Monday morning schools so boring
Go to work like a jerk and end up snoring
Tuesdays mail never fails
Collection agency wants me in jail

Wednesday's rules got me ignoring, deploring
All my tensions roaring
Thursday same shit different day
But these mother fucking rules will never ever go away

Fuck the rules, fuck fuck the rules, c'mon
Fuck the rules, fuck fuck the rules, c'mon
Fuck the rules, fuck fuck the rules, c'mon
Fuck the rules, fuck fuck the rules

Friday night gonna be out of sight
If you're 21 they say drinking might be fun
Saturday Bible says seventh day
Go take a rest so have it your way

Go for a ride keep it under 55
Respect the badge don't drink and drive
Sunday gotta survive these fascist fools
Take your freedom back from the bullshit rules

Call me paranoid, call me what you will
I got a fucking feeling something big is going down
Call me paranoid, call me what you will
I got a fucking feeling something big is going down

Fuck the rules, fuck fuck the rules, c'mon
Fuck the rules, fuck fuck the rules, c'mon
Fuck the rules, fuck fuck the rules, c'mon
Fuck the rules, fuck fuck the rules, c'mon

Fuck the rules, fuck fuck the rules, c'mon
Fuck the rules, fuck fuck the rules, c'mon
Fuck the rules, fuck fuck the rules, c'mon
Fuck the rules, fuck fuck the rules

Call me paranoid, call me what you will
I got a fucking feeling something big is going down
Call me paranoid, call me what you will
I got a fucking feeling something big is going down

Fuck the rules, fuck fuck the rules, c'mon
Fuck the rules, fuck fuck the rules, c'mon
Fuck the rules, fuck fuck the rules, c'mon
Fuck the rules, fuck fuck the rules, c'mon

Fuck the rules, fuck fuck the rules, c'mon
Fuck the rules, fuck fuck the rules, c'mon
Fuck the rules, fuck fuck the rules, c'mon
Fuck the rules, fuck fuck the rules

So many things these eyes have seen
People I've met and places I've been
Inconceivable how one maintains
In the game with the pain and the strain on the brain
How reality's plane can wear you down
And make you an insane man who only frowns
City hardened and cold just like me
Anger has numbed my eyes from all they see, from all they see

Like a workingman's skin as it turns to leather
The mind of the youth is forced to weather
An assault on his senses by his parents and peers
That preys on innocence, weakness and fears
Manifestation of rage runs deep
Over the edge of sanity, thoughts creep
Violent reaction, bitter and mean
A product of what these eyes have seen

These eyes have seen inhuman sights
I hold my breath with all my might
Like anyone else in our own hells
It seems obscene, the things I've seen
I hold my breath with all my might
These eyes have seen inhuman sights

Lost count of how many wakes were attended
Mind and body never quite mended
Do you think this is what life intended?
At fourteen your life has ended
Maybe your spirit is battered and broken
From shit you've seen and words that were spoken
Death, violence, drugs all around
These eyes have seen some shit go down

These eyes have seen inhuman sights
I hold my breath with all my might
Like anyone else in our own hells
It seems obscene the things I've seen

Emptiness slips into my mind
Emotion so fucking hard to find
I center myself in this universe
With peace amongst all the pains and hurts

I think of all the things that would've been
And the time I could've spent with him
But again comes sadness creeping in
Again comes sadness creeping in

Taken by surprise stigmatized
By the things I've seen with my own eyes
Traumatized until I realize
That I gotta go on with my life

I can only guess what I should've done then
Wandering alone on the path I've chosen
Lumbering along towards inevitable fate
I await an answer, I wrestle with hate

I question your life and the choices you made
I question myself with righteousness and rage
Confused and sick from mistakes I've made
Confused and sick from mistakes I've made

Taken by surprise stigmatized
By the things I've seen with my own eyes
Traumatized until I realize
That I gotta go on with my life

Stigmatized
Stigmatized

Questions to ponder about letting go
Answers I find towards peaceful flow
People take shit for granted as given
Not in this world that I live in

Stigmatized
Stigmatized

Questions to ponder about letting go
Answers I find towards peaceful flow
People take shit for granted as given
Not in this world that I live in

In my eyes, stigmatized
I realize, stigmatized
No more lies, stigmatized
Stigmatized, stigmatized

On your knees before the mighty them, receive communion once again,
Obey and follow strict laws to the letter,
Do as you're told and life will be better,
Go with the flow, avoid the strife, let unknown powers rule your life,
A box of glass dictates your death stolen minds innocence last breath.


On your knees pray to the one you appease.


Whatever happened to the good old days no mental smokescreen subliminal haze,
Corporate society prints out your thoughts spirituality sold and bought.
Now your life is all dictated, all you stood for, all you hated,
Establishment prevails again on your knees before the mighty them.


