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Who’s that uncle of your’s that you used to know
He died when you were young cuz he was very old
They say there’s no resemblance to a certain clown
But as soon as he died he awoke the town
And now from beyond the grave he’s got a message for you
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2. |
The Wageslave Walks Away
02:37
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As he clocks in once again
He remembers here he has no friends
He is inching closer to his end
And then he goes back home
To regret the place he chose to roam
And then next morning he’ll do it again
He’s forced to perform repetitious tasks
With a penalty for every question asked
For a price that hasn’t changed in so many years
All while under constant pressure from his peers
And for him nobody has respect
They think all that he cares for is checks
They don’t know the abuse that he goes through
And at the end of it all he gets no profit he’s just lining the pockets of you
When the wageslave walks away
You’ll forget the things you used to say
How everything he ever did was wrong
When the wageslave walks away
He thinks it’s a grand statement he’s made
But little does he know they’ll carry on
And any trace of him left will be gone
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~Supply & Demand~
Make something new
Take it away
That’s how we earn our pay
~Working Man~
Well I work for 16 hours a day
And people tell me I am wasting my life away
And they may be right but deep down I know they’re wrong
Cuz I love my shitty job so much that I’ll write it down in a song
After thirty four years I haven’t gotten a raise
But I’ll still do whatever my big boss says
And I think I’m forgetting what this song’s supposed to be about
And if something makes me angry I’ll just have to try and not shout
So shut up, shut up
Get back to the grind
Shut up I don’t wanna change my mind
Cuz I work the worst job that you’re ever gonna find
But I love it so much can’t you see?
Or at least that’s what they keep telling me
So shut up, shut up
Get back to the grind
Shut up I don’t wanna change my mind
Cuz I work the worst job that you’re ever gonna find
But I love it so much can’t you see?
Or at least that’s what they keep telling me
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4. |
What's Below Me?
02:55
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The things you see
Are not how they appear to be
And the joyous gifts I spread
Are only there to veil my trail of red
Mickey Dee is dead
I’m the one who froze his head
And the world will never know
The sins that happen down below
So what’s below me?
You ask me that suddenly
The answer’s nothing
I’m not sure why that’s surprising
Mickey Dee is dead
I’m the one who froze his head
And the world will never know
The sins that happen down below
So now that you got rid of me
You think things will change, that’s cute
But my friends all think like me
And not all of them will kind to you
So in the end
What is it you want to achieve
You want the death of me and them
But our gifts you want to keep
Do you even know
What you believe?
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Waiting For The Bus
01:41
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I’m just waiting for the bus without a care in the world
And I think the world is special for every boy and girl
But now that I’ve grown up I think the world has gone to hell
12 years has made a world of difference and I just feel so unwell
All the things I used to love have turned out to be bad
Or maybe they were always that way but the thought of that makes me sad
So I’m just waiting for the bus to take me out of here
Maybe this old world ain’t cut out for me my dear
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7. |
TRANSMISSION1
00:34
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8. |
Cut It Away
02:15
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When you were young you loved it here
You loved dwelling in a nice atmosphere
But nowadays nothing looks the same to you
Gone is the fun you used to have
It’s all been replaced by bland white and black
Maybe the mottos they once lived by weren’t true
And the phone you get each year has less and less
And the place you work has a very strict code of dress
Every event as you grow older slowly seems like nothing
Yet it’s to those old memories you cling
As they say...
Cut it away
Nothing needs to be creative
It’s really really not necessary
To enjoy life while you live
Cut it away
Nothing needs to be creative
It’s really really not necessary
To enjoy life while you live
I said
It’s really really not necessary
To enjoy life while you live
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9. |
Southern Traditions
02:06
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Welcome to... southern town number fourty-four
Where you work all day and you still end up poor
Well we all... wallow in so much freedom galore
That we get confused for the ones who send us to war
And just take one good thoughtful look at us
We’re all fighting for our rights
And we have death wished upon us
All because of our supposed hateful lives
But you don’t... want to help us understand
You only use us as a target when you take a stand
You think that... we’re all backwards and beyond saving
But it’s only together that we’ll end the suffering
And maybe if you pulled the wool from your eyes
Then you might finally see
That the reason that you hate me so much
Is because deep down inside you truly are...
Just the same as me
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10. |
In Film...
