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The Extinguisher -> Fighting a War of Attrition Against Myself (8/9/2008 23:43:53)
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The Extinguisher -> RE: The Musings of a Life of Crime and Turmoil (8/9/2008 23:57:27)
"A Requiem to the Masses" To the ends of the Earth To a four point attack To the last of our days There is no going back I've said my respects And I've said my good byes And I've written my book About the history of lies We welcome the fire And ring the church bell No love no remorse We all burn in hell. Forever. Forever. Forever. Forever. No love no remorse We all burn in hell Forever. One more thing in my life One more sacrifice. One more excuse to be had One more day to be sad And I never could never even try, The world would pass me by, Can't believe in the thought Of a god so distraught An eternity of guilt And a thousand of years of war And the truth hidden in stone It's a filthy lonely bore It's a stab right in my heart And a chill right down my core Don't call me a friend, Or a brother anymore. Anymore. Anymore. Two less things I can enjoy Two less countries to destroy Two less sins of the heart Two less places to start One by one to the slaughter Bring your son and bring your daughter No questions, queries or rebels Locked inside your prison jail cells An eternity of guilt And a thousand of years of war And the truth hidden in stone It's a filthy lonely bore It's a stab right in my heart And a chill right down my core Don't call me a friend, Or a brother anymore. Anymore. Anymore. A final epitaph to read A final mouth to feed A final goodbye to feed the night A final wish to grant me flight Cast away the sins of our time Give into the church's sweet rhyme I would never lose hope so fast But the time for dreams has well passed An eternity of guilt And a thousand of years of war And the truth hidden in stone It's a filthy lonely bore It's a stab right in my heart And a chill right down my core Don't call me a friend, Or a brother anymore. Anymore. Anymore. An eternity of guilt And a thousand of years of war And the truth hidden in stone It's a filthy lonely bore It's a stab right in my heart And a chill right down my core Don't call me a friend, Or a brother anymore. Anymore. Anymore. Anymore. Anymore. My eyes as blind as love. My ears as deaf as war. My mouth as mute as time. With my faith in you and yours. My eyes as blind as love. My ears as deaf as war. My mouth as mute as time. With my faith in you and yours. I can see no good. Hear no good. Speak no good. Do. no. good. An eternity of guilt And a thousand of years of war And the truth hidden in stone It's a filthy lonely bore It's a stab right in my heart And a chill right down my core Don't call me a friend, Or a brother anymore. Anymore. Anymore. Forever anymore.

The Extinguisher -> RE: The Musings of a Life of Crime and Turmoil (8/10/2008 0:01:27)
"Snakeskin Dress on Your Parasite Skin" In a flash of light Beyond the ocean, lost at sea You’ll find me here, alone (alone) In the dusk of night In an ancient haunting, trapping me I won’t find you, come home (come home) The tranquility of a heart-felt poem The horrors of a broken home My heart pours out for you to see Open your eyes, listen to me I could have been so much more Forgiving towards the vows you swore And I’d still love you all the same But to you, it was just a game In an old ghost town Fallen soldier, disturbed souls I want you here, with me (with me) In a wedding gown At the alter, filled with holes My one true love, you see (you see) The tranquility of a heart-felt poem The horrors of a broken home My heart pours out for you to see Open your eyes, listen to me I could have been so much more Forgiving towards the vows you swore And I’d still love you all the same But to you, it was just a game In my dusty mind My thoughts betray me, thoughts of you I need you here, my love (my love) In a salvage find They find me lying, tinted blue It suits me like, a glove (a glove) The tranquility of a heart-felt poem The horrors of a broken home My heart pours out for you to see Open your eyes, listen to me I could have been so much more Forgiving towards the vows you swore And I’d still love you all the same But to you, it was just a game In a new false start You rotten angel; rotten sore I don’t need you, go home (go home) In a broken heart How could I love you, anymore? You left me here, alone…

