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Expect Delays
03:43
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Verse- With your contribution, commitment and pride, the life of another is yours to decide. There’s good and bad and right and wrong in everything we do, we justify the morals by the actions we approve. There’s dipshits and assholes all across the board, also heroes that we all adore.
Bridge- Hey, we’re one in the same. We do anything to protect our family. So why treat those who serve our country differently. When duty calls their wives are told “expect delays”.
Chorus They help as much as they harm.
Verse- With your application, you vowed to save lives, now independent thinking, not yours to decide. You started off with all the right intensions in your mind, but looking back you regret all the things you left behind. The pain, the shell-shock, all things you can’t unsee, you did it all so that we can be free.
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Nightly Lane Closures
04:09
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Verse- Eternity of waiting to get inside, feeling like Fat Mike in the Longest Line. By myself there is no wing-man to choose, feeling like Maverick who just lost his Goose. See you along the horizon of heads, dancing in circles with all of your friends…those nightly lane closures.
Bridge- Forget this time. Leave it behind. Your confidence is shit. Against all the odds. I’m just out of reach…she is the one.
Verse- Dancing to music I can’t fucking stand, what am I supposed to do with my hands. Bump into you at the end of the night, looked in your eyes something just wasn’t right. We talk for 10 seconds and you smile at me, but your friend is puking so you have to leave…those nightly lane closures.
Chorus- I can’t help wonder, I can’t help but wonder. If we had just one more time, would you be mine. Would you be the one?
Breakdown- The times, the wasted times.
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3. |
Punktuation
03:35
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Verse- Oh I’m not a one to say fuck authority, but fuck you if you try to change my ways. We all work to live, and live to get by, and I’m a be a punk til the day that I die…with punktuation.
Bridge- I’m grateful for you man.
Verse- I’m a government punk and this I don’t hide, but I’m working for your so I’m always by your side. You can’t judge a man by his suit or his pay, he was probably a punk back in the day…had punktuation.
Chorus- We’re all in this pit together, trying to make living better. We don’t throw fists, we hold out our hands. This is something most won’t understand…but you understand.
Verse- Well it’s not about fear and it’s not about hate, but living a life with proper PMA. The best people I know are under this roof, what more do you need than this living proof…of punktuation.
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4. |
Lazarus
02:57
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Verse- I’ve been born again, in sin, cause I don’t believe, everything. My hand’s on the leash I think I’m in control. Follow blind the seeing eye dogma’s what I’m told.
Chorus- What gives you the right, to tell me how to live my life. It’s not world peace that you seek it’s a piece of the world…domination.
Verse- Sir, madam, leave your brains at the door, you won’t be needing them anymore. This book will tell you how to act and think and feel, don’t question anything these stories are for real.
Breakdown- Millions of good people, cast into damnation.
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5. |
Paperbag Prince
03:14
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Verse- Best friend named mickey, got to make it last. Wish it was sixty, if I could get the cash. Kid’s got it all wrong, old lady’s on my back. I don’t need anyone.
Bridge- To get back, back, back on track, track.
Verse- A paperbag prince, the captain’s done me in. My ship is sailing, three sheets to the wind. Mom’s got it all wrong, Dad get off my back. I don’t need anyone.
Chorus- Life is a game to me, it’s not my first time. You’ve got your problems, now leave me with mine. Life is a game to me, and I’ve been here before. You stand at my threshold, but I’ll just shut the door.
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6. |
Line-Up
04:17
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Verse- Timing is everything and it means nothing, trusting is our only crime. Choice becomes useless and they’ll abuse us, sentenced to serve our time. We walk one by one always holding our tongues, fearful to open our mouths. Obedient children are seen and not heard, don’t you dare utter a word.
Chorus- Tell me what gets you out of be in the morning, and I will thank you for giving me this warning. Line up to help and they’ll pull you down, this endless cycle drags us around. Helplessness will lead us to conforming.
Verse- Opinions, opinions, we’re only minions whether we like it or not. To get the top of the totem pole, only will cost you your soul.
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7. |
Breath of His Own
03:27
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Verse- He never killed a man before today, you cross the line when you fuck with his family. Not something you want a boy to see, but this world chooses who we’re to be.
Chorus- He was the one, good thing he’d done. Gave a life a breath of his own, took a life to protect his home.
Verse- A stormy night along the desert plains, not a sound but the falling down of rain. A captive mind his thoughts they do roam, 10 more years until he goes home.
Breakdown- A boy goes to see his father, all these years he didn’t bother. He’s asks him why he abandoned, leaving him alone and stranded. The answer that he received brought him to his knees, gave his life to save his son, his legacy will go on.
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8. |
Toothpick
02:01
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Verse- There’s one thing I can’t understand, zero out of five dentists recommend. Chew you up, spit you out. Chew you up, spit you out. Longer than modern man has been around, keeping your gums from going brown. Chew you up, spit you out. Chew you up, spit you out.
