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02:22
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Watch the clock
Slip unnoticed
Out the back door to the pale
Hopes and fears
Self-reflection
Tireless
Not self-aware
What an idea set for life
Habits die hard just to make it out alive
Dark again
Saving daylight
For a spring six months away
Life burned out
Got sucked from the inside
Now invested all the way
Dreams about that easy life
They all waste away
And drift slowly out of sight
Led to believe there’s a place in the sun
Seen better days
Then so has everyone
All I know is I’ve never felt so old
Sense never made sense less
When we learn what’s for us
Will go by us in the end
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Crutch
02:10
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My inhibition relinquished direction
My inner tyrant’s got no restraint
So let it go
You can never get enough
You know you can always lean on
The same old tried and tested crutch
My firmware must have skipped the last few updates
My intuition’s not responding
So it goes
Maybe it’s some kind of curse?
The only thing that makes it better
Is the same thing that makes it worse
So fuck it all
You can never have too much
You know you can always lean on
The same old tried and tested crutch
I’m running out of excuses
Just fucking useless
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Tank
01:43
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Nothing in the tank
No hours in the day to fill up
In dire need of a hard reset
Ich bin ein beginner
Try to make it out alive
I swear that we’ll make it out alive
Closed in with no oxygen
Healthy dreams tonight
Now I’m stressed out my box again
I’m done with this shite
Waking up and out of life
So tired
Trying to make it out alive
Nothing in the tank
I’m walking
No need to fill up
Sunshine on the Green
Some cans
Now we’re living it up
Making up for all the time we lost
Trying to make it out alive
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Hollowed Out
02:34
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Thought I had time on my side
I don't have time to think any more
I’m nearing my own half-life
I’m knackered all the time
And my gut’s getting too big to ignore
I’m always agitated
I’m a living specimen of bad health
My body’s desecrated
Hangovers last for days
Trapped in existential hell
Why can’t I just say no?
I guess I just can’t help myself
I’m feeling hollowed out
And metamorphosing into all the things I hate
And either giving up or cutting back on things I don’t
And maybe now it’s time to stop accepting side quests
And move on in my life
My stats are all too low
And now it’s too late to reroll
I’ve fallen off the map
I dropped my moral compass and walked around in circles
Good intentions turned to bad habits along the way
So hang me out to dry
Put me out to pasture
Because there’s no curing me
And there’s no going back to my sauce and salad days
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Decapitator
02:20
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I’m on another world
I found another place
I lost my head and disappeared without a trace
I finally opted out
I left it all behind
I’m on a mission to obliterate my mind
On a mission to obliterate my mind
But something’s out of phase
My phaser’s set to null
My eyes are double glazed and rotting out my skull
Black circles line my face
My skin a deathly grey
I want to get out but I cannot run away
Over-encumbered and I cannot run away
So hit the switch increase the pressure on my head
No resistance no escape
My thoughts compressed
Condensed and regurgitated
There’s nothing left to decimate
Don’t innovate
Decapitate
I’m on another world
I found another place
A solo voyage into deepest outer space
I finally opted out
I left it all behind
I’m on a mission to obliterate my mind
On a mission to obliterate my mind
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Wait
01:59
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Out of empathy
Out of pleasantries
For all the things I’ve done for you
All the shit you gave to me
I’ll wait
Negativity and incivility
Reduced to less than I’m used to now
But it’s still too much for me
I’ll wait
All the fights
The wasted nights
And friendships damaged beyond repair
Didn’t seem to faze you
I’ll leave you with another tired trope
Regret what you did
Not what you didn’t do
I’ll wait
Out of empathy
Out of pleasantries
For all the lies and the bad advice
I’ll give you this for free
Don’t wait
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Ducks
00:45
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I know there’s a time and a place for
Audit processes and all that other shit you like
Responsibilities and all that other good stuff
You’re upwardly mobile but crippled with
The insecurity of living a lie
Good luck to you and all your stupid fucking clichés
Because all the money in the world
Still wouldn’t be enough to make me stay
Ducks in a row
And devils in the details
There’s more than one way to shut the fuck up
I’ll be an empty boat
A million miles away from your illusion of control
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Alive
01:27
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These are not the ideals you’re looking for
They don’t come around much any more
Never mind
Door’s locked
Doesn’t open from this side
Don’t thrive
We just get by
Or left behind
Now don’t you feel alive at all?
So what do you do when there’s nothing you can do?
When you’ve got no morals to lose?
Well that one’s easy
Lead by example
Fuck everyone else
God bless subservience
It’s all just excess
Now don’t you feel alive at all?
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Time
01:37
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Disaffected by design
But I could invert this decline
If I only had the time
Another toke over the line
Another vice I’d leave behind
If I only had the time
To deal with mine
All the years I’ve tried
To keep my life in order
Swim against the tide
But I’m just treading water
The ground just opened up
Revealed a twelve-year rut
Chewed up and spat me out
And then snapped shut
Disengaged and unassigned
I’d find way out of this bind
If I only had the time
And what’s the consolation prize?
A lust for someone else’s life
Some life we can’t define
But I’d deal with mine
If I just had the time
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Falling In
01:59
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Someday we’ve got to get up
Get our arse in gear
Say our goodbyes and get away
Don’t wait
You know that nothing we could lose
Really matters that much anyway
Don’t need it
Not going to miss it
Don’t have to take it
Someday we’ve got to stop thinking
And start living
Let’s get out before it’s too late
Don’t wait
You know that life can have a nasty habit
Of getting in the way
Don’t need it
Not going to miss it
Don’t have to take it
We’ve fallen in once again
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Piss It Away
00:31
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Try not to piss it all away
You’re only getting older
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Not The Life
03:10
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Half awake
A world away
Still half cut half the time
Nothing left of the exceptions
Why not just resign?
You get stuck in
There’s comfort in a routine
But when you’re locked in
You realise what might have been
Old enough to know the rules
But not too old to care
Still with half a soul to lose
And blissfully aware
You get tired
The goalposts shifted again
When you’re burned out
And all too late you tell yourself
That this is not the life
That I had in mind
And I can’t bide my time any more
It's not the life
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Brassneck Records began life in 2010 as a punk vinyl distro via a spare bedroom in a terraced house in Cardiff (UK). 2013 (finally) saw Brassneck attain "label" status with the release of the debut LP from Chestnut Road (technically the 3rd release on the label). ... more
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