Allister Lyrics: 2018

So they say there's a better way to make it
A 9 to 5 is the only way you'll make it
But I don't know if I can take another day of this
Working overtime to save up for tomorrow
While all their promises keep ringing out so hollow
Now they're taking all the bonuses away from me

I've spent a fucking lifetime picking up the pieces
trying to get ahead but I'm still defeated
I never even wanted this at all anyway

Cuz it's been 5 years of medications
5 years of accusations
5 years enslaved in misery
5 years of dedication
5 years of aggravation
5 years enslaved in misery

It's all the same as we get a little older
Nowhere to go and too late to start all over
You're just a number when you're working for the company
So play along while they rave about the stock price
And pretty soon you'll be buying into their lies
Conformity is now rewarded with the guarantee

That I'll spend a fucking lifetime picking up the pieces
Trying to get ahead but I'm still defeated
I never even wanted this at all anyway

Nowhere to run to and now there's nothing
that will make everything be alright
Once you know that you're never as important as the bottom line

A Thousand Miles Away lyrics - Allister

Tied up all the loose ends here,
and the West Coast calls me to come find a new life
Got stuck in this suburban town
and it's finally time to, just leave it behind
turn up the music and drive!

A thousand miles away from here
where ocean air, and opportunities awaits
If life is what you you make of it
then just head out, and leave the rest of it to fate

Been trapped in the same routine
When a new world's waiting outside of these walls
Overthink and you'll never leave
and what's the worst that happens, if things didn't work out
could turn back or keep moving on!

Haley lyrics - Allister

Haley stands like a warm ray of sunshine
Outside the West Oakland club on a cold night
Two lips of blood red and eyes like a wildfire
Burning like a signal through the night

She bats her eyes while she's lighting up a cigarette
Like some aristocratic socialite

She's the one who gets underneath your skin
She'll bury deep inside of your mind
She'll wait for the right time to take you by the hand
You'll fall in love all over again

Haley stands in the glow of the streetlight
Stiletto heels and a smile that could stop time
And when she talks it's like music to my ears
A perfect melody in perfect time

She bats her eyes while she's lighting up a cigarette
A debutante out on a Friday night

She keeps my head spinning around again
Running circles round and round again

Oh Haley, she's the one that makes you feel so fine
Until you're left holding a postcard stamped in time.

Stuck Powered On lyrics - Allister

I lay down for the night, and rest my weary eyes
Hoping tonight things might change
But in this darkness my thoughts start to multiply
and sanity slowly slips away

And as the sun starts creeping through the cracks between the shades
it calls me out to battle through another day

I just need one more hour to sleep
Sweet relief from the demons in my mind

I toss and turn, but still nothing seems to work
Can't turn off, these nervous thoughts, and though
I'm shutting down my mind's stuck powered on

I peel my body up and pour myself a cup
Go through the motions of the day
and try to figure out a way to reconcile
the two sides at war inside of me

As seconds turn to minutes, and hours into days
My thoughts evaporate into the haze of real life dreams
I need to clear my mind of everything, so that I can get some sleep

Drive lyrics - Allister

Breathe so I can feel you on me
and trust in everything you believe
There's a million different reasons why I should hold back
But I've come to far to sever it all
Do or die I've taken the fall

And so let's drive under cover of a blood red sky
Another mile until we finally step out from the darkness of the night
We'll wave goodbye to the former lives we'll leave behind
As they fade away into the rear view while all these streetlights pass by

Wait just for a while and you'll see
This could be everything that you need
It's the perfect ending to a life of promises and ideals that have fallen apart
now this time it's right from the start

So drive with me to the end of the road we're on
Ride this out until we end up alone
Fate is all that we can make of it
What do you want to make of it tonight?

Pretty Damn Close lyrics - Allister

The first time I saw you it was just my imagination
The next time I saw you it was just another illusion
Now I wish you could be here in my reality
But I know you're just a dream
Cuz I see you when I'm wasted and passed out on the floor
And I think about you everyday

Gina you don't know, you couldn't know it
But you are the one for me
I bet you that you don't know, I'm gonna show you
That you are the one for me

The first time I saw you it was just my imagination
The next time I saw you it was just another illusion
Now I see you lying with me every single night
and I wonder what it's like to be yours

But I'm not sentimental and I don't know what to say
But I'll come pretty damn close

Yeah you, you're driving me insane now cuz you're real...
I come pretty damn close

Tethered To The Wall lyrics - Allister

Becoming slaves to the latest craze
Before we've seen it, we're sure we need it
And mail's replacing conversation
Human contact's been in danger
(But look how far we've come)

Falling further back with the latest breakthroughs
Sterilized the way we're communicating
Anonymity to accomplish on PC
What we now can't do for real

Point, click, order now
No need to leave the house
Technology's providing the freedom for us all
To be tethered to the wall

We've started living through posted pictures
And gaining meaning through others feedback
The kids are learning, preparing early,
From what they see, for a life behind machines
(Life behind machines)

Falling further back with the latest breakthroughs
Sterilized the way we're communicating
Anonymity to accomplish on PC
What we now can't do for real

Point, click, order now
No need to leave the house
Technology's providing the freedom for us all
To be tethered to the wall

Even when we're out with friends
There're whole groups with lowered heads
They're hypnotized in fluorescent glow
We're out together, but we're still alone

The past few years we've come so far
Wonder where we'll be in ten or twenty more...

