Fugazi

a name I recognise that name It was at the center of some ticker tape parade The lead story, A fine example A name, a name A name I recognise that name It was at the center of some magnifying glass The lead story, a fine example A name, a name He used to prete...

Yes I know this is politically correct But it comes to you spiritually direct An attempt to thoughtfully affect your way of thinking That is if you believe in race Rr that you were born in the right time or place That is a thought about face your way of thinki...

when they start falling executions will commence sides will not matter now matter makes no sense how did a difference become a disease? i'm sure you have reasons a rational defense weapons and motives bloody fingerprints but i can't help thinking it's still al...

Autonomy is a world of difference They're creeping round but they know they can't come in Back from the front with observation it's still there Across from me an extreme example Bringing you what they want twenty four hours a day Whole lot of not but it's conv...

You can't be what you were So you better start being just what you are You can't be what you were the time is now is running out is running out is running running running out You can't be what you were So you better start living the life That you're talking...

I'm sick with this I'm sick with this Situation avoided or just missed? My own sweet time says it's ten twenty four Hardly recognise simple things anymore I don't want to be defeated This is the point This is the manifest Bed for the scraping Dirty little secr...

This is a birthday pony This is a strange kind of rest Because i feel like a guest when I'm right here at home I'm not right here at home I opened up these accounts All these separate accounts Because I can't comprehend the single ride to the end I needed some...

I'm not playing with you, I'm not playing with you, I'm not playing with you, I clean forgot how to play. But you can still come around, In fact I invite you down, Maybe together we can wipe that smile off your face. 'Cause what a difference, what a difference...

Can't ask for more so why unfulfilled We take apart everthing we build Had it right here but now it's gone On and on Break 

And he's happy because she's got skin And she's happy just to let him in When he asks will you let me in? And from a place where they share skin, They say come inside and he's happy because she's got skin And it's sweet when she let's him in, No sin but there'...

Ahistorical - you think this shit just dropped right out of the sky My analysis: it's time to harvest the crust from your eyes To surge and refine, to rage and define ourselves against your line So sorry friend, you must resign You want to figure it out we'...

There's something acting on this body Something goes in when nothing comes out And someone's acting on this information But nothing's registered from this location From this site that I sense that I am, in asking What is this burning in my eyes? I wanted a lan...

Anytime but now Anywhere but here Anyone but me I've got to think about my own life We are consumed by society We are obsessed with variety We are all filled with anxiety that this world would not survive We gotta put it out the sky is burning We gotta put it...

Generation fuck you to define and redefine You'd make them all the same but molds they break away Safely inside looking outside go keep on picking at it it's just going to get bigger Not yet an also-ran the note left in your hand is by you Asked to cease and d...

on the morning of the first eviction they carried out the wishes of the landlord and his son furniture's out on the sidewalk next to the family This little piggy went to market, so they're kicking out everyone Talking about process and dismissal Forced...

Crush my calm you cassavetes I was sitting tight so quiet quiet In the dark till the lights came up my heart Beating like a riot riot Hollywood are you sitting on a sign For someone to come on bust a genre You poor city of shame Ask me what you're needing I'll...

Lights out for the cynical sharps For their wide-eyed foils and all attendant props Supporters of flash and pan-fried fucks Who grease like cops throwing round their weight And I feel dangerous and vexed Swinging two ton second guess And every motion just cuts...

Your etiquette Your rules on interaction What are you waiting for? Nobody's home we're all out trying to find one What are we waiting for? The recipe a clear connection the time the time the time the time The direction we just want we don't know This one wants...

Justice brennan, Take out some insurance on me, baby baby. It's just the I'm busted and dripping, My sorry lungs are all leaking, It's all over, it's all over i said, The last fair deal going down. You let your gown to the ground, But I'm not waiting around un...

Your eyes like crashing jets Fixed in stained glass But not religious You should pay rent in my mind Say like the french say bon soir regret a demain Do you like me I guess White witness moves to petition the state of virginia for 27 prisons While in bethesda...

I want to go I want to get out All guns are loaded And have gone off now I'm channeling 17 dead revolutions That have long gave up the ghost One drink of water and I'm drowning The space between the dime and the dollar The space between the city and the suburb...

congratulations. stop. wish i could be there. stop. tell me something i don't know. is there anything left to know? stop. stop. stop. stop. stop. accessory accessory accessory accessory accessory accessory we regret to inform. stop. miss you dearly signed sinc...

looking out for cars and mortality trying to find some sort of geometry avoiding mistakes keep an eye on every step i take everything is building and it appears that you're all architects and engineers that's how it looks that's how it looks from here i'm an e...

