Distortion Sufficient

Posted on 2020/07/01 by Chad Philip

This Cold Black (track 09 from the All Hope is Gone LP by Slipknot )

Welcome home

Mother Nature is a coward/Mother Nature is a whore
No more presence and no more power
I pray for death by the hour
Cut another smile into me/Cut into me is all that you are
My artifice won’t recognize me
You won’t find me anymore

Post-traumatic war machines
The pessimists still won’t believe
Throw away my past mistakes
It’s all I can do to feel

Let my weapons be your children
Let my armies be your damned
Try to suffer on in silence
Try to stop me if you can

Pneumatic destroyer
Pathetic seducer
Distortion sufficient
Some day—one day—we will live our lives again

My ghosts have found their way back home
I have every right to kill my own/Every right to kill my own
I am something now that never could exist
My anguish conquers all

Pay the price and watch me fall
My only key is broken
My broken key is only me

Pneumatic destroyer
Pathetic seducer
Distortion sufficient
Some day—one day—we will live our lives again

You’re an utter waste of tired flesh
It doesn’t matter if you can’t progress
Even now they still create me
Give me your ignorance and irritate me

I am made of the same debris
You want it all but you didn’t want me
A hypocrite with no real use
I’m alive, what’s your excuse?

Pneumatic destroyer
Pathetic seducer
Distortion sufficient
Some day—one day—we’ll live our lives again

My Hell is Wasted Potential

Posted on 2020/06/18 by Chad Philip

This Will Outlive Us (track 03 from the Undoing Ruin LP by Darkest Hour )

Gone are the days of evasion
Existence is how you create it
Whatever compels you to keep on—fucking embrace it

Say so long to the missing piece of the puzzle
We are split down the middle
We had better prepare ourselves for perpetual winter

Why do we do this to ourselves?
Continuous escape is a living hell
Like those other lovers hidden under the covers: it’s so empty in the arms of another

See what you’ve done
You’re irresistible with your sordid stories
The morbid glory of it all
Remember when times were worth celebrating
Pour the wine for the fallen friends and foes singing in unison

My hell is a blank piece of paper staring back at me
My hell is wasted potential, haunting me

Why do we do this to ourselves?
Continuous escape is a living hell

Why do we do this to ourselves?
It’s so fucking empty in the arms of another

I’ll Keep You Floatin’ On Your Feet So You Feel Alive but You’re Really Asleep… Who? You!

Posted on 2020/05/13 by Chad Philip

Dirty Hands, Empty Pockets/Already Gone (track 04 from the In the Arms of God LP by Corrosion of Conformity )

There is a righteous fool among the weak where a fallen man is bittersweet, and with his soul he defecates into this world we fill with hate
All his lies turn to logic and you’ve got nothing in your pockets
Who? You!

The truth is hard to find when you have survival on your mind
If you promise not to tattle then I’ll bring your son back home from battle
I’ll keep you floatin’ on your feet so you feel alive but you’re really asleep
Who? You!

You observed it from the start, but now you are a million miles apart
As we bleed another nation so you can watch your favorite station
Now your eyes pop out of your sockets with dirty hands and empty pockets
Who? You!

Homemade deception is now a source of pride
You can take all you want
God knows I have tried

Truth be known, it was never shown
Run like hell as it comes as no surprise
One day you will see what it feels like to be free
Remember me when you’re safe at home
I’m already gone

The man said we’re gonna do it alone
We’re gonna give it to them till they bleed
We’re gonna lay it on them till they’re gone
Then we will give them everything they need

Truth be shown, the future stays unknown
Give them hell every single time
One day you will see when you’re six feet down like me
Remember me when you’re safe at home
Yes sir, I’m already gone

Attention
Fire when ready
Kill that son of a bitch
Get up

Get on
Get up

Get on, we’re gonna rock ‘n’ roll
We’re gonna give it to them when they’re hazy
Get on, put your mothers down
We’re gonna give it to them till she’s crazy
Truth be shown, the future stays unknown
Give them hell every single time

One day you will see when you’re six feet down like me
Remember me when you’re safe at home
I’m already gone
Yes sir!

And It’s Not the Drugs, and It’s Not the Weather

Posted on 2020/04/10 by Chad Philip

Gloria (track 02 from the Days of Thunder LP by The Midnight )

Gloria, I feel so much better today
And it’s not the drugs
And it’s not the weather
I just feel so much better today

I’ve been asleep in the driver’s seat
I’ve been lost in my head for weeks
Trying to find what it is I need
Too goddamned tired to sleep

Then there were other times where I was so aware that I would lose my mind
And feel that I couldn’t get enough
And get so high that I couldn’t stand up

Gloria, I feel so much better today
And it’s not the drugs
And it’s not the weather
I just feel so much better today

There are those who will never learn
Who build a fire and yet can’t stay warm
The only secret to make it through is to take what is in front of you

I fear death and it thrills me
All the lights in front of me make me drive until the coast is clear
Gotta go faster until it all disappears

Gloria, I feel so much better today
And it’s not the drugs
And it’s not the weather
I just feel so much better today

I’ve been asleep in the driver’s seat
I’ve been lost in my head for weeks
Trying to find what it is I need
Too goddamned tired to sleep

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