(G B C Am G B C Am D) It was 2008, you were living in the streets; when the economy imploded chaos descended over Greece, and all of a sudden life wasn't about finding the next meal to eat, 'cos when that teargas started flowing you barked: FUCK THE POLICE--I DON'T TAKE THIS SHIT! (G G7 C C7) So riot dog, you got the cops on the run, your barks are louder than their guns, if only there were more dogs like you if only I was brave enough to do half the shit you do So riot dog, abstraction sweeps you off your feet, carries you high above the streets; their bullets can't reach you now, immortalized by happenstance-- go take your bow!

(G G Em C) So I hear you got scrapes Well I got some too Let’s take ‘em over to the pound We’ll ask the puppies to help us lick 'em through So you’re sobbin’ up storms You say you feel out of place But you’ve never had control Since we were born we’ve just been satellites in space (G C7 G C7 G G C G Bm Em C Cm G) Well I’m a puzzle piece, lawd, but my puzzle don’t fit no more I’ve got a million tiny pinions sewing stitches for the holes I tore And this sensation’s sinkin’ in when I feel foreign at my own front door: I just don’t know where to call home anymore Now you’re in the street Yelling at the stars You know they don’t give a shit You only get attention from the honking cars You search for self on a page But the words fall apart That’s what you get when you hope Some extra bags under your eyes and a heavy heart

(C# C#m A) This space-time Frabric’s tearing At its seams At the very fine point where Wholeness is Indistinct from Infinite .9999's Dig for pro- -fundity in Nature’s laws Maybe God will throw us dogs a bone You wake up Wondering just Who you are but you’ll never really know, ‘cos (A Am) We're primes, lonely points on parallel lines and repeating decimal nines We're prime Everything You look closely At changes Fucked up quantum peek-a-boo game Drive fourteen Billion years you’ll Get sent back Einstein slaps you a speeding ticket And since our Matter’s in a Quantum field One electron everywhere at once Why can’t we Hit a switch And disappear? Let’s break all the laws of physics, cos’

(C Am G F) Don’t wanna talk about your God Or about your savior, Jesus Christ Don’t wanna hear ‘bout how devout you are Or justify how much I’m not Don’t wanna talk about the void Or about the lack of this or that Don’t wanna about hear your certainty Because I’m certain that I’m not (C Am F G) And at this point, it’s such a bore These confrontations are a chore Pretend to listen, but ignore ‘Til we’re exhausted to our cores (C G Am F) ‘Cos I’m agnostic, motherfuckers I’ve got conviction that I don’t And that ain’t an invitation Don’t try to teach me, ‘cos you won’t ‘Cos I’m agnostic motherfuckers I’ll keep my wagers to myself As for that cripplin’ fear of dying I keep it sittin’ on my shelf I live my life by my own guidelines Been writing them since I was young The cost of unity is little When it’s all been said and done The liberty of independence From arbitrary sects and sins Gives you the insight that life ain’t a game Nobody’s gonna lose or win I know it might seem little-minded But I’m okay not knowing why And I know that sounds resigned But I assure you: I still try

(Am C Am E7) There’s stagnation in our skin We gotta find a way to make it fresh again, and Seems our democracy’s a gun But we don’t know how to turn the safety on, ‘cos When every choice is black or white Binary systems always leaning left or right, and to Ethical calculus’ dismay Our morals get more complicated every day, so Between emotions and equations Tell me; would you be swayed by zeroes and ones? Some tell themselves they know it all Only to tumble from the lies they stacked so tall We try to separate from nature Pretend our artificiality is stature, but Semantic circles we create Could just be undiscovered, many-sided shapes cos’ It just ain’t human to be rounded We’ve got sides—there’s just too many to be counted When parts don’t add up to their sum Would you still put your faith in zeroes and ones?

(Am E F C Am E F C G G#) It’s spring of 2013 and this Winter’s almost past, that snowman I built out of ash won’t melt, cos’ It was built to last The end had felt near for so long, the US got bored and launched some bombs And got nuked back by everyone ‘cos politicians are morons And hiding in the Metro here Has kept us safe from harm, but now We’re running low on baked beans, and This train car smells like farts So we venture to the surface to see What it holds in store, and when Our eyes adjust; behold what’s left Of a world that is no more We wade through the debris downtown To the old 9:30 club, and since No one was in we cleaned it up And claimed it as our home and hub We made our beds from dirty clothes We found out in the street, and as We closed our eyes the ghosts of DC punks Rocked us to sleep When we awoke we felt as if We’d shed a metric ton, no more did We feel like the world had ended: It had just begun With no more cops and no more jobs And no society, our lives were Truly in our own damn hands; We finally were free (A Adim D A) Now we’re living the dream in this apocalyptic wasteland We got a lot of time to kill; but at least it dies by our hands And we’ll start again from sticks and stones, I’m thinking We can do it right this time So we teach ourselves to cook and craft and Leaven us some bread, and we go Scavenge the Smithsonians; put Allosaurus in our den; we Play dress-up with Lincoln’s hat and George Washington’s pants and we snag Pollocks, Eschers and Picassos, and The Star-Spangled Banner One day when we’re spray painting dicks On the walls of the White House, we ran Into some guys who just had left Their bunker, and didn’t know how To start anew in this decaying city So we say, “come on back to our house With us, we’ll clean you up and Have you fed.” They thank us but decline; said their friends Wouldn’t know where they were, and so we say That they should bring them all, too: The more the merrier! So they all come back to our place, and we Have a grand ol’ feast, and it turns out That they play music, too, so we jam Til’ the sun salutes D.C. And we’re living the dream in this apocalyptic wasteland We got a lot of time to kill; but at least it dies by our hand And we’ll start again from sticks and stones, you know, I think we’ll get it right this time It’s been a fun few weeks living with our new friends but Radiation’s got them so sick they can’t leave their bed We wish we could go on like this, but our food is at it’s end ‘cos someone’s stealing it from us and now we are defending So goodbye to anarchy, we gotta do the right thing And install some social system so our friends survive the spring But we’ll strive to make sure that ours is as fair as it can be One that at least grants us some illusion that we are still free

