add and improve texts of songs from Mass by Grotus

database/G/Grotus/Mass/A Bad Itch

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+The sound of gunfire comes pounding down the street
+BPM around 110
+Hear it on the TV, it’s always on the tube
+Victims always look like you
+
+The foundation’s cracking, even store-bought rebels know
+Think of all the places that you won’t go
+Now you see a stranger, and you cross the street
+You walk straight ahead and listen for his feet
+
+Now, well there it is again…
+
+Negative thoughts bounce around
+Like a bad itch in the back of your brain
+It’s getting hard not to say this
+There’s something we gotta face here
+
+Little words that slip out
+You better think about what you’re thinking
+When you pin the blame
+On people you don’t know
+
+We used to speak of justice
+Not self-preservation
+But sometimes you talk
+About getting a gun
+
+Now, well there it is again…
+
+Negative thoughts bounce around
+Like a bad itch in the back of your brain
+It’s getting hard not to say this
+Are you becoming a racist?
+
+
+____________________
+Name      A Bad Itch
+Artist    Grotus
+Album     Mass
+Track no  2
+Year      1996
+Language  American English

database/G/Grotus/Mass/Back in the Day

@@ -2,25 +2,31 @@ Well, it was back in the day
 Back in the 1920s
 Selling hooch for the gang
 Just meant large cash money
+
 Splatter papa glamour, guns and the ledger
 Post office poster stars
 Around them times the pay was best
 To be had
 
-It’s never as sweet as when it’s not in the open
-Special secrets hold such a promise of…
+It’s never as sweet
+As when it’s not in the open
+Special secrets hold
+Such a promise of…
 
-They spilled the wine in the raids
-And that thirst found morning
+They spilled wine in the raids
+And that thirst-found morning
 And taking out of the head
 Just meant a line was forming
+
 Contraband Nero, toast of the nation
 Playing while his city burned
 ’Til they found the best way to deal
 Was knowing when to say when
 
-It’s never as sweet as when it’s not in the open
-Special secrets hold such a promise of…
+It’s never as sweet
+As when it’s not in the open
+Special secrets hold
+Such a promise of…
 
 
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database/G/Grotus/Mass/Collect 'Em All

@@ -2,12 +2,12 @@ Yea
 
 Newspaper said he was a textbook case
 A classic example of a mass killer
-As a kid he was the judge in ant court, he even
-Worked for the post office once
+As a kid he was the judge in ant court
+He even worked for the post office once
 
 He got a car phone to yell in at no one in particular
 Who would’ve noticed that it never rang?
-He had a mono-brow and a big collection
+He had a monobrow and a big collection
 Of .22s and .38s and .44s and 9s
 
 Why should I wait all day in a line
@@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ And I stamped “casе closed” on the rubble
 Of the IRS man’s head
 
 Well, his day started with his mother and his ex-something or other
-A check list was later found
+A checklist was later found
 Suits and skirts splayed out all over the sidewalk
 Green and gray and red, and how the pigeons fed
 

database/G/Grotus/Mass/Ebola Reston

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-No one plans for the unthinkable,
-Just the drive to move ahead…
-To cure the sick, to do what’s possible,
-You get the spare parts from a relative…
+No one plans for the unthinkable
+Just the drive to move ahead
+To cure the sick, to do what’s possible
+You get the spare parts from a relative
 
-And Ebola Reston should send a red flag up,
-But there’s no ticking sound…
-Step by step, inch by inch,
-Silent running always…
+And Ebola Reston should send a red flag up
+But there’s no ticking sound
+Step-by-step, inch-by-inch
+Silent running always
 
-Take a jungle beast that’s 98% the same,
-Kill the thing and part it out…
-And then control will look for bugs they know,
-But you can’t find what you’re not looking for…
+Take a jungle beast that’s 98% the same
+Kill the thing and part it out
+And then control will look for bugs they know
+But you can’t find what you’re not looking for
 
-And Ebola Reston should send a red flag up,
-But there’s no ticking sound…
-Step-by-step, inch-by-inch,
-Silent running always…
+And Ebola Reston should send a red flag up
+But there’s no ticking sound
+Step-by-step, inch-by-inch
+Silent running always
 
 Ebola Reston is somewhere waiting
-And might be in you now.
+It might be in you now
 
 
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database/G/Grotus/Mass/Hand to Mouth

@@ -2,33 +2,35 @@ Pulling that ball and chain is such a hassle
 At 9 AM
 Everything interesting happens at night, so
 I’m up then
+
 I’m slackadaisical about the future
 Now that it’s here
 Always cheerfully hopeless and broke, so I’m dopeless
 Thank god for friends, thank god for friends
 
-The possibilities of getting by are getting mighty slim
+Possibilities of getting by are getting mighty slim
 Getting mighty slim
-The possibilities of getting by are getting mighty slim
+Possibilities of getting by are getting mighty slim
 I’m check-to-check, I’m hand-to-mouth
 
 My weekly sacrifice of five days for two
 Seems like a hell of a waste of my time
 It’s a strain looking busy making junk for nothing
 So I decline
+
 If the only way to judge success is through cashflow
 Then I don’t know
 ’Cause I could do anything with my life, but I
 Probably won’t, no
 
-The possibilities of getting by are getting mighty slim
+Possibilities of getting by are getting mighty slim
 Getting mighty slim
-The possibilities of getting by are getting mighty slim
+Possibilities of getting by are getting mighty slim
 I’m check-to-check, I’m hand-to-mouth
 
