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Flicker (Version 2)
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A song about addiction.
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A solo punk band with songs ranging from politics to social issues to evolutionary biology.
Lacking any real musical talent, I decided to use Punk-o-Matic to create some generic punk backgrounds to the various songs I had written. Recorded at low quality through a computer microphone, the songs are not musical masterpieces but the lyrics are still strong. Give it a listen, you might enjoy it.
Song Info
Genre
Rock • Punk
Charts
Peak #3,005
Peak in subgenre #474
Author
The Transient
Uploaded
December 19, 2004
Track Files
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MP3 4.5 MB • 128 kbps • 0:00
Story behind the song
Original verses were written in the Spring and the last two verses were added recently.
Lyrics
Wasting away every Saturday night They walk through a portal to another life A blender of colors forming disjointed rainbows Psychedelic coppers these users bestow Concentrical paths down the tower Ensconced within the herbal power Minds bending through space and time fabric The answers exposed but only sporadic The effect’s wearing off, its magic drained Back to reality, life expectancy wanes Just a flicker (Something quicker) Just a flicker (Always bickered) Just a flicker (Labeled stickers) Just a flicker (The brain picker) Come crashing down at breakneck speeds Chemical imbalance arise from exits of your weed The rocky chasm a graveyard to his kind Disjointed reality too much for a human mind This culture impressed onto other youth A fork in the path, which way is the truth? They become monsters, but is it different than before? A desolate destroyed body washes on to shore Shrouded in abstractions and cloaked by indecision The vexed philosopher, his opiate, the fission Just a flicker (Something quicker) Just a flicker (Always bickered) Just a flicker (Labeled stickers) Just a flicker (The brain picker) Huddled on the corners of forgotten city streets These victims symbols of a whole generation beat Warped and distorted, the power of plagues The boy on fire an omen to the end of all days No origin but boundless infinity A sign of corruption for every floating soul to see Rhythmthless twitching and clouds of black smoke Pinned up like a martyr, the old seer is broke The last scream consumes the rotted flesh Calmed down now, we start again fresh Just a flicker (Something quicker) Just a flicker (Always bickered) Just a flicker (Labeled stickers) Just a flicker (The brain picker) The masters control And the rebels roll Revolution through sin Forever trapped in The candles squelched Emotions not felt Are they still human? Can’t believe what they’re doin’ Who’s really in charge? A reality barrage Seizures of truth They burn to the root The sermons delivered And the people quivered Too many temptations Filled with consternation A vicious paradox Conform or these rocks? Out of ruin they come Expected by no one Synaptic flashes of purpose But addiction is worse yet There is no redemption No human exemptions A left over exoskeleton Becomes the Modern Man Autonomous movements Artificial improvements Down, down, into the abyss Detoxification sorely missed Is stretches forever on Overcome by no one! Society transformed by this poison Addiction ruling over foison Rehabilitation or just temporary fix? Never knowing if we truly exist Two sides of the looking glass Dismal future haunted by terrible pasts Can I change my composition? Undergo a genetic revision It calls out loud like a siren A distant, mysterious exotic island Should I pay the warnings heed? Give into a subconscious need Are there values involved? Will I sin or be absolved? I wish to balance on the fringe Yet all voices are yelling to binge Just a flicker (I can’t take it anymore!) (Something quicker) Just a flicker (I’m losing the war!) (Always bickered) Just a flicker (I take the bait on the lure!) (Labeled stickers) Just a flicker (Destruction open the door!) (The brain picker) And then as I open my eyes Unsure as to whether I’m still alive A foreign agent controlling my thoughts This punishment it seems I have brought I am no more than a surrogate man These machines, they overran Like a virus feasting on flesh I am a tumor, biologic mesh My flame tick, tick, ticking away No longer in this Hell can I stay! Just a flicker (Something quicker) Just a flicker (Always bickered) Just a flicker (Labeled stickers) Just a flicker (The brain picker)
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