System of a Down - Toxicity

Prison Call

They're trying to build a prison...
They're trying to build a prison...

(Growl)

Following the rights movement to clamp down on what your child pays
For drugs become conveniently available for all the kids

Following the rights movement to clamp down on what your child pays
For drugs become conveniently available for all the kids

[Daron]
I bought my crack, my smack, my bitch right here in Hollywood

Nearly 2 million Americans are incarcerating the prisons systems throughout the US
(They're trying to build a prison)

[Chorus]
They're trying to build a prison
They're trying to build a prison
They're trying to build a prison
(For you and Me to live In)
Another prison system
Another prison system
Another prison system
(For you and Me)

Minor drug offenders fill your prison you don't even flinch
All your taxes paying for the war against the human rage
x2

[Daron]
I bought my crack, my smack, my bitch right here in Hollywood

The percentage of Americans in the prisons system has doubled since 1985
(They're trying to build a prison)

[Chorus]

You're Mine! x3
(You're Mine)

They're trying to build a prison
They're trying to build a prison
They're trying to build a prison
For you and me
Oh baby, you and me

(Growl x2)
Well research and successful drug policy shows that treatment should be increased
(Mine)
Law enforcement decreases while abolishing mandatory minimum sentences

(Mine)
Our research and successful drug policy shows that treatment should be increased
(Mine)
Law enforcement decreases while abolishing mandatory minimum sentences
(Mine)

Utilizing drugs to pay for secret wars around the world
Drugs are now your global policy, now you police the globe

[Daron]

Drug money is used to rig elections and train brutal corporate dictators around the world
(They're trying to build a prison)

[Chorus]

You're mine! x3
(You're Mine)

They're trying to build a prison
They're trying to build a prison
They're trying to build a prison
For you and me
Oh baby, you and me

 

Needles

 

I, cannot disguise
All the stomach pains
And the walking with the canes
But you,
Won't come out
And you whisper up to me in your life of tragedy

But I cannot grow
Tell you it will last to me
When will I be free
And you,
A parasite
Just find another host
Another for the post

You [growl]... My tape worm tells me what to do
You [growl]... My tape worm tells me where to go

Pull the tape worm out of your ass... HEY! [x4]

I cannot deny
All the evil traits and the filling of the crates
When you (you)
Won't come out (out)
And you suffer it for me your paper majesty

But I cannot grow
Tell you it will last to me
When will I be free
And you (you)
A parasite (site)
Just find another host
Another for the post

You [growl]... My tape worm tells me what to do
You [growl]... My tape worm tells me where to go

Pull the tape worm out of your ass... HEY! [x3]
Pull the tape worm out of me

Of me

[Daron]
I'm sitting in my room,
With a needle in my hand
Just waiting for the tomb
Of some old dying man

[Daron and Serj]
Sitting in my room,
With a needle in my hand
Just waiting for the tomb
Of some old dying man

Die [growl]

You [growl]... My tape worm tells me what to do
You [growl]... My tape worm tells me where to go

Pull the tape worm out of your ass... HEY! [x4]
HEY! [x4]

 

Deer Dance

 

Circumstancing circuses looking to gain protest
Invisible police, presence once were feared
The talions of riots, police with rubber bullet kisses
Baton courtesy, service with a smile

Where honest people stand, you can see America
With its dire poor avenging the streets
Peaceful loving youth against the brutality
A plastic existence

Pushing little children
With their fully automatics
They like to push the weak around [x2]

A rush on words, bleeding to disperse
Upon your naked walls a lie
A political call, the fog-leg horn
We cant afford to be neutral on a moving train

Where honest people stand, you can see America
With its dire poor avenging the streets
Peaceful loving youth against the brutality
A plastic existence

Pushing little children
With their fully automatics
They like to push the weak around [x2]

Push them around...
A deer dance
Invitation to peace
War is staring you in the face
Dressed in black
With a helmet, fierce
Train them up for the malcontent,
With the disproportion now condense
A little boy smiles, it'll all be well
And say a little boy smiles, it'll all be well

Pushing little children,
With the fully automatics,
They like to push the weak around

Pushing little children,
With the fully automatics,
They like to push the weak around

Push the weak around
Push the weak around
Push the weak around
They like to push the weak around.

 

 

Jet Pilot

 

Wired through the eyes of a horizontal jet pilot,
One that smiled when he flew over the bay
x2

My horse, is a shackled old man
His, his remorse
Was that he couldn't survey the
Skies right before
Right before, they went grey
My horse, and my remorse
Flying over a great bay

[Chorus]

My source, is the source of all creation
Her discourse, is that we all don't survey the
Skies that be far
Right before, they go grey
My source and my remorse
Flying over a great bay

[Chorus]

Where were the eyes of a horizontal jet pilot,
When he smiled when he flew over the bay
x2

[Chorus]

Where were the eyes of a horizontal jet pilot,
When he smiled when he flew over the bay
x2

 

X

 

Tell the people
Tell the people how to write
Tell the people
Tell the people how to write

We don't need to multiply
We don't need to multiply
We don't need to multiply
We don't need to multiply~
DIE!

