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Politics

by Icicle

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1.
Breakthrough 02:45
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2.
Day After Day 03:19
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Hey What did I do so wrong today? How come it doesn’t feel right? And why do you smirk anyway? You You in the mirror I’m talking to you, can you see? I’m trying to make something clear Day after day I’ve been waiting for you To show me the way To give me a clue Day after day I’ve been watching you fade Walking away With your head in your hands You You in the mirror You’ve got to sail this boat ahead No matter what it takes Hey you You permanent dreamer Open your eyes and look at the sky It’s time to decipher the signs Day after day I’ve been waiting for you To show me the way To give me a clue Day after day I’ve been watching you fade Walking away With your head in your hands Day after day I’ve been waiting for you To show me the way To give me a clue Day after day I’ve been calling your name Begging you, please Come back to me Hey… You… You in the mirror Say What did I do so wrong today? How come it doesn’t feel right? And why do you smirk anyway? Day after day I’ve been waiting for you To show me the way To give me a clue Day after day I’ve been watching you fade Walking away With your head in your hands Day after day I’ve been waiting for you To show me the way To give me a clue Day after day I’ve been calling your name Begging you, please Come back to me You You in the mirror You You in the mirror
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Eyes of a Killer 04:39
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When I was a little boy I thought the sky was blue There was nothing that I couldn’t do When I was a young adult I thought I knew it all Had the whole world in my crystal ball Never felt the fear of today Never thought I’d live to see the day My face in the mirror Distorted in disbelief The eyes of a killer Staring back at me My face in the mirror Distorted in disbelief The eyes of a killer Staring back at me I have come to realize Nothing is as it seems All my idols have betrayed my dreams Never felt so empty and blasé Never thought I’d live to see the day My face in the mirror Distorted in disbelief The eyes of a killer Staring back at me My face in the mirror Distorted in disbelief The eyes of a killer Staring back at me Never felt the fear of today Never thought I’d live to see the day Never felt so empty and blasé Never thought it’d come to this charade My face in the mirror Distorted in disbelief The eyes of a killer Staring back at me
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Persevere 04:18
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Thoughts spin round my head Like a shining peal of thunder Define the way I see Through a lens of dread and wonder I’m cursed I’m well informed In the midst of true believers Curious enough to see Through the lies of elite deceivers There is just one word That the truth need hear And this single word Is persevere I am afraid I was asleep Ill-informed and well deceived Out of tune, behind the beat Mixing fate with destiny Inertia and fraud dictate The way the system’s run And complexity so vast Is what makes it so much fun There is just one word That the truth need hear And this single word Is persevere There is just one word That the truth need hear And this single word Is persevere When you’re naked and ashamed With your dark worldview And the scorn of liberals Is directed right at you There are worse things in this life Than being somewhat late In predicting when collapse Will leave us to our fate There is just one word That the truth need hear And this single word Is persevere There is just one word That the truth need hear And this single word Is persevere
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Where Were You? 03:59
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The socialization Of the world wide web… Say hello to big brother Cause your privacy’s dead Just ask Tiger Woods Mel Gibson, Rex Ryan too They will all attest That what I say is true No more secrets of state In this Wiki leaks age TMZ and Deadspin Will expose all your rage All your tricks and your shams All your covert plans Will end up on their websites And make the headlines Where were you when The entire world went mad? Were you armed up on the rooftops Guarding everything you had? The Mad Men are gone No more Happy Days They will keep you exposed For as long as it pays They will pay their own way So no one’s taken to jail And the Federal Reserve Will let them pencil the curve No more secrets and lies No more obsolete spies They are out for your soul So, good luck when you hide All your networks and means And your colourful themes Are no match for their mean Diabolical scheme Where were you when The entire world went mad? Were you armed up on the rooftops Guarding everything you had? Where were you when In a flash the lights went out? When your full faith in the system Quickly turned to doubt? Where were you when Finally you saw the chains Placed upon you by a system That cannot be sustained?
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Free Me 06:00
