1. SET LIST TWO (2)

  2. 1 Rest In Power…………...13

  3. 2 B. F. T.

  4. 3 Hive Mind………..14

  5. 4 Unwinnable

  6. 5 Traffic……………………...16

  7. 6 Status Quo Woes

  8. 7 Rival………………………...18

  9. 8 Violence Is Their Solution

  10. 9 Paradigm…………………..20

  11. 10 Entirely

  12. 11 Timebomb…………...22

  13. 12 Mulltiverse



ResT IN POWER

I love you to learn you

Just to hate you and burn you

You see I got these demons

Who don’t deal well with feelings


When betrayed by your senses

You learn to build up defenses

And to hide in dark places

Drawing lines no one traces


Blazing a trail no one follows

A space empty and hollow

Where the dreams of a child

Would guide you through to tomorrow


Yet now the future looks bleak

As you’ve found what you seek

But it’s alien and strange

Since your outlook has changed


You used to want to save the world

Now you just wanna fuck the girls

Letting your id eat you alive

The super ego closes his eyes


They’ve separated you from your mind

And your heart from your soul

It’s time to wrestle back control

Or become someone you don’t know…


As you passed a stranger out on the street

Thought to yourself, “He looked a lot like me…”

Well not who I am but who I used to be

Those are two different people entirely


To rest in power not peace

You gotta keep feeding the beast

And once you catch the disease

You no longer wanna break free


That’s when you know

Got a tiger by the toe

But stop lying to yourself

You want them to let go


BFT by Tom Jensen

Shameless… blameless…

Now you’re fucking famous

You cried for it

Tried for it

One day you’re gonna die for it


It’s written in the stars

You’ll be riding in fancy cars

And visiting bars after hours

Yeah, you’re breaking all the laws


Stop, pause for applause

Okay, now we can go on

It’s still easy to get lost

Even when you’re high on top

Is the point I gotta get across

God knows this shit show won’t stop

And you don’t neither

‘Cause it’s good to be a breather

And playing follow the leader

Leaves the conquered and their defeaters


Ain’t no meeting in the middle

Only a big bloody puddle

A bunch of blind men befuddled

Without acquittal or rebuttal


We’re in Big Fucking Trouble

Making deals with the devil

Ends up bursting our bubble

When it wasn’t on the level


This city will make you hard

Without friends in the right places

We try not to show our scars

Still we wear it on our faces


HIVE MIND

Weaponized envy surrounds me

It’s everywhere I can’t break free

Negative energy now grounds me

As I’m watching the world so jealously


My high anxiety stresses me

I’m alone because I fear intimacy

So averse to pain I constantly retreat

I’m living like a zombie half asleep


Some say this outcome was expected

Look how everything’s grown hectic

Has anyone been left unaffected

By the eye in the sky’s hive mind collective?


Ostracized and placed outside the wall

Is where your fellow heroes fall

With lasting remains inside an unmarked grave

True to themselves at least one was saved


Unwilling to play a schizophrenic game

In which fact and fiction are one in the same

Where truth and lies are often seen on the same side

As enemies become friends and your rivals allies


You soon realize there’s a great divide

Between not only us and them but both you and I

Leaves you to scratch your head and wonder why…

Or maybe be just like them and not even try


And yet that seems like suicide

As you boldly claim, “Today’s not your day to die”

You then break out with a great big smile

Yelling “F*%k it all! I’ll walk the extra mile!”


Sacrifice for something

Bigger than myself

Maybe trade away the day today

To make tomorrow great for someone else

A flock of sheep can be a dangerous thing

Tended by a shepherd or led by a king?

History has recorded the tales of both

Carrying crosses and swearing oaths


All of that has led us to here

Where honor and faith

I watched disappear

Become replaced

With aggression and fear


It’s been happening so long

For years and years

Soon feels natural

So that nobody cares


You see me alone and standing here

Lying to myself hoping nobody hears

They gave up on me so I gave up on my peers

I’m the only one who knows…they’re still unaware


I turned around again…and there was no one there


UNWINNABLE

Culture vultures circling the sky

Off our self-doubt is what they thrive

It’s either the daily dodge or else face the grind

Something finds you every time you hide


Given time and sobriety

You can reshape your reality

In this kaleidoscope world

You can clearly see

Sometimes you pay a hidden fee

On what ya thought was free


It’s not all about material goods

Talking ‘bout a man all alone in the woods

When no one is watching what does he do?

Are honor and integrity things that he holds true?


