Persistence Of Time

I got so much trouble on my mind
Paranoia time
I'm running out of life
Clockwise and the seconds tick way
Each line that cuts my face
Cut as each hand moves into place
Paranoiaamped and wired
Bile black the thoughts that run my head
There's so much to be said
They're so much living dead
Walking corpses shambling through life
With nothing in their sight
Dance on their bones, step in and fight
Paranoia
Amped and wired
Life and death are fighting for my time
I can't seem to find the time
I want what's mine
Time through the clock
Just keeps talking
It just walks any damn place
It feels like walkin'
My mind keeps thinking
Clockwise as the seconds tick way
I make my move today
Time and lifelife and time
To have and holdand sometimes find
It isn't mine, it isn't yours
Man to man i'll fight you for...time and life
Life and time
One day i'll get what's mine
Through the persistence of time
Life and death as words they don't mean shit
It's what you do with them
And how you live with it
Raging like a bull inside a cage
Just give me a stage
Where this bull can rage
Paranoia
Amped and wired
Life and death are fighting for my time
I can't seem to find the time
I want what's mine
Time through the clock just keeps talking
It just walks any damn place
It feels like walkin'
My mind keeps thinking
Clockwise as the seconds tick away
I make my move today
Time and life
Life and time
To have and hold
And sometimes find
It isn't mine, it isn't yours
Man to man i'll fight you for...
Time and life
Life and time
One day i'll get what's mine
Through the persistence of time
Paranoia's lost its hold on
Paranoia's lost its hold on
Paranoia's lost its hold on
Paranoia's got no hold on me
Time don't have nothing
To do with how high you can
Time don't got nothing
To do with how high you can count
Time and life
Life and time
To have and hold
And sometimes find
It isn't mine, it isn't yours
Man to man i'll fight you for
Time and life
Life and time
One day i'll get what's mine
Through the persistence of time

I wait, i hate
Silence kills you like a loaded gun
My time, you waste
Resolution turn your back and run
Drunk with power
Your ivory tower
Never stood, never could
And around and around
You hit the ground
Reservation hellbound
Most people cry
When a person dies
You wanna know why?
Run it through,
Discharge!
Most people cry
Not when you die
You wanna know why?
Run it through,
Discharge!
Nobody cried
You lived a lie
You lived a lie!
Run it through,
Discharge!
Most people cry
When a person dies
You wanna know why?
Run it through,
Discharge!
Your life, what life?
What's the difference between you and death?
Overdose, comatose
You won't even leave a corpse that's fresh
Drunk with power
Go take a shower
I wish you would, i wish you could
And around and around
You hit the ground
Reservation hellbound
A surreal vision
Of a human being
Most people cry
When a person dies
You wanna know why?
Run it through,
Discharge!
Most people cry
Not when you die
You wanna know why?
Run it through,
Discharge!
Nobody cried
You lived a lie
You lived a lie!
Run it through,
Discharge!
Most people cry
When a person dies
You wanna know why?
Run it through,
Discharge!
Self inflicted crucifixion
Suicidal contradiction
Clusterfucked you load it up
Clusterfucked you self destruct!
Get off my dick, it's sick
I refuse to feel sorry for you
I can't believe
People put you on a pedestal
Drunk with power
Your ivory tower
Never stood, never could
And around and around
You hit the ground
Reservation hellbound
A surreal vision
Of a human being
Most people cry
When a person dies
You wanna know why?
Run it through,
Discharge!
Most people cry
Not when you die
You wanna know why?
Run it through,
Discharge!
Nobody cried
You lived a lie
You lived a lie!
Run it through,
Discharge!
Most people cry
When a person dies
You wanna know why?
Run it through,
Discharge!

It's a long time, a long time comin'
You tell me how you think i should be
It's so easy
You tell me what people want from me
Well i'll just be myself
It's the only way i can be but you don't see

You accuse, abuse integrity
You don't know one damn thing about me
Not one damn thing
Build me up and then you tear me down

Curse my name when i'm not around
You're so hard until the truth is found
What goes round always comes around
And it's a
Long time, long time
A long time comin'
A long time, long time
A long time comin', a vicious circle
In your face i'll come runnin'
Try and stop me
A long time, much too long
And i'm comin'
Try and stop me
I like to keep my friends around me close
But my enemies closer
Friends accept me for just who i am
Not someone i'm supposed to be
Or something they expect for free
Do you know me?
I live with myself, i know my place
Wipe that bullshit smile off your face
The show is over
Build me up and then you tear me down
Curse my name when i'm not around
You're so hard until the truth is found
What goes round always comes around
And it's a
Long time, long time
A long time comin'
A long time, long time
A long time comin', a vicious circle
In your face i'll come runnin'
Try and stop me
A long time, much too long
And i'm comin'
Try and stop me
You and me are gonna take a walk
I think it's time we had a little talk
I said, you and me are gonna take a walk
And we're gonna do more than walk and talk
Let me see how you think i should be
You think it's so easy?
Put yourself on trial everyday
Against a hung jury
You don't know a thing about me
You believe the hype you see
But in my heart god knows i'll be true
To what my life will bring
And it's a
Long time, long time
A long time comin'
A long time, long time
A long time comin', a vicious circle
In your face i'll come runnin'
Try and stop me
A long time, much too long
And i'm comin'
Try and stop me

