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You Can Go Home
02:28
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You can't take what you'll never have
I know you'd never understand
These songs we sing, they're ours, and they're all we've got
So just back off of our business and leave us alone
Either join the party, or you can go home
You can go home and try to be something you're not
And I know you know you're so cool, but I wish you forgot
So pretentious you can't hang without complaining
No ones listening or even cares what you're saying
Talking shit about the band and those around you
No one ever calls you back, no one can stand you
You can go home and try to be something you're not
And I know you know you're so cool, but I wish you forgot
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2. |
Kill The Machine
03:18
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As you curse the ballot box,
you know azzholes one and two never cared about you
If you wanna make some noise, you have a voice
Let's all take down this machine
Kill The Machine!
What's the price that you paid for industrial life?
Your retirement gift's a bushido knife
Through a slip signed on pink, tell the kids and the wife
As they stare at their plates knowing this is their last bite
Keep your life, your lies, and your greed
I'll live my own, I'm no tool in your scheme
I won't be your slave, I'll never sew your seed
I'll die twice in this life, just to kill the machine
Kill The Machine!
On your corporate retreat, paid for by our bailout
What's it like from the seat of the jet you flew out?
The Liberals demand spending, 'cause lobbies made them their whores
While Republicans fight for their cuts and their wars
Kill The Machine!
1, 2, 3, Go!
Kill The Machine!
Kill The Machine!
You know what you've seen
Kill This Machine!
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3. |
What Makes You Happy
04:08
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She leaves her office to race
down a freeway filled with sacrificial sheep
From one job to the next that she hates
She can't decide which to keep
Her four year degree hangs in a frame
Squares her debt to infinity
I remember the lie they told
when they said "Do what makes you happy"
Well, are you happy now?
She's alone and she feels weak
A paycheck away from the street
She lies in bed, but she don't sleep
It's a tragedy, too familiar
She dreamt nightly of a life like the movies from Disney
But her sore Cinderella feet carry her to the bar down the street
And she'll go home with a stranger,
Some asshole who's less drunk than her
I remember the lie he told her, as he said "I could make you happy"
Well, are you happy now?
She dreamt a life that she can't live
Only half a heart, all she has left to give
She slaves away trying to please the masses
Indentured to her sad disaster
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4. |
I'm Not Really Alive
03:35
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Looking back at what you said
All the empty promises
You really messed up my head as I watched you lie
Thinking back to what I found
Can't forget those bedroom sounds
They ran out with sheets around their hides
What a proper goodbye
I'm not really alive
She pushed me further than I've ever been
It's just a matter of time before I'm really dead
I'm not really alive
No, I'm just dangling from the edge
About to paint what's just beneath me
In bright red
The hell she put me through
In bed with someone new
Pushed from the edge and I just flew
She can watch me die!
Why did I survive?
How will I ever get bye?
She almost took my life
But I'm still breathing
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5. |
Catastrophe
03:07
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I lost my job today
Orphaned by industry
Don't ever feel ashamed
We'll clog the drain
I could prove my own resilience
Swallow some new pill for once
Stumbling around like an amputee
I'll never find my feet
With 5 callused fingers
One dismissed heart
Reaching for bottles with stuttering starts
These songs that we scream to console the hopeless
Our futures broken, what a mess
With our sites set on a star in the sky
Our only chance to reach it is our hopeless cry
With nowhere left to go, no place left to be
We're all here united, this catastrophe
Catastrophe!
A useful brain, now laid to rest
Forcing these two hands to a new test
With scratchy throats, my aching fingers
The nightmare lingers
Looking up from the flat of my back
Two fists clinched, it's time to attack!
We're gonna shove it in their face
Don't ever forget, the day when you became their waste
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6. |
Barely Above Ground
02:59
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I can remember, I can remember, I can remember...
When it took the thought of dying to get myself ass out of bed
No reason, no voice of guidance, watching as my soul just bleed
I can remember, I can remember, I can remember...