Exuent. This is three minute axcess, So pop the question. Will we leave the last place burning? Or do we just get leaving? Red-light, red-light my mind moves to refuse that filter, Are you still surprised? Keep my back above the tire tracks. Sympatric. I'll me...

Son of a gun and knife and bomb Son of a bitch earned every stitch Son of a father's son yes I know I'm one Now it's time to pull the switch Touch with your eyes drool with my eyes Touch with your mind drool with my mind Touch with your eyes drool with my eye...

Pride no longer has definition Everybody wears it, it always fits A state invoked for the lack of position Strength is the bait that keeps us so busy If it's perforated, then I tear it to bits All sense lost in the frenzy They should never touch the ground Iro...

Here's a list of side effects Practice tested Covering every malice angle For example you will sleep forever You will never sleep again Yawn to yawn your face is born to mask the shade of shit you're in Now it's time to fake resignment room assignment Next doo...

Moves so slowly Grows so smoothly Takes so neatly It's as if they belong and they've been here all along Grows so smoothly Moves so slowly Takes completely It's as if they belong and they've been here all along This one's ours let's take another Check the math...

The sun came up The sun came out The sun did us in The sun came out and tore us up It ripped the shit out of our behinds We drove home on towels off the heat of the seats With sand in our teeth alright Down on the ocean down on the sea Water and wave under me...

Here's an all new version Teeming with distractions Trojan horse rolled backwards Mastered buy your own device Then splice in then cut to the sad sorry image of some grinning 'caster Staring at a sinkhole Piling up disasters Making the footage raw Now parade t...

In your memory not so gentle Perversify slash sentimental Caught between and caught without I'm a failure not your failure now In and out just like a knife would tax the flesh and leave a cheap wound Fucked and fucking love and lay Congenitally fractured anywa...

i want out i want a mutually assured destructive life seizing separate culture to take me over moving silent like radar take me over and blow out my mind full disclosure coming sponsored by no one take me over and blow out my mind ejected 

This is a song with no words. But no one can hear the missing. They just look at my mouth And look at my mouth And say hey man, I know where you're coming from. Furniture has no say in life, It was made to be used by people. How many times have you felt like a...

I never thought too hard on dying before I never sucked on the dying I never licked the side of dying before And now I'm feeling the dying You've got your hands over your ears You've got your mouth running on You've got your eyes looking for something That wil...

I spent it all On the bag On the drag The sun comes up, the tide rolls out The trucks roll by the park still a park Where children play and pick up stones Anything to make them feel less alone - he's alone His mind is his own town where all his thoughts run ag...

Got a lot of questions for me You got a lot of questions for me Got your finger pointing at me Distrusted I look for wires when I'm talking to you You'd make a great cop 

You wanted everything You needed everything You wanted everything You needed everything Everything is... Everything is... Greed 

Down at the station We question our rations Wut you seem satisfied with the little recieved Fractured appetite with bismuth pink on tap Ascetic limbs gone tight and your lips are clamped and grey Crash your appetite erasing every mark you make Standing in the...

Hello morning and the morning sun Lights up the damage that the damage's done Send a message you can understand We're time capsules in a garbage can Shelved with things we used to use A box of candles with the wicks removed A battery chambered with corrosive r...

out here i can barely see my breath surrounded by jealousy and death i can't be reached, only had one call dragged underneath, separate from you all this time i've lost my own return in spite of everything i've learned i hid my tracks, spit out all my a...

In defense of humans Lay down your power trip Stop toying with emotions and relationships Cause you don't rise when people fall In defense of humans Lay down your politics They're all big money and media tricks Cause you don't rise when people fall I see you...

That one is predetermined That one, it finds another This one comes in one window Sliding out the other We need an instrument to take a measurement To find out if loss could weigh We need to know value We need to place value In case it all comes true Could it...

The troops are quiet tonight, But it's not alright, because we know they're planning something. Don't you know things have settled down, down, down But silence is a dangerous sound, We must, we must, we must keep our eyes open, See what we see, what once was p...

