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All Too Human

by The Body Politic

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1.
Nocturne 00:48
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Split The Ground 03:56
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My mother said, "Son look around You’ve got a fucked up view of reality" My father said, "Son oh won't you listen now Your lack of insight plagues just how far your tongue can see" Chorus: I’ve spent all these years With my head in the sand Tonight I’m going to dig myself out With, with, with third degree burns All over my body Tonight I split the ground and as the day decays Somebody will dig me out, out of the earth My mother said, "Son you’re a fucking mess You’ve got no heart, soul, ribs, goal Not a centered bone inside your chest" My father said, "Son how can I prove it now? Because I swear I feel no pity No I know I feel no pity" *Chorus* Soil, soil, dirt and rubble Hand me my stomach and spine for my troubles The trees are where I plan to stay x2 Let the bark match this skin And the pine needles bite Let the roots run my veins And the soil gave me life Let the bark match this skin And the pine needles bite Let the roots run my veins And my arms stretch for miles *Chorus*
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Corinthian 03:55
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Blue eyes for tranquility Green for sincerity Your eyes, because they speak to me Every thought you’ve ever had I know Chorus: When I was not old My father's eyes I stole An eye for an eye And I own your soul tonight Mirror, on the wall How long 'til my gaze breaks Blood and tears, on the wall A quick nip tuck and take A recessive gene takes hold These roots of mine are wrapped 'round coal It's time to recreate myself With eyes to start and next a heart *Chorus* *Chorus* Time, all I need is time No one hears your cries Cross-stitch will work fine Oh how they shine Oh and how they shine Oh and how they shine Oh and how they shine Finally mine All I need is time No one hears your cries Cross-stitch will work fine Oh how they shine Oh and how they shine Oh and how they shine Oh and how they shine Finally mine
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With Fear Instead 04:30
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Look down Eager Child Prove them Now burn through this city Half hand highway And with fear instead We’ll talk of young’un's schemes Brought tears to a thousand giant's dreams For all the nights We'll fall asleep These hands Will purge our skin Look down Violent Father Hate them An old man who hides in his wrinkles This city walks on you This walker carries too much And it's bound to break Chorus: For all the nights We'll fall asleep These hands Will purge our skin For all the nights We'll fall asleep These hands Will fall away x2 Half life and kids in costumes First life a fort as tribune (Leads to emotion, life in a set lane Leads to emotion, life in an afterburn) We sail for shore and All we've got is a single oar So we spin in circles 'Til water turns to rust We count the years That still amount And all we're left with is a fistful A fistful of ties *Chorus*
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Act I: The Madman 03:04
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You’re profound You’re profound You’re profound By the words in which you choose You mouth them aside Not a humble place to die The priveledged few find knives upon your words Leading the blind And speaking for the mute Has defined your snake in the grass career With a beak as massive as the tongue you use to lick your wounds So let's paint the town red With the blood of the disbelievers Let's chop them to pieces With dull, rounded cleavers As long as zero exists One will become a hundred So there will be bodies to spare As for, "Thou shalt not worship false idols" Am I guilty? I don’t really care He screams and shouts at the top of his lungs The deity ten steps from our wrung Drag him by his fucking hair The river below makes him one of our own x4 (Oh god) The madman lives Castrate those with stones We’ll shorten the rivers And plague the roads We’ll take what we’ve got coming And give it back ten fold So follow me home I'll leave the lights on
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Act II: The Prophet 05:22
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I hit, you learn I smile, you burn The lies you swallow From a growing shallow I the shepherd and you the flock Behind your back it's you I mock A cracked mask is my façade So tonight I will be your god So let's hit the town tonight Let's watch the blood pool from the already dead Drink spirits and eat the meat We’ve tenderized ourselves This heart it yearns For a woman's concern And now who’s hollow A shell but no marrow And I believe, and I believe that you’re the one Who’s make believe, who’s make believe and I’m alone How far the hills They are just hills But still a mountain to own Chorus: So let’s hit the town tonight Let's watch the blood pool from the already dead Drink spirits and eat the meat We’ve tenderized ourselves Today a prophet Tomorrow maybe a pile of bones But today, I'll celebrate Like I’ll never be alone I'll bite the hand that feeds me Catch me if you can I'll bite the hand that feeds me 'Cause I am more god than man I'll bite the hand that feeds me I’ll tear away the flesh I’ll tear away the flesh Let's find us some appeal How is it, like a stuck pig must I bleed What happened to my reign I thought I'd rule the day *Chorus*