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When I begin my recollection Of moments and acts with tight connections Places and times of fierce battles Words left unsaid but not forgotten Free me, free me From this tyranny Oh, free me, free me From this madness Reap me, reap me From this agony Oh, heal me, heal me From this sadness There is a time I still remember When we were kind and full of candor Honoured our word and helped the weaker Sought what was right and did not surrender Free me, free me From this tyranny Oh, free me, free me From this madness Reap me, reap me From this agony Oh, heal me, heal me From this sadness Free me, free me From this tyranny Oh, free me, free me From this madness Reap me, reap me From this agony Oh, heal me, heal me From this sadness
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They Got No Melody 04:37
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You believe in magic You believe in dreams You don’t even know What fear means You bestow to people The eternal youth With your words And with your every move I can hear them whisper All in disbelief As if you’re from another time And place away from here I can see the madness Creeping up their eyes And the fear taking over Their sensors in their minds They got no melody They got no melody They got only dissonance They got only dissonance Look at all the people And their fancy shoes Gathering around this crazy fool Look at all the people Blinded by the light Paying tribute to their choice of vice You can see them dreaming You can see them yearn The life they always wish they had But never got their turn You can see the fire Growing in their eyes The anger feeding off the flames Now they want your life They got no melody They got no melody They got only dissonance They got only dissonance They got no melody They got no melody They got only dissonance They got only dissonance They got no melody They got no melody You believe in magic You believe in dreams You don’t even know What fear means You bestow to people The eternal youth With your words And with your every move I can hear them whisper All in disbelief As if you’re from another time And place away from here I can see the madness Creeping up their eyes And the fear taking over Their sensors in their minds They got no melody They got no melody They got only dissonance They got only dissonance They got no melody They got no melody They got only dissonance They got only dissonance They got no melody They got no melody They got no melody They got no melody
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Move on (Wind) 04:51
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You can spend all your life Finding meaning on the ground You can simply close your eyes Start chasing dreams that do not count You can waste all you've got And end up stuck in a rut You can drift like a leaf Falling slowly to settle down Move on beyond You shouldn’t wander Keep on moving on Life's a wonder You can set yourself free With the power of your mind Best if you can realize What it is you need to find Lift your head up and breathe Let the wind be your guide Turn your eyes to the sea And feel the breeze, it'll let you fly Move on beyond You shouldn’t wander Keep on moving on Life's a wonder Move on beyond You shouldn’t wander Keep on moving on Life's a wonder Read on beyond These gloomy headlines Rise on above This sea of stillness
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Lift Any Mountain 04:13
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I wonder if I hear my calling Or if it is a distant noise A sort of interference roaming Makes my thoughts rattle like toys I plummet down into a spiral Seduced by questions of despair An existential ancient rival Awaits for me with arms in the air You can lift up any mountain on your own But your feet ought to be grounded much like a stone You can lift up any mountain if you try But you’ll waste all that you got if you don’t know why I wonder if I hear my calling Or if it’s just a fading dream As if I’m holding to a story That ended when I was only eighteen I travel back in time like Tony To find the kid that once was me To touch his soul and let it calm me Remind me there is much more to see You can lift up any mountain on your own But your feet ought to be grounded much like a stone You can lift up any mountain if you try But you’ll waste all that you got if you don’t know why I don’t know what my life would have been If I had only second-guessed Would I be singing lullabies while I’m leaning over somebody’s head Is this a sign of wisdom calling? To heed the point of no return To whisper words of great importance “A life well lived is a life lived well” You can lift up any mountain on your own But your feet ought to be grounded much like a stone You can lift up any mountain if you try But you’ll waste all that you got if you don’t know why
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Nobody Cares 03:55
