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Teenage Terrorism

by The Distractions

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Smiley Made me tear up my pants and hug my best friend. Favorite track: (is) Just an Image (because).
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Violence... 00:22
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Track 01 03:46
Set the scene, shoot him clean, kill the ketamine Check his vibe to prescribe meth-amphetamine Striking Icon She’s a mess, no success, expectation-less No escape from the rape that is happiness 90’s sitcom She’s a chemical routine He is dying like James Dean We all learn violence from someone I smoke the ammo in their gun She watched me kill the only son My starving soul’s the lonely one What a kid, twist his id, keep his ego hid Tear his seams, burn his dreams on our power grid Handsome trainwreck What a shame, who’s to blame for her drinking game? Now she wins mortal sins and a taste of fame She’s not perfect Put the bastard kids on trial Make them bleed with proper style I really thought that I heard you I really thought that I hurt you I'm hurt but I'm alive Lie when they arrive Die to slash the ties that bind Mother was unkind Father just maligned All the stars god misaligned
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Circus Queen 01:58
Sharp as a rose Powders her nose Elegant pose Pointing her toes Fits like a glove Don’t call it love Blackens his cheeks He never speaks King of the freaks Counting the weeks Bends every fact High-wire act I never want the dog days of summer to end We own the sun and isn’t it fun to pretend Her hair is curled, this whole rotten world is our friend We’re both trendy panic attacks Her smile sells Bloody lapels Jesus compels Whatever sells Knobbly knees Swing the trapeze Clowns always crawl Towards every mall Summer to fall I lose it all Leaves on the ground While she is crowned I’ll never last as long as forever will seem He won’t regret his conscience forgetting a dream Cold bowls of ramen are far too common a theme These bright demons won’t disappear Now I’m alone Hear the crowd moan Pick up the phone Speak at the tone She doesn’t sing Exit the ring He’ll be okay He’ll be okay He’ll be okay He’ll be okay High wire snaps Audience claps
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She disappeared, we’re all in danger Now I’m a stranger in her prose She tells the stars they’ll never change her That’s what the drug’s for I suppose The drug she knows The drug that shows her how to love her hell And helps her tired mind count seconds til the bell I am the memory she’ll sell. My heart’s alight, my brain’s a blister My friends all whisper in my ear They called me faggot when I kissed her ‘Cause I get needier each year I need her near She needs me here beside her when we wake To prove that we’ll outlast the love our parents fake Pain rains from clouds that our minds make And now I’ll plagiarize an adolescent dream Then go to CVS to buy some self-esteem Am I her loser if I quit the winning team? My circus queen sent me a drone She dropped the bomb on me and left me alone. Leave me alone.
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Holy Ghost 02:45
Red-headed girl, you never walk by I used to tease, you made me cry We won’t walk in the rain anymore These holy ghosts live under my bed I never dream, am I asleep? Fucked up again, biblical creep None of my friends stop anymore I used to speak beautiful words hey Look at the birds, they are my family I gave them warning signs they thought it was hilarious, deliriously drunk off all the lies mama told They are my enemies a happy family regrets some cigarettes and getting old These lonely cars fly by my window I wonder where all of the kids go Playgrounds all seem broken without them My lonely town sounds so defeated God gave me these prayers I repeated Breathing breathing breathing, He’s still breathing breathing breathing Sirens speeding speeding speeding, Is he bleeding bleeding bleeding? Heart stopped beating beating beating God is cheating cheating cheating Breath receding needing breathing and I’m leaving leaving living