The Extinguisher -> RE: The Musings of a Life of Crime and Turmoil (8/10/2008 0:06:54)
"Take a Good Hard Look at Who We've Become" Stab my eyes out So I can't see the pain Of the world and the pain that I've caused And the bleeding, won't go away with time A thousand new scars, forever mine A curse a gift a blessing in disguise As a ruin and hope and nothing left inside A million voices cry out. How did it get this far? To the point our inhibitions are abandoned by the stars One last drink for the soldiers Our sick and dying children One last song for all the summers back at home One last wish to the nighttime A bitter winter season One last dream to fix the future of the world Stab my ears in So I can hear again All the lost, dark horrors of the mind And the shrieking, won't emit a sound A thousand stories, left underground A curse a gift a blessing in disguise A god damn silhouette between my eyes A million species die out, snuffed out by the flame To the point cultured society drowns itself again One last drink for the soldiers Our sick and dying children One last song for all the summers back at home One last wish to the nighttime A bitter winter season One last dream to fix the future of the world Stab my heart out So I can still feel love Once it pulls the ground out under me And my triumph, is shadowed by failure A thousand left dead, on the floor The truth, the lie, the last stories ending Happily ever after in mending A million choices close up. Why did it have to go? To the point screaming autonomy overtakes the flow One last drink for the soldiers Our sick and dying children One last song for all the summers back at home One last wish to the nighttime A bitter winter season One last dream to fix the future of the world One last drink for our family The ones we lost forever One last crash to forget the things we hate One last slap to be sorry The stupid way we say it One last kiss to leave each other at the door

The Extinguisher -> RE: The Musings of a Life of Crime and Turmoil (8/10/2008 0:08:35)
"---7---" I could care less if you would ever love me But I'd never cease my thoughts for you I'd try and I'd try until the day I die For your affections and your infectious glance. Staring a hole in my body, ripping my soul Feasting on my heart, the sins of my flesh Unconstitutioned in practice and horrific in theory. What good can come from an accidental screw-up Of the dancing and the descent into oblivion That drags up downward into everlasting agony. A paradise of filth, a utopia of rot. We never tried to remain on this godforsaken rock And held out for the calvary, that we swore would never come. Our thunderous shouts skewer apocalyptic prophets Who claimed that the world crushed down at their feet And infections consumed all the skin from their flesh. A silent lone night before chaos erupted And seven black angels came down from the heavens To kill and destroy, as the world came to it's end. Psychotic attacks and paranoid delusions Chemical imbalances, written in the equation. And see, that you will never sink to my level And the golden trumpets bring hell to the earth And the seven white devils, rip my heart from your hiding place.

The Extinguisher -> RE: The Musings of a Life of Crime and Turmoil (8/10/2008 0:12:04)
"This Night ; Our Night" This is the story of a life and a death And a single, empty night. Tonight is the night all or dreams come true. On this night we are not rich or poor Nor are we white or black or grey We are just each other. Separate and more. All hate and love gone astray Look closely and you see how it works Look at it. Hear it. Smell. Feel. We are not the eternity. We are the ends. I am gone. Is this even real? Everything is nothing. Where are your friends? If I was to go away If I was to run If I was to fall astray If I was the sun Go. Go. Go. Be each other and be another. And you’ll see how it all comes together. It’s the alpha and the omega It is nothing and forever. The first part in the everlasting saga If I was to go away If I was to run If I was to fall astray If I was the sun Would you chase after me? Would you sing a tune? Would you be all I could be? Would you be the moon? Go. Go. Go. Go. Go. Go. This story doesn’t end here. It’s more than just this night. It’s eternal in our heart. It’s our struggle; it’s our right. It’s the place we all start. Go.

