Subhuman Race

As i stare into the fire
All my thoughts go up in flames
Here i stare into the fire
I'll be waiting on the rain

The box i keep myself in, closes out my air
So i build a fire, so i can sit and stare

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Can it be i'm frozen
Can it be i'm frozen
Can it be i'm frozen
Can it be i'm frozen

As i stare into the weather
My eyes drying from the cold
As i stare into the weather
I sense my thoughts growing old

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I listen to the prophets predict the stem of tides
I stare into the weather that's keeping me inside

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As i stare into the fire
Will the prophets change my mind
While i stare into the fire
All the colors treat me kind

I'll dust away the fallings the winter leaves for me
I'll stare into the fire and set tomorrow free

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Caught the mother jack knifin'
A little bit low lifin'
Goin' twenty paces with the medicine man
Runnin' from the girl in pigskin
A little gun shy but shootin'
Hidin' in the kitchen with his head in his hand

Bleed, me--why can't you say what you mean?

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How far has it gone, it didn't take you long
To put your hand in the medicine jar
In your private hell, now you've found yourself
In the hands of the medicine jar

Sittin' here with all your bitchin'
Cookin' up a new addiction
Prayin' that the light of day ain't wakin' the dead
Droppin' like a bomb on hiro
Shakin' like san francisco
Only to be diggin' out to do it again

Bleed, me--why can't you say what you mean?

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Make it go away, make it go a--way

Caught the mother jack knifin'
A little bit of low lifin'
Goin' twenty paces with the medicine man
Droppin' like the bomb on hiro
Shakin' like san francisco
Hidin' in the jungle with your head in the sand

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One step from bein' free, what did you think
You'd see at the bottom of the medicine jar

Jesus knows my story, he knows the position that i'm in
A hooker knows the feeling to get fucked the way i've been
Turn my insides out; your mouth drank my water

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You look at me like i'm subhuman
You talk to me like i'm subhuman
You're treating me like i'm subhuman
You're jumping into the subhuman race

Brothers hear my story, but don't you take no pity out on me
A soldier knows the feeling to get pushed out in a field
Taking liberties; burned by your dictation

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Is there a problem? the laugh of the rich man
Has got you crying poor
Are you as heavy as hell in a handbag
Or just a virgin whore?
If the weight of the world is on your shoulders
Then carry it for a day
Do you cry for peace or peace of mind;
Is reality in the way?

Enter the martyr out through the in door
The savior has arrived?
Is all your anger force of habit
And keeping you alive?
An empty shotgun shooting your mouth off
Something's on your mind
The cheap messiah of persecution
Is alive and doing fine

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I won't leave if you stay, i don't buy what you say
If you're a new god let me see a miracle
I won't leave if you stay, i don't buy what you say
I can't say that you're a fool,
But if you're a new god let me see a miracle.

Play the fence, one way you're gonna fall
Sometimes i don't know who you are at all
Your opinion is something that you've got inside
But i see the loyalty has up and died

Your skeletons
My skeletons
Life is only getting shorter

You can be my enemy and i don't care
Keep throwin' stones at yourself

Stories run in circles that have no end
I hit on luck, then you bum me out again
There's a way that you keep the truth in check
Scratch the surface and treat it like a broken neck
Keep the peace when face to face with the scene
Got a hunch that ain't what you really mean
Weather's fair, does that change where you stand?
My back is turned and the knife is in your hand

Your genocide
My genocide
Life is only getting shorter

You can be my enemy and i don't care
Keep throwin' stones at yourself
You can be my enemy and i don't care
You try too hard and i can tell

Life comes and goes, quick as does the day
Greed, for those who know is just a step away
Time's a breathing bomb, going with the flow
Stand atop it all outside the status quo

No see, no speak then know where you're goin'
Drag your feet then nothing you're showin'
Take your place or fall to the lions
Lose your face and stand where you're dying

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Living in a hole is taking its toll
My iron will's in position
Seize you are not owed, stand or fall
And refuse to be denied

Pride is all in vain without the blood of need
Bones can break in shame from taking charity
Hide from all the hell and wash up with the tide
Wait and you commit psychological suicide

Break the molds of beg and submission
Wake the dead or no one will listen
Holding ground is just the beginning
It's uphill bound and in for the killing

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Give me a minute 'cause i'm wrapped in superstition
Pour me a chemical to take away the edge
Don't make up anything that's breaking all your fingers
Just slap around a bit of what it takes to pledge

Carry out another stone as a slave
Ask general-know-it-all "who's juggling the earth?"
Tease all the natives that will walk across your grave
And shove aside your nation all for what it's worth

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Beat yourself blind (repeat 6x)
An open eyes and a closed mind

Look at the suit in suspended animation
A faded outline that used to be a man
A piece of paper that's fallen out a window
Has got a better chance to know where it will land

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To bleed in vain, to bleed in vain--under my eyes are painted skies
Down at the boneyard, they're diggin' up the relics
Handfuls of parasites thrown into machines
I got the phone call they're tearin' down the mission
The zombies had a ball, but don't know what it means

Beat yourself blind