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Graceland

by Cigarette Smoking Man

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1.
Lachecism 04:23
Indifference. Apathy. Knowing we may not survive. We wait, patiently, as disasters arrive. The world, it burns to death, and I feel fine. The headlines, they quote, the end is near. The headlines they quote, the end is here. Your body, it feels warm, as we burn.
2.
Everything is ok? 1800 Days since liberty gave away Waning faith, endless storms of fire, it has rained Pushed to our knees, and yet we still pray Many moons, absent sun, we hope for things to change We pray for things to change On Market, nothing is ok beggars flee, townsmen flea and run to avoid the reigns Off Broad, nothing is ok we pinch, ingest, inhale and drink to drown out the pain The South has never been the same we run, we hide, we stay inside as society decays The North will never change hopeless, aimless, can't avoid to dream another day We live, we try, we fail, we cry, we pray, we lie, we quit, we die
3.
The History of Mythology proves what is dead can never die This city is born of flames, from ashes we rise
4.
(………..)
5.
Melatonin 05:12
Suspension, Feels Like Retention It wont let go Illusions, more like confusion Don't know where to go Derision, gives me motivation Remission, brings salvation Now I can go
6.
When we are young We know not how or when or why We're simply taught to comply They retain us with fear "Your family son, has not a dime but your servitude, for their crimes" And so, our hearts become bricks Heavy, bland and without a beat left to strife, to make ends meet And we become old Remaining days, sparse and numbered and to ourselves, we're left to ponder And she was young Somewhere near age four or five Fathoming, how to survive She gazed in my eyes asked me "What's it like to die?" The question took me by surprise She stared down my soul My face was blank, heart at a halt Wanting to know, who was at fault? I had no words just a thought I know my days are sparse and numbered When we are young We know not how or when or why We're simply taught to comply They retain us with fear "Your family son, has not a dime but your servitude, for their crimes" And so, our hearts become bricks Heavy, bland and without a beat left to strife, to make ends meet And we become old Remaining days, sparse and numbered and to ourselves, we're left to ponder And she was young Somewhere near age four or five Fathoming, how to survive She gazed in my eyes asked me "What's it like to die?" The question took me by surprise She stared down my soul My face was blank, heart at a halt Wanting to know, who was at fault? I had no words just a thought I know my days are sparse and numbered By this child, left to wonder..... What's it like on the other side? I saw a woman on the other side. Are the grasses green? Rivers pristine? Death to the queen? Who keeps us unseen? child, left to wonder..... What's it like on the other side? I saw a woman on the other side. Are the grasses green? Rivers pristine? Death to the queen? Who keeps us unseen?
7.
Graceland 03:11
(…..)
8.
Coke, No Ice 05:15
Another long walk home, Its freezing and its cold Cars plow us off the rode, and tell us wear to go Pennies and a buck, sirens time to duck bitch about our luck, about the girls we fucked The walk home took all night, diner-stop for a bite Enough change for a coke no ice, someday things might be nice Since you left the world's empty, too soon departed my good friend Winter will always remind me, how you knew the world would end Another walk from camp, its freezing and its damp shortcut up the ramp, took a hit from a glass-lamp Bus-stop in the rain, fell asleep on the train Busted lip left a stain, johnny-red will ease the pain Since you left the world's empty, too soon departed my good friend Winter will always remind me, how you knew the world would end How could we know the world would end, without warning just like you had said so 'til this day the winter remembers, the world was deprived that early December
9.
Duffless 04:12
Drowning now, pounding them, how? A kid once pure now drowns himself, in everything he feared Ten years and one, the first half was fun The last of which drags innocence so far away from here He's bloated, income corroded Choked up and breathless, viability at it's end Sinning, is (not) winning Anything pushed to excess, is not a godsend Once golden, now stolen This vessel of apathy sits in the hole in his chest This back and forth, for what its worth A lesson learned the hard way, I guess it's for the best? Denial, mistrial Perception, and the truth, are at a disparity Purified, running dry It's something that the souses call "clarity" Thinking back, when he was young Simpler times, aspiration Abundant chest, fiery eyes No worldly pleasures, to bastardize Thinking back, when the ambition was full Before the world's weight crushed his soul No excuse to destroy the mind, no excuse to destroy the mind. "There are better things that you will find...…."
10.
Fixation. Captivation. Obsession. Infatuation. Emasculated. Manipulated. Facilitated. Predominated. Aforementioned, Addiction. Departed, Temptation. Abrupting, Disposition. Contriving, Liberation. I hate to break the news to you, but our time as one was not so blissful. Please don't think your role as sound, 'cause tramps like you are a dime a fistful. Nothing is irreplaceable, finally I see that much clearer For lust, like life, it comes and goes. You, my dear, are in the rearview mirror. You think you're the "special one", and your charm may hurt like a loaded gun. But I know now, I only stunted my own suffrage. It took a decade, but now I act my age. Now I know, you are not the only one...…..

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released September 1, 2018

Cigarette Smoking Man. Schlitz Records.

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