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Stay At Home (Isolate)
04:28
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Stay At Home (Isolate)
The sun shines through a crack in the shade
And every day is exactly the same
I feel my mind starting to fray
And just for you I pretend I’m okay
Hundreds of thousands sick and dying
Turn on the news and the president’s lying
There goes the economy
Welcome to your new reality
The light today is cold and gray
How long can we live this way?
The whole world has gone away
while we were all sleeping
Tell me that it’s not too late
We quarantine and isolate
Will we become what we all hate
Tell me- is this our fate?
New York City under siege
They’re burying bodies in the streets
We’re short on money and short of breath
I fall asleep and pray for death
Dreaming of better days to come
So sick of this I’ve gone numb
Life before was but a dream
Like whispers turning to a scream
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World On Hold
05:12
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World On Hold
You watched her gasp for breath
Calling her friends so she can say goodbye
Surrounded by the stench of death
Behind your mask no one can see you cry
Give the shovels to the rich
So they can dig the graves of our dead
We’ve reached a fever pitch
Held together by a thread
We stand united in hopelessness
A world unprepared for this
So far away from everything we knew
All of your greatest nightmares coming true
What will you tell your children
When they ask you how it used to be
Everything Is coming undone
A world on hold for eternity
Stuck in a life of dislocation
What else is there to say?
Suffocating in isolation
I drag my ass through another day
I feel so cold inside
In my own home I’m a prisoner
It’s like a part of me has died
Saying goodbye to the way we were
If I could turn back time
Stay alive
If I could dry your eyes
Stay inside
If I could catch your pain
Our days are done
If I could breathe again
Gone is the sun
I’d take this all away
To give you a better day
Believe me when I say
It doesn’t matter how much you pray
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Keep Back Six Feet
02:45
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End Times
04:08
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End Times
I’m so tired of waking up half-asleep
To this nightmare of hypocrisy
I stare at strangers walking down the street
Somewhere along the way I lost my empathy
Behind our masks, what have we wrought?
All I see is their dull and vacant eyes
We’ve learned a painful lesson taught
It’s a war and they’re sending us to die
No one to hold you when it all comes down
Touch-starved and force-fed lies
You felt so high and now you’re losing ground
It feels just like the end times
I never asked for this
Your isolation pushes you to hate
It’s easier not to care
Practice indifference for your fate
To dream you wouldn’t dare
Do you cry for the old way?
Desperate to evolve again
I don’t believe a word you say
When you tell me it’s not the end
No one to hold you when it all comes down
Touch-starved and force-fed lies
You felt so high and now you’re losing ground
It feels just like the end times
I never asked for this
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Someday (In This Time Of Unrest)
I’ve become a stranger to myself
Trying to adapt
Trying to relax
Looking in the mirror and I’m wearing a mask
It’s turned me into someone else
I can’t believe
Struggling to breathe
That this is what it’s come to for humanity
I didn’t think it would last this long
Did we deserve it all along?
Someday we’ll live again
And I will take your hand
We have to survive
We have to stay alive
I promise you, my friend
It’s not the end
No matter what they do
You and I will make it through
Someday we’ll live again
And I will take your hand
Life doesn’t care if you made other plans
Look at what they’ve done
Killing all our fun
At least I can say I’m not the only one
Who’s gonna wash the blood from their hands?
Time to readjust
(Only if you must)
Trampling my faith and violating my trust
We’ll take all their power away
The revolution starts today
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Machines With Human Souls Chicago, Illinois
Chicago-based Industrial rock bringing equal measures filth and funk, transcending the status quo for the rest of our
goddamn lives. We are influenced by all your Wax Trax/90s industrial/coldwave favorites such as Sister Machine Gun, KMFDM, Hate Dept., PIG, and Nine Inch Nails with a dash of punk, funk, and electro.
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