GENUFLECT LYRICS

1. Wither Within

Now, what do you say to them, when they say that you're nobody, no one and nothing at all?
Not anymore! Not anymore! Not anymore!

You're playing those games again, while they're playing you,
Hanging you up with your back to the wall
Not anymore! Not anymore! Not anymore!

Now what do we do, and what do we say? You take what you get till they take it away
Not anymore! Not anymore! Not anymore!

Now what do we say to them?
Never again!
So busy placating them but never again!
What do we have to say, boys?
Never again!
You want to be prey?
Obey, and wither within!

Back up on top
Record Profits
No stopping it
Ravenous circling sharks
Not anymore! Not anymore! Not anymore!

You're one step behind - and it's all by design
Now, you're heir to the throne - or you're back of the line
Not anymore! Not anymore! Not anymore!

Now what do we say to them?
Never again!
So busy placating them- but never again!
What do we have to say, girls?
Never again!
You want to be prey?
Obey, and wither within!

I see your side, and I see your pride
It all lies within your eyes
Your idolatry for your currency has you reaching for the skies

Making a buck - but this game is fixed,
Just look at these puppets and puppeteer tricks
Tweedle-Dee, Tweedle-Dum; twiddling thumbs
You wanna be blind and deaf and dumb?
Then follow them hollow-men all the way down
To the bottomless pit of oppression and war
You think you'd have nothing to fear in those eyes
But not anymore - not anymore - not anymore...

Surround the pit - surround the pit - surround the pit and sing 'never again!'
Dead end, my friends
Condemned to descend
Now, we must transcend, we sing 'not anymore!'
Burn the wick
Return the kick
Now spurn the wicked, sing 'never again!'
We've rounded the bend - we've rounded the bend
We've rounded the bend, now we - wither within!
We wither within!

Invisible and anonymous went wandering through the woods -
Wondering who's who just like the owl says they should

Now what do we say to them?
Never again!
So busy placating them- but never again!
What do we have to say, now?
Never again!
You want to be prey?
Obey, and -
Wither within!

2. Gather In The Streets

Another day gone by
Another struggle
Another working mother, out, pulling a double
Yet still making less pay
And it's the same for minorities
But pale old men say "We know what's best for them"
It's persecution with a pen
You call this a government? Shit!
You fill your prisons with the victims of addiction
Fuck you and your jurisdiction
That's my non-fiction depiction of these pigs

The people gather in the streets tonight
We're here to demonstrate dissent
Now, let the youth uprise
This is a movement - a revolution
We know we hold the keys

Another poor man dies - "Here, have a shovel"
Another 'mom and pop shop' reduced to rubble
Now you're making less pay
Or could be fired if you're gay
But hey, Mr. Pastor - guide me to your pasture
'The grass is always greener' when you are my puppet-master
Inciting violence
Selling fear and superstition
Fuck you and your contradiction
That's my non-fiction depiction of these pigs

The people gather in the streets tonight
We're here to demonstrate dissent
Now, let the youth uprise
This is a movement - a revolution
We know we hold the keys
The people gather in the streets tonight
We're here to demonstrate dissent
Now, let the youth uprise
This is a movement - a revolution
Behold
We hold the keys to the future!

Another day gone by
Another struggle
You'll never fill that hole, but take a shovel
Another day gone by
Another struggle
And now we're taking to the streets, looking for trouble
Another day gone by
Another struggle
So now we take it to the streets, looking for trouble

We're gonna gather in the streets tonight
Yeah, that's right
We're gonna gather in the streets tonight
One more time
We're gonna gather in the streets tonight because
We hold the keys to the future
The people gather in the streets tonight
We're here to demonstrate dissent
Now, let the youth uprise
This is a movement - a revolution
Behold
We hold the keys to the future!