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The world was once an image Of moving pictures But now its shattered glass I used to know my childhood I heard the wild wind Blow over blades of grass Earth is dumb, cold and numb, I’ve become A white light My throat is tighter than a drum I heard him on a phone call His soul was lonely His mother’s only son I see him lying stable Chemically able To watch the seasons run You’ve arrived, I’m deprived, I’m alive Close your eyes And watch me dive into the sun Oh God I swear I’m fucking done I’d agree your sanity was less than sane some days If your brain’s a weathervane the sky is stormy gray Memories of ecstasy and then a violent haze Look at you, how much you grew while you were away I am not a passing phase I don’t need your vicious praise
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God’s got no soul Bible is subliminal Heart like clean coal He’s a silent criminal God’s got no soul Prayers are congressional He makes me whole In his deaf confessional God’s got no soul Heaven isn’t livable Pay the death toll Hell is unforgivable God’s got no soul He’s a fucking terrorist Plagiarized prayers Jesus was a communist I don’t know… Jesus hates me He supports misogyny God creates me Feel his son’s androgyny Jesus hates me Tells me he’s a pacifist Jesus loves me He’s a sadomasochist I don’t know… I don’t know…
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Back in school I play the fool to win her They call her a sinner, I’m her tool. Her memories are cruel, weather gets cool Classmates all drool, I don’t mind Please don’t find me strange I can rearrange Change the flaws that you recognized in me Live the lie you would like to see Die as slow as you want me to I am redesigned, redefined, free He’s insane he’ll always feign the victim I know I’ll addict him with my brain He goes with the grain, staves off the pain Bathes in the rain, stains my mind He’s been kind to me Can I disagree? He’s the same old game that I played for the Better part of yesterday I can’t blame him forever, but The failed suicide terrified me Now his eyes exorcise me Please don’t take me in, connection is sin, let us begin again
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Immolation, self-humiliation Radiation, standard deviation Pay attention, give ‘em medication I don’t need it, well I don’t fucking need it I’m in love with the way you try to run Didn’t want to be an only son There’s no place for a man without a face Unless you’re faced with heaven’s gun Sunkissed lips and I wish I wasn’t here I’ve got a terminal career Look at me, I’m a son of liberty Where’d I put my sympathy? Education, mental masturbation Penetration, venomous sensation Miscreation, subtle suffocation I don’t need it, well I don’t fucking need it Met my friends wrapped up in a body bag They’d all been strung up with the flag Broke my nose, tried to hide behind a rose Closed my eyes and took another drag Baby’s sick ‘cause she never found her head Can’t get no freedom when I’m dead Look at me, I’m a son of liberty Coming back like a heart attack All I want is moral separation Repetition, give me reparations Apprehension, and some indecision I deserve some clinical precision Small incision, shoot up some probation I’ll be patient; wait for the ascension In detention, teach an exorcism Mind’s a schism, motherfucker gimme Teenage Terrorism.
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The smell of her unwed perfume fills the room Her dress unwinds and leaves the floor wanting more. This broken bed feels like a war or a tomb Don’t want to feel this violent gloom anymore. Her body’s talking to my friends once again. My friends remove my body’s will to sit still Frustrated hands cause blood to spill in the end Disgusted parents play pretend while we kill
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I dreamt that I could be a Citizen United. I woke to apathy, my vote left unrequited I left the house today to see the country sinking My kid won’t talk to me because she hates the way I’m thinking What do I do when she cries that she’s different? Even when she smiles her eyes are distant Good morning meth-amphetamine, a chemical routine Prescribe a bright and dreaded scene to keep their conscience clean Good morning Mr. President I can’t get through the day The truth is never evident when children act this way I prayed that I would be a friend she could confide in I gave a room to her, some walls that she could hide in I gave my God to her, a blessed house she could reside in I gave my love to her and then she cried into my shoulder How near is my darling angel to dying? How near is my darling angel to dying? I was the father of a nation undivided. I dreamt that I could be a citizen united.