Waking up to a spinning ceiling,
Sinking crushing me down, (crushing me down)
Dare to hide, go run for cover, or just dig till I drown
My head is barely above the ground (My head is barely above ground)
Shovel in hand I dig my own mound (dig my own mound)
No path left to travel I made my own
What once was losing became survival, it's all I've known
It's all I've known, It's all I've known, It's all I've known
I'd give it all up for a new life, somewhere far away
From the judgment and disappointment that I feel every day
It's all I've known, it's all I've known, it's all I've known
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7. |
Lost Forever
04:23
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It's two o'clock and, there's not a cloud in the sky
But you somehow gave me shivers, with that look in your eyes
You're like malicious winters, that won't ever say goodbye
Now I'm lost forever, until you leave or die
Now I'm feelin' warm inside, but you're not near me
If these drinks could keep me alive, maybe I'll live nearly
And without you by my side, you probably fear me
Forget the love we tried, we're never thinking clearly
I've got bars around me, they're there to get me by
Not those for prisons, oh no, no these bars help me survive
'Cause if I can't remember, the future would keep me alive
These bars gave me the bender, to blind me from your eyes
I was feelin' warm inside, but you weren't near me
Ya, those drinks they kept me alive, but I did not live nearly
Oh, and without you by my side, I kinda fear me
Forget the love we tried, I'm just not thinking clearly
Don't wanna forget you
Oh, but I might have to
As you're passin' through the bar, I just might ask you
Who the hell do you think you are, did I once know you?
I've got bars around me, they're there to get me by
Not those for prisons, oh no, no these bars help me survive
'Cause if I can't remember, the future would keep me alive
These bars gave me the bender, to blind... to cover just,
forget your glaring eyes
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8. |
Dual Personalities
02:31
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Alright, that's it, I've had enough
It's time to seal you off, dare call my bluff
You laugh like I'm a liar, I'm barely getting by here
I don't care about the times we had, the mischief's all gone bad
You hung me out to dry, I'm dripping sweat,
I swear this ain't no empty threat
You were once my partner in crime,
Now the nemesis that swallowed up my prime
There's no forgiveness left, only hatred for your superimposed theft
Close your eyes and tilt your head,
It's Jameson, the immortal friend
Who turns me like a vampire every time
We all feel as bulletproof as a bottle, it's addictive
You cover up your losses every night
Neglected, I avoided you, but every week, I fall, I slip right through,
A stand off leaves me running, you're in all four directions
Like a cell, I'm in the cold,
You're the blanket that I hate but love to hold
Kiss me once, my bottled friend,
'Cause the warden's locked you down, this is the end
Every time, your azz is mine
Oh, every time, my friend J-Mo says, "your azz is mine"
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9. |
My Smiling Savior
04:39
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I first said "I love you" at the age of 29
And I never thought I'd write a song about love in my life
But I stand here before you, a changed man, on my feet
I survived, somehow alive
Now, I feel a burning for this angel next to me
And if I smile it's 'cause she's mine
She makes me weak and somehow strong
As I repent for years gone wrong, and if I cry
She knows just why
So, I'll lock my hand in hers, after all those years of hurt
I won't let go
Ohhh
Tell me this is real
'Cause for the first time in a decade
I can feel
Standing on a mountain, a long way down from here
She knows I'm afraid of heights, she holds me close in fear
'Cause I can be a falling fool
I don't read well, the signs or rules
Been broken, so bruised
But I feel safe now, in this moment
I knew all those years of torment would subside,
I'm still alive
So, I'll lock my hand in hers after all those years of hurt
I can't let go
She's my smiling savior
An angel, sent for me
She's all I see
If Zeus came from the heavens
To steal her back from me
You know where I'll be
I'll fight the gods of every ocean,
The sun the sky, the sea
I won't let go
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10. |
Tyson In His Prime
05:13
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You wake in the night trembling
Fearing shadows, like you're dying
You roll to your side, gasping air
You reach for comfort, but no one's there
And the nightmare you just had felt better
Than this life of yours, gone bad forever
A chill way deep inside your bones,
It's a cold life living life alone, a life unknown
Reach for matches, reach for knives
Reach for bats for smashing lies
You burned down, you broke everything
But it really didn't change a thing
I swam in ashes, walked on shards
I watched it burned from my yard
This life of mine, truly nothing
Watched the whole thing burn
Didn't feel a thing
I laid there in the dust and black
A piece of charcoal, stabbed my back
I sat up straight to write, and spawned
A wealth of knowledge in my palm
Like every thought on earth just emptied
A cleaner slate than God could send me
I wrote until my hands turned blacker
Than the life I left in coals of amber
And now the only place I ever feel anything
Is in these nightmares, these dreams
And now the only place I ever feel a goddamn thing
Is in these nightmares, these dreams
...with meaning
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Never Pass Go San Diego, California
After recording two full band releases and one acoustic EP, featuring several artists over the years (specifics listed in album details), Never Pass Go has recently decided to transition into solo amplified acoustic performances. Never Pass Go performs regularly at a monthly event that NPG's own Kevin Black founded and continues to host: Acoustic Revolt @Rosie O'Gradys San Diego! ... more
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