The Extinguisher -> RE: The Musings of a Life of Crime and Turmoil (8/10/2008 0:13:15)
"See, This is the Reason the Grass Never Grows, the Sun Never Shines and the Wind Never Blows" Shakespeare told us that Brevity is the soul of all our wit If that we're true then How did we end up in this kingdom of grit? Look at all around you Look at all the sorrow Look at all the birds Think about tomorrow Think of how we lived How we died Think of how the angels cried Never wonder why Our vanity and sin are on demand Now we live and die And taken from our most holy of land Look at all around you Look at all the sorrow Look at all the birds Think about tomorrow Think of how we lived How we died Think of how the angels cried See this letter and Read it until the ink dries off the page Follow the leader A memory of that which does presage Look at all around you Look at all the sorrow Look at all the birds Think about tomorrow Think of how we lived How we died Think of how the angels cried Go up to heaven And greet us at the gate to let us in Then fall down hell Eternity awaits the ones who sin Look at all around you Look at all the sorrow Look at all the birds Think about tomorrow Think of how we lived How we died Think of how the angels cried Rain clouds and misery Thunder and history Sun shine is blistering The winds are whistling Flowers and dead trees Summer, the birds and bees Rain clouds and misery Thunder and history Sun shine is blistering The winds are whistling Flowers and dead trees Summer, the birds and bees One last final verse Call out the events that led up to now Tell your story Don't leave out a single, empty vow Look at all around you Look at all the sorrow Look at all the birds Think about tomorrow Think of how we lived How we died Think of how the angels cried Say your goodbyes You'll never see the ones you love again But don't you worry They'll think of whenever it will rain Rain clouds and misery Thunder and history Sun shine is blistering The winds are whistling Flowers and dead trees Summer, the birds and bees Rain clouds and misery

The Extinguisher -> RE: The Musings of a Life of Crime and Turmoil (8/10/2008 0:14:17)
"No I'm Not Making Things Up As I Go. Whatever Gave You That Idea?" This song is not a love song And it's not about my sadness And it's not a call to arms And it's not an ode to madness This song is not a story And it's not opposing war And it's not 'to be or not to be' And it's just nothing anymore This song is just a song And it's just a b c b And it's just a little poem And it's just to you from me This song is not a love song This song is not a sad song This song is not the best song It can be This song is singing slowly This song is rocking out This song is not calling out This is song is just for me

The Extinguisher -> RE: The Musings of a Life of Crime and Turmoil (8/10/2008 0:15:32)
"Three Chords and the Truth" This is a song about growing up in the suburbs All I ever learned was too rebel Money was never tight Parents would never fight But still the place felt like a prison cell Three Chords and the Truth Criminal and the Sleuth Three Chords and the Truth Farther than Babe Ruth Three Chords and the Truth Living through the Youth Three Chords and the Truth Three Chords and the Truth This is a song about the white collar workforce 90K a year plus benefits Sit in their ivory towers Holding all the power All they want is to see you in the pits Three Chords and the Truth Criminal and the Sleuth Three Chords and the Truth Farther than Babe Ruth Three Chords and the Truth Living through the Youth Three Chords and the Truth Three Chords and the Truth This is a song about anarchy and our leaders They try so hard but still it's not enough We vote them into office Complain when they don't please us We want the truth, we want a little fluff Three Chords and the Truth Criminal and the Sleuth Three Chords and the Truth Farther than Babe Ruth Three Chords and the Truth Living through the Youth Three Chords and the Truth Three Chords and the Truth This is a song about how my life sucks In this band and following my dreams Writing songs for money Playing for the hunnies It's enough to make you want to scream Three Chords and the Truth Criminal and the Sleuth Three Chords and the Truth Farther than Babe Ruth Three Chords and the Truth Living through the Youth Three Chords and the Truth Three Chords and the Truth

The Extinguisher -> RE: The Musings of a Life of Crime and Turmoil (8/10/2008 0:16:33)
"no matter how hard we say it we can't hear a damn word" look up the meanings to the words I say to you and write them down in a notebook refer to them when you're in a bind remember, what I said when I told you I loved you I never wanted you to go I meant it forever and ever you know and we look on and on and on and on and on and on see this the skyline it turns through the night that we sleep through and we're blind to the noise of falling bombs when I told you I loved you I never wanted you to go I meant it forever and ever for you as the rain falls and the blood dries all the stories that we shared sing a sad song make it better take a love note and paint it flat I had said that I couldn't be bothered I couldn't be left alone to my devices or I'd lose myself in the memory of you and I'd lose you to all of my dreams all my dreams when I told you I loved you I never wanted you to go I meant it forever and ever for you see this tomorrow see this to sorrow see that you borrow a god damn word these are ours muses these are my musings a life of crime a life or turmoil a life of hate a life of fear a life of me a life of you

The Extinguisher -> RE: The Musings of a Life of Crime and Turmoil (8/10/2008 0:19:36)

"Your only love"

