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Badlands

by Pyrophoria

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1.
Bad Girl 02:12
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It all used to to go hand in our hands A dream sequence to all of our plans They all leave because no one understands I am conquerer of the badlands Bad, bad, bad I used to be sad Now I am just mad It doesn’t matter what I had It’s all gone and I’m glad Once she used to wear a smile Now it’s long been out of style Thought her old self was in exile But I abraded her after while Bad, bad, bad I used to be sad Now I am just mad It doesn’t matter what I had It’s all gone and I’m glad I am here alone and everyone scares They don’t care; they carry on with their affairs They take what’s mine and guard what’s theirs But I’m no vulture and heaven has no stairs The self in me doesn’t crumble down, it wears And a bad girl lives on because she so dares
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Conqueror 03:44
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Black hills are for black hearts Let me know when the reckoning starts I’m the jagged and she departs I’m the remains of your counterparts I threw out every god damn rule in the book I am no conquerer to overlook The line is I’ll sink you like a hook A bad girl shall never be mistook Fuck every name I’ve ever known They sit in me like marrow in a bone I live like in my own time zone I wake and find myself alone I scream at the hills and no one hears I’m a tree that falls and disappears I am free I am free, free from the tears A bad girl doesn’t go back she perseveres
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B-A-D 02:56
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B - A - D B - D, B - D See t - v, tv S - M BD S - M F - M F - M Live from within If then But when Of nine but ten The line was thin Ich ein danke schon I conquer again What genre is this Don’t give a shit I live for it What would you give for it Laugh all you must You’re covered in dust And old man, trust I will combust I cannot be contained Gas mask yourself how I am mained Not like stream, like no one rem- mained De Famed Bad girl deranged Renamed Fucker of the year I’m here Say hello to the apocalypse dear B - A - D I. am. free Badlands in the hands of controversy No mercy Sit on the rocks and play my tune I ramble on like a dune Is the joke on you too soon Which is that I’m immune You couldn’t live here Your mind is clear I am unlike minded and have known fear You know a single tear I know red and dead and underfed dear Yes I sit alone Try and throw a stone That shit I own Don’t throw a bone I use those to beat the drum All the barren lands around me hum There’s no rule for a thumb Do you play dumb Or stay dumb, numb I have become The knifed girl once again But they’re not in my back they’re in my grin Count to ten And then When you Make do In your skin You are dead Return to bed Paralysis, you said I am darkness of the night instead What comes, doesn’t go through my head I ran free you fled You are afraid Man made I am a conquerer that will not save You go concave A notch in the stone that marks your grave You lie down on a road they repave I brave B - D, B - D SM FM Beat you blind To a hymn Now do you see Tv tv Tune in I’m a bad girl You’re a bad fill-in You’re a synonym For c - n - n Crying ass shit Number one hit Get out of your submissive fit You love it it makes me sick You get another lick Metal tips I get a kick I smack on lipstick Candle wick And for my final trick I beat you but not with the stupid stick That was your previous pick Badlands aren’t for little girls Who do twirls With big smiles and curls They’re for girls who are bad And I’m the conquerer and you’re just sad You take it like it was your plea B-D, B-D Turn off your tv, tv and run free
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Dunes 02:20
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Freedom is an empty room Feels like my tomb Don’t exhume Not a cocoon Is a flower abloom I am a dune A door to the doom Don’t calm I fume I loom I consume Deoxygenated I am immune Not fazed like the moon Closet not for a broom Good afternoon Here goes the boom Here goes the boom Nom de plume Not from who from whom Bad girl with a tune Let’s resume She never liked my songs Well they’re not songs they’re saws For no applause They are flaws and hit pause I lefted my wrongs You don’t belong You are withdrawn I’ve overdrawn No black painted swan I’ve undergone Hell head on You said moron And moved on I can’t improve on The truth dawned When I get booed off My head chewed off Fuck and shoo off Your song was too long Huge yawn Snooze on I’m tattoo logged I produce smog Toss juice box Loose dog In a moose lodge Confused cause Say whose job I accuse god Whose god Cue gauze Don’t do drugs kids, choose god Parabolic Don’t frolic I am neurotic Catatonic And chaotic I’m a mnemonic But I forgot it Ironic I am moronic Off topic Give the chronic alcoholic A narcotic A hypnotic It’s pharmacologic Symbiotic Hold the gin just the platonic I don’t want it She’s beyond it Her response is I can’t go on like this Ok then bitch Just go on and ditch Me out here without a stitch After the pain Now is my domain Don’t walk on me I am a gas main It’s never gonna rain But the winds just gonna drive me insane I am mine all the same Nothing will grow nothing will tame Freedom don’t come free You can’t walk all over me Anymore Any door Will lead me bleed me out Of this strife this life From a great height I fell All hell Consumed me as well I will not dwell No I run free I do not run to flee
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Dying Alone 02:01
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Oh so alone tonight Shake out an empty life Find a tree for a kite Fly like a butter knife Kick the habit right Show it plain sight Make it a birthright I need a nightlight I am alone The beep at the tone Said you’re on your own You’re speaking to a phone Shit said the mademoiselle I’d bleed out if I fell And it was in love like hell My wife taken by the farmer in the dell I’m southern it rings a belle A good girl doesn’t rebel Exiled like their every brain cell Pandora snubs me as well (yeah hi guys)