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The Citadel 03:19
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Painted shells, a papal sign Pariah days, yester-divine Searching for attention And I’ve been running wild Let the taste of salvation turn bland Let the table of your round turn soil I’ve been waiting for this grass to turn gold It’s a pleasure just to simplify you Today’s just a day to remember The callous limits far surpass that of men Chorus: Oh god, all the pretty people They come around In this city, In this citadel Dear god, look at all the broken people In this city, In this citadel A king's consort, and I absorb A queen's remnant, which I depend The needing and the wanting Brought both my life and death Let the table of my round be just Let the taste that once was bland turn gold I have waited upon this soil 'til grass It’s a salvation I've pleasured for you Today’s just a day to remember What limits the callous falls upon these men *Chorus* While I hold this sand, it cuts my hand Just to bring me some hope My forests cement, and my castles steel As it moves and marches Turns color and shape These miles away from a coffin He knows it's slowly coming It’s burning into flesh Imposing it’s own will *Chorus*
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Wait For The Sunrise 05:38
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Oh the shadow puppets on the wall Oh the shadow puppets on the wall They crawl across the floor and block my face, my face I miss the sun, today’s your day, your day I've found this flashlight I’m told that it makes things shine I don’t like the colour or size So I flicked it on, and watched it die Chorus: I'll hide within your shadow Limelight aficionado Sit and pray, and Wait for the sunrise Wait for the sunrise Wait for the sunrise Wait for the sunrise And walk away Let's all play hide and seek I'll let you starve in wait Count to ten And pray I find you I've built this box to lock away the light I've built this box to lock away the light I hold this knife I’m told that it makes things bleed I don’t like the finish or shine So I starved myself, a red moon tonight *Chorus* I'll hide within your shadow Limelight aficionado Sit and pray *Chorus*
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The Razor Choir 03:52
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This coffee machine squeaks and squawks Inadequate life has been spent upon this box I revere the years between these stained glass lies Wire coils, an assembly wife The razor choir sings your life Black lungs, sunk souls, and blue screen eyes And let's do something just a little bit different today Chorus: Do you thirst for life? It’s a simple question so answer concise Have you set ablaze your own home Lost the taste for flesh and your soul is gone Plastic letters are worth more than words A paper shredder for my little girl Do my eyes decide? The bovine ties reside where my family pries Slice my artery and watch the clock Waiting for the day that my heart stops Codeine collage and a bullshit smile And let's do something just a little bit different today *Chorus* Bite your tongue It will rot in your mouth Hold your words And soon they won't come out Oh how wild these hands All the while these hands And yet these hands *Chorus*
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An Axe On Our Shoulder 06:10
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Today we take heed of this corpulent man A whale for a tail and cell phone in hand He sits and he gorges, and gorges he does He eats half of the earth because is because So let's all watch this garbage pile and rot It will never get better it will definitely not Chorus: All the Lorax left here in this mess Was a small pile of rocks with one word unless, unless It's simple to figure To just understand We carry an axe on our back And no seedling in hand, dear God So "Chop!" calls the lumberjack, "As fast as you can!" We'll build us ten more condos by nightfall as planned And under his breath he laughed hard from his chest "I will rape and pillage this earth, lord I can't rest, no!" Oh the birds and bees, they're dying The trees reach up as if they’re crying As they cut a groaning "SLUPP" The sound that they make when the last tree is cut *Chorus* SLUPP fall the trees SLUPP fall the trees SLUPP fall the trees, now you’ve got to believe SLUPP fall the trees to the muckity muck And the muckity muck where the trees all fall SLUPP! Hack, hack, hack Tack, tack, tack SLUPP, SLUPP, SLUPP Muck, muck, muck SLUPP, SLUPP, SLUPP Tack, tack, tack Muck, muck, muck Hack, hack, hack Now said the Once-ler
Now that you're here The words of the Lorax seem perfectly clear "Grow a strong forrest, protect it from axe" Then the Lorax and his friends may come back *Chorus* It's simple to figure To just understand We carry an axe on our shoulder And no seedling in hand No seedling in hand

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The debut full length album!

Digital download includes full album artwork and song lyrics.

Produced by Spencer Bowman and Matt Aasen.
Co-produced by Wilson Pascoe.
Engineered and mixed by Wilson Pascoe.
Mastered by Chris Potter.

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released July 23, 2011

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