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Daylight
03:48
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I feel freezing, but I'm wearing three coats
I can't fight this shaking, is there no hope
I guess I feel helpless most of the time
I'll just get drunk, I'll just get high
I'm out in the daylight
I'm out in the daylight
Nothing ever happens, in this small town
The people just stare, they just shuffle around
I guess they feel helpless most of the time
They'll just get drunk, they'll just get high
They're out in the daylight
We're out in the daylight
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Moonlight
04:07
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The winds blowing cold tonight
Blows the smoke back in my face
I'm drinking a 40 on the corner
as sirens ring out across the town
It's another wreck on the highway
It's another fist fight downtown
It's another drug bust at a heroin den
It's another person being swept under the rug
But what was it all for
Can we really be sure
What any of this was for
And a kid born twenty years ago today
dies with a needle in their vein
But the police don't do a thing
and your thoughts and prayer don't really do a thing
It's another senseless mass shooting
It's another god damn white nationalist terrorist attack
It's another true threat to us all
It's another cop or politician lying to us all
But what was it all for
Can we really be sure
What any of this was for
I was born and I will die
I was born and I will probably die, still asking
What was the point in all our lives
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Ditch Mercer County Weed
03:03
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I've been spoiled by this college town, so many strains all around
Straight from the dispensaries, only a mule in between
Making business for the dealers, making them self-med healers
Blowing my mind in 2013, breaking my wallet in 2016
All because I was only used to
Ditch Mercer County Weed
Cops are coming so we better leave this
Ditch Mercer County Weed
Smoke it all or throw it out
Doesn't matter cause there's still a drought
Of anything, but this
Ditch Mercer County Weed
Way back amongst the fields is where it's all grown
It's not to make any money, it's just to protect the home
Cause inside is the meth lab, really brings in the profits
They just sell the ditch weed to kids & other redneck degenerates
Who they trick with words into buying
Ditch Mercer County Weed
Cops are coming so we better leave this
Ditch Mercer County Weed
Smoke it all or throw it out
Doesn't matter cause there's still a drought
Of anything, but this
Ditch Mercer County Weed
The hicks have got me again, $60 wasted by my hand
All because I'm stuck in my fucking hometown
Can't go to Iowa City, can't go to the Quad Cities
Can't go to Peoria, can't go to Galesburg
I gotta deal with
Ditch Mercer County Weed
Cops are coming so we better leave this
Ditch Mercer County Weed
Smoke it all or throw it out
Doesn't matter cause there's still a drought
Of anything, but this
Ditch Mercer County Weed
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Jurj Clooners
03:28
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Sure the Earth is full of nice things
Like love, togetherness, and the smell before rain
But there's plenty of shitty things, like rape and pain
Maybe it will balance out, in the end
Sometimes I'm afraid of the day
I'd rather stay inside and smoke it all away
But that leads to a life of pain
So I'll try and try and try and try and try and try to change
But maybe I can change
Maybe I can grow
Maybe I can change, my world
Who fucking knows
And we can be good human beings
We can be total shitbirds as well
We do what we do, to make ourselves happy
And in the end we disregard everyone else
Apathy is a blood sucking cancer
That feeds on all human beings
The sad truth is we can cure it
But that requires caring for everyone else
But maybe we can change
Maybe we can grow
Maybe we can change, our world
I fucking doubt it
Sure the Earth is full of nice things
Like love, togetherness, and the smell before rain
But there's plenty of shitty things, like rape and pain
Maybe it will balance out, in the end
God's just an old guy who likes pranks
That's why he gave us nazis and earthquakes
And AIDS, structured racism, and assholery
Yeah, he's laughing at you and me
Yeah, he's laughing at you and me
Yeah, he's laughing at you and me
Yeah, he's laughing at you and me
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Airdrop Wolves
02:03
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Gotta do something, gotta do something, gotta do it now
Not in a way we have before
But in a new way that makes life rebound
I know a place we can start in the greatest of the lakes
Let's make Isle Royale are final stake
The environment's collapsing
No ice bridge is forming
Prey will overtake the predator
No wolves are being born
The old are weak and the young are sick
No strangers to expand genetics
So the whole population dies & leaves a hole
Moose spread across the island eating it bare
Everything starves, everything dies
The food chain is fucking gone
Must play god to overcome
Imported straight from Canada
Saving Isle Royale with
Airdrop Wolves
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Elk Startled by Thunder Stevens Point, Wisconsin
We are a cow/folk punk band outta Stevens Point, WI that likes to sing about nature and politics.
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