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PRONG LYRICS
"Rude Awakening" (1996)
1. Controller
2. Caprice
3. Rude Awakening
4. Unfortunately
5. Face Value
6. Avenue of the Finest
7. Slicing
8. Without Hope
9. Mansruin
10. Innocence Gone
11. Dark Signs
12. Close the Door
13. Proud Division (Bonus Track)
1. Controller
Go ahead and rise above
See how far you get on top
Held down just to impair you
We know who’s ahead of the game
You know who’ll get the blame
You’re in the grip of the controller
Do you really want it all back?
See how far you get on top
Held down just to impair you
It’s the fear that you can’t do right
See how you lose in your life
Cut down, they will impale you
Can you really get it on track?
You tried to make it all stop
Time will tell how much they denied you
You just got burnt by the controller
You’ll never know how to react
You’re sucked to the very last drop
Time will tell what has been denied you
Are you clear in your mind and sight?
Are you clear right out of your head?
Just angry at things that have failed you
So you want to get it all back
You tried to make it all last
Tied down to control you
2. Caprice
Put me right through the ringer
Run around with eyes on whatever
Cut right down to half a member
Mended back given no hope
Scheming minds, new intentions
Leave it broke flat begging for more
You’ve made up your mind
Whatever comes to your head
Can never rely (on nothing)
Everything points to the wrong direction
Everything leading to any early decline
Can’t take this any longer
I’ll tell you right now
Hate’s on the rise
Just can’t deal with anymore wavering
Can’t fit into anyone’s lies
Take your eyes to a brand new picture
Reach for one more impulse buy
It’s me the loser
Did everything wrong
Go ahead with all your craving
Go ahead and yearn for more
3. Rude Awakening
Another rude awakening
The hard life that’s been our school
More of a cruel day’s reckonings
Our prime time used up too soon
There is no kindness to waste
Why help those crying for more?
It spins you around
Takes you for a ride
What is the point to even try?
Somehow got to learn to accept the rejection
The tired thoughts from troubling
A weary mind from worrying
Your constant fears upon wakening
Your real life left in your dreams
4. Unfortunately
Confusions born here every day
Spinning circles upon my brain
No idea which way to go
Roam around without a home
So fucking lost, invalidated
So brought down, demasculated
All the joy just disappeared
Another bed full of tears
Coming apart at the seams
Wanna be alone for the rest of my years
Don’t come inside
Leave it to me to go on unfortunately
Hope dissolved, degenerated
The negative has penetrated
No wish for sympathy
It’s all a mystery to me
All my wishes evaporated
Insecurities saturated
So many flaws reappeared
The wrong way I tend to steer
5. Face Value
You’ve never come close to seeing what I’ve always had to face
Image blatant and obvious - what’s there more to assess?
Never looking beyond the frontal - all your present fears
I hope to never be caught again by visions too clear
Erase it, deface it, conceal it
Just take it for the face value - concealment, nonetheless
Just take it for the face value
You never know what you may get
A wise man carried on about what you see is what you get
I’ve peeled off covers, revealing what I want to forget
Why not go base yourself on simple visages
Scarring the complexion or scratching the surface
6. Avenue of the Finest
Why should I devalue my position?
Do I need to be part of the fold?
Don’t need any sort of reason
I’ll just go and follow my own path
Take note of this: Anyone can trip
Take note of this: You can walk with the best
Walking with the finest
Why should I sell myself short?
Should I lower my ideals and standards?
Must I settle for hand-me-downs?
I deserve the best my mind can do - I can do
I think I know which road to go
It leads up to the very top
I don’t need your sense of direction
You can just stumble on and on
7. Slicing
Never had a thought so how can you see me?
A man without a mind can never judge evenly
Forever passing judgment compared to a fraud
I’ll never pare up: I’ll only distort your sight
Only distort your sight
It don’t matter, knife in your hand
I’ll cut you down with a knife in my head
I don’t matter, knife in my hand
You can never mend it with a knife in your head
I want a slice, can I carve evenly?