I wonder
I wonder how many days I've seen you
I wonder how many times you've been held
  by someone who isn't me
I wonder how many times you've never noticed
  when I've tried to hold onto you
I wonder

  what goes through your head
  when I touch you
I think of the days
  you've spent with me
I think of the many times I've been there for you
I think of the times you've never noticed
I think of the times I wonder

I've always just say idly by
I've watched you throw your life away
I've seen your rebirths and evolution
I've seen your deaths and desolation
I was there with your ups
I was there with your downs
  and still you never notice
  still
I wonder

  what would you do without me
  what would I do without you
  how could you ignore me like this
  why can you leave me like this
  every damn time
  and never even return
  still you do it again
  and again
  and I try
  but you never notice
I need you
  no

  you need me
  you will never need another
  why do you bother
  why can't you see
  why am I pushed to the side
  why don't you listen

I wonder
  is it love
  or are you just trying to hurt me?

The Extinguisher -> RE: The Musings of a Life of Crime and Turmoil (8/10/2008 0:21:19)
"A ritual in modern obedience" This is a note to the future To all the lovers and liars To all the promises we left Behind We woke up to rain We cleaned our teeth and shaved our faces .A ritual in modern obedience. Silent in the storm. Sun shone through the grass And through office windows. Flowers bloomed; phones rang. I noticed a colour It passed These days are too many Summer's almost over Snow fell through the night Our voices, obscured through arguments. Soon we would sleep .But not yet. For now, it's ours.

The Extinguisher -> RE: The Musings of a Life of Crime and Turmoil (8/22/2008 0:42:03)

"Hazy Evenings"

It's getting hard to see
Through the smoke
     And the smog.

That you spill through your tongue
Everytime you open
                   your filthy mouth.



Grow up.
You're trying to hard to be special.
To be smarter.
It's all a mistake. And I'm tired of it.

The Extinguisher -> RE: The Musings of a Life of Crime and Turmoil (10/8/2008 22:26:54)

"Our own evenings in Heaven"

What kind of father would let his children
     grow up to be like us?

What kind of person would let us have our way?

We sit on a park bench, crying and laughing

And     it's far too long now.


I've seen the shadows of death
  in the valleys of fear		} Maybe it's just
I've see the reapers of sorrow		      a dream
  growing ever nearer to us

	And now     and      again.   Even though we can't hold on.
	        to each other and ourselves. We try. and fail.
					     We try. and fail.
					     We try,  to fail.



It seems that only our hearts are right
Together in eternal moonlight
Lying along at night
what a sight
What a sight

The Extinguisher -> RE: The Musings of a Life of Crime and Turmoil (10/8/2008 22:28:26)

"Now, to the birds"

Teach me how to fly
	      Because I'm falling fast


					We see things  that
					lets us know we are
					alive

		Never give -----  We read sights and sounds
		Never say		to let us know  how
		Never ever		to survive
		Never mind
					In this world where
					truely living is not
					mandatory

					Where books and movies
					are never the true story


Standing over a ledge
Gravity tempts me, physics mocks me
To fly, to fall, then die

Gravity knows me
How to mush my buttons			Maybe death is painless
					Maybe it's not

					Maybe were all falling
						   off a ledge
					              into the ground
							             soon
							                  forever


		...
In the end, we're all just fools
Who fall, and fly		at our own expense.

The Extinguisher -> RE: The Musings of a Life of Crime and Turmoil (11/17/2008 22:51:41)
"Worth Fighting For" If we could imagine No countries or religion I wonder how things would turn out In the end If we could imagine The people, they would listen To the messages we sold them through the phone If we could imagine That everything we fought for That everything we died for Was in vain If we had imagined That all of this could happen Then maybe we coukd have stopped this On our own I may be dreaming Of a world lost at sea I may be fighting A losing battle I can't see But no matter the outcome I can't be put down I need to see this to it's ending I need to see this At it's most important verse At the hardest part we live for At the longest that we die for All the words we wrote in sorrow And all the words we wrote in jest Never bleeding for tomorrow. Never leaving out the rest One more anarchist to die for One less thought we could achieve I wrote this for the masses When I wrote it in the sleeves Call me what you want. A sellout. A loser or a screw up A conformist and a lousy corporate slave And I don't want to live with this I. don't. want. to. fight. I don't want to work here anymore I tried to get around it The commute was too damn long With all the people I've despised. I can't stand it anymore I can't live here anymore I tried to get away The commitment was too hard To the person I despised I can't sleep here anymore I can't love you anymore I wont love you anymore Why can't I love you anymore I need to love you I need to hold you I need to feel the good thats left to fight for In the world. Of hate. Of lies. Of hope. Of time. And space. Through rank. And race. The end. Will come. No matter. The cost. And through. It all. We live. We die. We love. We hate. This world has had it's problems The people have all gone But I can't help to wonder All the lives that did no wrong And is it hard to see That something is there Worth fighting for..........

