No One Wants to be Seventeen Years of Age

Posted on 2023/11/24 by Chad Philip

Take Me Back (track 05 from the Metropolis LP by Kalax feat. World Wild )

There’s no maniacs on the floor, no skaters thrashing pools
There’s no cassettes in Corvettes, no lipstick red on cigarettes
No one wants to be seventeen years of age
There’s no extraterrestrials from outer space

Take me back to 1984
I cannot stand the future anymore

The sun was hot, the air was cool, and the kids were skipping out of school
There was hope inside of dreams like hoverboards and time machines
Kalax, take me home to the paradise city where the mannequin girls are weird but so pretty
The world was young, the world was dumb, the world was totally radical
The world was radical!

Take me back to 1984
I cannot stand the future anymore

I wanna go back

It’s alright, we’re alright, we’re summer kids
It’s alright, because we’re all summer kids

Back, back, back, back
Take me back

Take me back to 1984
I cannot stand the future anymore

Back, back, back, back
I wanna go back

An Endless Coming-Back to the Start

Posted on 2022/10/22 by Chad Philip

Quest for Nothing (track 08 from the Synchro Anarchy LP by Voivod )

It is a race for another day
You have been driven all your life
There is no exit, no getting off

Always running from something
Since your birth, the chase is on
You are searching for a hideout

Where is this place called “liberty”?
When will I be satisfied?
What is this inhumanity, how freedom became a lie?

It feels like being thrown into orbit: an endless coming-back to the start
You are only passing by

It is a quest for nothing
Always a new beginning, until you find out it’s not

I want anti-gravity!

Busy day, overnight, rundown until you lie dead
The next day, overtime, until you pass out braindead

I don’t question
The are no reasons
I am an ant

I don’t refute, just execute
I am an ant

Get stressed out as you crawl, carry the weight till you’re knocked dead
Stumble, fall, now endure pressure until you’re crushed dead

In all and all, I am so small: a grain of sand
I am an ant

Vacation
Settle down
Your face hits the ground, flat-dead

Have no fun
So worn out
Let’s get back to work, but still dead

In all and all, I am so small: a grain of sand
I am an ant

This one life is the only I have
This whole life, I wouldn’t give it away

Never want to go, never want to go
Never, no way
Never want to go, never want to go, but I will someday

Endlessly, I wish I could live for eternity
I’ll never die because I never want to go, never want to go
Never, no way

Break Yourself Against My Stones and Spit Pity Into My Soul

Posted on 2022/04/09 by Chad Philip

Snuff (track 11 from the All Hope is Gone LP by Slipknot )

Bury all your secrets in my skin
Come away with innocence and leave me with my sins
The air around me still feels like a cage
Love is just a camouflage for what resembles rage—again

If you love me let me go, and run away before I know
My heart is too dark to care
I can’t destroy what isn’t there
Deliver me unto my fate
If I’m alone I cannot hate
I don’t deserve to have you
My smile was taken long ago
If I can change, I hope I never know

I still press your letters to my lips and cherish them in the parts of me that savored every kiss
I couldn’t face a life without your light, but all of that was ripped apart when you refused to fight

Save your breath, I will not hear
I think I made it very clear
You couldn’t hate enough for love—is that supposed to be enough?
I only wish you weren’t my friend then I could hurt you in the end
I never claimed to be a saint
My own was banished long ago
It took the death of hope to let you go

Break yourself against my stones and spit pity into my soul
You never needed any help
You sold me out to save yourself
And I won’t listen to your shame
You ran away—you’re all the same
Angels lie to keep control
My love was punished long ago
If you still care, don’t ever let me know

She’s the Fire and the Fallout

Posted on 2022/02/26 by Chad Philip

Break the Man (track 04 from The Tipping Point LP by Tears for Fears )

This was never what I thought it was
This is not who we are
This is where someone was meant to say, “Enough is enough”
This is nothing like they said it would be
This has all gone too far
When everything is running out, this is love

She’s the fire and the fallout
She reminds you of the things we never talk about
She’s the lover with the best-laid plan to break the man
She’s a sinner in a side show
She feels at home when there’s nowhere left to go
She’s the devil you understand
Break the man

No more tearing the bandages off
No more living a lie
No more chewing the scenery
No more rain, no more rain
No more wondering what happens now
No more holding your feet to the fire
When everything is running down, no more pain

She’s the fire and the fallout
She reminds you of the things we never talk about
She’s the lover with the best-laid plan to break the man
She’s the trouble in the headline
She’s the mother who turns back Father Time
She’s the devil you understand
Break the man

No more wondering what happens now
No more holding your feet to the fire
When everything is running down, this is love

She’s the fire and the fallout
She reminds you of the things we never talk about
She’s the lover with the best-laid plan to break the man
She’s the trouble in the headline
She’s the mother who turns back Father Time
She’s the devil you understand
Break the man

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