1. |
Drain the Swamp
02:43
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There is no other way
We start over today
I am right here
Tucked out of sight and out of mind
Behind these walls, on stolen time
I am right here
Kept from my life
Lost everything while trapped inside
There is no fix for this
Tear them down to start again
I am right here
Tucked out of sight and out of mind
Behind these walls, on stolen time
I am right here
Kept from my life
Lost everything while trapped inside
Sent out to the streets
Murderers armed too the teeth
Intimidate in uniform
Profiling for fresh meat
We have to drain this swamp
Otherwise this will never stop
We'll never get back what we lost
Don't call the fucking cops
The cycle just repeats
The shepherd tends to his sheep
I am right here
Tucked out of sight and out of mind
Behind these walls, on stolen time
I am right here
Kept from my life
Lost everything while trapped inside
We're all right here in this same life
Losing everything while trapped inside
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2. |
Tangled in the Trees
03:11
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When I wake up, it still sees me
I feel it following me around
I can't break it, I won't make it
And there's never time to slow this down
When I wake up, I see it waiting
Any chance to knock me off my feet
Wish I could end this, I'll never fix it
A suicide on repeat
Go away each time I need to, to get through
Go away each night I slip away
I built a smile, to buy my way back in
Victor of this war of attrition
You will bleed the same as me
We are lost together
I know I am
My favorite fucking lie, you get another try
Life or death both come easy, giving up the watchful eye
Fully loaded to burn out, what's stopping your escape
Duck out on obligation, time to say your good bye
The stars climb through the darkness creeping as I am leaving
The light tangled up above, I hope that I'm still breathing
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3. |
Concatenation
02:46
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I wanna live it like there's no tomorrow, nothing to follow
Illusion of control is chipped away with every end and every passing
Losing everything will happen
I've given up, on any answers now
Always building back up, to watch it all come down
Do what a normal person does
What is a happy person supposed to believe
The last time I open my eyes
I want to be with anyone but me
I wanna live it like there's no tomorrow
Nothing to stop and nothing to follow
Avoiding regret when everything's hollow
Giving up on faith, or any answers now
Trying to build back up, to watch it all come down
Do what a normal person does
What is a happy person supposed to believe
The last time I open my eyes
I want to be with anyone but me
What we leave behind untouched
What we leave behind undone
I wanna know what you were thinking
Were you alone or were you singing
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4. |
Not Worth the Bullet
02:08
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Born in a cage
on concrete floors
you'll never see her again
The first light that you see will be the last room that you'll ever know
Waking up today thinking it's my last
Claw to the top try to breathe in a sea of trash
Ripped from my feet and beaten will I bled
Not worth the bullet so a boot is used to crush my head
Fuck you you hypocrite
Until the day you quit
Don't think the blood's not on your hands
For nothing
this cycle
it won't stop
This nightmare
should not be ignored
it should be taught
Everything is obsolete so fast
It's easier to ignore the path
We have to make tough choices just to survive each and every day
It seems to straightforward to me
It's not some far off falling tree
Front and center it's all I see
It's not some far off falling tree
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5. |
Colors that Bleed
02:53
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Every day I see
faces of the deceased
The past still haunts me
A clouded history
painted before me
Colors that still bleed
We all play our part
Blackens my soul to know that I
help every day institutionalize
And benefit while I decry
Naïveté threatens all of our lives
Stop and listen closely
Turn on any TV
Built into everything
In school it's what we're learning
White washing keeps it turning
The victor's rewording
It never ends
We do as we are asigned
Into a single file line
Our hands are bound behind
Turn on each other and don't question the design
We all play our part
Blackens my soul to know that I
help every day institutionalize
And benefit while I decry
Naïveté is a coward's disguise
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6. |
Boxes
02:58
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Skyscrapers always fall so build a wall
Water has the first floor but we ignore
I'm running out of food
No money to move
Isolated surrounded
No power in weeks
Nothing to drink
Desperation breeds motive
A past fiction
Some twisted belief
Reality from a lost dream
Your property placed above me
To live like kings while I bleed
Put profits in your pockets
Product intentionally toxic
