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ON (1989)

1. Anger Battery 2. Exile 3. Immersion 4. They're Talking 5. On 6. [Notes]

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EXILE To make a decision That is just a process of elimination A choice to two is not enough I view both ends with mistrust Told to love because another hates No middle ground to mediate Your reasoning is tyrannous I view both ends with mistrust I feel like I'm an exile And I think of you I feel like I'm in exile And I can't get through Can't you remember the painful strife And untold waste of human life For arrogant judgment of their crimes We've been too wrong too many times And those who wish to continue on Acting as if there's nothing wrong Blinded by your false pride We sit and watch and help them die As the extremes push their ends I watch as the lines begin to bend As tactics fail in self defeat I watch as the ends begin to meet I walk away Communicate Articulate Educate Separate

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IMMERSION This is a theme And a feeling Return to the sea An ocean as home Familiarity Immersion: Feel it surround As it gently tries To pull you down I need to go back To edify Try to regain what I lack Immersion: As it starts to cover Feel it-you're being smothered Into the sea Learn That immersion Begs for brevity Into the sea I won't be swallowed If I don't follow Other's lead There is a time And a place Like a sinking stone fact Beneath, this blue water Turns inky black Immersion: And I start to wonder Will I be sucked under Into the sea Into the sea So I know the signs I know there's time Enough for me to leave Into the sea Wash away the tears Try to drown fears That's what it'll do to me There is knowledge In this emotion And I know This is a place I can not stay And I know I love this place I can not stay Because I know Survival instinct Will tear me away Into the sea Immersion Into the sea Wash away tears Try to drown fears That's what it'll so to me Into the sea Learn that immersion Begs for brevity

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THEY'RE TALKING When money talks, its cries Drown out the voices Of those trampled beneath Their feelings and their lives So misery lies in the street And I try to draw a line Between my drives and needs But I don't know where it lies Crying Murmuring Screaming They are all talking When doubt talks, it murmurs I always hear Influencing choices Blurs what should be clear Competing voices Make me fear Exploitation These murmurs are deafening my ear In this confusion I feel unsure Like I feel infected While I talk of a cure Remnants always left From attempts to break away Now I'm just wondering If I mean what I say Crying Murmuring Screaming They are all talking When fear talks, it screams Straight inside Coerced surrender Action forced to bind Looking, I see nothing of worth On the other side Left somewhere I don't want to be To watch the march of time

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ON Like crowded teeth This grows inside Must it come out It feels like every hardened chunk Tears me apart Yet I put it down And I put it on I put these words On around my head I wear them like a jewel And I wear them like a scar A roar starts in my ear It's on Bright shining light And a heat that sears It's on So we go on

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[NOTES] Christopher Jones-vox Pete Chramiec-guitars Darren Mock-bass Doug Ernest-drums Recorded and mixed 7.10-13, 7.17-19 1989 Inner Ear Studios Engineered by Eli Janney Words-Jones Music-Chramiec (Except "Exile"-Chramiec and Tom Gorman) Arrangement-Verbal Assault Production-Verbal Assault Graphics and Artwork-Mock and Jones Typesetting and layout-Seth 'DC' and Mock Thanks to parents, friends, past members, and all who helped out. These lyrics are for Dean Albertson, 1920-1989.

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