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Verse1
You just wish you could make everything right
But it seems the whole world still just wants to fight
You can’t control what other people do
No-one else is listening to you
Chorus1
Everything is open
To interpretation
Except the truth that lies in you
And that is what you’re facing
You know that it will set you free
But you’re too afraid to ask
And doesn’t even matter
No it doesn’t even matter
No it doesn’t even matter
What the answer to the question is
Verse2
The world might be the problem and everybody in it
And maybe you’re the only one who has the eyes to see it
Or maybe there’s a problem much closer to home
But if you look you can’t unsee and it cuts you to the bone
Chorus1
Everything is open
To interpretation
Except the truth that lies in you
And that is what you’re facing
You know that it will set you free
But you’re too afraid to ask
And doesn’t even matter
No it doesn’t even matter
No it doesn’t even matter
What the answer to the question is
Bridge
What’s the point of working on yourself
When it’s easy to point the finger at someone else?
‘Cause you still got the excuse
Of blaming absolutely anything other than you
So after years and years of the same old story
That you’ve been recycling to avoid what’s next
Are you ready to join reality?
And be unafraid of what the answer to the question is?
Breakdown
The world will change when you do
Being right is overrated
Anyway!
Chorus1
Everything is open
To interpretation
Except the truth that lies in you
And that is what you’re facing
You know that it will set you free
But you’re too afraid to ask
And doesn’t even matter
No it doesn’t even matter
No it doesn’t even matter
What the answer to the question is
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Verse 1
I gotta tell you ‘bout a crazy thing
When I was making my delivery
A freaky lady grabbed me, dragged me in
No time to know what she was doing to me
She’d been lonely, stuck inside
For so long, going out of her mind
She was waiting like a predator
For the first guy she could find
Chorus 1
She tried to put me in lockdown
She tried to put me in lockdown
She tried to lock me down, lock me down, with her love
Lock me down with all of her love, with her love, with her love
And keep me all to herself
Verse 2
A wicked smile behind her mask
And then she told me that I couldn’t leave
The temperature was rising fast
And it was getting even harder to breathe
She said
“I’m getting hungry now it’s making me sick”
“And you’d better be ready to serve”
“So give me your medication quick”
“I need somebody now to flatten my curve”
Chorus 2
I’m gonna put you in lockdown
I’m gonna put you in lockdown
I wanna lock you down, lock you down, with my love
So I can keep you all to myself
Bridge
Administering treatment
Every hour of the day
I never thought I’d be
A first responder in this way
Too much of a good thing
Means it’s time to flee the scene
I must escape this
Quarantine!
Solo
Chorus 3
She tried to put me in lockdown
She tried to put me in lockdown
She tried to lock me down, lock me down, with her love
She tried to lock me down, with her love, with her love
Refrain
She locked me down (locked me down)
She locked me down (locked me down)
She locked me down (locked me down)
She locked me down with her love
With her love (her love), With her love (her love),
With her love (her love), With her love (her love),
With her love (her love), With her love (her love),
With her love (her love), With her love (her love),
With her love
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Lambs
04:01
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Verse1
If today you woke up to find
Everything you knew was a lie?
Would you resist and still deny?
Is it really that easy to comply?
Deep down you know that you’ve sold out
But you seek cold comfort with the crowd
You know it’s a lie and you’re in a cage
But it’s not enough to want to change
Chorus1
Hear me now as I pray
For sanity to save the day
We didn’t come all this way…
Just to be lambs
Verse2
Cherry picking facts and lies
And playing victim while you victimize
And you bully those with a different view
Because they are the bullies, so say you
Chorus2
Hear me now as I pray
For sanity to save the day
We didn’t come all this way
To be lambs
Just to be lambs
Bridge
When did you decide that ignorance is bliss?
When did you decide the truth disgusted you like this?
And to the slaughter you will walk
Line by line too scared to talk
Lost in virtue, blind with hate
Lambs wake up it’ll be too late
Be too late
(Lead break)
Breakdown
But it’s not too late
(Solo)
Refrain
No It’s not too late (too late)
No It’s not too late (too late)
No It’s not too late (too late)
No it’s not too late (too late)
No it’s not too late
Too late
Too late
Too late
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Verse1
It hurts real bad
With no choice, with no voice
But who said
You can’t choose, You can’t lose?