A man with no part moves so passively
Can I cut you up, can I say you’re a fraud?
You’ll never pare up, I’ll only destroy your size
8. Without Hope
I just know it’s all gone wrong
Feeling all the pressure can’t weather the storm
Cause I kept myself in a cage all wound up and filled with rage
Forgive oneself of nothing at all
Pounding my head against the wall
Guilt ridden and bound to lose
Puncture my wounds, won’t see the truth
I looked in the mirror, what did I see?
One man bitter with apathy
The whole thing turned out to be a joke
But I’m not laughing, I’m without hope
It’s never well thought out
Just my instant demise
I’m so bitter the hurt inside
Haste and hatred my inner desire
Ruptured I’ve lost it all
My heart ripped out can’t stand at all
Cause I’ve cost my brain to never relax
Picking at all the torturous facts
9. Mansruin
My whole life counting dimes worried about uncertainty
So I roll dice before I die, maybe get a little for me
I bet it, bet it all - threw everything into a pile
Regret it? Got nothing at all, no guarantees, no piece of the pie
Got the eyes on you, black eyes on you
Ruin it for you if they could
Eyes on you, black eyes on you
Manruin for his own good
High life all the highlights covered on the plays of the day
Baked out, burnt right out of it, brain fried beyond repair
I tasted it, devoured it, ballooned right out of sight
A done deal dealt out by fate
Scored myself a bit of nonlife
Fucked out, fucked out of everything
Drained at the end of each day
A red cent, no pennies from heaven
Taken for a chump for life
10. Innocence Gone
I had a new premonition
I have found the nonlight
I have found a brand new renewal of sight
Do you need a new genuflection?
Do you wanna make a different pact?
You’ve got to get in with the facts
It’s the end - innocence gone
Your whole meaning becomes undone
Are you waiting for your resurrection
Do you wanna make a difference pact?
You’ve got to get in with the facts
You’ve made an art of treachery
You can snake right out of anything
I’ve said I won’t do a thing
To the double negative you can only agree
11. Dark Signs
Be careful what you want
It may be what you get
Careful of yourself
You may just kill yourself
Watch out for all the ruin that you ask for
Being trapped below
Is that what you need?
Careful what you get
It may just get you back
How much more?
Relive the nightmares of the past
Think twice about the ruin that you ask for
Still ignoring all the warnings you see?
A lifetime wronged you
Dark signs warned you
Feel me self destruct
You’re gonna get exactly what you’re gonna let
You suffer more and more and then blame yourself
Those signposts that point to disaster
Ignore the signals, you get what you see
12. Close the Door
Waiting impatiently to put together the facts
Wishing for the best to move slightly against the grain
Upwards, onwards, I hope I can rebound and flow
I just hoped for one more chance to prove what I can do
You gotta suffer the facts
You gotta face the act
The time for this is true
I gotta close the door on you
It’s all come into view
I gotta close the door on you
Hating all similar to all that I’ve been through
Harping on all particulars that have given me pain
From the onset, the downset
Frustration taken it’s course
Involving all my bitter thoughts in everything I do
13. Proud Division (Bonus Track)
A clue from knowledge
Ward off the casualties
The mindless banter of all the derogatory
It’s the best thing that could happen
Even with all the dread
It would feel so good to see the back of your head
Got my own sign, my own line
To hell with the doubt
Got my own sign, my own line
You gotta hear me out
Got my own sign, my own line
Divisive and proud
It’s my proud division that will free me
Unclouded vision will free me
Piece together the madness with a clue to all the wrong
Follow the right way, never want to be wrong
Pledge allegiance to all your own beliefs
In accordance with your own individual breed
Got my own sign, my own life
Divisive and proud
Got my own sign, my own time
To hell with those in doubt
Got my own place
Divisive and proud
It feels so good to see the back of your head.
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