Look in my eyes and you will find,
Another way to get through your life,
Stare at my face, make up your mind,
And you will find love at first sight,
Connect your soul now get online,
Mind control taking your life.


Try not to look 'cause you might turn to stone,
How much time do you really think on your own?
Just trying to be yourself don't wanna be like no one else,
It was something that was once pure and the truth was meant to endure,
Gotta find out who's to blame gotta end this mind control game.

The dirt's so thick it won't come clean
All around a haze like a smoke screen
I can't see you but you'll see me
But I might be gone before you count to three
The waters are totally polluted
The armies inside my head have feuded
One side has smothered, the other
The disease it spreads and begins to cover

Maggot infested soul of mine
Has painted me in a corner, confined
My vision is blurred, no reason, no rhyme
Help me escape these walls I climb

I'm drowning in my own shit, gasping
Gagging on the vomit asphyxiated
Looking for a grip on the soap with a rope
So I get clean and begin to cope
Scrub me till I'm raw, an open sore oozing
Unless I'm clean, I might start losing
My mind and my life would have a fucked-up ending
Thank god, if you ever see cleansing

Maggot infested soul of mine
Has painted me in a corner, confined
My vision is blurred, no reason, no rhyme
Help me escape these walls I climb

Sewn my eyes shut, can't you see I'm smothered?
Deaf, dumb and blind, dirt has covered
The windows which let the light shine through
Cleansing of the soul, for I am you
The windows that let the light shine through
Cleansing of the soul, for I am you
Cleansing of the soul, for I am you
Cleansing of the soul, for I am you

The last time I slept, I dreamt
Friend and I, we got so high
On top of mountains, deep in the sky
Way up high where the white goes by
The air is thin and hard to breathe
But with a friend near by your side

You can conquer world
Or wander around all starry-eyed
I laid there and dreamt along for a ride
Took in the journey, my friend beside
It all seemed so real, it all seemed surreal
My friend and I were one deep inside

These dreams come and go and are never the same
I await new journeys, asleep I remain
When I hold my eyes, shut tight I dream
I dream at night, through my dreams I scream
Why do people fuck, go and have to change?
What pushed my friend to tap the vein?
Asleep at night, I visit my friend
Asleep at night, I miss my friend

The dirts so thick it won't come clean
All around a haze like a smoke screen
I can't see you but you'll see me
But I might be gone before you count to three
The waters are totally polluted
The armies inside my head have feuded
One side has smothered, the other
The disease it spreads and begins to cover

Maggot infested soul of mine
Has painted me in a corner confined
My vision is blurred no reason, no rhyme
Help me escape these walls I climb

Sewn my eyes shut, can't you see I'm smothered?
Deaf, dumb and blind, dirt has covered
The windows which let the light shine through
Cleansing of the soul, for I am you
The windows that let the light shine through
Cleansing of the soul, for I am you
Cleansing of the soul, for I am you
Cleansing of the soul, for I am you

We used to be part of the same thing
But now you make strides for the gold ring
You make our sacred ground into a slaughterhouse
You used to look me in the eye but now you look me up and down

Competition always looking out for self
Indecision and then your friendship fell
No religion, no ethics in your ways
I pray for you to see the error of your days
I pray for you to see the error of your ways

Step up for the crew to represent
But what do you stand for? You only resent
It was all for one but now you blew it
I know you're not down, I can see right through it

Competition always looking out for self
Indecision and then your friendship fell
No religion, no ethics in your ways
I pray for you to see the error of your days
I pray for you to see the error of your ways

What you give is what you get
And I know it's not respect
What you give is what you get
Jealous ways you'll soon regret

Competition always looking out for self
Indecision and then your friendship fell
No religion, no ethics in your ways
I pray for you to see the error of your days
I pray for you to see the error of your ways

Competition always looking out for self
Indecision and then your friendship fell
No religion, no ethics in your ways
I pray for you to see the error of your days
I pray for you to see the error of your ways

What you give is what you get
And I know it's not respect
What you give is what you get
Jealous ways you'll soon regret

As I look up at the sky
I wonder why Momma always cried
Was it for how fast we lived and died
Or because we never got our piece of the pie?

