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Follow the Rats

by 21 Bricks

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8 Minutes 03:05
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Fuck you, fuck me, fuck everything when red is all I see I wake up hungry with no choice but find a way to eat I’m fighting with you fighting with me all for what’s left over I taste the blood in my mouth thirsty for a good night’s sleep I’m tired of being mad at you I’m tired of being mad at myself The light gives up and the sun explodes A few moments pass before we would know A lot can change in an instant You can’t go back and do anything different What would I do with my last breath I wouldn’t waste it afraid of having nothing left Eight minutes pass, you can’t get back The line we walk goes in a loop The lie is that we live the life we choose Fuck you, fuck me, fuck everything when red is all I see I wake up hungry with no choice but find a way to eat I’m fighting with you fighting with me all for what’s left over I taste the blood in my mouth thirsty for a good night’s sleep I’m tired, there’s nothing wrong with you I’m tired, there’s nothing wrong with me The light gives up and the sun explodes A few moments pass before we would know A lot can change in an instant You can’t go back and do anything different What would I do with my last breath I wouldn’t waste it afraid of having nothing left Eight minutes
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Country Folk 04:30
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I struggle to breath, the skin of my teeth Getting by cuz I wear my disguise Suffocate within, walls keep closing in Try to live but I barely survive Chasing the person in front of me chasing the people stuck in the same loop Neighbor verse neighbor, tear apart my family over someone I did not choose The success we assume if I have more than you A wealth contingent on your misfortune The problems we abhor, we blame each other for We divided and conquered ourselves I’m running stuck in place Nowhere to go, on my own I’m bleeding, receding Falling away, all alone Next to people just like you and me Living life so comfortably Every day so worry free Every day my misery Ingrained bias, conditioned to hate Told be quiet to indoctrinate I’m living beneath, too exhausted to think I’m not dying I’m being murdered Outside looking in at the chosen within Days and nights are beginning to blue Counting the minutes while I’m on the clock helping serve my own subjugation Thinking I’m winning when I’m merely slowing down my own asphyxiation Empty grocery stores, always needing more Look out for myself - fuck you Take it all for me, hoarding everything Every person for themself - fuck you I’m running stuck in place Nowhere to go, on my own I’m bleeding, receding Falling away, all alone Next to people just like you and me Living life so comfortably Every day so worry free Every day my misery Ingrained bias, conditioned to hate Told be quiet to indoctrinate I often drift when I drive, fatal thoughts of suicide Designed to break our will, doesn’t matter if we’re dead or alive There is no fucking middle ground with someone who thinks that your life doesn’t count If we want this to change we tear down everything Cuz there is more than codified evil Built by broken people Pierce the veil of reason Take back stolen freedom
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I Drink Too Much 03:17
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I drink too much, I need more weed There’s never enough pills and speed I’m not in shape, I let it bleed My head always hurts and I need more sleep I don’t remember the last time I was me I don’t remember the last time I was me It goes in my lungs and shoots through my veins I’m drowning my blood to ignore the pain I should probably stop and catch my breath My liver hurts and my body’s on fire I have to stay up even though I’m tired I feel like I’ve used more than I have left I smoke too much, I need morphine I can’t get clean without a drink I’m on my feet but I fall back down Everyone stands I prefer the ground I don’t remember the last time I was me I don’t remember the last time I was me It goes in my lungs and shoots through my veins I’m drowning my blood to ignore the pain I should probably stop and catch my breath My liver hurts and my body’s on fire I have to stay up even though I’m tired I feel like I’ve used more than I have left To the sick that never win there’s more to life than giving in Keep the pace up your whole life, run in circles till we die To the lost without a place in this world meant to separate There’s a line to walk along, stuck where they think you belong To the broken, beaten down this world cannot go on without Work until your heart explodes or you starve in dirty clothes To the sick that never win there’s more to life than giving in
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deadbeat 03:48
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I was born barefoot in the mud Handed a bottle and given a gun From the land that makes serial killers Wrapped up in violence feels so familiar Trying to navigate an endless sea of filth Poisoned by excess our greed unfulfilled Some of us place nothing above self Some of us stand in the way of their wealth To the people always needing more All is fair cuz you love the war I am not you, you are not me When it falls apart you’ll be left with nothing I’m a deadbeat from the sticks Reminded my whole that life I’m worthless From the land that breeds billionaires Sharks in the water and wolves on land Trapped in this wasteland your future assigned Run out of money and we let you dies Some of us place nothing above self Some of us stand in the way of their wealth To the people always needing more All is fair cuz you love the war I am not you, you are not me When it falls apart you’ll be left with nothing What the fuck is fitting in I’ve never found a place Always showing up to early or too late to stay No matter how hard I try I’ll always be a mess Dirty and unkempt but I don’t have any regrets Falling down more times than than I can count Mostly my fault there’s no filter on my mouth I drink too much and getting high is fun When you fall down you just have to get up The deadbeat, worth nothing Everything I have tried has failed The deadbeat, scourge on society But I’ll never be like you I’d rather quietly waste Nothing in this world is worth all this pain I’d rather die in this hole, than be part of this While our future’s sold
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All at Once 02:45
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The moon that settles the sea That tames the waves beneath The rainfall ending the drought The breeze that breaks the heat The sun explodes as we all fade to black I found forever as the present becomes the past I saw you, you looked like god Nothing missing, nothing wrong Not going or coming from Everything all at once The night that turns off the lights The shelter that it provides The earth is shaking us loose The chaos that is precise The sun is dying and we all fade to black I found forever in a world that will not last I saw you, you looked like god Nothing missing, nothing wrong Not going or coming from Everything all at once I saw you, you looked like god Nothing missing, nothing wrong Not going or coming from Everything all at once

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Follow the Rats is the follow up release to Happy Pills

21 Bricks is:
Staxx Tightsey
Wesley Richards

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released June 3, 2022

All songs written and recorded by 21 Bricks
All songs mixed and mastered by Wesley Richards at Riot Ready Records in Inglewood, CA

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