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Fatherhood

by The Deacon

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1.
Prayin' USA 03:52
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We shout out Can you hear us? Have doubt In your Jesus He makes What we become And then he takes Without reason He left Left us with nothing Try your best To be less trusting I ask How could a god let this pass? I think we all now see... He don’t give trust to anybody There’s light Shining down on everybody Your rights They don’t apply unless you’re lucky Nothing really matters unless Everybody’s prayin’ U.S.A. We believe In all the things we can’t see You'll agree It’s the only place for us Us to be free Keeping us on our feet Helping us make our ends meet Making our parents proud That’s why we gotta scream it Scream it so loud I guess that He don’t give trust to anybody There’s light Shining down on everybody Everybody’s got their god given right to get down on your knees and pray Nothing really matters unless Everybody’s prayin’ U.S.A. Start getting down on your knees Well if you excuse us There’s joy in our simplicity So why not just let us be Let us live inside this fantasy You can call us the unadvanced Cause we’re saving him our last dance I guess that He don’t give trust to anybody There’s light Shining down on everybody Everybody’s got their god given right to get down on your knees and pray Nothing really matters unless Everybody’s prayin’ U.S.A. We shout out Can you hear Us? Have doubt In your Jesus Once he wanted to die Wasn’t no talking him out of it, why? Then he takes Without reason He left, bet on your death, us with nothing Try your best, leaving the rest, better be trusting I ask How could a god let this pass? I think we all now see... He don’t give trust to anybody There’s light Shining down on everybody Yeah Everybody’s got their god given right to get down on your knees and pray Even if your greatest god writes songs about surfin’ in the USA If you want to go bow down to Brian Wilson, it doesn’t really matter to me I never really gave a shit about who you believe in for you sanity Everybody’s got their god given right to get down on their knees and pray Nothing really matters unless Everybody’s prayin’ US... Nothing really matters unless Everybody’s prayin’ U.S.A.
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Hooks 03:04
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We’ve got Hooks We’ve got Hooks We’ve got Hooks We’ve got hooks I never made a later delivery But I don’t know why you feel the need to argue me We never stop going around in circles To say he is a jerk would be a miracle Going alone is never easy But the way he spoke to you was never pleasing I recognize you have your separate views But that doesn’t excuse the fucking abuse You’ve got your hooks Digging in your nails Your binding Gagging Silence the wails You’ve got your hooks Turning in your screws You’re no one who will be abused Do everything you can to stop the screaming A murder serves to remedy the pain you’re feeling A celebration of sacrificial dreams From day of the dead until halloween A diamond in the rough is worth a bit of cutting So if he likes it rough, initiate the gutting Has he had enough a tortured person ain’t trusting So see through the abuse You’ve got your hooks Digging in your nails Your binding Gagging Silence the wails You’ve got your hooks Turning in your screws You’re no one who will be abused But yesterday Did he make you beg Say you wished he stayed And make the changes that you never made Cause you’re afraid What will be said And how you lie alone in your your bed And how you lie alone in bed You’ve got your hooks Digging in your nails Your binding Gagging Silence the wails You’ve got your hooks Turning in your screws You’re no one who will be abused You’ve got your hooks Digging in your nails Your binding Gagging Silence the wails You’ve got your hooks Turning in your screws You’re no one who will be abused But that doesn’t excuse the fucking abuse You’ve got your hooks We’ve got Hooks We’ve got Hooks We’ve got hooks We’ve got hooks
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Hey Boss 02:24
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Hey boss I didn’t come to play Get back to work is what you say Hey boss quit draggin’ the line, cause I Don’t feel like working overtime Why do it with no time to play? Why do it for so little pay? When do I say “fuck, it’s enough?” Not like the others, don’t want more then you gave What I deserve Favor returned is a slave Hey boss I don’t know your life Your son, your daughter, pets, or your wife How come we never see the light Except when we’ve been working overnight Hey Boss, I’m sick of the lies Working on the weekend with the rest of the guys Why do it with no time to play? Why do it for so little pay? When do I say “fuck, it’s enough?” Not like the others, don’t want more then you gave What I deserve Favor returned is a slave There’s a feeling of shame At the end of the day Not cause a lie But cause I tried to get payed Why do it with no time to play? Why do it for so little pay? When do I say “fuck, it’s enough?” Not like the others, don’t want more then you gave What I deserve Favor returned is a slave There’s a feeling of shame At the end of the day Not cause a lie But cause I tried to get payed Not like the others, don’t want more then you gave What I deserve Favor returned is a slave Whoa
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Celine 03:13
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Celine You’re gonna learn Every little thing you give you get in return One day You’ll move away Still wake up at 3am thinking it was my turn Celine You’re gonna learn You rule my world Everyday you turn More like your mother She shows me the way Celine, your sound sleep gives us pause And everyday you wake up You give me cause Everyday you’re growing more aware And every little breath you take It gives me care It’s so much easier then when I am away Everything you learn tomorrow said yesterday Celine You’re gonna learn You rule my world Everyday you turn More like your mother She shows me the way And though you’re aging I’m dreaming you’ll stay Celine She don’t know it yet But she got me impressed Makes me get the thrill and feel Like a father You’re the perfect daughter That I could have asked for That i could have That I could have That I could have Asked for Asked for Asked for Asked for Celine Yeah you rule my world Mother I’m dreaming you’ll stay Celine She got me impressed Makes me get the thrill and feel Like a father You’re the perfect daughter That I could have asked for Asked for
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In the Bay 04:26
