I'm Not Gonna Lie To You...

The Decline I'm Not Gonna Lie To You... Lyrics
1.Untitled

I remember when I was younger
The days they seemed much longer
And everything was fine.
I had no need to fear what was unknown
The rest was just something I'd outgrow
Through knowledge developed in time.

So sit back and believe what they tell you
That everything's alright.
But there's no need to finish this story

Because everything is fine.


2.Putain De Chaine Alimentaire

So I never knew that there was such an industry for greed.
The last few years have really changed my mind.
And 80 percent of the food we grow
Fattens up animals, who we breed to die.

And I, can't seem to comprehend
The selfish way we go through life eating all our friends
And it seems that no one gives a shit
Well I'm so fucking sick of it

Well fuck that - I'll never be a part of it.
And every last bit makes a difference
Your TV tells you what to eat -While Sam Neill glorifies red
meat
I'm begging you please don't believe the lies - Open up your
eyes.


3.Refujesus

Well I thoroughly doubt that you'd enjoy
A 3-month trip on a leaky plank of wood.
Only to find out that when you arrived
You're considered a threat to national security

And I'd like to see you go through half the shit that they've
been through
But Instead I see you criticising them

And I'd like to see how you'd hold up,
In a struggle for survival in your war torn home land
A constant threat of war, violence and terror
Is a concept I'm not sure you understand

But with racist jokes and stereotypes you laugh along with the
rest
They're locked in refugee camps and you claim it's for the best

Cause everyone's an immigrant and I'm tired of all your racist
shit

There's a fine line between national pride and racist bigotry
You're ignorant if you deny we grew from the same seeds.
Convicts, immigrants, Asylum seekers, refugees. We're all the
same.
We're all the same.

It doesn't sound like any place that I would wanna live
The population just has no idea.
An unnaccepting nation so concerned with self-image.
Exclusion, segregation, sport and beer.

There's a fine line between national pride and racist bigotry
You're ignorant if you deny we grew from the same seeds.
Convicts, immigrants, asylum seekers, refugees We're all the
same.


4.Pope'd In The Eye

An autocratic authority is scapegoating minorities!
This cardinal rigged lottery,
Is trampling equality again!

Homophobic! As the church has always been,
The bible-breathing-brainwashed, say we live in sin!
Feels like the 20-millionth time
I've thrown pearl to swine or screamed in an empty room!

Pope-a-phobes, (all the lies!)
Against this dogma til we die.
It's a joke! (The things they know!)
It's probably the safest way to go
Screw the pope (and what he claims!)
It's as urgent as climate change
Fascist lies, that we despise!

Fuck the pope. The only way.


5.Half A Beer

As it rains inside my head
There's a timeless story with no end.
An empty place with no regrets.
I've heard this one a thousand times
It's been replaying in my mind
I'd like to keep it so; I'd like to keep it so.

I need to find a new way out
Won't see me kick, won't see me shout
I need to find the answers to
The questions that I often doubt

Because I know the things that keep me up
The things that I believe
Will stay the same just like they've always done
I know they'll never change
Just like the time of day and how it rains
The oceans or this place
They'll stay the same, just like they've always done
I know they'll never change, they'll never change.

For now I'll sit and watch it pass
Another lesson taking in
Just like I've always done
Just like I've always done before
There is no rush I'll take my time
I'll turn the effort off my pride
I'll turn the effort off; I'll turn the effort off.

I could have told myself a lie
I could have listened to a myth
I guess that I'm just fucking tired
I guess it's just another time.

I'm looking for a reason now
I'm tired of conversations that will leave me with no doubt
About the way I've come to see the world
The way I've come to think
Exhausting conversations every time we often speak.


6.Homophobes Are Gay

This is a stand against the legal persecution of a people,
A contradiction of our basic freedoms The ticket price won't
cater your admission
Another open door's another:

Fist not punching in the fights, another stand to you
We'll protest here for human rights a broadcast of the truth.
Those too true to run and hide will stand to gather side by side
With open hearts and open minds, We're here to disapprove.