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Nobody wants to listen When I talk of decline They watch the talking heads And say that everything’s fine Nobody wants to learn How money turns the world Don’t want to be disturbed Don’t want to be concerned Yeah, you can close your eyes And you can close your mind But it will not divert What’s coming down the line Nobody seems to care That maybe it’s too late And since nobody cares I’ll leave them to their fate Where is the place when I was kid? Where is the freedom to do what I did? What has become of our beliefs? Who is to blame for harvesting grief? Because we’re not the first And we won’t be the last Empires built on lies Have vanished in the past The thing that stuns me though And fills my eyes with tears Is how quickly we traded Our freedom for fear When a nation of now Creates a culture of lazy When questioning lies Labels you crazy See them marching down And falling off the cliff When the riots begin Perhaps you’ll get my drift Where is the place when I was kid? Where is the freedom to do what I did? What has become of our beliefs? Who is to blame for harvesting grief? Where is the place when I was kid? Where is the freedom to do what I did? What has become of our beliefs? Who is to blame for harvesting grief? Where is the place when I was kid? Where is the freedom to do what I did? What has become of our beliefs? Who is to blame for harvesting grief? Where is the place when I was kid? Where is the freedom to do what I did? What has become of our beliefs? Who is to blame for harvesting grief?
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The Lesser of Two Evils (Part 1) 03:54
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Separate the church and state And keep them all sedate With liquor stores and fashion whores Expensive balls of eight Ambiguous attempts to slow Our fabled global warming Hybrid mixtures in result With vicious circles forming Choice we’re forced to make Knowing what’s at stake The lesser of two evils The lesser of two evils Fear of losing base Or falling down from grace The lesser of two evils The lesser of two evils When the Mayans tell us that The end’s around the corner If Earth is a piece of cloth How far have we torn her? As the oil is creeping slow And sure towards our shores We begin to realize The Earth’s become our whore Choice we’re forced to make Knowing what’s at stake The lesser of two evils The lesser of two evils Fear of losing base Falling down from grace The lesser of two evils The lesser of two evils Fear of losing base Terrified to take The lesser of two evils The lesser of two evils Fear of losing base While trying saving face The lesser of two evils The lesser of two evils Choice we’re forced to make Knowing what’s at stake The lesser of two evils The lesser of two evils Fear of losing base Falling down from grace The lesser of two evils The lesser of two evils
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The Lesser of Two Evils (Part 2) 05:04
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The lesser of two evils Lives under a bridge Right beside a river Filled with three-eyed fish Next week he’ll be mayor Or congressman, or judge But nobody will vote Lazy nation does not budge Because there’s no remote To vote you’d have to move But for reality TV We’ve nothing left to prove The reason for our right to choose Has fallen out of sight How quickly we’ve forgotten Why our fathers fought the fight The lesser of two evils Is a choice we’re forced to make Searching for solutions Too terrified to take A risk for fear of losing Your polished comfort base And nothing gets accomplished Except for saving face So, call this drug free number And they’ll tell you what to say We’ve got to buy some influence We’ll use your hard-earned pay To launch an anti-love campaign From friendly bureaucrats Surround you with your tax returns And itemize your past Our culture fueled by ego As our beaches fill with tar If we could harness ego We could power every car Watching Wall Street crumble As the nation bear its scars As the lesser of two evils Watches from afar The lesser of two evils Is a choice we’re forced to make Searching for solutions Too terrified to take A risk for fear of losing Your polished comfort base And nothing gets accomplished Except for saving face The lesser of two evils The lesser of two evils We all begin to wonder What Earth has got in store If we’ve become the sickness Perhaps we all must go For if we are infected Our temperature will rise To save a dying planet Something has to die The lesser of two evils Is a choice we’re forced to make Searching for solutions Too terrified to take A risk for fear of losing Your polished comfy base And nothing gets accomplished Except for saving face The lesser of two evils Is a choice we’re forced to make Searching for solutions Too terrified to take A risk for fear of losing Your polished comfy base And nothing gets accomplished Except for saving face The lesser of two evils Is a choice we’re forced to make

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released October 19, 2013

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Icicle Montreal, Québec

A zealous bass player, soulful singer and a talented composer, Krassy Halatchev (Icicle) has 20 full-length albums under his belt, summarizing those of the 90’s psychedelic rock group The Clouds and those of the alternative/indie band Chiwawa.
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