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SET LIST TWO (2)
1 Rest In Power…………...13
2 B. F. T.
3 Hive Mind………..14
4 Unwinnable
5 Traffic……………………...16
6 Status Quo Woes
7 Rival………………………...18
8 Violence Is Their Solution
9 Paradigm…………………..20
10 Entirely
11 Timebomb…………...22
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