02:45
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There’s oh so much work to be done
And so many roads to travel
But people they don’t have time for that
It’s a real uphill battle
In film
There’s so many opportunities
To instill in people the values
That they don’t want to see
The world is too fragile and lonely
To just straight up ask for support
So if we want people to listen
Then we have to hit at their core
In film
There’s so many opportunities
To instill in people the values
That they don’t want to see
So this is a song for a generation
To quietly do as you’re told
And to only listen to what’s everywhere
Cuz it’s better than the message of old
In film
There’s so many opportunities
To instill in people the values
That they don’t want to see
So please won’t you think like me?
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We can’t live like this anymore
Stop putting these decisions through the door
You say you care for people other than you
So why subscribe to an old toxic worldview?
I don’t like the state of the world that I see
So I’ll go and vote for someone who’s completely different from me
All you ever cause is fighting
You say that we can fly with just one wing
But nothing in life is ever just two sided
How can you change a world that’s divided?
Nobody really knows what they want
Nobody knows where they are
Do you think that there’s just right and wrong
Do you think that you can heal the scars
Everybody in the world
Is laughing at your wounds
But their’s are in a different place
While they still prod at you
Year after year the result is the same
You’ll have to hurt yourself
With a choice of two knives both with poison tipped blades
And one’s labeled “good for your health”
Then nothing changes after words have been said
And the fire burns so bright
It’s almost as if we all are dead
And if we just keep trying, we still won’t win this fight
Nobody really knows what they want
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12. |
Unhappy Meals
02:04
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They say you are what you eat
But I don’t recall eating depression
We slave away week by week
And the entire time find no solution
I know my worth
I’m just the worst
And that is what I dine on every single day
If you don’t do something then they’ll die before they’re grown
Don’t blame your failures on the things you should have known
We’re a world that keeps consuming all our poisonous decay
And nothing ever changes, it’s like we want to be this way
Please don’t die
I want you to know that life gets better
That’s what he told me...
As he wrote his own suicide letter
No one really has the answers anymore
Because these illnesses, they’re normal there’s no cure
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TRANSMISSION2
00:32
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14. |
Rip Apart Your Refuge
02:09
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Smoke fills the air
Nobody in the world cares
We all know that the time we have is short
And yet we continue to rape the earth for sport
The world has become so grey because of our silver
And it won’t be too much longer until we violently kill her
The sun has risen it’s a beautiful day
But let’s make it less beautiful you say
You don’t seem to understand your selfishness
The world has been here for endless days
It’s really never gonna go away
That’s what you told me as you stabbed her over and over again
You were put right here to make a change but that’s not what you choose
I beg of you don’t rip apart your refuge
I beg of you don’t rip apart your refuge
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15. |
Burning It All Down
04:32
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The sun is up it’s a beautiful day to roll around in the hay
The sun is up all around the world
As the flames just twirl and twirl
The sun is up it’s a beautiful day to roll around in the hay
The sun is up for you and me
As we melt our enemies
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16. |
Me And Mr. Mouse
05:32
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Mr. Mouse was a shy old lad and he danced in Missouri for deadbeat dads
And no one ever knew what he’d become
One day
So after many years he had a caravan
To travel round the world and take because he can
And just wait til he’s done
There’ll be nothing left
Cuz he don’t care about me or you
He only cares about what he can fit in his shoes
His big dumb comically oversized shoes
If he keeps this bullshit I’ll soon be through
But the story’s not over
Let’s go back a few years shall we?
Mr. Mouse started out so strong
With his newspaper comics and his advert songs
And who helped him to get there?
Well it was me
He teamed up with me from an early age
And together we made more than a living wage
But where do you see me, all these years later?
Neither him nor I live on
And yet I’m the one who’s singing this song
If you have yet to figure out my riddle then I pity you
So let’s look back through the past
Until you see the truth
Mr. Mouse he had so many friends
And he’d do whatever it took to reach the end
And then one day he died
But that didn’t matter at all
Cuz from beyond the grave he never stopped taking
And he took so many billionaires under his wings
And they all make damn sure
That you know who he is
Cuz the world is a great big bowl of soup
But don’t worry cuz he only has one spoon
One big dumb comically oversized spoon
And an appetite that’s endless like his cartoons
All around the world you hear the cries of someone dying
And who is it you blame?