When will it stop? The hate.
The verbal bashing of cock-sucking-faggots
The traditionalistic-fundamentalist-Catholics
The ones who spoke of AIDS. Oh they were full of it.
A disgrace or a punishment?

I'm getting tired of trying to make them change their minds
A generation fucking blind
In 2009, its time to leave this shit behind
Its time to leave that shit behind.

And it makes me sick every day
To see the way you hold yourself
A threat to none? A role model
A citizen to trust?
Sometimes I just can't understand why you do the things you do
Judge and hate good people, with invalid old excuse
I know that you're just scared of change you're living in the
past
But soon a day will come to you, and it will be your last.

The time is now to end the stereotypical lack of reason
A time to end this homophobic season
The violence and the hatred and the macho shit.
I hope they get a taste of it!

I'm getting tired of trying to make them change their minds
A generation fucking blind
In 2009, its time to leave this shit behind
Homophobes, we can't change the past
But we can change the future.
Homophobes are gay


7.I Killed The Trend Scene

Searching so hard for somewhere you can belong
So much that you'll change all the things you believe,
Your ideas about what's right and wrong

So take Advantage of the scene that's in style
As trend-core kills with a smile.
Your moments of clarity change 12 times a year
I'll bring you the horizon if you stop hurting my ears

Standing your ground, so clear your intentions
There was nothing I could say or do.
There was a time and a place but I never imagined
It was here and now with me and you.

So far removed from the thoughts you once had-
A new way of life Well I guess it's not bad
You took what you knew, changed your clothes and you view
You're living a lie but at least you're in style

Your favourite's death-grind? Electro-gore-trip,
flirtatious-funk-core, and now you're into JAZZ?
Get a haircut?, cut your pants off?, shave your eyebrows?,
you're the one that knows.

A lack of vocals, too many breakdowns, only eat tinned food, I
think you've lost the plot.
You buy a monkey, you feed him tic tacs, give him a sponge bath,
well you're just badly drawn.


8.Good Gravy

So you echoed over me
Why do you feel so inclined to lie?
This urgency's a tragedy.
The things you say remain the same

I know they're gonna tell me it's no use
I will persevere with nothing but the truth
Like water down the drain it's such a waste and all I know
Is what we have left is surely soon to go.

Time will come and it will pass,
Just do your thing and leave your mark.
With no fucking care, regret, resent.
Read between the fucking lines my friend.

Time will come and time will always pass
With no intent to stop.
Life's so short, yet you leave a bigger mark
You'll never see the truth.


9.You Died... Losing 16 Experience Points

But you don't see - Their lives are thrown before you, didn't
watch them go.
But that's okay, cause everyday
It happens a million goddamn times
How many people know?

Your parents will not invite them to tea
The lucky few who have scored immunity
It's only on TV

Destruction is a normal thing, a way of life, an every day
occurrence.
Is that the way That we've become?
Only caring about ourselves not looking out for anyone

Your parents wont call them over to play
They won't like the pies and they'll bring the wrong cake
Eat up your peas or you'll catch a disease (you've had it
before, you've had it before)
A rabbit will kill you if you don't say please (its happened
before, its happened before)

To think about the days
When disposability and hate
Were not the things that we
That we were taught to see
To think about the days
A time where you and I were free
From all the lies and mistrust
All the bullshit that they feed us.

Is our humanity so disposable?
When lives are wrecked we shrug our shoulders, turn our face
away?
The other side can't hide everything forever but how we've
tried, we've shown them that and I think we've seen enough.

Your parents wont call them over to play
They won't like the pies and they'll bring the wrong cake
Accepting death as a way of life's a-ok! Statistics not tragedy,
keep them at bay.
You'll guard the house as your nails claw you seat, your
children will sleep while the dead line the streets


10.Oh, Fuck!