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Running our lives Growing a child Living to see her smile Baby of mine Softly crying Go sleep awhile And imagine a path, a time when we didn’t pass I prayed that we would thrive So let’s divorce from a negative course and Enjoy our lives So take a look at my face Come and play We’ll have fun in this place Everyday Improbable Not impossible But we left the party way to late Instead of repairs They left in despair But the love never turned to hate Serendipitous hope makes life a slippery slope On ice that we never could skate A glacier ride California slide A daughter that’ll never date So take a look at my face Come and play We’ll have fun in this place Everyday I’ve written things down I wanna say Like scatter the ash In the Bay In the Bay I wanna say Come and Play I wanna say Come and play Everyday So take a look at my face Come and play We’ll have fun in this place Everyday I’ve written things down I wanna say Like scatter the ash In the Bay In the Bay In the Bay In the Bay In the Bay
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Hold On 02:41
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Hold on, I’m waiting on the phone Too long my ears forced to hear Paid advertisements and some Elevator music Jammed veins cause paralysis of brains So it might hard to get it through your skull That I’m here That I’m here till dawn breaks Don’t you think that I got what it takes Think I lost something when I called you Gonna get it if I have to crawl through Think it’s time to cut your baited line in… Brain dead, won’t you kindly come check my head Feed me pills that kindly put me to bed Or knock me out so that I lose feeling But the drugs sound more appealing Fuck off, don’t you ever tell me what to do Your only job ever was to just put me through This call ever since I placed it Made me feel like I should be wasted Never thought I’d say what I’m about to say But it’ll be better if you run away Can’t guarantee what I won’t do if you decided to stay Think I lost something when I called you Gonna get it if I have to crawl through Yeah, it’s time to cut your baited line Oh yeah you should be afraid I’ll find it This could be the end of you and I You might say that I never tried Well if to kill, that is a lie Never thought I’d say what I’m about to say But it’ll be better if you run away Can’t guarantee what I won’t do if you decided to stay Needed to say You fucked up my day Fucked it up in the worst kind of way Think I lost something when I called you Gonna get it if I have to crawl through Yeah, it’s time to cut your baited line Oh yeah you should be afraid I’ll find it This could be the end of you and I You might say that I never tried Well if to kill, that is a lie Think it’s time you said goodbye
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The Deacon 03:27
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It’s too late Baby, it’s too late I’m going and I won’t come back I try to think of times When I bowed down to you And when I think of them I lose track It’s always been Hard for you to ignore Those vices that you adore But it seems easy That your dreams will deceive Leaving you face down on the floor And I never run away Never look back Only ahead is where I go You know Where do you go It’s too late Baby, it’s too late You’re being hunted by the pack When you’ve been shouldering The weight of the world You’re feeling them on your track Do you recall The start of the fall Do you remember a thing at all And though I was cross I never wanted a loss Never worth winning the brawl And I never run away Never look back Only ahead is where I go The deacon Your mouth you despise Never want it Swallowing pride while spitting out your lies You know Where do you go I’ll never know But take it slow Feeling limbo Make me feel low It’s what you said Went to my head Feeling brain dead We’re near the edge What did you pledge I’ll never know So take it slow Feeling limbo Make me feel low It’s what you said
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Unspaced 03:09
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We’re moving to the sound Music your proving ground Our Lives Are What we vowed Happiness maybe passed Slapping you on the mask The Masses Sounding loud But now my job in life To make you have happy wife Together Forever proud It’s what choose I can lose The fight with My distorted views Or breath and see the truth That our bond is living proof And that we’ll see a better day Now that our love will never fade Away The knife will slice a piece Of my anxiety Spread It Out For the world But when I’m with Sahar I’m shielded from all harm We Hold Us And our girl And when I meditate Or when I medicate Not Compared To a me and you state I found peace in our shared lives We’ll grow the two, then say goodbye But we’ll grow old before we die Cause in the end it’s you and I It’s what choose I can lose The fight with My distorted views Or breath and see the truth That our bond is living proof And that we’ll see a better day Now that our love will never fade Away I found peace in our shared lives We’ll grow the two, then say goodbye But we’ll grow old before we die Cause in the end it’s you and I
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Realized 03:43
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It’s the needles and pins I feel when my day begins Cause pins and needles Are the greedy people Trying to win I’ve seen it before But you better believe there’s more Cause history repeats itself When they forget what’s in store And When I realized that I Loved you It was simple to admit I couldn’t Go on with it Nothing is Worse when I’m Without you Baby if you stay You’ll never Get away We needed a place To run and hide from the pace The rats and weasels Vying Trying To get ahead in the race Please welcome to the stage Your one and only personified rage Beaten Starving animal Released from its cage Don’t know how this will end When it’s beginning to trend I see your head Is getting bigger Every time you pretend You want to make like a friend But I just can’t understand How you think Life’s Only All about what you spend And When I realized that I Loved you It was simple to admit I couldn’t Go on with it Nothing is Worse when I’m Without you Baby if you stay You’ll never Get away Hooray It’s a good day When we get to go out And play It is what it is No judgement Live life your way So go Do what you do You’re free to Say what you say It’s an inevitable truth One to live by One, two, three, four Once again yeah my friend We’ll see it through to the end Yeah, you know if we fight We don’t break but we bend It’s like a serial trend After a Saturday send And if you think the afterparty’s over Please think again Cause it’s one More Down It’s a simple game of chess Where I lose Every piece is gone I’m stripped down to a pawn But at least I realize What I have to do Move across unseen So I return to my queen And When I realized that I Loved you It was simple to admit I couldn’t Go on with it Nothing is Worse when I’m Without you Baby if you stay You’ll never Get away

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