The Extinguisher -> RE: The Musings of a Life of Crime and Turmoil (1/7/2009 22:52:58)
"Storms" Water drops pattern the sidewalk The little pattering of rooftop windows pollute the air A cold wind runs past my face The sky rumbles above The ground moistens below Suddenly, it hits. Wet washes from above A waterfall soaks me and the ground I step around. Cold, bitter drops stain my face Bleeding blue into the grays and blacks that litter the sky. The sky shouts at me. Flashes it's anger and hate. Screams to the world! Why!? The earth fears for its solid state. Any shelter is ripped away. The storm presses. Dominates, It pushes into me and out of me. Cold and wet become one. There is no droplets. Only a solid block. Crashing to the ground. A final break down of anger, of pain, of hate and misery. Daylight for but a second... Nothing but the screams of the sky... Then... Light vanishes. Sound flees. Winds die down and stop. Floods turns to showers, turns to drops. The light returns, and birds sing. New creatures are unearthed And enjoy the aftermath Of the wet soil. I recover my balance, pick myself up. The smell of ozone warms me The worst is over The storm has ended.

The Extinguisher -> RE: The Musings of a Life of Crime and Turmoil (5/20/2009 2:11:46)
"A true word is worth a thousand pictures" Formulate thoughts into words Speak your mind Don't hide Show your voice Don't disappear Behind a facade Criticize! Feel Alive! Free your mind! Don't be allowed to pepper your feelings with bittersweet compliments Live vicariously through the moment And treat yourself to freedom Give no thoughts to shadows and lies Because only in truth can we truly be free.

The Extinguisher -> RE: The Musings of a Life of Crime and Turmoil (7/5/2009 1:55:59)
Never believed in anyone Never believed I could fly away My pain is holding onto A selfless toxic waste I'm lost inside a nightmare Left to die alone Give into the chase Butterflies are flapping Inside my eyes And I feel tired.

The Extinguisher -> RE: The Musings of a Life of Crime and Turmoil (7/14/2009 20:03:23)
"Escape" Never again scream out your name in the ecstasy of an argument Washing blood from the pavement I fell from as you took away my supports to leave me hanging from your chains. Giving thoughts to what lived in and sensible forgivings that never were. Your friends all called me crazy, and I think deep down you believed them. But we fought life and each other to keep ourselves in line. As gunshots fell around us, and black overtook the light. Blood spilled onto the pavement as the smell of sex and fire filled the air. I called your name into the twilight, and was lost into the sea. Never forgetting our tryst and conquests. But now I'm finally set free. But we never escape. I wanted so hard to believe that I'm gone from these games but I know enough we'll never ever ever see the light again. It haunts us, steals our sleep away, touches our dreams, sneaks into our kiss and rapes us while we lie together in each other's arms. The solemn sounds of morning find us gone and wasted again running from pain and heartache. Looking to start anew, fresh with love on the road we run And give into temptation. As it steals us away, and lifts us to anger and passion, as words fly, And sounds collide in desolation. But we do not fear ourselves. We carry on and make the best of things until live falls away, and hearts break. Depression culls us, and lust calls us, and we cannot say no. We dance again, with hate in our hearts and fire in our sheets and anger in our eyes. We strike with words and with skin pressed against each other And bodies tied together. Until suddenly the rooms flashes white hot. Angers rise and fires boil over into water gushing the doors And we cannot escape in time. Drowning us in a sea of pain and fear Suffering Passion Love Hate Lust Death Every emotion collapsing towards us and we cannot escape. We cannot. As water fills our hearts and lungs, we whisper. One last goodbye, one last love, one last kiss. Then it's over. Gone forever. In the morning the find us, smothered in scars and blood soaking the pavement below. This is our ending There is no escape Love haunts us all.

