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Things Have Been Weird

by Max Knightley

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This Town 02:42
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VERSE 1 Do you remember back in high school, we smoked oregano your brother said was weed in the shadow of the comic store we would go to every Saturday, I said We can't become our moms, we can't become our dads, we can't live here, die here, no, we need to get out while we still can and when we do let's get it through our heads: We can never come back to the suburbs! We can never come back to the sticks! Fuck the neighborhood watch and their wannabe cops, every lawn, every road, every god damn brick! CHORUS And this town used to be the town we hated The one we'd leave and never would return This town was once the front line of our adolescent war But this town ain't even this town anymore VERSE 2 I guess you figured out I broke my promise I came back all so I could rub it in To see our favorite enemy laid low, to say I'm on my way to Hollywood Living well might be the best revenge but it's pretty hard to call this a win to see the church for sale the street all full of potholes and the burger joint on Kosciuszko closed for good What happened to the flakes of gold we found in this miserable pile of dirt? We always prayed to see this place decay so why on earth would seeing it hurt? CHORUS BRIDGE It ain't lit up for Christmas, no one comes on Halloween The strip mall parking lot has not a car there to be seen And all the kids we hated, well, seems they're all long gone too How'd it happen that the only ones who cared about this place were me and you? Guess I don't know what I was expectin' but it had to be better than this I'd never want to bring that hellhole back, but still, there's somehow somethin' I miss CHORUS And this town used to be the town we hated The one we'd leave and never would return This town was once the front line of our adolescent war But this town ain't even this town anymore No, this town ain't even this town anymore No, this town ain't even this town anymore
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Rage On Behalf Of The Machine 03:52
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VERSE 1 Think back to how this started, now, back five or fifteen years gettin' yelled at by your family, rejected by your peers The bitterness is building up and no one seems to see but at least you got your sense of pride and stack of punk CDs You've tried a thousand useless ways to shut out all the jerks; embrace that you're outside the norm and suddenly it works you don't know dick 'bout politics, but you do know one day You're gonna make 'em pay CHORUS You're a rebel, rebel, rebel, but you never had a cause no virtue or ideal you'll fight for, all you see is flaws These counterculture trappings don't do shit to make you happy But at least you're making others feel bad too VERSE 2 So lacking any insight, you just double down on shock If it makes people stop and stare, who cares if it's all schlock? If you can get a rise from folks, then you don't need respect 'cause after all, you've learned that caring only gets you wrecked This shit has been a cancer in the punk scene since day one say stupid awful shit than say that it's just all good fun It's irony - a joke, is all - I shouldn't read so deep But even if that's true, I don't care, you're still a fuckin' creep CHORUS BRIDGE Please know that I've been there, fallen deep into despair, looking to decide why I should even try I know you have to find somewhere deep within your mind any reason not to just lay down and die But when the world is cruel, you must be a goddamn fool if you take your joy in making it still crueler You could extend your hand to fellow woman, child and man, but I guess you think distrusting them is cooler VERSE 3 If you were once sarcastic then that day has long since passed Your friends have dwindled to the true believers now at last You once rejected "normalcy," but now it seems just fine You're a freak who hates on other freaks - where do you draw the line? Go, say whatever comes to mind, and never take it back who cares what's wrong when you can always falsify the facts? And even if it's bullshit, if some folks put up a fight, then didn't mighty Churchill say that that just proves you right? CHORUS You're a rebel, rebel, rebel, and you finally have a cause Insult the weird and kill the poor, uphold the rule of law Look down on all your brothers who would dare respect each other and someday you just might not hate yourself Look down on all your brothers who would dare respect each other and someday you just might not hate yourself
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Salieri Syndrome 02:01