Busting at the seams, the American Dream
Like Meth said cream, Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Parents with good intentions never mention
The Brooklyn House of Detention

Free to fly and free to try
To get our peace before we die
Free to fly and free to try
To get our piece of the pie and die

Locking us down, we got cops all around,
The sound of sirens drown your own heart's pound
But you only wanted a piece of the pie
And in your mind's eye, Momma's still gonna cry
No matter how hard you tried, whether it's truth or lies
On the day that you die but we're free to fly
And free to try to get our piece of the pie and die

Freedom, liberty, the KKK
Modern democracy, we have no say
American Dream, The American Way
Land of the Free, Home of the Slave

Free to fly and free to try
To get our peace before we die
Free to fly and free to try
To get our peace before we die

Free to fly and free to try
To get our peace before we die
Free to fly and free to try
To get our piece of the pie and die

Freedom, liberty, the KKK
Modern democracy, we have no say
American Dream, The American Way
Land of the Free, Home of the Slave

Freedom, liberty, the KKK
Modern democracy, we have no say
American Dream, The American Way
Land of the Free, Home of the Slave

Times are changing, things come and go
Things are getting worse, the earth, a black hole
I say it to myself, "Will this shit ever change?
Will it ever improve or will it stay the same?"

It's plain to me that things are amiss
Because I've seen better days than this
How could we let it get as bad as it is?
Because I've seen better days than this
It's plain to me that things are amiss

Famine and war, hate and disgrace
Incest and murder, raping the rat race
I see no end to this suffering
Faith, hope and love are burnt offerings

It's plain to me that things are amiss
Because I've seen better days than this
How could we let it get as bad as it is?
Because I've seen better days than this
It's plain to me that things are amiss

Decline and fall of modern man
Our fate is sealed by our own hand
Time spinning onward were regressing fast
Signs of the times say these days might be our last
Better days are gone forever I fear
Our hate dictates our fate, apocalypse is here

I feel a weight that's pulling me down
But my reflex is to try to break out
Nature gives fight or flight syndrome
But my feet stay on the ground
That's how I've grown

Bred to resist the gravity of anything
That's fucking with me
Survivalist instincts through my veins are pounding
Transfused at birth by my urban surroundings

Gravity won't allow me to fly
It pulls me down, the pain, I won't cry
Resistance and drive fueled by hunger
What doesn't kill me makes me stronger

I just can't let shit get to me
Got to reflect back on what pop taught me
To be your own man no matter what
To never back down, and follow your gut

Instinct, something he said that I'd know
Something that I'd carry wherever I go
He told me someday I'd have to fight to be free
And resist the weight of gravity

Gravity won't allow me to fly
It pulls me down, the pain, I won't cry
Resistance and drive fueled by hunger
What doesn't kill me makes me stronger

Calloused hands wipe away tears
Of the pain of a man broken by years
A silent shot that nobody hears
A smoking gun of our own fears

My father worked all his life and for what
Day in, day out, caught in a rut
The pain of apathy, razor-sharp cutting
But I'll make sure he doesn't die for nothing

Gravity won't allow me to fly
It pulls me down, the pain, I won't cry
Resistance and drive fueled by hunger
What doesn't kill me makes me stronger

You walk around, always screaming about
How you're trying to get your way
You should just keep your fucking fat mouth shut
When you got nothing important to say

Because you
(You got a lot to learn)
You
(You got a lot to learn)
You
(You got a lot to learn)
You
(You got a lot to learn)

All you do is bitch about the things in life that get you down
You never care for nobody else
If you saw how your life looks to me
I think you'd be ashamed of yourself

Because you
(You got a lot to learn)
You
(You got a lot to learn)
You
(You got a lot to learn)
You
(You got a lot to learn)

(You)
You live inside your fucked-up world
Talking loud with nothing to say
You got a lot to learn about your life
Because you can't keep on living this way

Because you
(You got a lot to learn)
You
(You got a lot to learn)
You
(You got a lot to learn)
You
(You got a lot to learn)

Drug infested, narcotic, electric, schizophrenic
Murderer arrested, a child molested, a race detested
A building burnt down, insurance invested
Homelessness lingers all around
Rape, death, sickness, homeward bound
Unemployed, no love, no joy, cut down to size, a life destroyed

War, no peace, death, tragedy
No cure disease, AIDS, leprosy
A veteran dead below the knee
Eyes burn in your head, you cannot see

Spending all my time just standing in line
And I'm waiting, waiting to die
I'm watching every day of my life go by
Just waiting, waiting to die
Spending all my time just standing in line
And I'm waiting, waiting to die
I'm watching every day of my life go by
Just waiting, waiting to die

Children beaten, poisons eaten
Look at the world, we're self-defeating
Reputed, undisputedly polluted
Crack heads with guns ain't afraid to shoot it
Countries fighting for oil and gold
While the hole in the ozone layer out of control

Brother kills brother in a world full of hate
Too fucking late, our head's on a plate
Nature's dying, children crying
Human race ass in a fucking pan frying
With no one to blame except ourselves
Greed transforms our earth into hell