The answer it seems obvious but you’re wrong, you just don’t realize
That him and I we’re both the same
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17. |
Mickey Dee Is Dead
05:08
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All his life he built his business
Pulling it from the ground
And he made sure his customers
Never had any drooping frowns
But now that you’re the owner
You want to undo everything that he’s created
And now that you’re the big boss
You want to oppress people even worse than he did
And now that he’s gone
You don’t know
What you’ll do wrong
And now that he’s dead
You’ll piss on his grave
And rip up his flowerbed
Quality over quantity
That’s what he used to say
Working all of us very hard
To make sure of a successful day
But now it’s been twenty years
Since the owner kicked the bucket and you put your hands all over us
And now his vision is all gone
And if this doesn’t stop soon I’ll throw my hat down and get on the bus
And now that he’s gone
You don’t know
What you’ll do wrong
And now that he’s dead
You’ll piss on his grave
And rip up his flowerbed
And now that he’s gone
You don’t know
What you’ll do wrong
And now that he’s dead
You’ll piss on his grave
And rip up his flowerbed
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TRANSMISSION3
00:37
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WRITTEN BY JAMES MORRISON AND LESLIE CARTER
The wheels on the bus go round and round
Taking us across the town
Across the town
And the talk of the town, I understand was all about
All about a man
All about a man
The man who bought the world
He bought the papers, he bought the news
He bought the newspapers, the poor man's Howard Hughes
The poor man's Howard Hughes
He bought the churches to pray for you
The doctors, nurses, the teachers and the schools
The desks and all the blackboards, he bought the boys and girls
And they learned nothing from the man who bought the world
The sale of the twentieth century
The free market economy
And you and me
You and me
Laughing all the way to bankruptcy
With the director of the company
The man who bought the world
The man who bought the world
He bought the ozone, he bought the hole
He bought the sunshine, what he didn't buy he stole
He's got the whole world, the whole world in his hands
The man who bought the world
The man who bought the world
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20. |
Bloody Back Pages
02:57
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Hello nice to meet ya
I’m here with all my crew
I see there’s something you support
Just know I support it too
(Just don’t look into my past)
Bloody back pages, those are
The skeletons in my closet
You’ll see me protest a war but you
Don’t know that I’m the villain in it
And if you think I’m friendly
Then you buddy are wrong
You wish things were more simple
But that just ain’t no fun
You know that all my friends
They think the same as me
So please look past our demons
And embrace us then you’ll see
(That the world is so fucked up)
Bloody back pages, those are
The skeletons in my closet
You’ll see me protest a war but you
Don’t know that I’m the villain in it
And if you think I’m friendly
Then you buddy are wrong
You wish things were more simple
But that just ain’t no fun
So what’s the moral of this story?
Well it should be clear
Just buy products from us
And if you hear shit, plug your ears
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21. |
Starting Young
01:33
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He’s the boy in a bubble
And one day he’s gonna leave
But you never considered
All the times he’ll have to think
But you say that it’s okay
Cuz you’ve only done what’s right
He won’t ever change his mind
You don’t consider that he might
And then if he forms some brand new thoughts you’ll drill into his head
You’ll tell him he’s such a disappointment til he wishes he was dead
All you ever wanted is a kid who’s just like you
But all you end up with is one who hates you
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Dehumanize Me
01:35
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Hey there I’m just a little girl
I’ve got the loveliest smile in the whole wide world
But little do I know that one day it’s gonna fade
Well one of these days they’re gonna take me away
You’ll see me everywhere but you won’t have much to say
Yet you’ll watch me endlessly day to day just to feel better
Then years later I’ll be broke behind a shed
I’ll be crying about the people that hacked into my head
And as soon as you try to comfort me, then I’ll be dead
Dehumanize me, dehumanize me
Or demonize me, just demonize me
Cuz if I’m not human, what have you got lose?
Dehumanize me, dehumanize me
Please demonize me, just demonize me
Cuz I only exist for you to use
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TRANSMISSION4
01:15
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24. |
Off To The East!
04:43
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As we keep drilling into the ground
There is oh so much love to be found
And we’re so glad that Mr. Mouse came along
As we bomb those who’ve done no wrong
Now the whole world has fallen apart
Do you think that it’s time for a restart?
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25. |
Ronald's Funeral
02:41
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He’s dead
He’s dead
The whole world rejoices because he’s dead
He’s dead
He’s dead
And times are-a-changin’ because he’s dead
Ooooh
The world is so different because he’s dead
I said
Is the world so different because he’s dead?
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26. |
And Now...
01:04
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And now that he’s gone
Time still marches on
And now that he’s departed
Will you dismantle it from where it started?
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Dr. Deceptive Dayton, Ohio
An experimental pop band collaborating between Dayton, Ohio and Laramie, Wyoming.
Comprised of frontman/songwriter/multi-
instrumentalist Owen Radford and multi-instrumentalist and producer wAHb.
Links below are for Owen and wAHb’s solo work, as well as social medias
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