Show your people
Show your people how we die
Show your people
Show your people how we die

We don't need to nullify
We don't need to nullify
We don't need to nullify
We don't need to nullify

No need to nullify
No need to nullify
No need to nullify
We don't need to nullify~
DIE! (growl)

We don't need to
We don't need to
We don't need to
We don't need to

Ask your people
Ask your people what is right
Ask your people
Ask your people what is right

We don't need to multiply
We don't need to multiply
We don't need to multiply
We don't need to multiply
No need to multiply
No need to multiply
No need to multiply
We don't need to multiply

 

 

Chop Suey!

 

Wake up,
grab a brush and put a little makeup (makeup)
grab a brush and put a little
hide the scars to fade away the (shakeup)
Hide the scars to fade away,
Why'd you leave the keys upon the table?
Here you go create another fable
You wanted to
grab a brush and put a little makeup
you wanted to
hide the scars to fade away the shakeup
you wanted to,
Why'd you leave the keys upon the table,
you wanted to
I don't think you trust,
in, my, self righteous suicide,
I, cry, when angels deserve to die, die
Wake up,
grab a brush and put a little makeup (makeup)
grab a brush and put a little
hide the scars to fade away the (shakeup)
Hide the scars to fade away,
Why'd you leave the keys upon the table?
Here you go create another fable
You wanted to
grab a brush and put a little makeup
you wanted to
hide the scars to fade away the shakeup
you wanted to,
Why'd you leave the keys upon the table,
you wanted to
I don't think you trust,
in, my, self righteous suicide,
I, cry, when angels deserve to die,
in my, self righteous suicide
I, cry, when angels deserve to die
Father, Father, Father, Father,
Father/into your hands/I/Commend my spirit
Father, into your hands,
Why have you forsaken me,
in your eyes forsaken me,
in your thoughts forsaken me,
in your heart forsaken, me oh,
trust in my self righteous suicide
I, cry, when angels deserve to die,
in my self righteous suicide,
I, cry, when angels deserve to die

 

Bounce

 

Jump! Bounce!

Down! Up!


I went out on a date with a girl a bit late, she had so many friends. (she had so many friends)
I brought my pogo stick just to show her a trick, she had so many friends. (she had so many friends)

[chorus]
Jump! Pogo...
Bounce! Pogo...
Down! Pogo...
Up! Jump! Bounce! Up! Down! (Pogo...)

Coming now, twister games, all players with no names
They line up double quick with just one pogo stick.
Everyone gets to play, run away, exposè, was so exaulted, with just one pogo stick.

chorus

(distorted growling)

[distorted]
ooh i like to spread you out
touching whoever's to *missing*

chorus
(Ma Ma Ma Ma...)

Wooh!

 

Forest

 

Walk with me my little child-AH!
Through the forest of denial-AH!
Speak with me my only mind
Walk with me until the time
Make the forest turn to wine
Take the legend for a fall
You saw the product
Why can't you see that you are my child?
Why don't you know that you are my mind?
Tell everyone in the world that I'm you
Take this promise to the end of you

Walk with me my little friend
Take this promise to the end
Speak with me my only mind
Walk with me until the end
And make the forest turn to sand
You take the legend for a fall
You saw the product
Why can't you see that you are my child?
Why don't you know that you are my mind?
Tell everyone in the world that I'm you
Take this promise to the end of you

Take this promise for a ride
You saw the forest now come inside
You took the legend for its fall
You saw the product of it all
No television's in the air
No circumcision's on the chair
You made the weapons for us all
Just look at us now!
Why can't you see that you are my child?
Why don't you know that you are my mind?
Tell everyone in the world that I'm you
Take this promise to the end of you

 

ATWA

 

You see me
Pictures crazy
All the world I've seen before me passing by
I've got nothing
To gain to lose
All the world I've seen before me passing by

You don't care about how I feel
I don't feel it anymore
You don't care about how I feel
I don't feel it anymore
You don't care about how I feel
I don't feel it anymore
You don't care about how I feel
I don't feel it anymore

Hey you are me
Not so pretty
All the world I've seen before me passing by
Silent, my voice
I've got no choice
All the world I've seen before me passing by

You don't care about how I feel
I don't feel it anymore
You don't care about how I feel
I don't feel it anymore
You don't care about how I feel
I don't feel it anymore
You don't care about how I feel
I don't feel it anymore

I don't see (anymore)
I don't hear (anymore)
I don't speak (anymore)
I don't feel

Hey you see me
Pictures crazy
All the world I've seen before me passing by
I've got nothing
To gain to lose
All the world I've seen before me passing by