People will gather in the streets tonight

3. Laughing As We Fall

We are all just laughing as we fall down - as we fall down - as we fall

We are all - just laughing as we fall down and out, tossed aside, locked in your tomb
You've got so much potential - if only you knew
Well, you do, and you don't, and you don't, and you do - don't remember how
Not for nothing now
But you've got a whole lot of explaining to do
And I'm about to lose my mind's eye
Corporations chant, "Buy this life!"
Politicians chant, "Do no right!"
Look into the light, Son
It's your God on your cell phone,
Said, "Just thought I'd call to say you are all just laughing - just laughing as you fall"

We are all - just laughing as we fall down - down on your luck, citizens?
Don't give up!
Just eat, drink, sleep, piss, shit, slave hard, and fuck
Fuck the fucking world
Fuck the fucking scam
People need to eat
Blow the fucking damn
Let's get out of hand
Stick it to the man
You can tune in all damn day to hear them say, "Come and get your fix, people
Come get your fill
You will never have enough, and no one ever will
There is nothing you can do
There's nothing you can say that will ever turn the tides of time the other way
Because we are all - just laughing as we fall

Just a minion
I think, therefore I must be
I sink in incarnadine seas
I think, therefore I must not be anything at all - because-
We're the slaves of a system designed so we lose
Must abide
Try and lead with an honest heart
Just get used - cast aside

Come and get your fix, people
Come get your fill
You will never have enough and no one ever will
There is nothing you can do
There's nothing you can say that will ever turn the tides of time the other way because we are all - we are - just
Laughing as we fall!
Laughing - falling - laughing!
We are all - we are - just laughing as we fall!
Falling - laughing - falling!

We are all just laughing as we fall down
As we fall down as we fall down

4. Riot On The Set

...and then there was a roll of thunder

Make way for the end of everything that you've ever been
It's a synthetic revolution
Go on, run and tell a friend
'Once again - Genuflect's banging on them drums'
We got so many guns, man - we got so many guns
Yeah, we got military-grade-shit falling out the ass (Boom!)
Watch that red blood shed and spill into the classroom
Mass affliction - fill your angels with lead
Now, from the flower bed, where we bury bodies, grows a rose from the dead
Riot on the set! Riot n the set! Riot on the set!
Man, we're all zombies - Generation Next
Print money - sell us sex
Tell us 'life's a material quest until death
Seek resources for the taking
Take 'til nothing's left
Just tear off Mother's limbs then bring them back to feed the nest
Infest and spread this living dead
But better be watching where you tread or it'll be off with your heads"
'Cause now the wolves are hunting, turning sheep into mutton, and when them piggies try and hide, well, we'll come "huffing and puffing'
Ha-ha! We're going to blow you down
We're underground - that's how we run it
And we ain't done yet, motherfuckers
We can keep it coming,
'Cause I could murder this mic in my sleep, and break it down - to where the earth worms creep
Genuflect - start a riot on this set
We're in command and we're 'calling all hands on deck'
Now get them hands up - wave 'em from the right to left
You know we'll keep them heads banging 'til we break your necks
A lot of people up in power think you're little Lilliputians
They'll keep stepping - 'Writ of execution and
Chance went begging - so forget what you heard, and all you crooked-smiled-crony-phony-motherfuckers just been served
'Cause now we all sing...
"Whatever you say
Whatever you say
Whatever you say"

Now or never
Let 'em know
Riot on the set!
Lock and load
Come on, here we go
Riot on the set!
From your birth to your funeral
Riot on the set!
You know we'll keep your heads banging 'til we break your necks
Got to dare to tempt fate
Riot on the set!
I say we wrap 'em up in duct tape
Riot on the set!
Yeah, that's mic-check and check-mate
Riot on the set!

I wasn't finished - I need another minute to spit it
So come and get it
You know me - I'm that cynical critic
"You wanna fly?'
Damn right, been here from the beginning,
But ain't no candy coated rhymes, this time, we're in it to win it
So do and be 'quiet on the set
Start a riot on the set
And I say fuck the
Government so I get high up on this set
Never shy upon the set, some people lie up on the set, but I'm a 'tell it like it is'
Until I die up on this set
We're all controlled, man, take a look around
Nepotism on the left
Bigots on the right
It's like a knife in your chest
Push 'em in deep - break 'em off
People better stand up!
People, understand these corporations keep these puppets in their pockets
Lobbying for profits
We killed God, so now we worship markets
While the rich get richer and the poor keep getting 'poorer'
'Til the people come together and say, "I got something for ya!" 'cause now we all sing...
"Whatever you say
Whatever you say
Whatever you say"

Now or never
Let 'em know
Riot on the set!
Lock and load
Come on, here we go
Riot on the set!
From your birth to your funeral
Riot on the set!
You know we'll keep your heads banging 'til we break your necks
Got to dare to tempt fate
Riot on the set!
I say we wrap 'em up in duct tape
Riot on the set!
Yeah, that's mic
Check and check mate
Riot on the set!

