CAN'T WASH OFF THE STAINS mcd / 10"

HANDS UNTIED
We´re under the PRESSURE of society, we´re under the pressure of conformity
We´d risk our health, we´d risk our families to prevent being left behind our time
We try so hard to prevent mediocrity, prevent the feeling of inferiority
Then someday we realise we´re NOT GOOD ENOUGH anymore, the foundation collapses and we got nothing left

I´D RATHER DIE THAN LIVE CRAWLING, just follow my DESIRES and the FIRE in my heart
I´d rather die than live crawling, I´ll REMAIN unchained, uncontrolled with my HANDS UNTIED

Is this really what we are working towards?
Is this how we´d like the world to be like?
We occupy ourselves with things that REPLACE reality
We´re occupied preparing our own DEMISE
You once had your mind full of hopes anf dreams, but you were just lacking time to live them
Now you try running, even though you know you can´t hide
You SELF-PITY contaminates your friday drink

I´D RATHER DIE THAN LIVE CRAWLING, just follow my DESIRES and the FIRE in my heart
I´d rather die than live crawling, I´ll REMAIN unchained, uncontrolled with my HANDS UNTIED

I never wanna regret the things I didn´t do, sitting bitter by a pint looking back how life just PASSED me BY
Are we here just to please? Are we here to entertain?
WHY do we poison our minds with fear, denial and hate?
Why do we torture ourselves to death?
Working for nothing, burned out and stressed
I will LIVE FOR TODAY, stand strong for what I am, ´cause lying to yourself makes you only bleed inside

FACE THE UNAVOIDABLE
Facing the BURDENS that this life creates, from time to time it´s just a DEAD-END, you got your head on hands, staring at the floor
It leaves you COLD and bitter, you feel so damn alone
No matter how you try ,you always end up derailed, but hey you made your bed, now sleep in it
Looking at the world through an empty glass, it only casts a picture of a LIVING WRECK and you start looking for solutions to end this misery
If I pull this through, I´ll be stronger in the end

To find PERSISTENCE to get through the hardest times and DETERMINATION to push through fucking every wall

Just gotta face it, it´s UNAVOIDABLE LIKE DEATH
It´s surrounding me like a GIANT WEB
FACE THE DARKNESS only then you can see the light
Gotta FALL DOWN to rise back up again

In these times of selfishness it might be too naieve to believe in HONESTY, LOYALTY and SINCERITY
THE WORLD AIN`T BLACK&WHITE, I know it by know, but it seems you can trust no one anymore
KNOW YOUR ENEMY or shout at empty walls, Accept disappointments, weaknesses and your flaws

Just gotta face it, it´s UNAVOIDABLE LIKE DEATH
It´s surrounding me like a GIANT WEB
FACE THE DARKNESS only then you can see the light
Gotta FALL DOWN to rise back up again

Gotta feel the pain and suffering in order to feel alive again, just STEP OVER THE THRESHOLD and you´ll see you can RISE ABOVE all that filth
It´s hard to carry all the weight and sometimes it crashes you down, you just gotta redeem your heart from THE ASHES OF every DEFEAT

EXPENDABLE
How can I carry on? You can offer JUST A FRAGMENT of what I need to live, I´m suffocating because you suck the life out of everything you lay your hands on and leave us here to ROT, to be disposed of
To the sound of these grinding machines I linger on and dwell, no signs of life in this living hell
To the sound of the GREEN, we march together at the same pace, then we suffer, then we sleep

WE, THE EXPENDABLE, can be replaced, can be disposed
WE ARE THE MASSES, THE EXPENDABLE

How am I supposed to breath in this degradation which insults and humiliates our INDEPENDENCE?
You try and compensate it by giving us the freedom to choose between the PLAGUE and the CANCER
And with our petty efforts to try and make a change, we get labelled as terrorists
You`re so drunk with power that it corrupts your mind and eyes
Will we ever be able to SEE?

WE, THE EXPENDABLE, can be replaced, can be disposed
WE ARE THE MASSES, THE EXPENDABLE

(And with the fragments that I can find I try to build my life)


NEW UPRISING
Swimming upstream in a river of negativity, it only kills all its vitality
There´ll be NO MOVEMENT, it will cause it to stagnate and die out
Sow the seeds of REBELLION on a fertile ground, only then there´s some hope to be found
Intolerance to all fresh and new makes us run around in circles

Can you hear THE CALLING?
A NEW UPRISING
We need a new breed, a revival, a consolidation

To RESIST oppression, to resist suppression, apathy, stagnation and boredom
It´s MORE than just a sound, it´s a way we control our own lives
It´s not what you say, it only counts what you do
You can start the chance with a look in the mirror
Don´t procrastinate to step closer to a reconciled world now

Can you hear THE CALLING?
A NEW UPRISING
We need a new breed, a revival, a consolidation

More steps FORWARD, no steps back, GO!

Can you hear the calling? Can you hear the sound?
A new uprising, we´ll burn em down X2

NO RECESS
From alleyways to gutters, from happiness to pain
Everything will leave its mark, you can´t wash off THE STAINS
Something´s telling me to put an END to all of this
Yet it´s too late to think of all the chances that I´ve missed
I´m messed up. I´m RESTLESS, broken and so fragile
Drunk on monday morning in the shadow of the sun
I´m not sure how low I´m going, but the only way back is up
I just leave my mark in the questbook then take off
Some of us GROW UP and some grow old

I´m leaving to a PLACE yet UNKNOWN
In here there´s NO RECESS
I´m leaving to a place yet unknown
Where the SPARKS OF HOPE still havent´t died

So many different places, a lot of blurry memories
Where I´ll crash tomorrow, no one really knows
Sometimes it´s hard to wake up from the bed of NAILS
I need a vacation from all the insanity
But I´d rather be a free man and CONTROL what I do
Than a SLAVE in a fuckin cell and wallow in bitterness
When I stop to think back and sum this all up
I would change a day, even the ones that were so fucking rough
Got my head held up high with NO REGRETS

I´m leaving…

In the times of self-destruction, I HATE MY LIFE and wanna throw it away
But still I won´t change direction even though this path AIN´T PAVED IN GOLD
Into the unknown that´s where I´m heading
I´m on a quest for a PLACE CALLED HOPE
Into the unknown, my destination
Of something to call my OWN

I´m leaving…

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