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Okay, so this is the second song I every wrote basically by myself and I really wanted people to like it. Unfortunately for me, it's definitely one of the least popular songs we've ever written. I think the music is cool as hell, but I'm not sure that people got behind the lyrics (because they're kind of nonsensical) and the fact that it's most rapped. We played it live once in a while but it never caught on. James proclaimed it to be our "worst song" on multiple occasions.

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A kid afraid of the dark
That saw images of melting and refuge in the shadows
Haunting the halls of my mind
Scattered thoughts of what is that and what is…
Don’t clock out/Lose your mind
No way out /Close your eyes
Don’t clock out /Over time
Close your eyes/Black night

A shot in the dark, a broken valve to let my water flow free
A shot in the dark is all we have, follow me

A kid afraid of the dark
Not another time, rolling off of the mind
A kid—decomposed the first line, the primitive
See what’s inside the mind of a guilt trip
Can’t see nothing until you don’t think, it’s not the way it works
Don’t want to blink, no escape from reality because everything that’s real is in your mind
Don’t want to deal with idealism is what you make of it, illegit
Nervousness through you veins, nerves transmit
Can I take a minute? I gotta cool my shit down
Every time I get worked up I head the same sound

A shot in the dark, a broken valve to let my water flow free
A shot in the dark is all we have, follow me

We’re another case of the criminal and the mobile effects
With a complex of the emotional aspect
Picking lines in fences and material hex
We write the checks, we write the checks next
The regression of why you’re next with the streaming and calling collect
Following orders—exempt right from the start
With taxation with representation raising the tides of nations
Chasing the wars with checks and thinking it’s right
Despite of what they think I’m a roughneck at times pushing through in the background, silent as a mime
Power is a well from which they drink out, certain they get too drunk and lose their minds
Break the lines, break the barriers, the crowds
I faked the battles and the walls came down
I faked the battles and the walls came down
I faked the battles, now break the walls down

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from You're Out of the Band, released August 15, 2005

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The Guilty Parties Riverside, California

We are a ska band out of Southern California/Texas. We're making new music and pushing the boundaries of Ska/Punk with a progressive rock edge.

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