5. No Reason

Yeah, here comes the nightmare
Stop
Hold it right there
Hands in the air
You better beware
These vessels bare despair
Soon, we'll be fables -
Just a figment - just a myth
Somewhere in between the seams of broken dreams and empty promises
So confined - in my mind - and I've tried, but I have nowhere to hide
Comply? Nah, we vie for redemption... Just keep swinging 'til the stars burn out

There's no reason -
Don't believe when you say "This is the way it's supposed to be"
There's no reason -
Only demons; screaming, "Go on and feed me more and more and more"

Yeah, here comes the sickness
Can I get a witness?
Killer in our midst and now we're first up on the hit list
Soon, we'll be fables - we'll be shadows in the mist
You wish to find out who you are, than dare to stare down into the abyss
So confined - in my mind - and I've tried, but I have nowhere to hide
Comply? Nah, we vie for redemption... Just keep swinging 'til the stars burn out

There's no reason -
Don't believe when you say "This is the way it's supposed to be"
There's no reason -
Only demons; screaming, "Go on and feed me more and more and more"

I don't need another reason to bereave
Your web tangles as you practice to deceive
Stab me in the back - but don't ask why I bleed because I don't need no reason
Metacom - set it off - come on, let it out I don't need another reason to bereave!
Metacom - living on - come on, finish it - I don't need no reason!

I don't need
No reason!

You talk a big game but we know that you're bluffing
We stand for standing-up, you suckers stand for nothing
Every damned day - abet unnecessary suffering
Yet, we'll just carry on - until the stars burn out

There's no reason
Don't believe when you say "This is the way it's supposed to be"
There's no reason
Only demons; screaming, "Go on and feed me more and more and more!"

6. Till We Burn

Hey Mephistopheles
Give me power now
Got 24 before my time is up
Midnight until my hour's out
Let me tower now, then I'll travel down to Hell
And admit, "Well - hey - in
Retrospect - yeah, pretty ditty-dum dumb"
Now jump to the next dump
Look what we've done,
We are the same as Dr. Faust;
You shoot that albatross
You wear your fucking shame
While all the shadows' dance around the fire; higher climb the flames
We're all just rats - in a maze- in amazement
Don't need cages once our masters train us
Reaching for God
Reaching for God
Reaching, and they all scream, "It's alive"
Reaching for God
Reaching for God
Reaching, then we all fall down and die

Life's a journey worth enduring
So you live and you learn
Then, where you go
You never know
You know you never return
So I suggest you raise your glasses up before we adjourn
Let's have a drink, we're all sinners, man
Let's toast, "Till we burn"

Hey Mephistopheles
Show me what you know
We wanna buy it now, fry for it later
Slash and burn it - so our future rides upon the Pharaohs that have now taken control
And all the prayers in the world won't be enough to save our sorry souls
But now it's on to the next one
Look what we've done - it's all the same and 'All is lost
Which one's ya boss? We're here to watch him fucking hang
While all those shadows' dance around the fire; higher climb the flames
We are their rats - in a maze - in amazement
Don't need cages
Their wages enslave us
Reaching for God
Reaching for God
Reaching, and they all scream, "It's alive"
Reaching for God
Reaching for God
Reaching, then we all fall down and die

Life's a journey worth enduring
So you live and you learn
Then, where you go
You never know
You know you never return
So I suggest you raise your glasses up before we adjourn
Let's have a drink, we're all sinners, man
Let's toast, "Till we burn"

Got to keep them engines running, we need those turbines turning
Got to keep that black gold pumpin" got to keep this fire burning.
Got to keep those motors humming, we need those rodents workin"
Got to keep that money comin"
Got to keep this fire burning
Just keep those products jumping, we need those rotors churning,
Got to keep this black hole pumping, got to keep this fire burning
We need them rodents working

Got to keep this fire burning...
This is the eve of the storm
It won't be calm for long
It's just a moment of peace - and then it's gone

It won't be calm for long! It won't be calm for long! It won't be calm for long!
...'cause we are in the eye of the storm

Life's a journey worth enduring
So you live and you learn
Then, where you go
You never know
You know you never return
So I suggest you raise your glasses up before we adjourn
Let's have a drink
We're all sinners, man
Let's toast, "Till we burn"
Till we burn!
Till we burn! Eye of the storm
It won't be calm for long

Life's a journey worth enduring
So you live and you learn
Then, where you go
You never know
You know you never return
So I suggest you raise your glasses up before we adjourn
Let's have a drink
We're all sinners, man
Let's toast, "Till we burn"
Ya life's a journey worth enduring
So you live and you learn
Then, where you go -
You never know
You know you never return
So I suggest you raise your glasses to your ashes in urns,
"Here's to your ashes in urns"

7. Once In Your Life

Can't you read between the lines?
Can't you see beyond the walls?
Won't you even try to step outside?