It’s just noise
You seem to believe
That they all must be told
‘Cause they don’t understand
That they owe you the world
There always is
An excuse that you use
Every time
Life gets real and you feel
Every bruise
But you don’t
Care at all when you call
Out the names
And accuse and re-use
The excuses again
Chorus1
All you see is the hate, is the hate
You gotta bring ‘em all down
Instead of rising up
You don’t even try to create
You gotta bring ‘em all down
Instead of rising up
When you don’t get it all on a plate
You wanna bring ‘em all down
Instead of rising up
And until you are told you are great
Verse2
It’s not only you
Who is broke, who is woke
And is hurt
When you dreams always end
Up in smoke
It never is
A convenient truth
That it’s you
Who’s to blame
For throwing the game
Chorus2
All you see is the hate, is the hate
You gotta bring ‘em all down
Instead of rising up
You don’t even try to create
You gotta bring ‘em all down
Instead of rising up
When you don’t get it all on a plate
You wanna bring ‘em all down
Instead of rising up
And until you are told you are great
You’re gonna bring ‘em all down
Instead of rising up
You’re gonna bring ‘em all down
Instead of rising up for yourself
Bridge
It costs so much energy
And it’s impossible for you to see
So take a look inside
Stop putting off what you may find
Instead of bringing ‘em down
You could be rising up
Solo
Refrain
Instead of bringing ‘em down
You could be rising up
Instead of bringing ‘em down
You could be rising up
Instead of bringing ‘em down
You could be rising up for yourself
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5. |
Done Playing
04:06
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Verse1
Clutching pearls as you project
With a poison ideology designed to infect
The very fabric of society
To slowly change normality
Pre-Chorus
Cloak & dagger, smoke & mirrors
You are the master bait & switchers
Those rules may work for radicals
But now they’re so predictable
Chorus1
So I’m trying not to play the game
‘Cause you modify the rules
And they constantly change
And when you think you’re losing the war
You pick up the board
And throw the pieces on the floor
From the moment that we begin
You run out the clock
And I can never win
I’m all done playin'
Yeah I’m done playin'
Verse2
So strong in virtue that is fake
Consolidating power for power’s sake
It takes time but you are patient
It takes some doing to steal a nation
Pre-Chorus
Cloak & dagger, smoke & mirrors
You are the master bait & switchers
Those rules may work for radicals
But now they’re so predictable
Chorus2
I’m trying not to play the game
‘Cause you modify the rules
And they’re constantly change
And when you think you’re losing the war
You pick up the board
And throw the pieces on the floor
From the moment that we begin
You run out the clock
And I can never win
I’m done playin'
(And I can never win)
(I’m done playin')
Yeah I’m done playin'
Bridge
When you have no standards, unless they’re double
When there is no limit to the trouble
That you will cause to get your way
To have your say
You overlooked a little something
Underneath the surface you have nothing
And now it’s coming back on you with a bang
All you did was throw a boomerang
Solo
Refrain
I’m done playin' with you (playin’)
I’m done playin' with you (playin’)
Yeah I’m done playin' with you (playin’)
I’m done playin'
I’m done playin' with you
With you
With you
With you
With you
With you
With you
With you
You
With you
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6. |
The Final Sound
04:34
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Verse1
I dreamed this dream for years and years
A sound so loud, I could not hear
It charged the sky, turned sound to light
It healed my body, made things right
Chorus1
Rising slowly
Feeling, floating
Higher, higher
Is this the final sound?
Verse2
Some went East & Some went West
Some they stayed to help the rest
But the broken few that were left
They went down, they failed the test
Chorus2
Rising slowly
Feeling, floating
Higher, higher
Is this the final sound?
Bridge
Live this moment
It’s time to leave this slumber
And start anew
And to remember
Not to repeat this hell
Again
Chorus2
Rising slowly
Feeling, floating
Higher, higher
Higher, higher
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Rob C Thailand
My name is Rob C:
Songwriter, Musican & producer at www.robcooke.net
I run an online studio, write & record songs and play guitar on the tropical island of Phuket.
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