System of a Down - SoaD

System of a Down - PRISON SONG


They’re trying to build a prison
They’re trying to build a prison

Following the rights movements you clamped on with your iron fists
Drugs became conveniently available for all the kids

Following the rights movements you clamped on with your iron fists
Drugs became conveniently available for all the kids

I buy my crack, I smack my bitch, right here in Hollywood

Nearly 2 million Americans are incarcerated in the the prison system, prison system,
Prison system of the U.S

(They’re trying to build a prison!)
They’re trying to build a prison
They’re trying to build a prison
They’re trying to build a prison
(For you and me to live in!)
Another prison system
Another prison system
Another prison system
(For you and me to live in!)

Minor drug offenders fill your prisons you don’t even flinch
All our taxes paying for your wars against the new non-rich
x2

The percentage of Americans in the prison system prison system, has doubled since 1985

For you and I!
x3

They’re trying to build a prison
They’re trying to build a prison
They’re trying to build a prison
For you and me
Oh baby, you and me

All research and successful drug policy show that treatment should be increased

And law enforcement decreased while abolishing mandatory minimum sentences

All research and successful drug policy show that treatment should be increased

And law enforcement decreased while abolishing mandatory minimum sentences

Utilizing drugs to pay for secret wars around the world
Drugs are now your global policy, now you police the globe

Drug money is used to rig elections
And train brutal corporate sponsored dictators around the world

For you and I!
x3

They’re trying to build a prison
They’re trying to build a prison
They’re trying to build a prison
For you and me
Oh baby, you and me

NEEDLES ^^ :


I, cannot disguise
All the stomach pains
And the walking with the canes
When you, do come out
And you whisper up to me in your life of tragedy

But I cannot grow
Till you eat the last of me
Oh when will I be free
And you,
A parasite
Just find another host
Just another fool to roast

Cause
You… My tape worm tells me what to do
You… My tape worm tells me where to go

Pull the tape worm out of your ass… HEY! [x4]

I cannot deny
All the evil traits and the filling of the crates
When you [you]
Do come out [out]
And you slither up to me your pimpin majesty

But I cannot grow
Till you eat the last of me
Oh when will I be free
And you, (you)
A parasite, (site)
Just find another host
Just another stool to post

Cause
You… My tape worm tells me what to do
You… My tape worm tells me where to go

Pull the tape worm out of your ass… HEY! [x3]
Pull the tape worm out of me

Of me

I’m just sitting in my room,
With a needle in my hand
Just waiting for the tomb
Of some old dying man

[Daron and Serj]
Sitting in my room,
With a needle in my hand
Just waiting for the tomb
Of some old dying man

Die

Cause
You … My tape worm tells me what to do
You … My tape worm tells me where to go

Pull the tape worm out of your ass… HEY! [x4]
HEY! [x4]

DEER DANCE ^^ :


Round, round
Circumventing circuses lamenting in protest
To visible police, presence sponsored fear
Battalions of riot police, with rubber bullet kisses
Baton courtesy, service with a smile

Beyond the Staples Center, you can see America
With its tired, poor, avenging disgrace
Peaceful, loving youth against the brutality (nana nana na)
Of plastic existence

Pushing little children
With their fully automatics
They like to push the weak around [x2]

Round, round
A rush of words, pleading to disperse
Upon your naked walls, alive
A political call, the fall guy accord
We can’t afford to be neutral on a moving train

Beyond the Staples Center, you can see America
With its tired, poor, avenging disgrace
Peaceful, loving youth against the brutality (nana, nana, na)
Of plastic existence

Pushing little children
With their fully automatics
They like to push the weak around [x2]

Push them around…
A deer dance
Invitation to peace
War staring you in the face
Dressed in black
With a helmet, fierce
Trained and appropriate for the malcontents,
For the disproportioned malcontents
The little boy smiled, it’ll all be well
And say the little boy smiled, it’ll all be well

Pushing little children,
With the fully automatics,
They like to push the weak around [x3]

Push the weak around
Push the weak around
Push the weak around
They like to push the weak around.