(instrumetal)

The enemy is dead
I can't believe what i said
The enemy is dead
Did it only exist in our head?
Sheltered from the evils of the world until the truth is seen
Sheltered from realities of life, your human rights are free
Freedom, taken for granted 'cause we don't know what oppression
Eans
Freedom, taken for granted by the leaders who would crush the dream
A crack, exposing human rights
Light against a granite sky
A crack, exposing human life
A fire burns
For the freedom, for the freedom, for the freedom
Never given but taken
For the freedom
Die for the reason
One man stands
Hard as he waits for freedom's hand
A unified voice for freedom of choice
One man stands for
Life
He'll give his
Would you give yours to fight for a cause
One man stands
And the wall cracks, and the wall cracks
And the wall cracks, and the walls come crumbling
Down with old ideals that could never work in modern times
Free choice, religious freedom, basic rights are on the bottom line
Down with all the icons of the past cold war and detente
The flock no longer fears the wolf, the flock is taking what it wants
A crack, exposing human rights
Light against the granite sky
A crack, exposing human rights
A fire burns
For the freedom, for the freedom, for the freedom
Never given but taken
For the freedom
Die for the reason
One man stands
Hard as he waits for freedom's hand
A unified voice for freedom of choice
One man stands for
Life
He'll give his
Would you give yours to fight for a cause
One man stands
And the wall cracks, and the wall cracks
And the wall cracks, and the walls come crumbling
Down!
One man stands for life - i never questioned
One life costs us all - they love their children
Every man stands and fights - who is my enemy?
One man's rule will fall - one man stands
One man stands
Hard as he waits for freedom's hand
A unified voice for freedom of choice
One man stands for
Life
He'll give his
Would you give yours to fight for a cause
One man stands
And the wall cracks, and the wall cracks
And the wall cracks, and the walls come crumbling
Down!

Mankind,
The public enemy's not the man who speaks his mind
The public enemy's the man that goes and acts blind
Searching for an answer that he'll never find
An action from reaction and you can't make a retraction
Once you've put your head out
And then you're blue in the face,
As you try to state your case
You can think with your dick but it can't shout
Yo
I try to understand what the hell is going on
I can't imagine how things ever got so far gone
You separatists, say you want your own state
I'll give them a state, a state of unconsciousness
Retribution, no solution, constitution
Discrimination, through the nation, raining hatred
I yell, when there's schism you must rebel
I yell, so you'll hear
I yell, i refuse to live in your hell
I am what you fear
I'm the truth, i don't keep it in the family
Live your life, take someone else
Keep it in the family
The real world's outside your door
You can't keep it in the family
You've got the longest way to fall
Keep it in the, keep it in the, keep it in the
Family
Don't even try to tell me what you think is right
When to you blacks are niggers, and jews are kikes
And you expect to be taken seriously
But your actions, they're more than curiously.
Juvenile, you emulate what you hate
And you don't even know why you feel this way
'cause daddy hated this, and mommy hated that
And your own ability to reason's like a tire gone flat
Yo.
I try to understand what the hell is going on
I can't imagine how things ever got so far gone
You separatists, say you want your own state
I'll give them a state, a state of unconsciousness
Retribution, no solution, constitution
Discrimination, through the nation, raining hatred
I yell, when there's schism you must rebel
I yell, so you'll hear
I yell, i refuse to live in your hell
I am what you fear
I'm the truth, i don't keep it in the family
Live your life, take someone else
Keep it in the family
The real world's outside your door
You can't keep it in the family
You've got the longest way to fall
When you keep it in the, when you keep it in the
When you keep it in the family
When you keep it in the, when you keep it in the
When you keep it in the family
Acting out of pure cold hatred
'cause of what another's race is
Color of another's face is
Different, and your own frustrations
Taking on a violent nature
Full of hate, so full of hate
You'd kill a man is that your fate
Your street becomes a police state
Why the hell do you hate?!
Hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate, hate
Hate, hate!!!
I'm not gonna stand for it
Someone's gonna pay for it
I yell, we rebel
We're the truth and we won't keep it in the family
Live your life, take someone else
Keep it in the family
The real world's outside your door
You can't keep it in the family
You've got the longest way to fall
Keep it in the family
I'm the thing that you most fear
I don't keep it in the family
I am the truth you won't hear
Keep it in the family
The real world's outside your door
You can't keep it in the family
You've got the longest way to fall
Keep it in the family