Rebuild the world in you image
Tailor existence for the privileged
You think you're being attacked
You gauge into the black
Your practice comes back to haunt you
You've really left no choice
Don't mean to disappoint
Your things won't stop this from ending
A past fiction
Some twisted belief
Reality from a lost dream
Your property placed above me
To live like kings while I bleed
Put profits in your pockets
Product intentionally toxic
Rebuild the world in you image
Tailor existence for the privileged
Bloodletting labor from the hungry
Vampires feeding on money
Don't wanna be what's expected of me
but face to face with the reaper I will save my family
Through the camera paint us as fucking animals
And open your doors to me
Free to the community
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7. |
Straight Face
03:45
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The moon climbs pulling at this city
A manufactured pretense with me
So where the fuck does this all end
Another rise and fall begins
You think you've got this figured out
Until it wins again
Silently suffocate
Underneath my skin
I'm giving up my front today
So I can try to breathe
I can't make it all work
Or force it underneath
I can't let go, remove myself from this
Take everything you want, everything I miss
A face I built from scratch, to buy some time
Just looking for a pass, relieved of my crimes
You think you've got this figured out
Until it wins again
Silently suffocate
Underneath my skin
I'm giving up this front today
So I can try to breathe
I can't make it all work
Or force it underneath
Run away far from everyone but it finds you
It always finds me
Each time I tell myself that this is the last time
This won't ever fulfill
A fight you were born to lose
Underneath the falling moon
Keep a straight face
Internalized rampage
Keep a straight face
Internalize another day
So where is this supposed to end
Protect myself when I pretend
I fell into this maybe I can can climb
It feels like I am slowly running out of time
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8. |
Death Related Party
02:19
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You'll never know what is right
Until you know what is wrong
Casualties lining my wake
Now that I am an outlaw
I had no choice but to shoot
I put the knife in the back
Poisoned our last cocktail
Rode out of town dressed in black
I bleed every day from what these hands have done
I'm haunted by the life I took from someone
I watch the moon turning red with blood on my hands
The nightmare took over my life
I stood over two bodies ripped from me I'll never be the same
Living a life on the run
I stopped breathing once before
I bled out across the floor
Trying to take some control
Of a life lost in the war
I did again each day from what these hands have done
I'm haunted by the life I could have begun
Giving up on being ok
Nothing feels the same
Giving up on being ok
Nothing will ever be the same
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9. |
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Put it on mute
Hate every fucking chord
Just turn it off
Ignore every word
The words remain even when the meaning's change
Etched in stone so I don't forget
I'm not ready yet
Everything comes to an end
We're all lost and condemned
Everything will always end
No one will ever win
Asleep at the wheel
Staying numb so I don't have to feel
Drifting afraid of another crash
Passing me by in a flash
Just shut me out
Not another fucking breath
Don't worry any more
Silence until death
The words remain even when the meaning's change
Etched in stone so I don't forget
I'm not ready yet
Everything comes to an end
We're all lost and condemned
Everything will always end
No one will ever win
Asleep at the wheel
Staying numb so I don't have to feel
Drifting afraid of another crash
Passing me by in a flash
Obvious critiques
Another round nothing unique
Another cut only skin deep
For nothing I bleed
Is it worth it
Is it worth anything at all
Let it all just burn down to the ground
The fire burns so we can build a new sound
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10. |
Look What You Created
02:52
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Would you fuck me in a hotel room
Maybe in your car I need money for food
Look down your turned up nose I don't fucking care
I'll take anything you have that you can spare
Do you need some coffee wanna take a punch
Work with a hammer or pick up fucking lunch
Every single night stuck behind the wheel
Doing everything I can not to steal
I'd rather be a thief than to die in the streets
Everything I can for a meal
Can't face another day when the night brings the pain
Strip away the light to rewrite all that remains
I know her real name
She danced just for me
this nobody
Learn to play the game
Behind the bars
we'll always be (Forever be)
Work a double or suckle from the teet
On your feet or on a spreadsheet
There's no choice we all have to sell our soul
Living life at the bottom of a hole
Check to check the final notice heats my room
The cars impounded and I need some money soon
Every single night hurt myself to feel
Doing everything I can not to steal.
