Articles of Faith Lyrics

Everyday
(Bondi/Shield)

Everyday's like another
everyway's the same old color
black and grey
it's just the weather
I don't feel so bad always

Everyday's like another
in everyway
will I recover
what's my name
what's my number
I don't feel so bad always

Everyday's like another
Yesterday's like tomorrow
Destitute pocket's empty
I declare emotional bankrupcy


I've Got Mine
(AOF)

Judge this space as private
Reserve a place for me
I only get what I got coming
You'll never get a thing outta me
If you meet my standards
We'll discuss the cost
The price of sacrifice is much too high
The gift of charity is given wrong

Given fom a payment
All my credit's due
I worked hard for what I got
There just ain't enough for you
I've no obligation
Do you think I'm a fool?
Dog eats dog eats dog out there
Fuck the golden rule

Given from a payment
When charity begins at home
And I've got mine
I've got mine
United we will fall
Divided we will fuck 'em all
And I've got mine
I've got mine


Bad Attitude
(Bondi/Scuderi)

Bad attitude's a catch-all phrase
When things don't work out their way
And you know you're supposed to stay
Right in your place

In your corner -- be a man
Get away with what you can
As long as you don't rip them
Keep you in your place

You know that it's not right to hate
It must be that you're born that way
You need some more -- indoctrinate
Or else they'll put you away

Bad attitude's what they'll serve you
When they're need for you is through
'Cause you got that attitude
Keep you in your place

Bad attitude's what it must be
Because you don't think like me
And want all those handsome things
Keep you in your place

Bad attitude's what I've been told
Since I was just five years old
And didn't buy what they had sold
Right in my place

Bad attitude but "be yourself"
Just enough like someone else
Another soul who needs our help
Go to hell

Bad attitude...
What We Want is Free
(Bondi)

I don't need no credit rating
Mass production market slaving
I won't spend my life behaving
the monopolies

If in time I cease to function
Blame it on a bad deduction
All I see is prime corruption
the monopolies

They sell me sort
Shatter my ambition
And buy me out
That's the wrong description
They buy me off
I've no ammunition
That's what they want for me

What we want
is free
What we want
is free
What we want
is free
What we want
is free

I don't need no mass production
Demographic ground reductions
Obsolescence market functions
the monopolies

I don't need no loan investment
Floating bonds or sales engagement
I won't spend my life in payment to
the monopolies

They sell me sort
Shatter my ambition
And buy me out
That's the wrong description
They buy me off
I've no ammunition
That's what they want for me

What we want
is free
What we want
is free
What we want
is free
What we want
is free

I won't spend my life behaving
Say I'm wrong for disobeying
All your shit is so degrading
I won't spend my life behaving

What we want
is free
What we want
is free......


Wait
(Virus X)

I thought
Not yet
Moment
Isn't right
Second chance
Second guess
Another day
Another night
Mind stops
Start to doubt
Start to
Hesitate
Chance gone
Moment past
Now it's
Too late

Wait
Too long...

Hope it
Comes to me
But it
Never does
Past seems
Much better
Really than it
Ever was
Headaches
Yes/No
Too hard
To choose
Always thinking
What I got
What I got
To lose

Curse and
Throw a fit
Look for
An excuse
What's the trouble
What's the problem
What's the reason
What's the use?
Sweat that
I'll change
But I
Just repeat
Guess I'm
Too worried
About
Defeat
My Father's Dreams
(Bondi/Shield)

My destiny's made out for me
Everything that I see
Living someone else's dreams
Will not fade away

Everything you didn't get
Living out your old regrets
All your worried loss I'be met
Straight in the face

I don't see through your eyes
I don't touch through your hands
I don't walk in your shoes
I won't live out your plans

For all the things you never made
and all the words you never said
and just what do you expect?
I can't live for you

Does it make me any less
Not living inside your regrets
I wasn't born inside your steps
But I'll do my best

I don't see through your eyes
I don't touch through your hands
I don't walk in your shoes
I won't live out your plans

And I'll never be what you want me to be
And I'll never see what you want me to see
And you'll never get what you want out of me
And I'll never live out my father's dreams

I'm sorry what you never had
It's not my place to repeat that
In hopes that I'll get some of what
You let slip away

The power and the hungry fear
You always felt was much too near
Let's turn and go someplace where
We can stand face to face


Buy This War
(AOF)

So you say I got a choice
It looks the same to me
Exchange your culture exchange your tactics
Exchange your weaponry
Exchange your borders for spheres of hatred
And national security
Exchange your life consume this war
Sell it all to me

Stockpiles sit and wait for victims
No advertising cost
Vacations for free in jungle fatigues
Maintain democracy
The newest price is sacrifice
But practice what you preach
The end it looks the same to me
When no one leaves alive

National security is what we need to feel free
Someone's gonna bleed

Buy this war
Buy my life
Buy this war
Pay to die


False Security
(Bondi/Shield)

Someone said the answer's at the end
Line's on the left -- it never bends
Hindsight from right -- it does me wrong
I find my comfort in the masses
And my virtue in the swarming of the burning throng
All for false security

Someone said the truth lies in their eyes
You can see the facts right through their lies
And I feel so safe when I realize
No amount of clothes can save the body
When the guts are rotting out inside
All for false security

Someone said the cream rises to the top
Some know what's better and some do not
And the answer's watching from the rooftop
Nothing buys you patience like my silence
It comes grinding to a halt
All for false security

And I hear the echoes in the backroom
Were the dead are biting off their tongues
Privacy ain't private when you're lonely
And you're lonely 'cause you don't belong
And the mirror's pointing at the weather
And the change is pointing towars the storm
Oh god please save me, I'm forsaken
But at least the state will keep me warm
Buy This War
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