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We Are Already in Hell

by The Wasted

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Pity on the pilgrim's pride Pity on the homicide Pity on the salt of someone else's earth when epiphany hits may you be turned into a radio wave picked up by the distant receiver handed down like the myth of creation sold out of slavery to the freedom of kalashnikovs pity on the blessed few pity on the wrecking crew pity on the settlers' sons when the next ice age comes may you glow like a nuclear reactor melt through the surface of the earth melt through the surface of the earth be the only source of warmth in the universe
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my head was in the ether but my feet were still in babylon when i started having seizures and speaking in tongues then the worms crawled in, turned my mind into mud and the holy ghosts exploded into angel dust good for you, go fuck yourself all right guess they was better things that I could have done with my life but I never had the patience to feign interest in a sales pitch coming from dimwitted children of the system's squeegee men so let your good love come down like acid rain because my love has a hollow point and it moves at the speed of sound my sadness is a hang grenade let it explode with the hope some will be around my hatred is a suicide bomber something you could never understand I'd rather die in the martyr's brigades than be smothered by the invisible hand of the man be stifled and smothered by the invisible hand of the man than to be that putrid plastic smile stapled on at the end of every shitty day when the world's done kicking your ass to be the self-righteous rancor
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Son of Sam 02:03
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Bedwetter 04:17
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Outside Cats 04:41
skipped out when he figured out that we ain't but specks of shit in the universe left behind an empty vodka bottle with a poorly written note inside for leaving me with my moron mother in the ignorance of indigence and everything I learned from someone else well bred well read enough to know the difference that we are already in hell and they don't come and go like outside cats all the priests and the teachers they could never answer that once we're all meditating mendicants who's gonna wanna shovel all our shit and set the table so I can set and think about dead presidents and philosopher kings and how they're killing each other while the food runs out and the choirs of street urchins sing that we are already in hell
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got the one phone call in the withdrawn drawl said the rent-a-cops got him at the shopping mall with a homemade slim jim, stolen cell phone bag of methadone and a couple car stereos...
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St. Peter 03:35
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BU2 06:09

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"If I had to pick a single album to stand as the soundtrack to my 18 years in Upstate New York, there is no doubt that it would be The Wasted’s We Are Already in Hell, a loosely-conceptual masterpiece of insightful lyrics and brilliant riffs, featuring a killer performance by the band (Gaylord, Kelly Murphy, Dave Reynolds) from soup to nuts. I will never hear this record without being transported back to a place where “there’s a certain shade of red the weeds down by the creeks will get between the Catskills and the Berkshire hills / and if you’re from down here you shouldn’t need to ask if it’s a theme park or a labor camp.” J Eric Smith, Albany, NY

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released January 12, 2006

Steve Gaylord-Guitar, Vocals, Lyrics; Dave Reynolds-Drums; Kelly Murphy-Bass, vox; Kevin Flansburg- Keyboards; Engineered by Dave Reynolds at Hoex Records 2006, Albany, NY

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