What one does to others

Will someday be done to you

As the company you keep

Will one day keep you


Given time and sobriety

You can reshape your reality

In this kaleidoscope world

You can clearly see

Sometimes you pay a hidden fee

On what ya thought was free


I bathed in dark energies

All the while absorbing light

Living in between two planes of existence

As the day became my morning

And the morning my night

Wrong has always been wrong

But now it was alright



When you become freed from the disease of please

Is when you begin to build walls that only others can see

You take all you need and often times more

An unwinnable game always trying to score

An unwinnable game always trying to score


TRAFFIC

Traffic...

Caught in traffic

Traffic...

Caught in traffic

Addict ...

Caught in traffic

Addict...

Caught in traffic


Traffic...

Is tragic

False illusion

They work their magic

Tragic...

Believe in magic

Traffic...

Is tragic

One solution...

End the sadness


Tragic...

To see such madness

Burning trees...

Burning trees...

Dropping lit matches


Burning trees...

And fixing black

holes with patches

Burning trees...

Burning trees...

If you're green

It's worse than crosses


One hundred degrees

Two hundred degrees

Burning trees...

Still can't breathe

Can you help me?

Burning trees

People got other causes

And silly me...

Counting up our losses


Traffic... Caught in traffic


STATUS QUO WOES

Too many buildings, not enough sky

Can't solve your problems

Until you stop the lies

What about the children?

They're the ones being sacrificed

Better to leave 'em alone

in the wilderness

Than to raise them to be crucified

Got to make it better than this

Do more than just criticize

We're wasting away

A little more everyday

Sometimes the truth

is in the mirror

Gazing back into your eyes

You see the picture

becoming clearer

And you find a great big surprise...


So that's why you got to know

When to go with the flow

Keep the status quo

And then to know when to resist

Know when to raise a fist

When to cease and desist

And how to buy an alibi


Too many people

to keep 'em all in line

Many better men and women

Than me have spent

their lives tryin'

To either relive, rewrite,

Forget or regret history


Yet dying before finally finding

And sighing because no one answers

Keep on opening doors

Without knowing what's behind them


And I don't want

to be another sheep

Being led to the slaughter

For I've learned

through getting burned

That some people's priceless advice

Really is worth less than a quarter


You say you didn't know any better

It used to be the story of my life

Funny now how some things

Are more important

Than you first thought them...

As you can only aspire to fly higher

Once you've hit rock bottom


So that's why you've got to know

When to go with the flow

Keep the status quo


When to hope and pray for it

When to say it

Know when to resist

Know when to raise a fist

And when to cease and desist

When to let it roll

right off of your shoulder

Or else when to get pissed



'Cause you know

you can't live like this

Where you get just one shot

And you missed!


Too many obstacles

That you get sucked in

by the tentacles

Keep on walking in circles

Keep on praying for miracles

Believing that you are spiritual

While searching for an oracle

Be it mental, physical,

biblical or historical


Got to fight this feeling

Can't give in to all

the lying and stealing

I've walked the dark path

Now show me to the light

Tired of all the low-down

Dirty double dealing

Sometimes men and women of virtue


Have got to stand up and fight

When we know that we're right


Can't simply close your eyes

Cut your ties and end this plight

Can't simply send it back

What has gone off track

Better fight for more

Than just your own life

Because this is like day and night

Can't flick a switch,

can't turn off the light


Still have to face it

in the morning...

The fire that still keeps on burning

But at least you're learning....

