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World Almost Over? (Political Trilogy, Pt​.​3)

by Casual Rebels

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World Almost Over? 06:20
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Hey... Hey! Is the world almost over? The smartest people I know and the best people I know are generally broke and unrecognized Because things are arranged -- and this seems really strange -- so that arrogance rises to the top Seems like in all times and all societies, everywhere you go arrogance rises to the top Are we smart enough to say "I don't want this world to be over?" Hey... Hey! Is the world almost over? Name-calling and confrontation may make for good television but it's not how a head of state should behave We've got threats biological, ecological and good old fashioned savagery, military Hereditary and good old fashioned savagery About the last thing we need is an immature Tweet from someone who's supposed to be leading I wonder if we're smart enough to say, "I don't want this world to be over" Hey... Hey! Is the world almost over? There are about a million ways we could end the world today and just as many ways we could save things We've got a long way to go with lots of mines in the road but we know that it's possible to change For instance, despite most of human history, we've rid ourselves of slavery which is enough To prove that humans can change Do you think we're smart enough to say, "I don't want this world to be over?" Hey... Hey! Is the world almost over? Think of all we've achieved and all we can achieve and remember that the past is judged by the future If we manage to survive the day will come by when we are judged by the future We've got a long way to go with lots of mines in the road but we know that there can be a future Are we smart enough to say, "I don't want this world to be over?" Hey... Hey! Is the world almost over? I want to have hope that we're smart enough to know I need to have hope that we're smart enough to know I want to have hope I want to have hope I want to have hope Hope Do you think we're smart enough to say "I don't want this world to be over?"
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The Days that Matter 03:12
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We're in all the reach of the world We're in every problem we can't solve We're in fields of radiant flowers and we're in the utter filth of the world These are the days that matter We build with the skill of a child We tear down as if we were gods We live off the fat of the past We miss the future for now These are the days that matter We're in all the reach of the world We're in every problem we can't solve We're in fields of radiant flowers and we're in the utter filth of the world These are the days that matter
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Sin Sometimes 04:06
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There's the strangest feeling creeping up and down my spine I feel it sometimes Walking down the street and no one even looks at me So I bump them sometimes Imagination grabs me I paint faces on the strangers that I see (This is what you do when you are lonely) I can be good sometimes I can feel love sometimes I save the world sometimes and I sin sometimes Give me something crazy I'm so giddy I could fly I do fly sometimes No one here can touch me They pretend that they're alive They fool me sometimes Feel a thousand feelings I know every word of everyone I see (This is what you do when you are lonely) Different shades of nothing, no one reaching out for me They slip through me sometimes My lover was an ocean I am drifting out to sea I do drown sometimes I am turning colors I turn inside-out and no one even sees
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The Other Side of Broken 02:30
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I'm tired of the shouting I'm tired of the hate Without mature discussion things have no choice but to break What happened to the notion there might be some middle ground Where nobody's quite satisfied but everybody's calm? The other side of broken: I can see it from here The other side of broken: we can get there We can get there Where to go from broken and how do we get by? When things are this well broken those who listen will survive Right now that seems so very far away, we're broken Let's move past broken The other side of broken: I can see it from here The other side of broken: we can get there Let's get there
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Tesseracts and the Rosetta Stone 03:35
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They say aliens built the pyramids They say there's a continent buried deep down under the sea Invisible beings will slip through your walls, and grab you in your sleep and spirit you away And have you seen The Virgin in the smoke of a volcano? Tesseracts and the Rosetta Stone will crumble to dust while the tabloids sell millions Tesseracts and the Rosetta Stone, we long to have something else calling, calling, calling. . . They say a man can bend a spoon with his will They say she could read your thoughts at 50 paces There is a luminous glow surrounding our bodies Changing colors with our moods it pulses and shifts and have you seen The Virgin in the streaks of a dirty window? They say crystals focus energies They say a gifted person can even raise the dead You can lift out of your body from a deep enough trance and travel through the universe Gaining knowledge as you fly And have you seen The Virgin in the charred marks on a tortilla? Tesseracts and the Rosetta Stone will crumble to dust while the tabloids sell millions Tesseracts and the Rosetta Stone, I can't believe there's something else calling, calling, calling. . . Calling me home But where is home? I know of no home
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Stay Your Hand 02:51
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If I was here helpless as a child, if I whispered my secret fears If I begged you with only my eyes, and if I whispered my secret fears would you stay your hand? If I stood here hands at my side, if I told you I'd do you no harm If I called you a kindred to me and if I held no secrets from you would you stay your hand? If I could bring the tide unto you, if I could feel the water on you If I loved you like I love me, and if I whispered my secret fears would you stay your hand?
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Disappears 02:56
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Every day someone disappears Hidden away, someone disappears Someone's loved one is just whisked away Every day someone disappears
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We Are Colors 03:43
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She said "There are things surrounding us I see colors mixing: day and night will bleed together It's all I can take" She said, "This is all that's left of us When we die we fade, we turn, turn to colors It's all I can take" "We turn to colors," she said She said, "Touch this skin that covers me Your skin paints me over, I'm bluing anyway It's all I can take" She said, "If you look inside of me you'll see nothing there but silver indigos It's all I can take" "We turn to colors," she said She said, "Let your canvas cover me Very soon I'll go I'll fade, I'll turn to colors It's all I can take" "We turn to colors," she said She said, "Let the dirt fall on my brow Let the grave come swallow this thing that's gone to colors It's all I can take"
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Range of Emotion 02:46
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Man with a mission straps himself to a train and the police and the TV crews come to see what happens Lady in black devotes herself to some god and she prays and she pleads for freedom over temptation In a desert country they toss a man into a cell for saying things he should be able to say Things we all know damned well There's joy and anger and fear and a little pain too So much more in life than just some shallow love song goo-goo We've got a range of emotion Much more than "boy meets girl," "man takes wife," "kiss me now or put an end to my life" We've got a range of emotion "Head for Business" lost himself in the woods and the greenbacks And the bears and the bulls suddenly didn't matter Young boy goes to Disneyland, he's got wonder in his eyes He wears the floppy hat with the Goofy ears and it's the best day of his young life Girl at the college looks for life in the sand She looks for prints of the bodies buried long ago in a faraway land. There's joy and anger and fear and a little pain too So much more in life than just some shallow love song goo-goo We've got a range of emotion Much more than "boy meets girl," "man takes wife," "kiss me now or put an end to my life" We've got a range of emotion
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The Skin I Have On 04:30
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I want to go, want to walk away, want to drop it all and just leave this place I won't pack my things I won't lock my door I'll walk away with just the skin I have on I was close to the light and it hurt my eyes My stubborn will has finally snapped this time You can sell my things it won't pay my bills I'm within spitting distance but my saliva fails I want to go with just the skin I have on I want to walk away and I apologize I'm rambling on, please don't expect me to rhyme My misunderstanding is standing still I'm tethered to nothing I've always said that a person's life is all he really owns he should use it right But I was too close to happy and it made me sad If we could join into one mind you'd want to rip you in half I want to go with just the skin I have on You said to me that you thought that I could do anything that I ever tried But I can't I can't Just let me roll for a moment in this pathetic mess I brought it on myself, I could change it I guess I'd like this to be my final song Walk away Walk away with just the skin I have on
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My Ocean, My Sea 03:12
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Me Letting Me Down 03:28
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Honestly, I'm over me I'm done with me Honestly, I'm over me letting me down

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released June 18, 2018

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