(A G# C) So it turns out that we aren’t alone, in fact we’re quite the opposite We’re one of many groups trying to start again amidst this shit There are bros and politicians, academics and some hipsters And some kleptocratic lobbyists who steal from everybody else Our government is tenuous; we’ve tried to do our best And just because we share our work they scoff and call us communists We wouldn’t care just what say, but this is just like Fallout 3 Before long we’ll be fighting, so we’re gonna need diplomacy So we organize a meeting, set a time and choose our delegates And convene inside the ruins of the old convention center And we fight and disagree; we act like model U.N. idiots The only thing we have in common’s we all hate the lobbyists ‘Cos they hide all day on K street with their horrible disfigurements And steal from us at night, and shoot their guns at all the scouts we send We ally to declare war on those mutants filled with greed, sometimes The road to peace is wet with blood; survival means our unity We form an army out of all the men and women who are able And we fortify our building with our beds and chairs and tables And we plunder the Smithsonians for armor and our arsenal We bear tomahawks and muskets, bows and arrows, cowboy pistols The next night we march to K Street beating drums and waving standards And our molotovs light up the sky like flocks of flaming birds But the lobbyists were waiting for us; they charge out into the street And we fight until the sun reflects from blood on the concrete The fight was long and lives were lost, survival cherished by those blessed But when the lobbyists retreated, they left K Street up for settlement We reconvened to talk about the future that’s in store But we quickly started arguing about the spoils of war And it soon devolved from verbal threats to slaps and stones and sticks Now the bros are scalping hipsters while the church fights academics And we fall apart, we watch our backs; from now it’s one for one As this chaos rains down on us, hope fades with the setting sun It’s been a week since war broke out, we’ve been afraid to go outside The only ones among us who ain’t hungry ain’t because they died And in this anarchy we sleep, afraid to go out in the streets And we’re so damn terrified we shiver socks off of our feet And now I wonder what went wrong, why are we all so suicidal? Power corrupts, that much is obvious, it can’t be just that simple But philosophizing politics is no use to us now We’ve brought anarchy to DC, even though we don’t know how

I don’t need no SAT to prove my fucking worth I don’t need to suck your dicks to prove that I’m not dirt I don’t need to wear your name to prove my fucking values I don’t need to eat your shit and adopt twisted virtues FUCKING ACADEMIA IS GIVING ME LEUKEMIA WE GOTTA HAVE A LIFE OR ELSE WE’LL DIE I’m not gonna donate when you pander and spew shit I’m not gonna be a goddamn pedant to fit in I’m not gonna lose my goddamn sense of what’s important I’m not gonna let you wash my brain so you can eat off it FUCKING ACADEMIA MAKES PEOPLE SEE IN SEPIA HOW MANY FUCKING CYCLES TILL IT STOPS?!

Put my dick in the sand I'm a Texas man at a river outside of Portland the grass is my bed but my daddy always said I should do something more important I'll make a home here for half a year while my girlfriend goes to college but I won't lose my head cause my mama always said she’d wait for a smile before I go to bed When I'm supposed to shift gears I wanna sip beers hide behind my eyelids brewing dope sick tears forget anybody's watching cause the devil came a knockin and gave me a reason to keep on walkin and I don't know how I'm gonn a fair this weather if 18 years wasn't long enough to pull my shit together This is the saddest that I have ever felt it's hard to wake up every morning but not as hard as this It was the greatest that I had ever felt two days ago but now I'm turning and twisting at night learning this is not my home The darkness takes the sky and the redness eats my eyes and more evil creeps into my soul in a pleasant disguise I'd like to travel with the sun so the night never comes and never again will I have to freeze till I'm numb and I'll never have to sleep there's always so much to see God, I just wanna leave and feel like I can breathe but instead I'm stuck here in this shit hole I'm always stuck somewhere even if it's just this lousy universe when I wanna be nowhere

(Dm Bb A A7) The stuff that keeps your cells Together is drifting away A high tide is washing More of it to sea every day (Dm Bb Am A) And your heart’s cold and bloodless, your bones without marrow and Hate courses your veins like needle-fed heroin a cureless disease With no rhyme or reason God gives you the finger when you’re on your knees and (Bb A) You’re finding that you’re all alone Not knowing where you can call home It’s so cold outside, shit, the weather’s against you You’d better just curl up and die The sun sets again and The city lights punch through the dark I wish I could rewrite this World down to every last quark So God creates Adam And Cain murders Abel We sweep our atrocities under the table And time keeps on ticking Why can’t we do something right once? We’re all at war, and we’ll never stop fighting And you never quite get what you want Resisting what’s real with each thought You want to find peace but the world’s out to hurt you You’d better stop thinking at all

(C Em Am F Dm G) The sunset’s murky on the hills Miasma lingers on our breaths We’ve still got lots of time to kill From now until we meet our deaths And everything that we create Never quite ends up as we hope Be it coincidence or fate, We’re pushing boulders up a slope When we look back upon our lives As we lay dying in our beds Will there be meaning to derive, Or was it all just in our heads? Let me write something that will last Two simple sentences that rhyme— Some words besides my epitaph— That might not flunk the test of time What am I doing standing here, Singing these sad words set to chords? They may be heartfelt and sincere, But we’ve all heard this shit before So thanks for listening to this For this is time you’ve been denied I hope we’ve made it worth your while And, if not, at least we tried At least we tried.