Yeah, you're still learning


RIVAL by Tom Jensen

Once the whole gets halved

There ain’t no going back

Yeah, it all went to hell real fast

Republicans and Democrats


As this nation is facing

The shattered aftermath

Our fate has been placed

In the hands of a psychopath


And asking a leader to lead

When no one agrees

Leads to blunders it’s a wonder

We’re all not deceased





The best way to start a fight

Part the middle between left and right

Just stir the pot to get some action

Then do what you want during the distraction


Yes the method is tried and true

Throughout history it’s been used

Safety’s in numbers not division

This fractured state will be our prison


So with this knowledge at our disposal

It’s time to act local while thinking global

We’re all allies in the struggle for survival

You’ll die for your brother…

While I’ll die for my rival


VIOLENCE IS THEIR SOLUTION

By Tom Jensen

Well it's time for me to swallow

My prescribed medication

While I'm forced to listen to

Their unspeakable dictation


Their twisting tongues

That speak of the wrong information

Well-ordered insanity

Also known as formal education


And while I'm waiting

For the next step in evolution

I say my prayers while

Violence is their solution


I was taught to believe

That the flag was a guide to inspiration

But I never enrolled

In blind patriotic dedication


My stomach would be queasy

When I felt the jittery vibration

Of the weapons on the firing line

As I manned the battle station


They order me to guard the bunker

Which represents the institution

They reload my gun because

Violence is their solution


You lost a lot of leaves

On your family tree for this nation

During the fall they all fell

Along with the laws of segregation


Nowadays times have changed

But there still lies the same temptation

Not every name has been signed

On the emancipation proclamation


Some would cower in a corner

Before demanding a new constitution

But while I give my peaceful demonstration

Violence is their solution

Seems as if everywhere you turn

Leads you to increased aggravation

You try so hard to blaze a better path

But it's branded deviation


They want you to believe

It's all about the money

And worry about inflation

But my friends there are some things

From which you cannot take a vacation


Once it's piled up past the hills

You just can't hide all of this pollution

As I daydream of how not to kill with spilled oil

Violence is their solution


If you want to rape Mother Nature

Then watch their demonstration

You can destroy it all

For a quick thrilling sensation


Just an inch or two of elevation

Too late to resort to masturbation

For Mother Nature wasn't meant for prostitution

As she screams help...

Violence is their solution


PARADIGM

There's no such thing

As wasting time

When you are trying

To design the paradigm


Can you be the one

Who helps mold mankind?

Behold that role's

Not so well-defined


Yet it truly

Doesn't take a mastermind

To really blow someone else's mind

Crawling through no man's land

Holding onto your brother's hand

Helping him to stay alive

As you both try to survive

In between the battle lines


My job is to show you

All that there is to see

And to tell you that what is

Is not how it is supposed to be

Please believe in me...


I startled a man in the street

Simply by saying hello

He said,

"Hey kid, stop bothering me!"

Doesn't he know

I have a college degree?




And that I've been known

To write a little poetry

And create a new history

By unlocking that old mystery

Through my literacy?


"Can't there be someone else

You can follow?"

That's what he said to me

His brown eyes were hollow

Thus I retreated in sorrow


Just another who failed to see

That he just might have been

Bettered by me


Forgetting we're all one

In the global family

We all evolved from

The same family tree


Used to crawl around on all fours

Just like a monkey or a junkie


Your background

Your skin tone

Your color

Your race...


No one's ever

asked your preference

You know you can't

choose your face


And as you see your reflection

You realize that in difference

Here lies the root of hate

So let us end this great debate

Over this city-less state...


We can agree to disagree

I no longer wish to participate

Just as equality waits...

So does our fate


ENTIRELY by Tom Jensen

When tragedy struck my family

I began my decent into insanity


It started to creep

Slowly week by week

And before too long

I found I couldn’t sleep


Never again alone

No, not with these fantasies

As I lost myself

To the worst version of me





That kept holding on

Until I couldn’t break free

And by the time I realized

What was happening to me


I became someone else

entirely


TIME BOMB By Tom Jensen

My boo boo…

My uncle just dropped a bomb (Uncle Sam)

Right through your roof ….

Killing your dad and your mom…. (God Damn)


So when you grow up to be

Big, brave and strong

When you grow up tell me

Whose side will you be on?


Tick tock….tick tock….


My nickname is time bomb

My friends are waiting for me to explode

Today was the day I woke up

It was kinda warm – still I grabbed for my coat


And I grabbed my package….

My surprise…oh soon…

Everyone will know…..


See my big grin…

it’s right here…From ear to ear

right above my chin….

oh oh oh


Oh just what I got

Oh won’t you take a guess?

With this I’ve come all this way

So many miles West


J.C. sees me on the bus

Asks me what’s under my coat?

I looked back at him and said softly…

Eanie meanie miney moe


I got a present for somebody

But just who is it – I don’t yet know

I think I’ll bide my time and pen a little rhyme

Let us drive a little further on down the road….


Yeah my nick name is time bomb

And pretty soon I'm gonna explode!


MULTIVERSE by Tom Jensen

The only thing real is this moment

So get up on it

And be a proponent


Fuck the trophy for participation

You want to finish in first place

At the end of the race?

With time you’ll find

The seeds were already sewn

By you in your mind in the very beginning


The day you stop dreaming

Is the day you stop achieving

And start living down to expectations

With nothing left to believe in


Through the years

Many infidels have raised hell

Trying to make things even

Leaving us in tears

As more victims fell

To some godless heathen


If you visualize grilled cheese

That could lead to world peace

But if you envision a barbeque

That just might be the end of me and you


Once you take control

Over the power within your mind

You can create the best possible version

Of all outcomes desired