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Beat, glorious drum And march on my good friends To the ends of the earth You’re perfectly dressed for the conquest Lies, who owns the truth? Rivers run from her eyes I despise my own youth But I will not get any older Please stop all that noise; Too young for love But too old for toys or conscience Friend, look what we spend to help defend The truth we have amended Sing, beautiful songs And think long my young friends About what you will want A new dawn comes for all of mankind Die, leave us alone Carve your world in the stone You’re on hold ‘til we’re grown Our new lives are far more important than war
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The Party 02:30
Gray skies are so perfect for today. I play a predator. I prey on my old editor. When gasoline, kerosene, and matches need to burst, strike it first, it catches.Dreams to ashes that was the fascist’s way. Eyes once asked the Brain to think of lies, Mouth told the children of the Wise, who paid the Ears to pose as spies disguised as friends of mine.My oh my it’s dying time. Purge the earth of narrating traitors and whine... We are heroes marked by darker stars Counted zeroes, shamed with names not ours Blamed for having thoughts and counting cards Giving up when growing up gets too hard
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Sunshine 02:51
Sunshine, I see some sunshine I see you in its beam Bright as an ember remembering a dream As it turns and it burns this whole world at the seams Flowers and longer hours And kids craving the heat While you sit down on a brown leather seat And you talk to the friends who you’ll never meet Baseball and playgrounds And taking the greyhound Bus into the city for the day Darkness is cover Until we discover Our instincts are leading us astray Blood staining the clouds fire red Birds calling my name, I get out bed My smile’s rays mask the thoughts in my head I’m deadlier than heaven’s gun: Summer’s shining sun
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Palindrome 03:09
Yesterday I was arrested for a prior violent crime Passion, that my love detested, I committed in my prime I’m now requested at a trial where they’ll try my brain’s grime I know this room from cable A mirror and a table My able bodied home, a palindrome I see my betrayed face in the glass beside hers As she writes my name in her guilty poem Can I blame her for the monster I become when I’m alone? I hear the pitter-patter Of grown-up useless chatter It doesn’t really matter anyway This reflection of mine has no kindness to spare Are we not drawn onward to new era? Are we not drawn onward to new era? Yesterday I lived a long story backward, As though moving Through a void of motion stop Color, and commotion stop Sobbed beneath an ocean stop See I’ve been tricked by wicked whispers from both sides of this war Dad’s been speeding fifteen miles to get Me back home, we’re quiet as winter’s first snow I walk outside It’s not your fault they tell me They’ve got more lies they’ll sell me I guess I might as well, he Killed your brothers and your sisters. I saw him revenge his conscience I can’t pick a side to die for, I can’t name the air I breathe. “We’re here to help,” they say. “Tell us everything you know now.”
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She murdered the present tense My reverence is her defense I’m faking a psychic sense My records don’t ever spin Her beautiful mind has been Disloyal, god’s royal sin I’ll soil, her spoiled grin Held my head under the sink Fixed myself a stronger drink Pills go down, and I drown beneath the sea They can’t put the blame on me My brain is a puzzle piece Her heart is my drunk police Pain pills are her will’s release Freedom lives inside my pen Zombies tread in Manhattan A pattern of battered men I meet them in dreams again Hid the truth behind a prayer Kept my lungs from tasting air Comatose, took a dose of nothing’s-there Smoked a bit of who-would-care? Bring me to precinct fifty-two Talking to these old boys in blue They drew my brain and called me gay The sporty thugs of yesterday I’m passing through time, a victimless crime (those victims were mine) I can’t make a sound, I’ve already drowned Around and around and around my thoughts are getting Loud, they’re too loud, Ask the crowd, are you proud of me Take one more breath, and ask death who I should be Please Call 9-1-1, Oh look what she’s done! She’s sprawled on the floor, Her body is numb I’m dumb, I’ve been dumb, I’ve been dumb, some father I have Been, and again, and again she writhes don’t cry tonight I’ll always love you She’s alive, my baby girl is on crack, I’ve got eyes Who am I? When parents sit on their hands baby