From Here To Utopia

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[Verse]
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Well I'm afraid that the circles 
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I've been drinking myself in
aren't big enough for the vowels 
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that I try to fit inside of them
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When I was young I drank too much,
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 and I'd be lying if I said I didn't
 feel so goddamn young tonight
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maybe too young to ask what's on 
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my mind.
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Like if freedom means doing what 
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I want well, don't I gotta want 
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something?
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Won't you tell me that we want 
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something more than just more beer,
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 and my friends if that ain't true

won't you lie to me tonight, oh 
yeah!


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[Verse]
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Well I've been listening to Minor 
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Threat records all day, and shit if 
I do not know every word.
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I sing along as I tie off
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and Ian screams he's “out of step”
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 as I throw the cotton into the 
spoon draw up into the syringe
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I'll know just what he means 
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until I hit a vein
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And after that I won't have to 
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bother with knowing who I am, for a
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 while at least
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In a moment the whole world is 
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gonna melt around me and I'll swear 
I don't miss it

as I lie to you tonight!


[Chorus]
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'Cause I'm afraid to look the 
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world in the eye
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If nothing's gonna change, well 
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then, I'd rather die.
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And I'm too unemployed to organize a
 union,
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I'm too intoxicated to tear down a 
building.
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I'm too hopeless to look for a 
solution,
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I'm afraid that if I found one
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I'd be out of excuses for the way
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I waste away in the gutters that I 
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chose like fashion accessories to 
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go with my dirty clothes
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I haven't bathed in months but you 
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know it's not because I've been 
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fighting bourgeois morals,
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I'm just lazy and I'm young


[Verse]
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I've seen the best minds of my 
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generation dying drunk or high from 
the rooftops to the parking lots
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stomped to death in West 
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Philadelphian squats
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They got me waiting on a day when 
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we can say “fuck the police ” with a
 little bit of integrity
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when it will mean “I've got your 
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back if you've got mine.”
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Give me a scene where I believe 
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in more than bad hair cuts guilt and
 misery
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Don't know where I fit between the
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 vegans and the nihilists, that 
might be the first thing I've said

that wasn't a lie tonight!


[Chorus]
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'Cause there's gotta be something
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 more than lying in the front yard 
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naked screaming at the 
constellations,
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I want something more than an 
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apology to say when I look the 
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world in the eye.
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I'll tell you man, my friend 
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William came to me with a message of
 hope:
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it went “fuck you and everything 
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that you think you know.
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If you don't step outside the 
things that you believe they're 
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gonna kill you.”
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He said “no one's gonna stop you 
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from dying young and miserable and 
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right.
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If you want something better, you 
gotta put that shit aside.”
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I thought about how for thousands
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 of years there have been people who
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 told us that things can't go on 
like this
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from Jesus Christ to the diggers,
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from Malthus to Zerzan,
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from Karl Marx to Huey Newton,
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but the shit goes on and on, and 
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on and on, and on and on, and on and
 on,

and on and on, and on and on, and on
 and on, and on and on and on,
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I'm not saying that we can't change 
the world.
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Nah, everybody does at least a 
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little bit of that.
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But I won't shit myself. The way 
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I'm living is a temper tantrum,
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and I need something else, need 
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something else, need something else 
to stay alive, woah oh oh


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[Otro]
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And on the night when I play my 
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last show I hope I'm screaming so 
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loud that my heart explodes
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And I'll be singing, I'll be 
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singing "we are free."
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Oh but won't you promise me that 
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we won't ever forget what the means.
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I know it's hard to give a shit 
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sometimes, but promise me we'll 
always try.
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'Cause I don't wanna hate you, 
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and I don't wanna hate me,
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and I don't wanna have to hate 
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everything anymore!

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