Blenderhead - "Prime Candidate For Burnout" Lyrics

1. "Escape Reason"

Take a leap. Reach the non-freedom. Hold what you can in the religion of choice. Explain to yourself a reason for being. Swim for the shore that can never be found. You're gonna drown. Must be worth something. Rape with the eyes. Devaluate yourself through a "liberated" mind. A final experience is 'truth", have a good ride. Forget the feeling next month, swept away by your deterministic tide. If you were only worth, what you wish you could be. The decision to refuse your life, doesn't allow you to see. You are westernized, so you are "civilized". You never thought that popular culture could bring you down. You got what you prayed for, the ever failing wisdom of self. So, are you happy with what you have found?

2. "Cesspool"

I wake to greet the new day, reminded of all the mistakes I've made, but it just doesn't matter anymore. I'm not alone, I'm safe at home. I don't need your sympathy. I can remember a time when you were close. When you talked to me like I was somebody that mattered. When you talked to me at all. Am I just walking dead? I suffer in a cesspool of my miserable existence. It's taking time again. This bitter pill slowly chokes me to death. It's waking time again. I sit beneath this stream of angry words flowing from my breath. It's hanging time again. This rope is too long for the task at hand, I wish I had a friend. Someone who understands this state I'm in. I can't just turn away from things I face each day. The pain it drags me down. I try to smile, but I just frown.

3. "Powertrip"

Because of politics, you lack reason. Just like a hypocrite that never listens. You're on a power trip, lust for money. Please don't be mad if I don't think it's funny. Hatred, poverty, sickness...is it all in my mind? And now a big red brick is not a weapon. You can kill with it and they will let you. Just say it's not your fault, that you were angry. Speak of intolerance. Just say you're sorry. Murder, racism, weakness...is it all in my mind? And now the power shift from wrong to right. Conform to the new ideal or you will die. Don't try to think yourself or have opinions. Be P.C. is the rule. I will not follow. Hunger, anarchy, ignorance...is it all in my mind?

4. "Bottle Breaker"

I'm looking straight ahead with my eyes wide open. There is no time for turning back or for indecision. I've got no room to live in a past gone wrong. I'm moving far away to a place where I belong. I'm just a bottle breaker, voice raising fool. Who am I to ever think that I could be used by You? I've caused another fight and I know it's all my fault. You can hear me cuss and scream all the way down the hall. It's a miracle to be awake in a world that's sleeping. No alarm clock will wake a place that's lost it's meaning. Every new turn is a risk and a chance to be buried. It's those days of apathy that make me scary.

5. "Let Down"

Hoping I can, but knowing I can't live up to your expectations. Trying hard to work it out, but I know it's just so futile. Expectations, disappointment. Don't look to me, I'll let you down. I just want to, really want to have you think the best of me. But, when you see me, you don't see me...just who you want me to be. Expectations, disappointment, don't look to me, I'll let you down. I'm not perfect, I'm not worthy. I feel blessed just to walk and breath. I'm not patient, I get angry. I need forgiveness for everything. Expectations, disappointment, don't look to me I'll let you down.

6. "Alcohol House"

When I come home tonight, you will tremble with fear. And even though I hurt you so. I really love you dear. We will get along. You can get along, if I say so. I drink to calm my nerves. I can quit any time. You just don't understand, what goes on in my mind. We will get along. You can get along, if I say so. Do not speak a word about this secret we keep. If you tell a soul, I'll kill you while you sleep. We will get along. You can get along, if I say so. I love you, I hate you. I love you, I hate you. You can't close your eyes and make it go away. Thank God you're still alive. Alive for another day. We will get along. You can get along, if I say so.

7. "Purgatory"

Blood sucking, maggot infested media machine. Ways to be cool and ways to be seen. Tell you when to jump and when to scream, just tune in at 8:15. It must be a drag to fit in. A stupid game where nobody wins. I'd rather be myself, than just blend in with all the cans on the shelf. Licking the flames of conformity hell. Being a poser sure is swell. Is that really you? I can't tell. You look like every other soul for sale in conformity hell. Jimmy and Jody and Buffy and Skip all have perfect hair and perfect hips. Jazzercize, step aerobics and thigh master too. Shakes and powders and pills for you.

8. "Internalize"

I can think of a hundred different reasons for this feeling I have inside. To pledge allegiance to another would be treason. Am I just along for the ride? Something new, some things change. Nothing new, nothing changed. I'm made of flesh and blood and can be broken. If you prick me, I will bleed. It's a matter of trust and your devotion. Is it so hard for you to see? Something new, some things change. Nothing new, nothing changed. Internalize, sympathize, see this thing set in my eyes. Sometimes the loudest words go unspoken. It doesn't mean I'm not listening. I give my soul to you for the taking. I'm hurt and broken so be careful with me. Something new, some things change. Nothing new, nothing changed.

9. "Soapbox"

I sit here just hoping that the words will come to mind when life makes me feel like I'm deaf dumb and blind. I can't shake this feeling that my life is just so small. The next time I step is the next time I fall. And I think I'll try to get it right, I'll try to get it right this time. Where was I yesterday or two days ago? The weekends never last and the weeks go so slow. All that I am is a small speck of dust. You hold my breath in a faith based on trust. And I think I'll try to get it right, I'll try to get it right this time. I try, I still try and sometimes I get through. I'm living and breathing and all because of You. I know that my words are not nearly enough. I'll give you all I am though, it's just half as much. And I think I'll try to get it right, I'll try to get it right this time.

10. "Spare Change"

Working overtime just to make ends meet. Don't get sick or miss a day or you'll be on the street. I will work for food the man says with a sign, while long faces wait for checks in the unemployment line. Hey mister can you spare a dime? I'm poor, I'm hungry and I've lost my mind. So here am I, in my safe cocoon. It's not my problem, what happens to you. Close my wallet day after day. Don't feel your desperation, just go away. Hey mister can you spare a dime? I'm poor, I'm hungry and I've lost my mind.

11. "National Drug"

This is untouchable, but it allows me to see myself in the way I know I should be. And clean, I'm so clean...so I'll leave it up to them to tend to the killing. Feels so nice to watch it all go by. There's a relaxing effect in watching someone pretending to die. Walk without walking, talk without talking. See without looking, thought without thinking. Feel without feeling, shoot without shooting. Hurt without hurting, have sex without... This is intangible, but it allows me to be everything you are and I can still be me. And mean, they're so mean. A model for me of all the things I know I shouldn't be. No questions asked of my personal life. Cheap synthetic therapy teaches me to think, feel and see. When my muscles are keeping me low I follow the machinery. It's much easier to serve the mass than to know yourself.

12. "Choice"

Hitler had an opinion too. Manson had an opinion too. Jim Jones had an opinion too. Life imprisonment or death is no reward for love. Clinton has an agenda too. Hillary has an agenda too. Limbaugh has an agenda too. Life imprisonment or death is no reward for love. I will not stop. I will not shut up. I will not back down. I will not play your game. I will not joke. I will not choke. I will not defend your right to be lame. The FDA has a motive too. The CIA has a motive too. Life imprisonment or death is no reward for love. Sid Vicious had a problem too. Darby Crash had a problem too. GG Allin had a problem too. Life imprisonment or death is no reward for love. This is America, you have the right to be wrong.