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# PART THREE — INDIVIDUAL TITLES THAT NAIL IT

Albums and systems give the big picture, but individual song titles deliver razor-sharp, self-contained lessons. Each title here functions as a standalone discussion prompt or essay topic — compressed arguments about human behavior, social systems, or psychological truth. Tier 1 contains the clearest, hardest-hitting lessons. Tier 2 offers strong supporting lessons that often become even more powerful when grouped with others or placed inside an album or system. All of them are ready to use exactly as written.

NOTE: This is a quick list. I will open up a section on my website for NAILED IT entries where people can give their own opinions and lists. I nailed a lot of shit, haha….

TIER 1 — HARD NAILED IT: CLEAR LESSONS The clearest, hardest-hitting lessons in the catalog. Ready to use as discussion prompts or essay topics.
Daddy Taught Me

This piece teaches that racism is not inherent but learned behavior, passed down through authority figures and normalized until it feels like truth.

Right Between the Eyes

This teaches that perspective determines morality, showing that the same "shot" can either destroy life or preserve it depending on intent.

Pardon Me

This teaches that political figures manipulate perception by reshaping truth, revealing how language is used to control public judgment.

Invisible Prison

This teaches that most limitations are self-constructed mental frameworks, and awareness is the first step toward freedom.

You Can Never Run Away from Yourself

This teaches that external escape is meaningless because identity and consequence follow you internally no matter where you go.

Clinical Depression

This teaches that untreated psychological decline compounds over time until a breaking point becomes inevitable.

Downward Spiral

This teaches that addiction is not a series of isolated decisions but a self-reinforcing loop that becomes harder to escape at every stage.

Empty Bottle

This teaches that addiction eventually forces self-recognition, where the substance becomes a reflection of the person consuming it.

Monetization

This teaches that when art becomes driven by profit, its original intent and authenticity are often corrupted or diluted.

Unwritten and Unsaid

This teaches that what is left unexpressed emotionally can be just as destructive as what is said outright.

Glass House

This teaches that people who judge others often share the same flaws, creating cycles of hypocrisy and mutual blame.

Forget Me Knot

This teaches that memory can trap individuals in the past, preventing emotional progress or closure.

Open and Closed

This teaches that extreme emotional dependence can dissolve personal identity, placing one's sense of self entirely in another person.

Still Walking the Earth

This teaches that love can elevate another person to god-like status, blurring the line between devotion and unhealthy obsession.

Corey Story

This teaches that parental neglect is not always dramatic abuse — sometimes it is two distracted adults too busy or too drunk to raise a child, and the kid carries that failure for life.

Sniper's Song

This teaches that mass shooters are not external monsters but people already embedded in society — neighbors, acquaintances, faces in the crowd — which is the specific terror the piece is built to make you feel.

Betrayal

This teaches that sexual violence destroys not just the victim but her entire framework for trust, faith, and safety, and that the institutions supposed to protect her — including the church — never once prepared her for this.

Wheat and Chaff

This teaches that suicide leaves behind a wreckage of unanswered questions and complicated grief in the people who remain, and that the living are left holding what can never be taken back.

Building a Castle

This teaches that isolation can feel like the only protection from pain, but the walls you build to keep people out also lock you inside, and eventually the castle becomes its own prison.

Bird on a String

This teaches that love done right is not possession but protection — the string is not a leash but a safety line, and the goal is always to let the other person fly higher.

Birthright

This teaches that where you are born — class, resources, access — determines your ceiling more than character or effort ever will.

Pushing the Button

This teaches that nuclear annihilation is one human decision away, and the absurdity of that reality — duck-and-cover, pet the dog, say goodbye — is the actual lesson nobody wants to sit with.

Obamafication

This teaches that political branding can be mistaken for political change — the chant replaces the action, the symbol replaces the substance, and people call it progress.

Cement

This teaches that political propaganda is manufactured and mixed like material — leaders construct public consent the way builders lay foundations, and most people never question the structure they're standing on.

Bricklayer

This teaches that a society measuring human worth by GDP, stock portfolios, and bottom lines has its value system backwards, and the people who build real things know it.

Intellectual Property

This teaches that the environment children grow up in shapes them profoundly — neglect, decay, and chaos in physical surroundings become internal architecture.

Midas Touch

This teaches that the things we wish most desperately for can destroy us, and that one moment — one turn, one step, one wrong relationship — is all it takes to change everything irreversibly.

Hidden Evils

This teaches that poverty is not a personal failing but a systemic condition visible in every detail of a neighborhood — paint chips, empty donation bins, a family of eight in an abandoned building — and it reproduces itself through repetition and hopelessness.

Gauging Time

This teaches that incarceration distorts time itself — you stop counting hours and start counting days until release, and the calendar becomes your only real clock.