Coughing inside your coffin like at the bottom of the sea Onside you're breathing too numb for asking so i will leave it outside your door Warning the threat of morning that just extends you another day Some lights were shining not much for seeing but you'll b...

I am a message prescient forecasting There is a limit so take my temperature You say "your turn" but I think the invite's open to all So come on take your medicine Hey doctor heal yourself or do you got too much to lose You are a message precious extracting fo...

Lying on our backs, This is your parents' bed, A good place to be laid 'cos it's so neatly made. Staring at the ceiling, Vein to vein the lines look the same As the ones that you're seeing, And then you start speaking: Rracing your father's footsteps in your m...

When the bit pulls tight the grip is sewn into the reins. Can't breathe it out, you'll just breathe it back again You mental-pack your chambers full for no reason you can name, A boil-in-bag blood supply you know it's murder on the veins. Oh don't you feel i...

little mom goes crazy she can't drink/breathe/bring (?) with more to the middle of the haus to the haus in the middle of the night no mama [x9] oh yeah little debbie's mom goes crazy cut the crap 9 kids sneak into the restroom can't breathe/bring (?) nothing...

Blood on the pedals, blood on the grips Steel leveled, chest level smear My lips let them slip into a Smile because now after awhile it's all we're seen to do. 'Cause the business is as business does Trash is trash until it's sealed from above and left on to t...

The farther I go the less I know One foot goes in front of the other It all boils around to not hanging around To keep moving in front of the gravity The answer is there the answer is there but there is not a fixed position It keeps moving along so I keep comi...

It's a long time coming, It's a long way down, It's long division, Crack and divide. This is a parting, Some separation, We lay in pieces, Cracked to survive. I'm not your villain, Not your adversary, I'm not your reason to crack and divide. It's lo...

You make yourself so beautiful, You make yourself so, so beautiful And now i feel like i'm going, I'm going to set myself on fire. I'm going to set myself up at a window, This margin walker wants a clear view, This margin walker wants a clear shot, and now i'm...

When we have nothing left to give There will be no reason for us to live But when we have nothing left to lose You will have nothing left to use We owe you nothing you have no control Merchandise keeps us in line Common sense says it's by design What could a b...

You like the cut, You like the fit, Wide in the shoulders, Trim at the hips. What a nice new outfit, All straight clean lines. There's blood in your mouth, But not in mine. You think that I'm a sucker for it, That we're all fodder for this. Quick purchase once...

fuck your fucked directives god i want a new invective custom built to form fit you say it to your face if i get to choose i'll take something real the fight to feel while your next meal is calling loosely trademarked as the best fucking thing you've ever had...

Hey what's your name? Do you feel the same way too? Siphon fuel don't make a sound And most of all don't let me down It comes as no surprise We're destabilized Lock eyes shared plan No c.i.a. could understand Defile define critique and salve No c.i.a. no n.s.a...

the sun's a strange light nothing grows right anymore scars on every stalk whose mouth should i use to talk? the force that marks the routine temperature whatever degrees create the bad thing and lay our heads in it now it's hard to punch the clock on the site...

Animosities and apologies Back and forth we struggle, Falter, refrain with glue and string and deciphering We try, try, try to stay together Despite the pain it's not our first time through nor our Waterloo back and forth from situation We move to episode But...

All origins are accidental You've got no papers and no roads lead home Anymore Chance is the root of all place position All maps are random all scales are wrong Legal illegal no passion for the difference Legal illegal false premise forge the nation May all yo...

Got with the program, swallowed it whole, Sugar made it easy, ice made it cold. Reached out and touched them on a tv screen, Broke out the polish, scrubbed it clean, that dirty machine. This is your portion, please don't share, the only answer, your only p...

Words Words and expressions All these confessions Of where we stand How I see you And you see me Dedications of symmetry Together we will be forever. Promises are shit We speak the way we breathe Present air will have to do Rearrange and see it through Stupid...

Somewhere in these private minds, The last one comes just in time to clear out The chambers and sew up the lips, 'Cause that's the price to pay for hoping every slips not a slide. In other words not to get it wrong, It's pointless to walk when it's past time t...

The eyes have it and the eyes always will The eyes have it and they're watching you still Public witness charter - look out don't touch Public witness says he's seeing too much I like to walk around it And i'm paid to stand around Public witness seen it all 

Recap in taxi No clothes no food Take care of the children We'll send for you soon Alien you find you feel at home everywhere You'll get by with so much less than anyone Decieved entrapment through belief Disclosure would decree Accusations would be shed Inste...

