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Permanent Population
06:17
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There’s a permanent population that everybody knows
A permanent way to greet someone from his hair down to his toes
There’s a permanent way to smile, and a permanent way to laugh
And everybody knows they’re coming back
There’s a permanent population that everybody sees
A permanent way to see the sun coming down between the leaves
There’s a permanent way to love, and a permanent way to die
But everybody knows it’s not their time
There’s a permanent permutation on which we all agree
A permanent way to be the man that we all want to be
There’s a permanent way to walk, and a permanent way to cry
And nobody will notice that we’ve died
Woah
Everybody wants to know
It’s a permanent situation for our society
A permanent way to preserve proper neural-chemistry
A permanent way to think and a permanent way to know
The problem is not everybody knows
How do we choose the people who should know?
There’s a permanent salutation that we’re all forced to make
There’s a permanent pressure on our backs causing some of us to break
There’s a permanent way to “Oh!” and a permanent way to “No!”
The problem is not everybody flows
How do we choose the people who should flow?
Woah
Everybody wants to know
There’s a permanent population that everybody knows
There’s a permanent way to greet someone from his hair down to his toes
There’s a permanent way to smile, and a permanent way to laugh
And everybody knows they’re coming back
And everybody knows they’re coming back
And everybody knows they’re coming back
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2. |
All Because of Me
04:30
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When you wake up in life
You’re given a motion, an ocean, emotions are yours now to feel
And you can invite them all in your door
Sit at my table, you’re able, to stable yourselves through your ears
And then we can listen, like we’re human beings
Then hopefully, woefully, so slowly we’ll start to learn
But I did circles round normalcy
And I tried to change Earth for the better
And I saw things that one should never see
And, yeah it’s all because of me
Grown: how I see myself
But it’s my ego, let me go, I’m free, no, I want to myself
I can’t relate, don’t know what you mean
It’s easy just watch me, now please be the same that I am
Why don’t you leave, let me sit in peace
Is that not what you want, what I want, and they want for everyone here
But I did circles round normalcy
And I tried to change Earth for the better
And I saw things that one should never see
And, yeah it’s all because of me
But I did circles round normalcy
And I tried to change Earth for the better
And I saw things that one should never see
And, yeah it’s all because of me
And, yeah it’s all because of me
And, yeah it’s all because of me
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3. |
Cool Place to Sleep
04:17
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All day long I dream, Of laying my weary bones down
And I fall undead, indeed, I feel like I’m going to drown
All that I know is I can’t get relief
When I subject myself to this monstrous heat
Oh how I long for a cool place to sleep
A bed where my body won’t stick to the sheets
I don’t need the Ritz but I don’t want to sweat
Wake up with my pillow showing my silhouette
So now I stir, awake, Doomed just to stay aware
My skin turns slick and my head starts to ache
With sleep I have this strange affair
All that I know is I can’t get relief
When I subject myself to this monstrous heat
Oh how I long for a cool place to sleep
A bed where my body won’t stick to the sheets
I don’t need the Ritz but I don’t want to sweat
Wake up with my pillow holding my silhouette
What would it be like to wake up in a world where we were
All tempered right
Everybody everywhere would have a good night
Oh how I long for a cool place to sleep
A bed where my body won’t stick to the sheets
I don’t need the Ritz but I don’t want to sweat
Wake up with my pillow showing my silhouette
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4. |
Dissonance in Cognition
04:02
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No you’re not making angels with your lies, with your lies
No you’re not making saviors in my mind, in my mind
And all the while you think you’re working
It’s death defying circle jerking
I will rise above and overcome, overcome
The insanity that you propose
It’s a constant falsehood overload
I’m grasping tight to everything I know
To call it out like I see it I’m afraid, I’m afraid
Leave it alone and let you mean it is not OK, is not OK
So all of my homegrown frustration
Stems from your mind’s masturbation
Ideology is my best friend, best friend
Dissonance that’s in cognition
Won’t suffice for this musician
I get a little wearier each day
Hold me closer now to the window pane
I want to see again, once more
Open up the glass I want to feel the rain
On my face before the clouds are gone
So all of my homegrown frustration
Stems from your mind’s masturbation
Ideology is my best friend, best friend
Dissonance that’s in cognition
Won’t suffice for this musician
I get a little wearier each day
Hold me closer now to the window pane
Open up the glass I want to feel the rain
No you’re not making angels with your lies, with your lies
No you’re not making saviors in my mind, in my mind
And all the while you think you’re working
It’s death defying circle jerking
I will rise above and overcome, overcome
The insanity that you propose
It’s a constant falsehood overload
I’m grasping tight to everything I know
I’m grasping tight to everything I know
I’m grasping tight to everything I know
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5. |
American Dream
04:50
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I wanna live in an American Dream
Where everybody lives compassionately
Help your neighbor, helps those in need
I wanna live in an American Dream
Where everybody values honesty
From the way bottom, to the top of the tree
But we can’t agree when there’s falsehoods all around
If you look in the streets there’s hatred in the ground
There’s hatred in the ground that we’re standing on
But it’s not crazy if you say it out loud
That everybody should be thriving and proud
But we can’t get there if we’re all fast asleep
We gotta wake up and take up the cause for this American Dream
I wanna live in an American Dream
Where we can all think reflectively
Not I am better, But how can I be?
I wanna live in an American Dream
Where everybody acts persistently
Don’t get it two times? Then try it three
Try with me...
Admitting defeat is the easy way to get out
Reality disregarded in place of greed
We’re filled to the brim with greed
But it’s not crazy if you say it out loud
That everybody should be thriving and proud
But we can’t get there if we’re all fast asleep
We gotta wake up and take up the cause for this American Dream
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Isaac Edwin
Isaac Edwin is a songwriter living in Appleton, Wisconsin
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