Aerials ^^ :

Life is a waterfall
We’re one in the river
And one again after the fall

Swimming through the void
We hear the word
We lost ourselves, but we find it all…

Cause we are the ones that want to play
Always want to go, but you never wanna stay
And we are the ones that want to choose
Always want to play, but you never want to lose

Aerials, in the sky
When you lose small mind
You free your life

Life is a waterfall
We drink from the river
Then we turn around and put up our walls

Swimming through the void
We hear the word
We lost ourselves but we find it all…

Aerials, in the sky
When you lose small mind
You free your life

Aerials, so up high
When you free your eyes
Eternal prize

Aerials, in the sky
When you lose small mind
You free your life

Aerials, so up high
When you free your eyes
Eternal prize

SPIDERS


The piercing radiant moon,
The storming of poor June,
All the life running through her hair,

Approaching guiding light,
Our shallow years in fright,
Dreams are made winding through my head,

Through my head,
Before you know, Awake,

Your lives are open wide,
The V-chip gives them sight,
All the life running through her hair,

The spiders all in tune,
The evening of the moon,
Dreams are made winding through my head,

Through my head,
Before you know, Awake

(SOLO)

Through my head,
Before you know,
Before you know I will be waiting all awake,

Dreams are made winding through her hair,
Dreams are made winding through her hair.

CHOP SUEY!


Wake up,
Grab a brush and put a little (makeup),
Grab a brush and put a little,
Hide the scars to fade away the (shakeup)
Hide the scars to fade away the,
Why'd you leave the keys upon the table?
Here you go create another fable

You wanted to,
Grab a brush and put a little makeup,
You wanted to,
Hide the scars to fade away the shakeup,
You wanted to,
Why'd you leave the keys upon the table,
You wanted to,

I don't think you trust,
In, my, self righteous suicide,
I, cry, when angels deserve to die, Die,

Wake up,
Grab a brush and put a little (makeup),
Grab a brush and put a little,
Hide the scars to fade away the (shakeup)
Hide the scars to fade away the,
Why'd you leave the keys upon the table?
Here you go create another fable

You wanted to,
Grab a brush and put a little makeup,
You wanted to,
Hide the scars to fade away the shakeup,
You wanted to,
Why'd you leave the keys upon the table,
You wanted to,

I don't think you trust,
In, my, self righteous suicide,
I, cry, when angels deserve to die
In my, self righteous suicide,
I, cry, when angels deserve to die

Father, Father, Father, Father,
Father/ Into your hands/I/commend my spirit,
Father, into your hands,

Why have you forsaken me,
In your eyes forsaken me,
In your thoughts forsaken me,
In your heart forsaken, me oh.

TOXICITY


Conversion, software version 7.0,
Looking at life through the eyes of a tire hub,
Eating seeds as a past time activity,
The toxicity of our city, of our city,

New, what do you own the world?
How do you own disorder, disorder,
Now, somewhere between the sacred silence,
Sacred silence and sleep,
Somewhere, between the sacred silence and sleep,
Disorder, disorder, disorder.

More wood for their fires, loud neighbors,
Flashlight reveries caught in the headlights of a truck,
Eating seeds as a past time activity,
The toxicity of our city, of our city,

New, what do you own the world?
How do you own disorder, disorder,
Now, somewhere between the sacred silence,
Sacred silence and sleep,
Somewhere, between the sacred silence and sleep,
Disorder, disorder, disorder.

New, what do you own the world?
How do you own disorder, disorder,
Now, somewhere between the sacred silence,
Sacred silence and sleep,
Somewhere, between the sacred silence and sleep,
Disorder, disorder, disorder.

When I became the sun,
I shone life into the man's hearts,
When I became the sun,
I shone life into the man's hearts.

