1. Pure
Affected by what you had lost
They´re not the habits you´d protect
At any cost
Blur the details of your hand
Anything your barren conscience
Can´t defend
The limits of attention span
Successive thoughts you don´t have
But you still pretend
Keep on talking anyway
Protected by what you know
No one will ever say
Because you can´t be pure
You´re self-assured
2. Renovation
When it´s time to leave this place
I´ll follow what comes easy
Elude the human race
Discover what still feeds me
And if my interest is waning
I can´t fake it
Your captive audience
Escaped for soul renovation
I know I might be wrong
But I´m sick of pretending
I´ve listened to you too long
And nothing´s ever mended
You can stretch the truth
And patience wears you so thin
It´s just as easy to see through
Your high self opinion
3. Exactly what you wanted
I´m not so good realizing
Who I can or cannot trust
It´s best to keep what matters vague
With harmless lies I can adjust
I get a "D" for disappointment
Now there´s nothing to regret
Everybody´s good for something
At least you know what you won´t get
I let you down again
What´s another harmless
Lie between friends?
Now you can be disappointed
I thought I gave you just exactly
What you wanted
4. Like I Care
I´m paralyzed
Just listening to you
Now I am receptive
I know you sleep
So sound every night
And you are deceptive
It always feels good to be right
And if it helps you sleep at night
I´ll tell you what you want to hear
And act like I care
5. Driving Nowhere
Confront the daily setbacks
All the lows and highs
With anesthetic means I´m
Fit to socialize
Driving nowhere fast
Accelerate to pass
Now I´ve got time to kill at last
Bombing hometowns I can
Watch it free from harm
United Arab Emirates
Still keep the gas in my car
Driving nowhere fast
Accelerate to pass
Now I´ve got time to kill at last
Keep the gas in my car
Let me go far
I´m driving nowhere fast
Accelerate to pass
Now I´ve got time to kill at last
6. Birth Defect
All the good that you discover
In people that you hate
Draw them close and pencil thin
Then they´re easy to erase
You´ve got it down just feed them lines
And watch them starve to death
Keep them crowded and short of air
Then you can take their last breath
I´d rather be insulted by you
Than someone I respect
If I don´t share the same view
It´s just my birth defect
All the good that never comes
From always getting your way
7. Broadcast Emotion
I like the way you set yourself goals
The blind ambition you sport like
New clothes
There´s nothing bold in the posture
You wear
It´s always stunning to show you care
You´re so outspoken, the status quotient
Brought up to peak broadcast emotion
As calculated as the news is
At least you´ve got yourself impressed
Appropriated, the concepts you boast
You love the sound of your own voice
You´re always vocal, affecting passion
Wholesale opinions will stay in fashion
8. It´s easy to get bored
If I´m half informed
Sympathize because it´s easy to get bored
I don´t have time to waste
I´m busy cultivating useless good taste
You need to know how to lie
The savage civil servant´s beady eyes
I can call him names
And maims
Then we´ll only see eye to eye
And every breath expelled is wasted
And somebody manage the same lie
I´ll spread some more good news
Invented facts that you know you
Can use
Sell them door to door with
Religious fervor that no one can ignore
It´s so easy to get bored
It´s so easy to get bored
It´s so easy to get bored
It´s so easy to get bored
9. Diet Aftertaste
You´re everything you want to be
Accomplished, gracious and great company
It makes perfect sense, you´re never hated
But then, appearances are overrated
You speak the language everyone knows
Take over when the conversation slows
Another self-made luminary
Or maybe just the fucking tooth fairy
I´d send that brain you ration
To feed the smallest starving nation
But diet aftertaste is rude
And I can´t digest a single word
10. Harmless
You´re comfortable as the poison dunce,
Completely oblivious
This might come as a big surprise
But since you´ve been sterilized
You won´t bite back
You´ve always been cut too much slack
And now you´re primed
To have a great time
Milk-fed full of boldfaces lies
Canned and homogenized
Perpetuated by the myth
Impassiveness equals intelligence
But you´re a star
Just like any accomplished liar
You can make it at last
Never let a good lie pass
You won´t bite back
You´ve always been cut too much slack
And now you´re primed
To have a great time
But you´re a star
Just like any accomplished liar
You can make it at last
Never let a good lie pass
11. (High) Visibility
Find something mindless I can advocate
Make up the me I want to be
Then always keep a finger on the pulse
Maintain high visibility
Grubbing for any contact I can make
Then dig in deep to get ahead
Line upp the prospects that I think
Will take
You know you have to use your head
And inability remains protected
The company I keep
Won´t let me ever be rejected
12. Insatiable
It´s never easy being ignored
When you´re worshipped and adored
Attention starved, inflatable
An ego that is insatiable
You´ve always been so superior
Avoid eye contect with the mirror
I still admire your toned exterior
I need somebody to hate
I need someone that I can imitate
The attention that I crave
It´s self-esteem that I can almost save
13. Crisis King
If you´re inclined to complain
It doesn´t matter, he´s got greater pain
Any crisis takes its toll
Then he´ll get down, let the bad times roll
You´ll never go down fighting
You´ll just go down
The crisis king is mighty
In a crisis showdown
The sole provision he needs to live
Is what he can take, he´s got nothing
To give
You´ll never go down fighting
You´ll just go down
The crisis king is mighty
In a crisis showdown
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