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Over and Over
03:24
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Lies
04:25
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3. |
Duty Left Behind
02:58
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4. |
Tunnel Vision
02:03
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Better Life
03:24
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Nothin' seems to work no more
No matter how I try
There ain't nothin' I can do about it
Since I changed my life for you
I'm a pilgrim on the way
Life is good, there ain't no doubt about it
Well, and I can see beyond the lies
To a better life
And I can be what you
Ant me to be
Peeling back my layers of sin
And guilt and loathing too
Replace it with a love and will to do
Changeling I have now become
I am not my own
The will that governs me is right from you
Everything I have is yours
In truth I own nothing
All is the gift of stewardship to you
The Earth, the air, the sea, and all
Is not ours to destroy
"Dominion" doesn't mean that we can kill
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6. |
User
03:30
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You pulled me in and made me feel
Somehow I did you wrong
You used my friends and you tried to be
The hurt one all along
But you're a user, abuser, an all time loser
You play us and then you turn the screws
You turn us all against each other
And you make us out to be fools
Now I see
Through the lies
And I'm looking into your eyes
And you're a user
You blame others for the things you've done
You're as pure as driven snow
But the hurt you cause and the evil you are
Makes me say you gotta go
I'm tired of being used
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7. |
Nation of Victims
04:24
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You're a victim
You know I hear you say
You say that nothing here is your fault
You push the blame away
So you got drunk as smashed your care last night
You know the bartender, he didn't do you right
You know he let you have one more for the road
You're a victim
You know I hear you say
You say you didn't mean to hurt her
But she makes you feel that way
You put the blame on somebody else
And displace the guilt away from yourself
You don't know what it was that you were doing
The victimization of America
You know it takes the blame away
No one here to blame but someone else
For the things you do or say
We can't help ourselves anyway
We're a nation of victims
You're a victim
You know I hear you say
It's why you've got to feel the hurt
It takes your blues away
You gotta make your mark by dishing out pain
Then blame the world again and again
As you wallow in your pain and your grief
And your self-pity
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8. |
Rant
04:50
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Hate is not a family value
No matter what they try to tell you
Because they've got the money they think they're right
As they push us further to the right
We look at their seemingly benign faces
As the cast a wedge between the races
Worshipping a god I can't comprehend
Where the poor are left to themselves to defend
They put all the children and their hunger on hold
As the worship a god of money and gold
Destroying everything we've achieved
They say they worship God but they worship greed
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9. |
Stone Cold
04:16
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Unhappy reminders of the things we have wrought
Betray the trust of those whom we have bought
Well I don't know and what use is it
The killing continues as we see fit
We train them all and we put guns in their hands
To kill the innocent in some far off foreign land
And we've grown stone cold with our attitude
Now tell me what am I supposed to do
Stone cold with our attitude
They come to us to learn the ways of the free
They only leave once they've learned to enjoy a killing spree
They come to us and we teach them how to kill
We feed them ethics that would make most moral men ill
We teach them that murder is a means to an end
We teach them that terror and death is their only friend
I get enraged when I think of what we've done
We teach the love of power and the Gospel of the Gun
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10. |
Social Security
02:33
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Social Security where are you today
I need you now I'm old and gray
And I haven't any money left to spend
They promised to take care of me in the end
Social Security
Where are you?
Social Security
I need you
When I was young I thought I'd pay
For my upcoming retirement day
But you went broke before your time
So here I am, my dues denied
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11. |
Look Into Your World
03:36
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You know I saw you again today
Faceless and nameless and holding your sign
Begging for a chance to make it through a day
Somehow I managed to walk right on by
Gotta look into your world
See what I can do
Gotta look into your world
And let this love shine through
I see a lot of what I could be
If something went wrong that I couldn't control
Gotta step away from where you are
Because seeing you there puts me in that role
There's a fine line between you and me
And it's kind of hard
To look at you and wonder if I'll be
Like you holding a final card
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12. |
The Lens
03:34
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Through our lens
We see the world as an evil place
Where through fear we dare not show our face
For fear of hurt
Through our lens
We see people as less than they are
We judge others and we condemn from afar
Through our lense
Looking through the lens of the Gospel
We see the greatest are the least
The poor are worthy of our greatest feast
And none should be made to suffer
Through our lens
We see a world in need of change
But we'd rather revert to a bygone age
That never was
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13. |
Nothing But A Killer
06:07
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Stephen Berg Minneapolis, Minnesota
Stephen is a singer, songwriter, and recording artist from Minnesota, He has been active since the early 1990's as a solo artist. Stephen's acoustically driven songs explore the themes of toil, mortality, loss, politics, greed, nature, regrets, faith, and love. He's also a pretty swell guy! ... more
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