JET PILOT

[Chorus]
Wired were the eyes of a horse on a jet pilot,
One that smiled when he flew over the bay
x2


My horse, is a shackled old man
His, his remorse
Was that he couldn't survey
The skies, right before
Right before, they went grey
My horse, and my remorse
Flying over a great bay


[Chorus]


My source, is the source of all creation
Her, discourse, is that we all don't survey
The skies, right before
Right before, they go grey
My source and my remorse
Flying over a great bay


[Chorus]


Where were the eyes of a horizontal jet pilot,
One that smiled when he flew over the bay
x2


[Chorus]


Where were the eyes of a horizontal jet pilot,
When he smiled when he flew over the bay


X

Tell the people
Tell the people that arrive
Tell the people
Tell the people that arrive


We don't need to multiply
We don't need to multiply
We don't need to multiply
We don't need to multiply~
DIE!


Show your people
Show your people how we died
Show your people
Show your people how we died


We don't need to nullify
We don't need to nullify
We don't need to nullify
We don't need to nullify
No need to nullify
No need to nullify
No need to nullify
We don't need to nullify~
DIE! (growl)


We don't need to
We don't need to
We don't need to
We don't need to


Ask your people
Ask your people what is right
Ask your people
Ask your people what is right

We don't need to multiply
We don't need to multiply
We don't need to multiply
We don't need to multiply
No need to multiply
No need to multiply
No need to multiply
We don't need to multiply~

BOUNCE

Jump..
Bounce..
Down..
Up..


I went out on a date
With a girl, a bit late
She had so many friends
(Gliding through many hands)
I brought my pogo stick
Just to show her a trick
She had so many friends
(Gliding through many hands)


[Chorus]
Jump! Pogo...
Bounce! Pogo...
Down! Pogo...
Up! Pogo...


Unannounced twister games
All players with no names
They lined up double quick
But just one pogo stick
Everyone gets to play
Runaway, expose
It was so exotic
But just one pogo stick


[Chorus]


Oh, I like to spread you out
Touching whoever's behind

[Chorus]


FOREST

Walk with me my little child[ah!]
To the forest of denial[ah!]
Speak with me my only mind
Walk with me until the time
Make the forest turn to wine
You take the legend for a fall
You saw the product


[Chorus]
Why can't you see that you are my child?
Why don't you know that you are my mind?
Tell everyone in the world, that I'm you
Take this promise to the end of you


Walk with me my little, friend!
Take this promise to the end[ah!]
Speak with me my only mind
Walk with me until the end
And make the forest turn to sand
You take the legend for a fall
You saw the product


[Chorus]


Take this promise for a ride
You saw the forest, now come inside
You took the legend for its fall
You saw the product of it all
No televisions in the air
The circumcisions on the chair
You made the weapons for us all
Just look at us now!


A.T.W.A.

Nanananana...
Nanananana...


Hey you, see me
Pictures crazy
All the world I've seen before me passing by


I've got, nothing
To gain, to loose
All the world I've seen before me passing by


(Chorus)
You don't care about how I feel
I don't feel it anymore
You don't care about how I feel
I don't feel it anymore
You don't care about how I feel
I don't feel it anymore
You don't care about how I feel
I don't feel it anymore


Anymore, Nanananana...


Hey you, are me
Not so pretty
All the world I've seen before me passing by


Silent my voice
I've got no choice
All the world I've seen before me passing by


[Chorus]


I don't see (Anymore!)
I don't hear (Anymore!)
I don't speak (Anymore!)
I don't feel


Nanananana...
Nanananana...


Hey you, see me
Pictures crazy
All the world I've seen before me passing by


I've got, nothing
To gain, to loose
All the world I've seen before me passing by


[Chorus]


I don't sleep (Anymore!)
I don't eat (Anymore!)
I don't live (Anymore!)
I don't feel (Anymore!)