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Fucker of the Arts 02:05
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B-A-D Trap please Clap please Plaque reads Give back please What’s that mean At ease Bad knees Bad dreams Black tea Black keys Call that Natural to displease Accidental I love these Ok mental They came to see gentle I am experimental Transcendental Tremble Get your Kindle Get your fentanyl Gregor Mendel Says you resemble The fundamental Like a pedicle Catch me on the charts I am the fucker of the arts Country shit ain’t take no smarts Fucked around and made sparks This is how an explosion starts I’m waiting for all the parts Pillaging Walmart’s Headcounting the black hearts Ready to swim with the sharks Lewis of the Clark’s I cry because of someone’s remarks God damnit a bitch embarks I chart and then I fall Bye bye bitch with no fans at all Yeah but I threw you a curve ball Who is she they say on the conference call My genre is change your protocol Spotify can get fucked just overall Listeners many a Neanderthal Arson will be my curtain call All in all I’m just a stone in their wall Why do I rap Is this trap I’m on the map Metal is where I’m at Just lump that shit chap Gonna put a cap On my releases or clap My music is a death trap Have at I’m at the gap Yappers yap Scrappy rapper gonna scrap Don’t give a crap Happy rapper slap Have a nap Take a lap Shine my boots with the strap I had a stab A basement my lap I do a song a day you mad Cause I’m bad Your Spotify is sad Get out a notepad I’m burning every fad I’m burning everything I had I’m running this olympiad 80 hour weeks comrade You’re lagging just a tad
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Past The Black Hills 03:09
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Badlands past the black hills Sometimes a look is what kills I come here but for no thrills I drowned until I grew gills What watches me at night I don’t know Sometimes the night is like undertow And a riptide pulls me far below Home is is wherever I go There is a song that I I must owe I write words not to impress If so they wouldn’t be in duress The walls I climb don’t get any press And vultures don’t want my address I live here because I am bad No one followed and I am glad But one thing I’d like to add Is I rewrote my life on a yellow pad
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Fear Me I Thrive 02:16
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How darrrre you Do I scarrreee you Bad bitch That bitch Fact bitch I’m making rackets Smash hits I’m Lenny Kraviz You’re flat bitch Linear like mathematics I put your shit in brackets Now add this I’m a doctor and it’s malpractice Not to give your crew prophylaxis I’m fucking up the demographics I’m not human I’m Psychosomatic B-A-D you fucking faggots You’re last ditch They say das nicht I was born in a landfill Father liked a pain pill Mother is a bitch still The bipolar I have a bit overkill Run of the fucking mill It all went uphill Bad is for the badlands Who understands Show of hands Change of plans Diazepam need some milligrams You’re cut from cloth from Joannes You’re on sale in bulk at sams You all clipped your wingspans A bad girl has no silver spoon She lives in no cocoon A bad girl licks a wound Knows it won’t get better soon I am immune So I came here and it’s like A pain from earlier life Growing up the way I writhe Fear me cause I thrive You have no drive I’m crashworthy and I drive I light a fire and survive Du bist klein You walk I draw no line Here I redesign I don’t douse nein I shine The mainstream does you fine I’m the gas main you’re a pipeline Bad is for the badlands Who understands Show of hands Change of plans Diazepam need some milligrams You’re cut from cloth from Joannes You’re on sale in bulk at sams You all clipped your wingspans
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Rocky Mountain Juniper 02:40
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Beyond the rocky hills there are flowers I found a prairie where I sat for hours I am clay and know nothing of ours I knew one day I wouldn’t survive I’d thrive I feel myself coming back alive Beneath a tree with peeling bark The badlands were not all stark The tree was like a bookmark I knew one day I wouldn’t survive I’d thrive I feel myself coming back alive Because the juniper grew from rock It stood like on a building block No fire could reach and no one could talk I knew one day I wouldn’t survive I’d thrive I feel myself coming back alive
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Anti-Heroine 02:43
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B-A-D that’s me and always will be I threw down on the playground, skinned their knee Now I wish had a card that said get out of jail free These fuckers always testing me Once the rain comes I’m running carefree Once I find my social security card I’m gonna flee Well shit they ganged up I got banged up I’d call a friend but they’d hang up M-A-D that’s my past, didn’t go by fast A badlands bitch is a bitch steadfast Now I wish I hadn’t had such a blast Fuck the fucker with the curse to cast A villain is just a misunderstood outcast A villain is some kind of unsurpassed Well shit they ganged up I got banged up I’d call a friend but they’d hang up S-A-D that’s you and no, not me too I got up, Had enough and starting singing anew Now I wish I had a discography that wasn’t blue I’m a heroine; the vulture is you Now I know you begin when you see the ending through Now I know which shelf my story will belong to Well shit they ganged up I got banged up I’d call a friend but they’d hang up

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Inspired by the song "Badlands" from the album, "Bloody-Knuckle Red." The theme explores exile, being an outcast, and braving a harsh life on your own. On a person note, I lost my job as a doctor due to disability discrimination, and much of the lyrics stem from this event. The final point is you can conquer the Badlands and start a new life.

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released October 14, 2021

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