I can't remember being born
No memory of me from three
Apparently that's when I came to be wherever I am
Whatever I am to you, to me, I'm Me
And I dream one day we'll all be free
There, that's my plea
Now please stop fucking with my family
Now, have you ever known what it's like to be alone -
What it's like to lay your body down and crawl beneath the stone
"No place like homelessness
Hopeless - I feel broken
Feel invisible
I'm running in my sleep and in my dreams I'm screaming,

Can't you read between the lines? Can't you see beyond the walls?
Won't you even try to step outside - once in your life?

Now, have you ever known
What it's like to be alone -
What it's like to lay your body down and crawl beneath the stone
"No place like homelessness
Hopeless - I feel broken
Feel invisible
I'm running in my sleep and in my dreams I'm screaming,
'You used to be the one that we'd come to when we needed something
You used to tell me I could dream of really being something
Now that dream is just another lucid nightmare
Where you say you care...
Then, you just stand and stare
A million children screaming,

Can't you read between the lines? Can't you see beyond the walls?
Won't you even try to step outside - once in your life?

You and I need only enough - so what did I have to lose?
No other choice to choose - but to get us out
Got to get us out
Walk this road so desolate, unsympathetic sky castles erode not empathetic apathetic
Walk this road of affliction
This life - another bullet in the chamber
But you've got to walk this road through perdition
This life - another bullet in the chamber
You've got to walk this road!

I can't remember being born
No memory of me from three
Apparently that's when I came to be wherever I am
Whatever I am to you, to me, I'm Me
And I dream one day I'll be free
Judge, that's my plea
Now please stop fucking with my family
You used to be the one that we'd come to when we needed something
You used to tell me I could dream of really being something'
Now that dream is just another lucid nightmare
Where you say you care...
Then, you just stand and stare
A million children screaming,

Can't you read between the lines? Can't you see beyond the walls?
Won't you even try to step outside - once in your life?

Once in your life!

8. Fishbowl

It's three-thirty-three in the morning - make a wish
On my desk rests this fishbowl that harbors my fish
Now I'm writing at my desk - before I drift on off to sleep
But then suddenly I freak because my fishy starts to speak

And she says, "You are the one the one trapped inside
Staring out through a distorted lens that makes the whole world arc and bend
Then collapse and contort, then divide and deceive
Until it makes you believe in what is make-believe
But it's all bullshit - just give me one moment to explain"

Well, I was frightened but surely I could not refrain
Nor contain this small fishy from infecting my brain with her wisdom from down in the depths of insane

She opened up my mind - and then she swam inside
How it tickled me sick, the way she wiggled and she writhed
She was swimming round in circles - she was circling the lies -
As she was whispering her truth right through the backsides of my eyes
Well I screamed and I begged her to show me now more!
But she opened up "the vortex", a revolving door
So we crossed through its plane - we then dropped down through the floor
As we were transported off onto some far away shore
At the ocean of creation - within which we were born,
A primordial potion of single-celled porn
Well, then what she whispered was so carefully scripted
She said, "You must swim back to from where you drifted"

And that's when I awoke - still stunned - still sitting at my desk
I stared up at my fishbowl - no fish - no damned return address
I searched through the halls - in the walls - in the veins
In the drains and the pipes and the star-light strings
I may not know where my fish went but I do now know one thing
'Something fishy is going on'

9. Futura

'Johnny's in the basement', now, dependent on the medicine"
Not just the poor no more
Capital Hill ignores our veterans
Give 'em another year
Give 'em another ten...
But do you really think they'll have your backs by then?

