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Don’t you say a word
I can see it in your eyes
You think I’ll fill your head
With excrement and lies
But before you write me off as a lower form of life
Give me a chance to explain to you my plight

You see this man you’re talking with really isn’t me
Unfortunately that’s someone that you’ll never get to meet
Cuz that man sold everything that made him free
He thought it a small price to serve his greed

But the things that they’d enticed him with came with a hefty price
And the fortunes he’d been promised he would pay for with his life
They took his personality , his thoughts, and his rights
And he was too damn dumb to see they’d crossed the line

I’m too angry to be happy and too fucked up to be sad
If you look me in the eyes you’ll see that I’m just going mad

They wiped my brain clean,
As far as I could tell
They took my happy memories and burned them on the shelf
They said that to survive this fresher form of hell
I’d have to forget all of my old self

But as they made this hollow man somewhere inside I knew
And the bitterness inside my heart ever slowly grew
But by the time I realized my head was split in two
So I sink this drink cuz it’s all that I can do

And I’m too angry to be happy and too fucked up to be sad
If you look me in the eyes you’ll see that I’m just going mad
too angry to be happy and too fucked up to be sad
If you look me in the eyes you’ll see that I’m just going mad
Going mad
Going mad
If you look me in the eyes you’ll see that I’m just going mad

They’ll throw me in the looney bin I swear
Tie me up and cut off all my hair
Rip the blindfold off and realize that I’m already there
This freak show act has finally left the fair

I guess that I’ll just stew and do my time
Muscles twitch and struggle against the binds
And the walls are painted seafoam green so I don’t lose my mind
It seems to be impossible to find.

And I’m too angry to be happy and too fucked up to be sad
If you look me in the eyes you’ll see that I’m just going mad

In the end we’re the sum of sins and experience we’ve had
Don’t mind me it’s plain to see that I’m just going mad.

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from Contenders, released June 16, 2018

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The Lightweight Champs Seattle, Washington

We’re just a fun-loving Power Pop trio from Tacoma, WA. Our mission is to produce genuine songs to lift all of us through the tough times, and celebrate the good ones.

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