dies I’m alive! Where the fuck am I tonight? vision’s black I despise this violent hospital bed, cloaked in white Throat is tight the sunshine eases the pain I’m alright this deadline freezes the rain I’m not quite the same, I’m nameless tonight You’re alive, my baby girl is on crack and she lies You’ve arrived, why are you acting surprised that I tried - ? Never mind, a modern Bonnie and Clyde gone off track Take it back, the memories that I lack aren’t mine Bags are packed the sunshine eases the pain This long practiced deadline freezes the rain Heart is black with shame, I’m aimless tonight It’s a dangerous game we’ve been playing, it’s insane, living in fear No one's innocent Screaming sounds so dissonant I need empathy And a stoic, quiet sea Look at this predicament It was all so imminent Larks singing happily Always seemed to sadden me Play me like an instrument Fuck your false imprisonment You are the cherry tree, In my cemetery, see? Roll along so merrily Time is liquid apathy No one is magnificent No one else but you. Now we're getting intimate Strung out like a ligament Your eyes are so intricate Posing like a militant With some criminal intent Bullet shock won’t pay the rent Fuck a merchant’s sentiment Mercy isn’t heaven sent Getting fucked on filament Treat me like an immigrant Frozen in the cracked cement Watching Dante’s last descent Speaking while my money’s spent In a vain establishment I’m the false equivalent I swear that I’m innocent! Cast out of Milton’s prose, These truths decompose I need, need to let go of their nightmares, replace them with grace and grieve I looked through the ages And the blank pages made me leave this world behind You sound so privileged like you have lived in the nicest hell your mom could find How could you truly believe in the ghost you’re leaving like a breeze. Love is warmer than prison but I won’t listen to the ghost stories What is perfect and why is my mind not right? Just breathe… Breathing is sadness and sleep is my final sin goodbye, goodbye Where is tomorrow? The time I borrowed expires and I’m sorry this memory that I forgot is ugly, Love me please. Clear the table, turn on the cable see this dark fable unfolding he’s still holding on now, scolding me. Well I’m tired of saying, “Dear mother I’m praying for slaughter, daughter learn to love betraying The holy Ghost, Posting his bail, Jail him at home, he groans up- Stairs, where are his meds? Feds at the door, knocking, asking for the boy I’m rocking to sleep. Leave me alone
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Suicide 03:29
A young man was found dead at the end of This neatly kept street, unnamed ‘til he turns eighteen. But yeah he told me his name, So I know He won’t grow up with me. A kind world is lovely. I hope you knew That I got used to a world that couldn’t love me. But yeah, whatever, ok, And goodbye Goodnight my waking dream I'm so sick of my conscience for all I know it’s all in my head Then why do I feel dead instead of warm when I come home? They made me a drone with a pill ‘cause I’m never perfect when I’m alone I have a hole I condemn that I just can’t fill And in twenty years, when they ask if I love the monster still I will say I have a hole I condemn that I just can’t, just can’t fill.

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UPDATE 9/11/22: The remastered version is streaming on Spotify and Apple Music. If you would like to buy this younger more foolish version of this album, please do!!! We will donate 100% of proceeds from these sales and any streams to combatting violence culture in the United States. Anti-choice, fascist gun culture. Bigots must lay down their arms. Fuck 'em. Here's where we are donating:
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Our 2nd LP: A brand new concept album about the culture of violence in America. If you're into music about mankind's insatiable desire to kill each other due to our own insecurities, you've come to the right place. Make sure you turn out all the lights before you leave.
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released August 21, 2014

Guitar and Vocals - Scott Obernier
Bass, Vocals and Narration - Matt Kirby
Drums and Narration - Oli Smith
Violin - Emily Kerr
Cello- Adam Spiegelman
Double Bass - Petros Papadopolous

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The Distractions are a post-industrial-sludge-ska-metal-punk-flies-on-shit type o' deal. If you play your cards right, you might just figure out what that means some day, kid. We don't play your average dilly-dally rock and roll bullspit. We play that real dilly-dally rock and roll bullspit. And remember, don't leave the oven on!
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