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Typical Criminal
05:15
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It’s typical, the criminal
Is a character we must behold
The media creates a frame
That allows us to reject his soul
Helps us not to care
Helps us not to care at all (At all)
The darkness of his skin deem his crimes typical
The label he fulfills
Make his crime seem rational (Rational)
He’s put away for profit
It’s just his demographic
White boys can sell the shit
And authorities won’t stop it
But they’ll stop him as he’s walking home
Walking home alone
Bullied by the black and blue
The fascists of his only home
Where he is forced to dwell
Where poverty runs rampant
In streets filled with blood and so few chances
No matter what he does
No matter his accomplishments
He’s fearing every gun
To be taken away
Forgotten in cell
He’s too intelligent
To be rotting in affluent hell
A consciousness
That’s rotting away
He’s put away for profit
It’s just his demographic
White boys can sell the shit
And authorities won’t stop it
But they’ll stop him as he’s walking home
Walking home alone
Bullied by the black and blue
The fascists of his only home
Seems like two choices
Two choices
Mass incarceration
Or total annihilation
They tell us he’s our typical
Criminal
And we believe
He’s a typical
Typical criminal
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2. |
Thanatos
05:10
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Falling through the floor
Creature at my door
I don’t reach out
No one can help
Can’t help but to think
I’m by myself
It’s cliche
To say
We all die alone
Yet it’s life that seems
Lonely, dark, and cold
I’m just trying
Trying to sleep
Thanatos
Unplug me from this machine
Please
Prisoner to my mind
There’s no key in sight
So I’m welcoming death
But it doesn’t seem quite
Right
As the moon beats the sun
In the turning of the night
Flipping the coin
To see
If I should still fight
I’m just trying
Trying to sleep
Thanatos
Unplug me from this machine
Please, please, please
Un-plug me
Un-plug me
Un-plug me
Unplug me from this machine
Please
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3. |
Refuse to Bleed
04:40
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Lying back and pondering
What we used to be
You and me, You and me
The voices in my head
Silenced when you said
Words so soft and sweet
While you held me in my bed
You and me, You and me
While my wrists refused to bleed
You and me, You and me
It seems the cruelest curse
Of humanity
To love another human life
When we’re all destined to leave
We move away, we kill ourselves
Or are tortured by disease
We all get left behind
It’s an inevitability
So did this, I to you
It’s the way it had to be
For you and me
You and me
I left you crying
Stumbling
As you walked away from me
You and me
While my wrists refused to bleed
And nothing makes me happy
What the fuck is wrong with me?!
But you and me
You and me
We just weren’t destined to be
I left you at the MC5 anniversary
With Kim Thayil was on guitar
And the drummer from Fugazi
Your tear ducts wouldn’t quit
As you screamed and yelled at me
I said, “I don’t deserve this shit
at the show that I wanted to see!”
You and me, You and me
Oh just wishing you would leave
You and me, You and me
As my wrists refused to bleed
And nothing makes me happy
What the fuck is wrong with me
But you and me
You and me
We just weren’t destined to be
Lying back and pondering
What we used to be
While my consciousness
Protrudes
And I fly up through the ceiling
Up, through the stratosphere
While my body has no feeling
And I know that you
Still think about
What we used to be
You and me, you and me
Oh God you and me
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You and Them Grand Rapids, Michigan
Five piece band from Grand Rapids, MI. Bringing you an assortment of organized noises, from melodic post-hardcore to progressive to a visceral, and dismal auditory catharsis.
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