-The possibilities of getting by are getting mighty slim
+Possibilities of getting by are getting mighty slim
 Getting mighty slim
-The possibilities of getting by are getting mighty slim
+Possibilities of getting by are getting mighty slim
 I’m check-to-check, I’m hand-to-mouth
 
 

database/G/Grotus/Mass/Sick

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+Gonna pack my bag and settle all this bullshit
+I pack my new friends away
+Ten thousand pills for everybody’s headache
+No biz as usual today
+
+Yeah, I’m sick of always
+Trying to do what’s right, yeah
+Sick of always
+Trying to do what’s right, yeah
+
+When that barrel sings, there is no disappointment
+And justice won’t have to wait
+You bet I won’t be missing one appointment
+My sentence happens today
+
+Yeah, I’m sick of always
+Trying to do what’s right, yeah
+Sick of always
+Trying to do what’s right, yeah
+
+Sick of always
+Trying to do what’s right, yeah
+Sick of always
+Trying to do what’s right, yeah
+
+
+______________
+Name      Sick
+Artist    Grotus
+Album     Mass
+Track no  7
+Year      1996
+Language  American English

database/G/Grotus/Mass/That's Entertainment

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+It oughta make you sick
+All the crap we’re fed today
+Ah, but what the hell
+We all like it anyway
+
+You can come, you can come on down
+And bring the bowl full of popcorn
+Between the death and the weather
+We’ll see who’s doing who now
+
+Dumbed down to nothing
+That’s entertainment
+Puffed up like something
+Solid
+
+Two chunks of flesh
+Done up to make you crazed
+Well oiled and lit
+Flexing full of silicone
+
+The hormonal hustle
+Yeah, it works every time
+Hear the bell and get your pellet
+Now drool like a dog
+
+Dumbed down to nothing
+That’s entertainment
+Puffed up like something
+Solid
+
+Dumbed down to nothing
+That’s entertainment
+Puffed up like something
+Solid
+
+
+______________________________
+Name      That’s Entertainment
+Artist    Grotus
+Album     Mass
+Track no  1
+Year      1996
+Language  American English

database/G/Grotus/Mass/The Bottom Line

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+Sunrise, sunset
+Days turn into weeks and years
+And as the grind bears down, you get into this shape
+Bored and numb and full of self-hate
+
+Your eyes are open
+But you’re sleeping all the time
+Dues-paying charter member
+Slave to the bottom line
+
+Got six televisions and a VCR
+And a low percentage on the credit card
+The Sega, Quadra and the Hi8
+You entertain yourself into this state
+
+The mild distractions
+Keep you just so occupied
+Dues-paying charter member
+Slave to the bottom line
+
+So snuff your candles all out
+Just one at a time
+Or do something dangerous and
+Intensify your life
+
+Now shake yourself awake, forget the white-noise-pumping hate
+Make it so the glazed-eye drones are gonna mock you every day
+You’ll make a perfect machine part if you just fit in with the plan
+Pulse-pounding, pressure-mounting, get up and yell, “Shut that off!”
+
+
+_________________________
+Name      The Bottom Line
+Artist    Grotus
+Album     Mass
+Track no  10
+Year      1996
+Language  American English

database/G/Grotus/Mass/White Trash Blues

@@ -2,30 +2,31 @@ Better make it black, my lids are logs
 Yeah, I suppose I should go
 Sniff my skin, scratch my chin
 Is your smell trapped in my clothes?
+
 Settle something, little children
 Pacifiers drawn
 Gimme something to chew on
 As the hours roll
 
-Cry on, baby, cry me a river
+Cry on baby, cry me a river
 Say I should leave you alone
-Cry on, baby, salt for the ocean
-Chaos to make you whole
+Cry on baby, salt for the ocean
+Chaos will make you whole
 
-So the angels wept
-And the sky ripped open
-Lord took a piss on my soul
+So the angels wept and the sky ripped open
+Lord, take a piss on my soul
 Life is long, long and tiresome
 Dream myself into a hole
+
 Ah!
 Well, I can’t say I’m bored and lonely
-Elvis, Elvis counsel me
+Elvis, Elvis, counsel me
 I gotta get up in the morning
 
-Cry on, baby, cry me a river
+Cry on baby, cry me a river
 Say I should leave you alone
-Cry on, baby, salt for the ocean
-Chaos to make you whole
+Cry on baby, salt for the ocean
+Chaos will make you whole
 
 
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database/G/Grotus/Mass/Wiild Bill

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+The opportunity knocked, and now he’s somewhere else
+The big muscles shake when used on himself
+Testosterone congeals in his hand
+In the shape of a fist around his magic wand
+
+And Wild Bill just sits watching cable
+His hell raising fades into flab
+The iron fist armchair judge presiding
+Exiled from the black box himself
+
+Some kind of focused beam shot him out of the set
+To fulfill his dream to offer real help
+He used to shake the world, hе used to cause some griеf
+But now it’ll take a crane to peel him off his seat
+
+And Wild Bill just sits watching cable
+As his hell raising fades into flab
+The iron fist armchair judge presiding
+Exiled from the black box himself
+
+And Wild Bill just sits watching cable
+As his hell raising fades into flab
+The iron fist armchair judge presiding
+Exiled from the black box himself
+
+
+___________________
+Name      Wild Bill
+Artist    Grotus
+Album     Mass
+Track no  9
+Year      1996
+Language  American English