Spending all my time just standing in line
And I'm waiting, waiting to die
I'm watching every day of my life go by
Just waiting, waiting to die
Spending all my time just standing in line
And I'm waiting, waiting to die
I'm watching every day of my life go by
Just waiting, waiting to die

Murder
Waiting to die

Murder, Middle East assassination
Extermination, human termination
The war on drugs, humiliation
A ruined nation with no explanation
Something to hide, bound and gagged and tied
A gun in your hand at your head, suicide
It's censorship of my pure mind
No justice, no truce, no hope to find

Spending all my time just standing in line
And I'm waiting, waiting to die
I'm watching every day of my life go by
Just waiting, waiting to die
Spending all my time just standing in line
And I'm waiting, waiting to die
I'm watching every day of my life go by
Just waiting, waiting to die

The sun is shining but I don't know if it'll shine again
The sky is clear now but the clouds wait overhead
The wind stopped blowing but I see the trees are flowing
The water's calm now, feel the undertow towing me down
Towing me down

The sun's gone down now behind the dark clouds looming
Birds stop singing, silence so soothing
Dark clouds open up, I hold my rain-soaked head
Thoughts are racing by, I scream and wish that I was dead
I wish that I was dead

Gotta find a way in this world to cope
Gotta find a place in this world with hope
Gotta find a way in this world to cope
Gotta find a place in this world with hope

Gotta find a way to keep my head straight
Another day I pray to let go of hate
I break myself away from my mind
I search for inner peace, I never find

Gotta find a way to keep my head straight
Another day I pray to let go of hate
I break myself away from my mind
I search for inner peace, I never find

Pain creeps in every day
And you're trying your best not to feel this way
Some days up and some days down
Swimming in misery, you're starting to drown

Looking for the answers to impossible questions
Searching in your mind for new dimensions
Feeling so alone and you've been thinking
"I'm better off dead than alone here, sinking!"

Searching for the light and looking inside
Find out where your true strengths hide
Searching for the light and looking inside
Find out where your true strengths hide

Going on and on this pain has got to cease
Living like an animal full of disease
Further inspection now you're looking inside
To find out where your true strengths hide

You're looking around for some higher power
To get you through this darkest hour
All those years of pain are now coming through
Those cracks in your mind are nothing new to you

Searching for the light and looking inside
Find out where your true strengths hide
Searching for the light and looking inside
Find out where your true strengths hide

You're starting to slip to a whole new level
The metal of a gun pressed against your temple
One in the chamber, maybe one in your head
You can pull the trigger and your mind'll turn red

What about the things that you never did?
Getting straight, get a life, maybe having kids?
Is a moment's pleasure really worth the cost
Of looking back on your life and all the things you lost?

Don't know my future, with my past behind
I'm now reborn, new hopes to find
Free from restraints that held me down
The cycle of hate that comes around

Searching for the light and looking inside
Find out where your true strengths hide
Searching for the light and looking inside
Find out where your true strengths hide

Searching for the light and looking inside
Find out where your true strengths hide
Searching for the light and looking inside
Find out where your true strengths hide

I got this thorn in my side, I try, but I can't get it out,
Been killing me for years gone by, a miserable, painful bout,
No matter how hard and long I try to rip at it, it stays,
Buried deep inside my side enduring, every day.

Thorn in my side.

I've picked the scab, a trying way, a painful means to amend,
Rid myself from the anguish, torment that I must end,
I've lived this way for years but now I gotta move on,
An oozing sore needs tending to just like the thorn I adorn.

Misused, abused, accused, confused,
I'm sick and tired of backwards views, my soul's too tired,
All black and bruised.

Feel the warmth of the flame as it burns inside
Burning high and higher, pressure starts to climb
Turning passion into sweat and Jekyll into Hyde
Glossy eyed, unsatisfied, you can't help but deny

As my love gets set aside
As my love gets set aside
Magnified by hate inside
Magnified by hate inside

Face down upon the ground
Lookin' down at her you start to frown
Thinking to yourself
"Am I insane to do the things I do to her in vain?"

Face down upon the ground
Lookin' down at her you start to frown
Thinking to yourself
"Am I insane to do the things I do to her in vain?"

Woman beater with your hands wrapped around her neck
Deranged, demented, a psycho-social wreck
Your self-denial, hatred, got to keep it in check
You rape for love and you kill for respect

I find myself all alone
The pain won't wash away
Unless you talk what she can show
It's got to be my way

And now she is gone
The blood is on my hands
No remorse, what have I done
An act of God or man?

Face down upon the ground
Lookin' down at her you start to frown
Thinking to yourself
"Am I insane to do the things I do to her in vain?"

Face down upon the ground
Lookin' down at her you start to frown
Thinking to yourself
"Am I insane to do the things I do to her in vain?"