Soon they won't need soldiers,
Just some "gamers" with controllers
Soulless drones over our homes
Wave to the electronic eyes
You beings think you have control, but that is not the case for long,
Your doom is hiding in disguise
Gliding in the skies

We are the end - Futura!
Light's out motherfuckers and we go again

There is a new dawn approaching - sooner than you know it
Mankind has claimed domain over the Earth.
Now watch 'em blow it
Give 'em another year
Give 'em another ten...
But do you really think that you'll be 'back on track' by then?

Meanwhile our technology increases exponentially
We know not what we toil with
We know not what we do
Soon nano-bots with terror plots will spread all through your body parts
You had to be so fucking smart
Now that's the end of you

My electronic eyes burn
Every rout - breaking you down
A much more effective way of making you held accountable
I aim to rise...
I aim to cut you down to size!

We are the end - Futura!

10. Identity

Yeah, this is our town - and this is right now
Go head n' line them up - we'll knock 'em all the fuck down
No rest for the wicked - no sleep - no peace
And it's a new day - but it's the same way
Raging battles in the shadows - feeders eat away
No rest for the wicked - no sleep - no

Pieces of an identity are force-fed to me
Treachery
Centuries of prejudice
Wanton, nefarious and corrupt
And you can trust this - that, there's no justice

It's all that you see - it's on your TV
They want to show you who you are and show you how to be
No rest for the wicked - no sleep - no peace
And now it's in your head
And now you're living dead
And now you're following the Reaper to your bitter end
No rest for the wicked - no sleep - no

Pieces of an identity are force-fed to me
Treachery
Centuries of prejudice
Wanton, nefarious and corrupt
And you can trust this - that, there's no justice
Yeah, you can trust this - that, there's no justice
Yeah, you can trust in that

I lie awake in bed at night - the phantom light streams
It wants to lure you back to sleep
Then, steal your innocence

And every time you leave your home
Those eyes are following you everywhere you roam
They want to sink you like a stone
They want to watch you plummet into the unknown

I lie awake in bed at night - the phantom light streams
It wants to lure you back to sleep - then, steal your innocence

Pieces of an identity are force fed to me!
And you can trust this - that, there's no justice!
Yeah, you can trust this - that, there's no justice!
Yeah, you can trust in that! Yeah, you can trust in that!

11. Today's The Day

There's a holy man in purgatory peddling prayers
Sees his own reflection but there's nobody there
Meanwhile, the vampire sits counting his shares
You see, it's all a game of chess - but with imaginary squares
It's gambit, man, and we are the pawns
Expendable - for sacrifice - "be dead or be gone"
Yeah, there's a whole lot of 'smoke and mirrors' in this con
But there's a man behind the curtains with the curtains drawn
What this game needs is a 'king hunt
Take the train over, from the back to the front
You see this red light beam?
It means, don't try no stunts
'Cause once we take control of this shit,
We ain't giving it up
Can't relent - never quit - never let go
No submission - no surrender, 'cause you never low
Got to hold on - got to stay strong
Because one day - we're going to take it all back by storm

Today's the day - we turn it all around and start it again
They want your soul - they want control of you - and over your mind
Today's the day - we stop the bleeding and start breathing again
They want what makes you You; it's true love suicide

And you better believe it's a day they will never let you see,
Never going to let you get away
Got to impact - got to counteract their attack
Recognize the battle and then battle back
Jump track - no slack for the have-nots
In fact, they're content to let your ass rot
Runaway locomotive on a death charge
"All aboard! Last stop is your graveyard"
What this game needs is a 'king hunt"
Take the train over, from the back to the front
You see this red light beam? It means, don't try no stunts
'Cause once we take control of this shit, we ain't giving it up
Can't relent - never quit - never let go
No submission - no surrender, 'cause you never know
Got to hold on - got to stay strong
Because one day - we're going to take it all back by storm

Today's the day - we turn it all around and start it again
They want your soul - they want control of you - and over your mind
Today's the day - we stop the bleeding and start breathing again
They want what makes you You; it's true love suicide

Live with a lie; then give it up - for a moment of your time - free me
Can I be myself? Will I earn my place?
Seems like every path I trace becomes true love suicide
Today's the day that we turn it all around
Today's the day that we start it again

Today's the day - we turn it all around and start it again
They want your soul - they want control of you - and over your mind
Today's the day - we stop the bleeding and start breathing again
They want what makes you You; it's true love suicide

They want your soul and they'll fight till the lose -
Take back your destiny - only one truth
They want your soul - so break down or break-through
Take back your destiny - own your own You







GENUFLECT LYRICS