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The Great American Goodbye

by Arkham

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Diamonds will turn to dust and glory will fade we will be bled dry and you won't be saved they'll take from us everything these vultures will feed you'll choke on your silence these bastards will breed the sky will turn grey with the weight of acid rain and you'll turn to the sky searching for blame but your cries to sky they fall on deaf ears and then you'll realize we've been left here they'll take from us everything and still you'll give more we rot and we rot we rot to our core time marches on immune to your pleas indifferent to all that you bleed but just remember if this ever looks like defeat just know This Wolfheart still beats This is all I need this Wolfheart still beats
2.
Youngblood 02:50
They'd put a price a dignity if they could fathom it Sold myself short but I made a profit/prophet God knows how black my sins are Never saw the devil with anyone but myself I wanna leave a good looking corpse And I don't wanna be here anymore They got me bleeding out and I'm loving every minute of it Know my name and I'll take it to the grave Cause we're all terminal whether we realize it or not It's just the matter of the time on your clock They got you selling your reasons to live Just to pretend that you're not gonna die This is the great american, the great american goodbye So make sure you wave when you give your great american goodbye We're all just whores Waiting for that money shot Bodies Waiting for that hammer to drop
3.
Old Money 02:32
Oh honey who you tryin' to impress spend your life on your knees but look fabulous in that dress pray to your god beg your husband "but what would the neighbors think?" Do I scare you because I mean more to your kids than you ever could than you ever did I've done more just with a song than anything your diseased cunt could ever spawn I live in their heads calling you out on your dreams of high class on some idea of a homogenous mass so when they come and they stab you in your sleep you'll know just who to point the finger at I flip those quick fixes I feed on your greed I flip those crucifixes I feed on this disease self righteous? more self loathing just like you taught me just like you taught me invest in your futures it doesn't change the fact you're all gonna die I am an island I am the leviathan you've found your scapegoat while going down with the ship so here's a toast to the host to ignorant to realize it's all in your head (you're already dead)
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I've stood with the opposition But I can't stand in line I've heard their propisitions We're running out of time To use the clear channels to use the proper phrase when they have their signals they have the radio waves and while the cities tear themselves to shreds these motherfuckers sleep soundly in their bed Sold their toxic and steel war machine pistons watch it collapse on the lesser from a safe distance From what privilege we speak of the emptiness of wealth without the knowledge of empty stomachs of deteriorating health of summer nights you slept in the bath tub to avoid stray bullets cause wealth can be empty but poverty is crushing there's a wound in our chest and they're helping the gushing of blood of tears of the sweat from your brow if there ever was a time to act that time is fucking now so the next time they talk of bootstraps of teaching to fish remember corporate america is trying to make you it's bitch cause the only thing that trickles down is hate and exploitation and we're choking to death in this sick nation We're choking to death and things gotta change I can't believe it'll always be this way Tomorrow holds such better days I just gotta believe that we can change We can change
5.
Kelly Thomas 02:04
what the fuck is wrong with me when the news says they can't find the guy who shot a cop on the west side I hope he got away I hope he got away like every cop we know who got away who got away with it fraternal order of criminal protection hey hey I can't look away when the evidence is right in front of my face hey hey I can't look away You got away with killing a kid and there was no parade, no parade for him (just a stand your ground salute) What the hell is wrong with me am I losing touch with humanity I want to put a bullet in the head of every crooked cop who thought he could control me slit the throat of every motherfucker who thought they could buy me What the hell is wrong with me there's nothing wrong with me No justice No peace
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Flag Burner 03:31
Maybe suicide is just natural selection Well fuck Darwin, I'm headed in the opposite direction See I'd like to make history But I'll settle for making a difference I'd like heaven But hell's just closer distance All the young dudes they carry this noose for the sins of the father well I'm the holy ghost debating an invitation from the heavenly host To much has been given much is expected I have to make sure My anger is directed survival is not a handout and I refuse to die for your corporate interests I need to learn to love something more than myself I need to learn to love something I need to learn to love myself Cut me open see if I fucking bleed touch the holes in my hands see if they sting beg the reaper for more time cause these sins are fucking mine I can no longer choose to close my eyes I refuse to give The Great American Goodbye cause they chains that hold one of us are the chains that hold all of us diamonds will turn to dust

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released July 29, 2014

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