These are our demands: We want control of our bodies. Decisions will now be ours. You can carry out your noble actions, We will carry our noble scars. Reclamation. No one here is asking, No one here is asking, But there is a question of trust. You will do what...

Why don't you come to my house Why don't you drag me right out Past all the shit that i said i'm saying Why don't you cut up my mouth And i don't care what you use Just don't ask me to choose I forced a field to allow you That's not so easy to do I said I said...

You say I need a job, I've got my own business You want to know what i do? None of your fucking business But now I'm lying here Knowing that business had a name, But now I'm a number 1 2 3 repeater Down by law, I've got this nasty habit When I need something I...

Somewhere in these private minds, The last one comes out just in time To clear out the chambers and sew up the lips, 'Cause that's the price to pay for hoping every slip's not a slide. In other words not to get it wrong, It's pointless to walk when it's past t...

A fine disservice Deceptive, too Check for the sender Sender was you Caught me wide open No simple burn This is complicated Calls for return Fine disservice Intended, too Check for the sender Sender was you The point has been recorded, The malice has been reve...

Out of the ashtray, into the ashtray. Out of the ashtray. there's nothing living, There's nothing given, Weekender's vision turns to working shoes. There's nothing living, there's nothing given, Weekender gives in, puts on his working suit. There's nothing wai...

I break the surface so Ican breathe I close my eyes so I can see I tie my arms to be free Have you ever been free? She's not breathing She's not moving She's not coming back I burn a fire to stay cool I burn myself, I am the fuel I never meant to be cruel Have...

Here comes another problem All wrapped up in solution It's ugly as it's strapped on And twice as hard to get behind Another sieve-fisted find Lost, lost again. please, please let me get my hands on it. Here comes that self-same problem All stalled on same self...

Smallpox champion u s of a Give natives some blankets Warm like the grave This is the pattern cut from the cloth This is the pattern designed to take you right out This is the frontier with winter's so cold Greed informs action where action makes bold To take...

Song number one is not a fuck you song I'll save that thought until later on You want to know if there's something wrong? It's nothing. everybody's talking about their hometown scenes And hurting people's feelings in their magazines You want to know what it al...

This time is real, I feel it passing through the telephone, No one is home now, No one is home. These stacks, They keep me down, So I build some more. America is just a word but I use it. Language keeps me locked and repeating. This time is real, I see it pass...

the sun's a strange light nothing grows right anymore scars on every stalk whose mouth should i use to talk? the force that marks the routine temperature whatever degrees create the bad thing and lay our heads in it now it's hard to punch the clock on the site...

There are no more races to be run There are no numbers left to be won Everybody's down we pulled each other down There never was a truth to be found We are all bigots so full of hatred We release our poisons There are no more cultures left to slide There are n...

Why can't i walk down a street free of suggestion? Why can't i walk down a street free, free of suggestion? Is my body my only trait in the eye's of men? In the eye's of men? I've got some skin that you wanna look in There lays no reward (in what you,...

It's cold outside and my hands are dry Skin is cracked and I realize That I hate the sound of guitars A thousand grudging young millionaires Forcing silence sucking sound Forced into this conversation So i say shine let their planets collide This is the darken...

Born into race and nation accept family and obligation I'm not a citizen I'm not a citizen Embrace tradition and occupation cull memory for assimilation secure for future generations secure for future generations I'm not a citizen I'm not...

Langour rises reaching, to turn off the alarm And there's never so much seething That it can't be disarmed You just stop it up, Pass it on Shove it to shelf it, To leave it off and turnover Lounging against your weapons, Until your muscles find lock In the eas...

I cut my nails to the quick But still i was caught with my hand in the till Red-handed. Give me something, Give me anything The threat of everything is when it becomes nothing at all Fingers reaching, trophy swelling That's when desire trips me up. Got a new t...

I am a patient boy I wait, I wait, I wait, I wait My time is water down a drain Everybody's moving Everybody's moving Everything is moving, Moving, moving, moving Please don't leave me to remain In the waiting room I don't want the news (I cannot...

Fragile stem Asleep at the stoplight again Red dressed in red drenched in red spreading red ever red Fragile stem Veering for control again Change lanes explain how strain defers the impact of speed On on past gone gone gone past on Fragile stem Made your own...