Six feet under ground
we keep spinning
together trapped
no ending
Clawing flesh and ripping at hair
We are all running out of air
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11. |
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Something always just kinda looks off
It works its way down into my walk
It's being sick without knowing what to do
It's being sick without anything to prove
Every day you wake up beside me, defining, confining
It's real, electric, dysphoria that builds
It waves it floods into my empulse
Sometimes I feel like I walk the walk
Most of the time it feels like it just won't stop
It's being uncomfortable in your own skin
Extra weight pushing out from within
Don't want a perfect face
A job or my own place
No one for me to chase
Nothing's lost when nothing's gained
I don't need anything from you
I don't give a fuck what you do
Never wanted more than I knew
I don't need anything from you
Lie to myself, so I can breath
Or maybe blind, so I can see
It never stops, the world you replace
Passing me by, while I just remain
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12. |
Plastic Life
03:07
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She died sitting next to me
Everything that she used to be
I threw the body out into the sea
A broken promise now guides me
Off with the head of the fucking queen
Regicide keeps me living lean
I buried myself that same fucking day
everything was taken away
A couch to borrow a night's sleep
Living in a car on the street
Everything I own packed in these seats
This plastic life
There's nothing at the bottom
Just room to keep on falling
I looked the other way while my life passed
I guess I have to thank the supporting cast
It's always bittersweet, leveled by loss
Tearing through all you know
Burn it all cost
I buried myself that day
Watching it all burn away
She died sitting next to me
everything that we used to be
I dumped the bodies out into the sea
Trying to find some relief
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13. |
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The arrogance to think anyone give's a fuck but me
Anyone else but me, anyone but me
Don't cry for me
I'm already dead
Watching it all rise in the smoke
by firelight we fled
We've come this far
and sold our names
But every dream I once saw
is lost forever to the flames
I've tried to hide, run from who I am
Want to find reason, validate this fallen plan
This is the last night, the last time I will sing this song
Find another reason why we could never belong
Keep toward the lights, it grows before your eyes
You've almost reached the walls, where you will come to die
There's nothing there for me, I've always wanted to see
To feel something other than regret, to feel something real from you
In your dreams you will die
Ripped apart right in front of your eyes
Torn apart while you burn alive
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14. |
State Sanctioned
02:23
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A murderer, a rifle
Shoot from above with a bible
And criminals, state sanctioned
Both hiding behind a false shield
Isolated it twists to stay concealed
There is no other way
predators prey
Something we will udno
but start with the blue
Clutch to what you feed your delusion
The false sense of your safety falls away
Trained for war and conditioned to be prejudiced
so we all feel safe
I feel the weight
when they break
what they are supposed to maintain
The rights they take
in the name
keeping the power in place
An echo chamber of just one
then add a gun
The good guy is proven untrue
so it's just you
It seems like you just might be a little scared
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15. |
They Live
02:45
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Follow the leader it feels safe
You don't want to make a mistake
Hiding behind a safe distance
Easier to ignore than stop and resist
Hiding behind a quiet remiss
You just don't want to offend but it maintains
that status quo you know, comfort of the same
Blind and oblivious, the violence
echoes from idle hands
Stick to your side and know your place
Devotion until time to replace
Hiding behind safe space you put in place
Hiding behind false claims that nothing's wrong
Leave it alone
Easy to miss and it is hard to see
you've won the war without doing a thing
Running out of time we are dying
Backs against the wall
We keep fighting
Fuck the privileged just biting their tongue
Fuck the narcissist hiding behind beliefs
ingrained from when they were young, destined to repeat
Fuck the pacifist staying out of the fight
Fuck the many screaming hate into the night
Marching with torches in the dark down your street tonight
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This cemetary that I brave
This razorblade is the grave
Tie me down, I don't want to move
Watch me drown in sedation and dilute
From deep below, my will to take
Guided true north taking a break
Falling into this Fortunate Paradise
It's better to serve in hell
than to have never lived and died
I remember when I first fell
I could no longer lie
This bottle is empty
My stomache is not
One pill for me
Two pills to be forgot
Bloodlet to the last drop
The pain will fade
slow drip until it goes away
In a new life I embrace
this fallen state
Grab a razor
fix the mistake
This cemetary before me
Inherited at infancy
Tie me up, this time I want to feel
A blackened face, attempting to conceal
From deep below, my will to take
Guided true north taking a break
Falling into this Fortunate Paradise
It's better to serve in hell
than to have never lived and died
I remember when I first fell
I could no longer lie
This bottle is empty
My stomache is not
One pill for me
Two pills to be forgot
Bloodlet to the last drop
The pain will fade
slow drip until it goes away
In a new life I embrace
this fallen state
Grab a razor
fix the mistake
A smile on my face
as my sentence is read
Under the lake of fire
walking among the dead
I've been removed for far too long
finding it harder to pretend to be strong
Harder to hid that there is something wrong
it always tags along
Here alone is where this came to be
Here alone it's all I've come to see
You've always found your way back to me, to me
This is a life sentence for me, for me
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melodic hardcore anarcho-punk from long beach, ca
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