Well any action is justifiable when condoned by such a being,
above the law, above it all. Above any human entity of power,
above all right and wrong, above the law, well fuck it all.
Do you believe that you were sent to change the world? To show
others the light, to praise the right and cleanse the wrong? I
don't believe such a being can help you sleep at night. This
might come as a fright
I'd tear it down, your laws and conversation. Exaggerate and
justify your lack of truth. I don't believe that such a being
would condone the things you do... With God as your excuse.
I can't believe I let you brainwash me for all this time, and I
can't believe I fell for all the lies you told. Hypocrisy once
had control; your fascist ways once took their toll, but Now.
I'll fall for this no more!
To bow to an authority, based on such lies and trickery, you're
backwards burning witches like it's 1643. Miracles and acts of
God? Like missionary culture shock. I stand to question that.
I'd tear it down, your lies about creation, seminal castration
of the basic rights and now; it's taken 2000 to stand, and you
ask why? Because the blind, don't question anything!
Is corruption, so essential, when dealing with a subject of such
grace? If your actions, are of your 'saviour' should they not
benefit the whole human race?
Your unaccepting ways and your persecutive attitude will
eventually destroy you and outweigh the good you try to do.
Correct and punish all you like but you'll never find the truth,
because as divided, separated parts we all can only stand to
lose.
It's time to look around because you're not the only one a
million others and you're causing pain. It's time to look around
because you're not the only one, a million others and it's not
the way.


11.Conjunctivitis

We're moving forward slowly
seems like we're getting nowhere
1 step forward 1 step back
Is how it feels to me
And every struggle day by day
Reminds me that im so awake
Feel the unnaccomplishments
As they walk over me

So spend your days thinking about the bright side
Not the knife fights
It's a fucked up world with no way out
and it seems we're all we've got
I won't turn this to a waste
For sour grapes or for revenge
I wont, burn us to the ground to prove a point

We're moving forward slowly
seems like we're getting nowhere
1 step forward 1 step back
Is how it feels to me
And all I know is it's been so long
It's just in reach and still so far
We need more time, we've had so much
It's hard to disagree

Because Ive been here before
I've passed out on the floor
I don't know much at all

So spend thinking about the bright side
Not the knife fights
Two steps forward two steps back is how it fucks with me!

I'd like to say I've learned a lot,
I think I know less than before.
It's times like these I'm glad theres something more to life

If I had fallen short
Of all my plans and thoughts
Until the end
I'm with my friends
And I'll be here again


12.Sentience Or Selfishness

There's a place I used to know
A place that I called home
A place where I thought everything was going to be fine.
You took my family
My friends away from me
And took us to a place that looked like hell quite honestly.

If this is how it's supposed to be
I'll close my eyes so I can't see
And take this image to my grave
And as the blood is drained from me
I'll leave this place so honestly
Another life taken in vein.

Did you look in their eyes when they died?
Did you hear anything as they cried?
As they came to their end, did you feel anything?
Did you look in their eyes as they died?


13.Radio Friendly

Well from here it's all downhill I've heard.
There's nothing left to save the world.
People die on your TV,
It's nothing new you haven't seen.

Everything seems fine to you
What you believe is up to you
You pick and choose between the news
You think you're safe but it's not true

What ever happened to the place that we live?
Living a lie when you can't change anything
Everyone's here just to watch the world burn.
Sitting around cause they're just one person.

Well I'd make an effort if I could
It's wasted time I'd spent.
Cause no one gives a shit about
The things I represent
Well I'd save the planet; I'd save the whales
I think I'd probably find.
That everyone else keeps eating meat, and fucking sheep
I just wasted my time. So why should I try?

Go to the park and we'll have a picnic
Who gives a fuck cause you can't make a difference
Everyone's here just to watch the world burn.
Sitting around cause they're just one person.

Well now I know that no one cares
That's why I wrote this song I hope to change someone
I really that someday soon
All these people see the world can't change itself.