your gold on an idle whim
Set your kids off without their skin
And now your piece of cake’s so sad and thin
They shaved your face and cut your hair
Told you you’re a Roman man
Bred for all things low and dull and grim
Really, I don’t want to see
All these medieval schemes
Play out on new hearts and minds and skin
Boy, don’t go out there tonight
Hide your eyes from neon lights
They’ll show you so much
You won’t know a thing
Mind over shadow… Mind over shadow… Mind over shadow…
Mind over ____
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8. |
A - Shadow Joys
05:04
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Someday, come down for a bit
Do you like how you’ve grown?
The things that you’re shown?
How you’re never really alone?
Tell me, what are your shadow joys?
Your private toys?
Will they treat you like the other boys?
Someday, come down for a bit
Someday we’ll slide down the street
Into the plant by the beach
We’ll look at the barrier laser grid
Light-bending screen that blocks what they hid
You’ll slip under the water and never return
And, when asked, I’ll say I never knew who you were
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9. |
A - My Screen Is New
05:06
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Then I go back to my room
Between the plastic and paint
My name is what I need everyday
And the rain is gray, I go to Factory 369
And the walls are gray, so we stay at Factory 369
To make new figures
Industry dream
Ronny Reen
I live on
But the way they pay
So there’s nothing to eat
Muddy and slick
Tramway and Station V
And the rain is gray, I go to Factory 369
And the walls are gray, so we stay at Factory 369
I don’t care for it… No
So out of line
My screen is new
Wait for patrol
Hello
And the rain is gray, I go to Factory 369
And the walls are gray, so we stay at Factory 369
So out of line
III - VI - IX
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10. |
A - Toybox
03:49
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When you come home go to your room
Open your toybox and get out a tool
Something you can use
All night long you scour the streets
Breaking glass and slicing your feet
Wasting the hours away
And there’s a new mask of death, blank-eyed and red
New mask of death spits “dead… dead…”
When you come home, tell me the truth
What sort of lies did they tell you at school?
Will they turn you into a monster too?
When you come home go right up to bed
Close your eyes and open your head
Dreams live on, just not in here
Cause there’s a new mask of death, blank-eyed and red
New mask of death spits “dead… dead…”
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11. |
A - Florida
06:52
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I need to remember this:
They grow their children in a petri dish
Fingernails office park gray
A neat web of bones hung by the interstate
Unwise and unloved
Don’t touch that thing without a latex glove
You know you must remember this:
You can’t stop the Age of Aquarius
Environmentally friendly
Power turbines slash the manatee
Crocodiles rise up from
The basement of your condominium
The whole barrio rests on
A foundation of the leakiest limestone
Not one flamingo scatters free
When the heart’s a gated community
Go home
So cold and alone
I can’t help but think of this:
All these palm trees can’t make one crucifix
So what will I hang my hat on?
A self-inflicted terminal bout of boredom
All of these dregs I pondered on
And not one can’t be fixed by an atom bomb
It doesn’t have to come to that
No, just give it 10 more years
And it’ll all be flat
I had a daydream yesterday
It whispered “evergreen the everglade”
And deep out there one orchid grows
But nobody can reach it but the Seminole
Nobody, no
I’ve got this box of photographs
You can smell the salt air and feel the waves crash
This one shows an Airstream on fire
This one shows a motel in Art Deco style
Here’s a park where people lived
Here’s the building where they taught their kids
This is something they called “Mickey Mouse”
Here’s the front of Ernest Hemingway’s house
I’ve got hundreds more like this
They’re mostly sprawl and mini-malls
And that kind of shit
But they’re memories and so
Like all memories, they go the way of the dodo
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12. |
A - Ronny's Big Idea
01:59
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It was Ronny’s big idea
To run away from pain and fear
To stake his white flag down
On his soul’s holy ground
To stay inside his bed
To pop the king’s balloon head
To never fear patrol
To never lose control
To end up far away
Somewhere deep in space
But he just fell asleep
He never heard me say
“We eat the weak, Ronny”
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13. |
B - Channel 0
03:27
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15. |
B - The Tram
04:52
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16. |
B - Angola State
02:27
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17. |
B - Canal Watchers
02:36
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18. |
B - Bank Of Heaven
03:06
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19. |
B - Overflight
02:48
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20. |
B - Neon Persuasion
04:36
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21. |
B - Transistor/Resistor
05:15
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22. |
B - The Dot Matrix
02:27
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23. |
B - Open 24 Hours
04:50
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24. |
B - Information Bureau
05:25
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