Chorus- I can’t have smoke, the craving killing me I can’t bear to resist. Toothpick you are incredible. Flossing has stole your limelight, left you behind, one of a kind, in my mouth is where you belong.
Verse- Ask Rick Hunter he will know, and Razor’s oozing machismo. Chew you up, spit you out. Chew you up, spit you out. In appetizers or a sandwich, and you’ll look cool when you’re finished. Chew you up, spit you out. Chew you up, spit you out.
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9. |
Herbrew Scriptures
02:34
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Verse- Let it be said, let it be done, we are here for more than fun. With herbs and brews and DC shoes we laugh and play together. Reminisce about the past, never cease to have a blast, he’s Grease, he’s Rudz I’m Sash…Potholes forever baby.
Bridge- So take your mental pictures of these funk-punk mixtures. Living for adventure these are our herbrew scriptures. So hide away your misters and crank up your transistors. L’chaim all you chiksas these are our herbrew scriptures.
Chorus- Herbrew scriptures.
Verse- Let it be said, let it be heard, we are here to spread the word. Your time is never wasted when you’re wasted all the time. Living for today, is the only way. So raise a glass, pass the grass…Potholes forever baby.
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10. |
Not Alone
03:43
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Verse- Broken branches on your family tree, a victim of shit circumstance your parents were a fucking mess, sadly. Broken branches on your family tree, they shipped you off without a care, no thought if you’d be better there, sadly.
Bridge- You have to hide your feelings inside, but it’s hard not to show, that you just have to let it go. You’re not alone.
Verse- Found a new branch on your family tree, she picked you up from off the ground a new hope is what you have found, set free. Found a new branch on your family tree, the shady die from where you’re cast is buried deep within the past, set free.
Chorus- You’re not alone, you’re not alone. It’s hard to play the hand you’re dealt with all that you’ve been through. But after all it’s been said and done they’ll be crawling back to you. You’re not alone.
Verse- Write a new page in your history, inscribe it in the boldest font and tell them every thing you want to see.
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11. |
Outside the Box
03:31
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Verse- I don’t know what they’re saying, I don’t care can’t explain it. Look around I won’t do it, look ahead I see through it, see through it. Look ahead I see through it, see through it.
Chorus- We all reside, outside the lines, we all want more, but we’re ignored.
Verse- I don’t know what they’re saying, I don’t care can’t explain it. Look around I won’t do it, look ahead I see through it, see through it. Look ahead I see through it, see through it.
Bridge- Run and hit your stride, the truth is disguised. Go take a step outside the box, outside the box. Step out of line but do not hide just run right through and hit your stride. And don’t look back to hear the lies, the truth has always been disguised. And when the vultures start to squawk go take a step outside the box.
Ender- We live outside the box, the time is here to talk.
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12. |
Plugged In
03:53
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Verse- New model out today, touch it you salivate. It’s in your blood, this plastic love, love. Haven’t seen your eyes in days, the screen reflecting off your face. The cyber song takes you away, I try to save you but it’s too late. It’s too late.
Verse- The city’s quiet these days, it’s filled with zombies. Into your skin, you’re plugged in. Plugged. You have got the whitest fruit, addiction made your teeth turn blue. The GPS will find your route, without this shit whatever would you do? What would you do?
Bridge- You can want it, so you must have it. Push somebody and fucking grab it. Forget your wife, forget your kids, forget your friends and get plugged in.
Chorus- Plugged In!
Verse- I took the subway, ran out of batteries. I could have talked but I stared off. Off. I don’t have that much to say, and I don’t fit in anyway. My smart phone it so comforts me, without it I can’t face society. Face society.
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13. |
First World Problems
03:29
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Verse- O today I’m feeling dismay, I asked them for milk, instead I got cream. A simple instruction the guy was a jerk, on top of that my heated seats they don’t work. First world, first world, first world, problems.
Bridge- These hardships make me laugh we had our choice, the ballots cast. Perspective very skewed at least we had the chance to choose.
Chorus- You want everything that took your parents 50 years in 20.
Verse- O tonight not feeling alright, my internet’s down and cable is shyte. I paid for the service why can’t it be right, now I have to go and talk with my wife. First world, first world, first world, problems.
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14. |
Phosphene Lights
04:49
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Verse- Pulled the rug beneath my feet, left me on my back. Something wasn’t right, through the phosphene lights.
Bridge- A smile on my face from a moments embrace with you.
Chorus- Watched me fall, there through it all. You’re the drug I have to take, addicted and I just can’t wait to hold you with both of my hands, again.
Verse- Pulled me down from in the clouds, got me on my feet. Gave me back my sight, through the phosphene lights.
Breakdown- I’m breathing hard when you’re around, I never will forget your sound. My palms are pressed over my eyes, the only way I see things right. Now you’re there. Now you’re there.
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The Potholes Kitchener, Ontario
Grease-Vox & Guitar
Sash-Bass & Vox
Rudz- Drums & Vox
Fresh, tight punk from Kitchener, Ontario going strong since 2010.
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