You don't care about how I feel
I don't feel it anymore
You don't care about how I feel
I don't feel it anymore
You don't care about how I feel
I don't feel it anymore
You don't care about how I feel
I don't feel it anymore

I don't sleep (anymore)
I don't eat (anymore)
I don't live (anymore)
I don't feel (anymore)

 

Science

 

 

making two possibilities a reality
predicting the future of things we all know
fighting of the diseased programming
of centuries, centuries, centuries, centuries
science fails to recognize the single most
potent element of human existance
letting the reigns go to the unfolding
is faith, faith, faith, faith

science has failed our world
science has failed our mother earth
science fails to recognize the single most
potent element of human existance
letting the reigns go to the unfolding
is faith, faith, faith, faith
science has failed our world
science has failed our mother earth

spirit-moves-through-all-things (x 6 )

letting the reigns go to the unfolding
is faith, faith, faith, faith
letting the reigns go to the unfolding
is faith, faith, faith, faith
science has failed our world
science has failed our mother earth

spirit-moves-through-all-things (x 12)

Science has failed our mother earth

 

 

Shimmy

 

Education, fornication, in you are go!
Education, subjugation, now your up go!
Education, fornication, in you are go!

Don't be late for school again, go...

[chorus]
Take me I wanna die, take me I want out.
Tell me why, for when i shimmy shimmy shimmy through the break of dawn, yeah!

Education, fornication, in you are go!
Education, subjugation, now your up go!
Education, fornication, in you are go!

Don't be late for school again, go...

chorus

Doctrination, of our nation, doctrination, of our nation.
subjugation of the nation, subjugation one two three

Don't be late for school again, go!
Don't be late for school again, go!
Don't be late for school again, go!
Don't be late for school again, go!

Toxicity

 

conversion, software version 7.0,
looking at life through the eyes of a tire hub,

eating seeds as a pastime activity,
the toxicity of our city, of our city,
new, what do you own the world?
how do you own disorder, disorder
now, somewhere between the sacred silence,
sacred silence and sleep,
somewhere, between the sacred silence and sleep
disorder, disorder, disorder,

more wood for their fires, loud neighbors,
flashlight reveries caught in the headlights of a truck,

eating seeds as a pastime activity,
the toxicity of our city, of our city,
new, what do you own the world?
how do you own disorder, disorder,
now, somewhere between the sacred silence,
sacred silence and sleep,
somewhere, between the sacred silence and sleep
disorder, disorder, disorder,

new, what do you own the world?
how do you own disorder, disorder
now, somewhere between the sacred silence,
sacred silence and sleep,
somewhere, between the sacred silence and sleep
disorder, disorder, disorder,

when I became the sun,
I shone life into the man's hearts,
when I became the sun,
I shone life into the man's hearts,

 

Psycho

psycho, groupie, cocaine, crazy,
psycho, groupie, cocaine, crazy,
psycho, groupie, cocaine, crazy,
Psycho, groupie, coke

makes you high, makes you hide
makes you really want to go - stop
psycho, groupie, cocaine, crazy,
Psycho, groupie, coke
makes you high, makes you hide
do you really want to think and stop
stop your eyes from flowing

psycho, groupie, cocaine, crazy,
psycho, groupie, cocaine, crazy,
Psycho, groupie, coke
makes you high, makes you hide
makes you really want to go - stop
psycho, groupie, cocaine, crazy,
Psycho, groupie, coke
makes you high, makes you hide
do you really want to think and stop
stop your eyes from flowing out

so you want the world to stop
stop in and watch your body fully drop
from the time you were a
psycho, groupie, cocaine, crazy,

so you want to see the show
you really don't have to be a ho
from the time you were a
psycho, groupie, cocaine, crazy,
psycho, groupie, cocaine, crazy,
Psycho, groupie, coke

makes you high, makes you hide
makes you really want to go - stop
psycho, groupie, cocaine, crazy,
Psycho, groupie, coke
makes you high, makes you hide
do you really want to think and stop

stop your eyes from flowing out
so you want the world to stop
rushing to watch your spirit fully drop
from the time you were a
psycho, groupie, cocaine, crazy,
so you want to see the show
you really don't have to be a ho
from the time you were a
psycho, groupie, cocaine, crazy,

 

Aerials

 

Life is a waterfall
We won in the river
And now we wanna get up to the fall

Swimming through the void
We hear the word
We loose ourselves but we find it all

[Chorus]

Cause we are the ones that wanna play
Always wanna go, but you never wanna stay
And we are the ones that wanna choose
Always wanna play, but you never wanna loose

Aerials in the sky
When you lose small mind
You free your life

Life is a waterfall
We drink from the river
Then we turn and put up a wall

Swimming through the void
We hear the word
We loose ourselves but we find it all

[Chorus]

Ohh!
Ariels, in the sky
When you lose small mind you free your life
Ariels, so up high
When you free your lives eternal prize [x2]

Ohhh, ohh, ohh, ohh