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VERSE 1 Everyone that I have ever known is Salieri all convinced they never can live up to who they love trapped inside a world where fame and reach are arbitrary praying to an unnamed muse for glory from above Everyone that I have ever known is Salieri I just wish I knew a way that I could make them see The only one who's self-important mediocre hopeless trash is me CHORUS What looks like grass shall soon be wheat and bitter fruit shall render sweet though never quite so soon it won't feel late What looks like grass shall soon be wheat and bitter fruit shall render sweet If not the sweetest; good need not be great VERSE 2 Everyone that I have ever known is van Gogh convinced they'll be obscure and poor as long as they live Wish I could just cut their fears and suffering off If I only could God only knows what I would give Everyone that I have ever known is van Gogh Play Theo to my Vincent and then flip it back around It's only through our love of one another that we will not hit the ground CHORUS What looks like grass shall soon be wheat and bitter fruit shall render sweet kind thoughts will be the wine to ease the pain What looks like grass shall soon be wheat and bitter fruit shall render sweet Your nemesis is always your own brain VERSE 3 Everyone that I have ever known puts me to shame And everyone around them gets them thinking just the same Think that only you would bluff whenever you play cards Can't look in the mirror without smashin' it to shards Everyone that I have ever met deserves the world and I have no idea what I still gotta do to make folks understand that yes, that applies to you CHORUS What looks like grass shall soon be wheat and bitter fruit shall render sweet content if not success if life is just What looks like grass shall soon be wheat and bitter fruit shall render sweet contentment, if no more - I say it must!
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Obligate Ram Ventilation as a Lifestyle 04:05
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VERSE 1 Feel it in you, your inner fire Your temperature's rising and so's your desire you're sizing up the competition, it's war now ambition is flaring like never before now CHORUS (x2) Don't stop movin' 'cause you know if you do then you'll die The tide is high there's a hole in the sky any moment it might start to fall VERSE 2 Body's aching, your mind is breaking you're telling yourself that it's yours for the taking for granted, you know if you stop then you won't get it going again so keep fighting the flow CHORUS (x2) VERSE 3 You might be going nowhere fast but the last laugh belongs to the ones who the songs will extol through the ages, the pages of history stop turning for no one, it isn't a mystery CHORUS Don't stop movin' 'cause you know if you do then you'll die The tide is high there's a hole in the sky any moment it might start to fall Don't stop movin' 'cause you know if you do then you'll die The tide is high keep your eyes open wide and don't stop for the end of the world
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Winter in Chicago 04:19
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INTRO There's no real happy endings, as I'm sure you've all been told each dragon slain, each king beheaded; more will rise The story never ends at all, the players just grow old the "ever after" and the cut to credits lies And every thing I fix, another seems to break in turn every weight I lift, another hits the floor And so it might be true that yes, a window's always open But if it's all the same, I'd rather find myself a door VERSE 1 It's autumn in Chicago, but it's hotter now than June It's evening in Chicago, but I can't make out the moon I find myself considering that this might be the year the world will end And things are mostly going how I always hoped they would and it may be true that "perfect" is the enemy of "good" but none of that can change the fact that I see only sorrow in my friends VERSE 2 I can't sleep through the sunlight, so please bring back the rain I can't tell just what's aching if I am not in pain A hopeful future feels like it's a spiteful trick when framed against the past And every day I ask myself how much more we can take A breaking point must come, but what will be the first to break? And will it be the chance to rebuild stronger, or will all decay at last? VERSE 3 Is there anybody out there who has something left to give? Is there anybody out there who can tell us how to live? Is there anybody out there who isn't scared and broken at the core? Is there anybody out there who doesn't lie in bed, thoughts of doom and death, collapse and failure, running through their head? Is there anybody left to say they've neither sold their soul nor lost their war? VERSE 4 But I know that I love someone, and I know that they love me and I know that means that I must have some merit I can't see and I haven't given up, I still have time to make things right and leave a mark And the stars are bright enough that I can see them past the lights and the snow is fresh enough that it still sparkles through the night and strange though it may be, there's a healing power in the early dark It's winter in Chicago It's winter in Chicago

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released April 22, 2018

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Max Knightley Chicago, Illinois

Trans lesbian who makes punk, electronica, and music for video games. Stay angry, but keep your eyes open to the beauty of the world.

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