Happy Birthday to Me

This teaches that loneliness has a specific texture — it is not dramatic, it is just silence on the one day that is supposed to matter, and nobody called.

Either Way

This teaches that the choice between fame and integrity is not rhetorical — you actually have to pick one, and the thing you give away to get the other is gone for good.

Shadow of Smoke

This teaches that some people are so damaged by what they have seen and who they have been that they can no longer make lasting contact with the world — they dissolve before anything can hold them.

After the Fact

This teaches that some departures are permanent, and a life can be summarized by what you chose to carry and who you tried to find before you stopped looking.

Making a Killing

This teaches that an army built on love and human connection — charging a quarter per hug — is a more powerful economic model than any system built on scarcity.

War Leonard 19

This teaches that class war is not theoretical: the rich wanted it, the poor absorbed it, and the outcome was always predictable to anyone paying attention.

Cliffhanger

This teaches that personal responsibility and self-destruction can be the same act — when you are the one who chose the path, the fall belongs entirely to you.

TIER 2 — DOMINANT LESSONS: STRONG BUT SUPPORTING Strong lessons that often grow more powerful when grouped with others or placed inside an album or system.
Puzzle Pieces

This teaches that identity is not fixed but assembled over time through fragmented experiences that must be understood and integrated.

Exit the Sandman

This teaches that people often use substances or sleep as a way to escape reality rather than confront it.

Daylight Again

This teaches that clarity can return temporarily, but without change, people often fall back into the same destructive cycles.

Pen and Paper

This teaches that writing can serve as a tool to process, interpret, and survive chaos in the external world.

Climbing the Ladder

This teaches that addiction escalates in stages, often disguised as progress while actually deepening dependency.

Twisting the Knife

This teaches that emotional harm can be inflicted deliberately and repeatedly without any physical violence.

Let Me In

This teaches that the desire for connection is often in direct conflict with the fear of rejection or vulnerability.

Fear

This teaches that fear is a constant presence that shapes decisions and can prevent action if left unchecked.

Spinning

This teaches that mental overload can lead to a loss of control, where thoughts become disorienting and cyclical.

Listen

This teaches that ignoring reality or advice often leads to consequences that could have been avoided.

Trending

This teaches that media prioritizes attention and engagement over truth, often amplifying negativity for consumption.

Oasis

This teaches that what appears to be relief or salvation is sometimes only an illusion that prolongs suffering.

Carry Me

This teaches that reliance on others for emotional survival can become necessary, but also dangerous if it replaces self-stability.

Cost of War

This teaches that the true damage of war is carried internally by individuals long after the conflict ends.

Last Man Standing

This teaches that survival alone is not victory, especially when it results in isolation and emotional exhaustion.

Breaking the Chains

This teaches that what feels like freedom may still exist within a larger system that cannot actually be escaped.

Sleep Walkers

This teaches that many people move through life unconsciously, following patterns without awareness or intention.

Concrete People

This teaches that repeated exposure to hardship or systems can harden individuals emotionally over time.

Dead End

This teaches that ignoring warning signs leads to inevitable outcomes that could have been prevented earlier.

Warmer Waters

This teaches that people often choose comfort over growth, even when it leads to long-term harm.

Trash Can

This teaches that attempts to discard the past do not eliminate its psychological impact.

Dust to Dust

This teaches that everything — relationships, identity, life itself — is temporary and subject to decay.

Used to Be

This teaches that clinging to past identity prevents adaptation and growth in the present.

Violence Is Their Solution

This teaches that institutions often default to force because it is easier than addressing root problems.

Status Quo Woes

This teaches that systems persist not because they work, but because they resist change.

Hypocrites

This teaches that those in positions of moral authority often fail to live by the standards they enforce.

Kneeling

This teaches that surrender or humility is often required before true healing or growth can begin.

Rock Star Dreams

This teaches that ambition can conflict with reality, leading to disillusionment when expectations are unmet.

Perfect World

This teaches that idealism often collapses when confronted with imperfect systems and human limitations.

Married To Something Else

This teaches that addiction can replace human relationships as the primary emotional attachment.

Rehab

This teaches that intervention alone does not guarantee change without internal commitment.

Empty Eyes

This teaches that emotional burnout can hollow a person out until they appear present but feel nothing.

Underrated

This teaches that apathy can become a defense mechanism against repeated disappointment.

Gate Keeper

This teaches that power is often maintained by controlling access rather than truth itself.

Permanent Lies

This teaches that repeated falsehoods can become accepted reality within a system.

Chameleon

This teaches that adaptability can be a survival mechanism rather than dishonesty, and that someone who shifts constantly is often just trying to stay safe in an unpredictable environment.