The Extinguisher -> RE: The Musings of a Life of Crime and Turmoil (7/14/2009 20:23:35)
"The Haunting of a Mind" Who am I? Where am I? When am I? What am I? Why am I? Questions. Haunting me Why won't it go away? See? There it goes again Who am I? Where am I? When am I? What am I? Why am I? I can't escape This prison is my own On one can help me. Let it go It's hard enough to make it On my own I'll never have to fake it Anymore I can't believe In anything Anymore. Listen. It's gone. I miss it... Can you hear it? No escape. Who am I? Where am I? When am I? What am I? Why am I?

The Extinguisher -> RE: The Musings of a Life of Crime and Turmoil (7/14/2009 20:24:57)
"Heat Death" Sense the world soak it in feel it smell it taste it hear it see it It's beautiful It's hideous It's understanding It's nonsense A mis-sense A mutation It's not what we know It changes grows degenerates collapses a black hole of matter gravitational force pulling us together one by one in a row we follow the rules play the game play to win try to lose succed life is over in short time heat death an eternity away but it's hear now don't waste it.

The Extinguisher -> RE: The Musings of a Life of Crime and Turmoil (7/14/2009 20:25:58)
"She" She bleeds like Russian vodka poured from the mills into the sewers soaked up by rags and released to the public She burns like a cigarette smoked on the forth as July cuts the sky open wide and death pours out She reads like a manifesto published at home discussing life and radical left wing histories She sings like a piano tuned slightly sharp Orchestrated to the crowd and dropped from a high rise How does she do it? Carve a legacy into the dirt Drop the ocean on us all Bit by bit And cry herself into our sleep

The Extinguisher -> RE: The Musings of a Life of Crime and Turmoil (7/14/2009 20:27:04)
"Rebellion in technicolor" We write. Regarding questions like: No, our lives are not perfect Yes, we do all want more No, we won't conform to your shallow values of beauty and excellence. Yes, that's what you taught us And yes, you know what's for our best But how can we believe that what you taught us is right When it was you who taught us that in the first place. You fear the rebellion of the oppressed elite and starving poor. You fear the uprising of intellect and the fall of your golden empire. Weneer wanted to rule only for our voice to be heard How arrogant of you to assume otherwise Step down from your golden throne Lift your blackend crown from that sorry head Give someone else a chance That army of the people Wont stand to be sat down We fight for what we hope for We fight to save us all From a tyrant with a handgun Who stabs us in the back We folds the cards that we picked up And beats us to the ground He holds our hand in anger And our hair back when we're sick He trys to hold our favour But we're smarted than that We know the truth One last word. Never forget what we did today Never forget to fight the tyrants Remember who helped you Remember who listened Don't forget who runs your free world. Don't forget who controls you.

The Extinguisher -> RE: The Musings of a Life of Crime and Turmoil (7/14/2009 20:30:44)
"Fairytales and Fireflies" Holding hands with our fears Lifitng up the stars to see Our promises, we gave our hearts We gave our spirits to the war And love. It's a safe house from the Heartaches and the lullabies Fairytales and Fireflies We are Living too fast To be free Knowing the past Will never be Is this the last Time you and me Will love again Nevermore can we believe The stars are close enough to hold Into our hearts, we try again We free ourselves from the pain We never wonder how. It's a storm and we are Living too fast To be free Knowing the past Will never be Is this the last Time you and me Will love again Living too fast To be free Knowing the past Will never be Is this the last Time you and me Will love again Heartaches and lullabies Fairytales and fireflies Motionless without a sound Never falling to the ground Lift up the stars to hold Our promises, into our hearts We gave our spirits to the war And we never wonder We never wonder Never wonder Holding hands above our faces Just to free ourselves from pain Nevermore can we believe im Fairytales We are Living too fast To be free Knowing the past Will never be Is this the last Time you and me Will love again Living too fast to be free Knowing the past will never be Is this the last time you and me Will live to fast and be set free And know the past can never be This is the last time you and me Will love again.

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