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The American People Aren't With Me

by Paul, The Epithet

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Battlefield 02:25
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Stubble on my face I refuse to shave Scratchy chin makes me rave Nothings fucking wrong I don’t need to be saved Red hot fire poker taken to the grave We’re all goddamn slaves The American People aren’t with me We’re the goddamn enslaved home of the free Anti-Patriotic, banned and burned Think after Vietnam we’d finally learned The American People aren’t with me Constitutional Republic, not Democracy Anti-Semite African American Jew Just know I know what we always knew Land of the brave and Free are the few Fighting and dying in court room battles Not even sheep, we’re all fucking cattle Manipulated tossed down meaningless prattle left behind dentures tossed into gravel For profit prisons snatch up miscreants And no one wants to be an American Idiot. The American People aren’t with me We’re a lost cause, don’t you see? Ex-patriots running far to death We spread out further with every breath The American people aren’t with me Second dark age, we don’t even read I don’t think we’ll ever learn I wish my country would just fucking burn
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If Fire touches us equal face Help me escape help me erase Travel to the cliffs with me Come and dance on dover beach Just visiting In the place of madness Sadness, being faithless And I'll never be as brilliant Contrasts never quite as stark My sun never leaves the lost Dark, park I think in sharps and you in flats To in-between, a zombie sin gnats. Can never really understand Lost in the sky but I always land
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Regrets collect like old friends Here to relive your darkest moments I can see no way, I can see no way And all of the ghouls come out to play And every demon wants his pound of flesh But I like to keep some things to myself I like to keep my issues drawn It's always darkest before the dawn And I've been fool and I've been blind I can never leave the past behind I can see no way, I can see no way I'm always dragging that horse around All of his questions, such a mournful sound Tonight I'm gonna bury that horse in the ground 'Cause I like to keep my issues drawn It's always darkest before the dawn Shake it out, shake it out Shake it out, shake it out, oh whoa Shake it out, shake it out Shake it out, shake it out, oh whoa And it's hard to dance with a devil on your back So shake him off, oh whoa And I am done with my graceless heart So tonight I'm gonna cut it out and then restart 'Cause I like to keep my issues drawn It's always darkest before the dawn And I'm damned if I do and I'm damned if I don't So here's to drinks in the dark, at the end of my rope And I'm ready to suffer and I'm ready to hope It's a shot in the dark aimed right at my throat 'Cause looking for heaven, for the devil in me Looking for heaven, for the devil in me But what the hell, I'm gonna let it happen to me, yeah
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My Words 06:01
Please don’t blame it on me I know there isn’t much choice Let me choke down the tears enough To try and find my voice Thoughts do not seem linked On the spot rush too fast to think Serious questions take forever cannot express my feel I wish it would seem that I mean what I feel and say is real ‘Cause I always lose it Never the right thing to say In the right kind of way It’s all burning up It’s all falling down in a sick erasure Why does my voice always fail Under pressure Words in my head that my mouth won’t speak Gives the impression my intentions are weak I have no ground to stand upon In my mind I know it’s all wrong Please give back what conditioning has taken from me Give me back my vocality
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Your gods pray for us to be together, Hand in hand throughout the weather, Not to keep waking, doubting what's real Lying in here in bed, letting time heal, Oh it’s raining outside And I wish you were here Oh It’s raining outside So heavily, my dear Oh I need you now Oh I need you to Stand with me Your kiss beneath my pillow My breath just wind in willows Through airwaves circle far away I lose myself in water, Every time you cannot stay. Come with me and dance Hail lightening in a lance Fire death, buy new pants, Time give please give us every chance
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Floating 03:47
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Magnets 03:49
Oh, we’ll never be lost in clamor Oh, I know that miles aren’t making it stronger And Oh, and I wish the last dance had been longer Oh, there are two sides to a magnet Throwing down before we even tried it Breaking the poles downwardly My lighter won’t spark to light up the dark My butane won’t ignite I’m not done with the fight Cuz I couldn’t last a night without you Oh, I feel like we float in the sky Oh, I heal and in your life I cry And Oh, kneel at your side, we fly Oh, there are two sides to a magnet Throwing down before we even tried it Breaking the poles downwardly My lighter won’t spark to light up the dark My butane won’t ignite I’m not done with the fight Cuz I couldn’t last a night without you Magnets combine perfect too Lost in the dark without you And together we are the few And the American People are with us anew
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Mildly sarcastic, sometimes mildly okay, maybe. It's a thing.

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released November 20, 2012

Paul - Vocals, Guitar,

Recorded in my bedroom with Audacity software, with the aid of TabTools and the ever faithful Microsoft Word.

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Paul, The Epithet Reno, Nevada

Hi, My name is Paul. I write music on a guitar, and scream alone in a bedroom about love, life, Casablanca, squids, occasionally punkrockanarchy, and a number of other things. Sometimes I use other instruments too, to varying degrees of quality. This is some music. ... more

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