Something Better lyrics - Allister

Well I'm sitting here just writing words in the pages of my mind
Nothing's gonna change I'm sure and I know that I'm just wasting my time

But I'm stuck inside this daze, I wish there was a way
That you could help me out but you just don't understand
The way I feel about today

Cause I know there's something better, I know there's something new
And I know there's something out there for me too

I've been sitting here just killing time drinking off another night
Trying to make up for the years gone by that never seem to turn out right

Cause I'm stuck inside this daze, I wish there was a way
That you could help me out but you just don't understand
The way I feel about today

Cause I know there's something better, I know there's something new
And I know there's something out there for me too
Yeah I know there's something better, I know there's something new
And I know there's something out there for me too

Cause I'm stuck inside this daze, I wish there was a way
That you could help me out but you just don't understand
The way I feel about today

Cause I know there's something better, I know there's something new
And I know there's something out there for me too
Yeah I know there's something better, I know there's something new
And I know there's something out there for me too

If You Didn't Mean It lyrics - Allister

When everything that comes from your mouth is
Overwhelmingly sarcastic
It's time to lower your defense
'Cause if you keep going on like this
I'll never know what to believe

If you didn't mean it, then why did you say it?
If it's what you want, then why all the games?
At the edge of what I can take
And the least you can do is give it to me straight

When everything is life or death,
Your words have started losing their effect
I can't keep being forced to guess
'Cause if you keep going on like this
I'll never know what to believe

If you didn't mean it, then why did you say it?
If it's what you want, then why all the games?
At the edge of what I can take
And the least you can do is give it to me straight

And as the camera pans out
The picture comes in clear
I guess we've always known
But pretended not to see it
We've all just wanted someone
To find a little comfort in
But if we can't get past this by now
We never will

You keep going on like this
I'll never know what to believe
I'm never gonna understand
If you won't ever let me in

If you didn't mean it, then why did you say it?
If it's what you want, then why all the games?
If you didn't mean it, then why did you say it?
If it's what you want, then why all the games?
At the edge of what I can take
And the least you can do is give it to me straight

Live Fast Die Young lyrics - Allister

Through breakdowns, shakedowns, arguments and fistfights and black eyes
We made our way down unfamiliar highways to get by
Passed street signs, white lines, set out underneath a blackened sky
These ghost towns, fair grounds, cityscapes and bar tabs pass the time

We'd raise a glass every single night
We cut up the road with the same mentality

Live fast, die young we said
It's a motto for the weak-willed
But a slogan shouted in sincerity

Through breakdowns, shakedowns, arguments and fistfights and black eyes
We made our own rules and broke them all just trying to survive

A million miles an hour with summer's virgin hearts on fire
We headed for a crash course in disaster
Now it's a miracle we made it out alive
And I can say I wouldn't trade it for the world

Goodnight, sleep well
So long, farewell
This is only goodbye

Perfect Harmony lyrics - Allister

Round and round with same songs that we've always played
This dissonance gets resolved then circles back again
Our discordance has overpowered the clarity of words
Still we both keep turning up, just fighting to be heard

And maybe one day we'll carve out a space
Where the notes can all fall into place
And if we learned how, to keep with the beat
We could carry on in perfect harmony

There was a time when we'd find some sort of common ground
But now it's like, you and I've been playing different songs
We both keep turning up, just fighting to be heard

And maybe one day we'll carve out a space
Where the notes can all fall into place
And if we learned how, to keep with the beat
We could carry on in perfect harmony

Loco-Motion lyrics - Allister

Originally by Little Eva

Everybody's doing a brand-new dance, now
(Come on baby, do the Loco-motion)
I know you'll get to like it if you give it a chance now
(Come on baby, do the Loco-motion)
My little baby sister can do it with me
It's easier than learning your A-B-C
So come on, come on, do the Loco-motion with me

You gotta swing your hips, now
Come on, baby
Jump up
Jump back
Well, I think you've got the knack
Whoa

Now that you can do it, let's make a chain, now
(Come on baby, do the Loco-motion)
A chug-a chug-a motion like a railroad train, now
(Come on baby, do the Loco-motion)
Do it nice and easy, now, don't lose control
A little bit of rhythm and a lot of soul
So come on, come on, do the Loco-motion with me

You gotta swing your hips, now
Come on, baby
Jump up
Jump back
Well, I think you've got the knack
Whoa

Move around the floor in a Loco-motion
(Come on baby, do the Loco-motion)
Do it holding hands if you get the notion
(Come on baby, do the Loco-motion)
There's never been a dance that's so easy to do
It even makes you happy when you're feeling blue

Come on, do the Loco-motion [x10]

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