The Downside

Bones on the ground, all around, our ideas, our every sound Wiped away in a heartbeat Desolate Earth, draped in dearth, only memories of mirth Devastation so complete If someone nukes Manhattan It won't matter what any of us dreamed Hate U.S.A., devotee of a terrorist brigade Hell bent religious mission World wide awake from it's state of a non-event charade DetoNation decision Black market warheads smuggled everywhere My delusional and paranoid care There is for one potential future I pray Then we'll ascend above the hatred of today Make racism a forgotten word Increase our brotherhood, the great human herd The Northeast Coast-A silent nothing Ground Zero NYC, dead center of suffering Lives extiguished at a ruthless rate Complete destruction doesn't segregate A frigid forecast for a frightened flock Mass murder multiplied by monsters who mock

Submitted by Cyberwaste — Apr 26, 2025

May 5, 2000 Who will be playing the fool? No matter what happens We have no choice but to Charge right on through Align the planets, ready senses For a gravitational disturbance They it's unstable The first time the planets line up Future or fable? I guess it's anyone's luck I can just see it Class infrastructure collapse The Earth in a shambles Rebuild, rename and relapse So what's your prediction? Total annihilation? Or just another date that fades away The fear factor could almost make you Pull the plug yourself Well what would it take for you? You can't get compliant with solar system demands The punishing pulling between heavenly hands Yeah, I can just see it Reduced to a primitive state Horrific, desolate wasteland or beautiful clean slate? The fear factor could almost make you Pull the plug yourself Well what would make you?

Submitted by Iron_Wraith — Apr 26, 2025

Cause you've been drifting down that wrongful road again Your favorite vice has got you hanging on its whim But just look on the downside Got no place left to go but up Exposed from negative, fed up with life Spit out the pain and stuff the hate inside Energy, ever building A polar static charge It makes the obscure, small things Seem overwhelmingly large I am doubting, inner bouting For a perspective you see Pessimism? Optimism? Number one works sweet for me Exposed from negative, fed up with life Spit out the pain and stuff the hate inside Expect nothing and never be let down The smile, simple inversion of the frown

Submitted by Lake of Tears — Apr 26, 2025

We get home and the remote is our best friend The mind turns off, active thought meeting its end The have no lives of our own, ficticious roles overgrown Can't break the hold of the teledrama hoax Programs just suck us all in, stuck in your head, wheels spin Can't break away from the teledrama hoax Are we so easily entranced? The piper plays and we knowingly dance So vapid and so hollow, exciting lives, all borrowed Can't break the hold of the teledrama hoax Ingrained in the modern day Entrenched and scheduled to stay Can't break away from the teledrama hoax Change the channel to one of purpose Break the spell of our ignorant curse Dream of days when we all grow and interact But the hoax is on and that's a fact

Submitted by Corpse Defiler — Apr 26, 2025

Falsified, now laid out on a table You told your lie and now you pay the price Greed and lust are motivators Never trust annihilators Testified, and now you're six feet under Your family, your friends all are suffering Greed and lust, our motivators Never trust the profit makers Now you pay the price

Submitted by johnmansley — Apr 26, 2025

I'm not gonna follow Walk to the beat of your drum May not be brilliant but I'm not exactly dumb Not a hurry to align myself with the damned I won't get buried in their red tape ridden plans Investigate the scene. Count the bodies, chase the green Thank God for term limits Hope that the truths are revealed Vince Foster, Ron Brown and the whole Whitewater deal So all hail to the thief Sucked up every drop of my belief

Submitted by Grave666 — Apr 26, 2025

What great days lie just ahead Starving youth, hopes dashed in dread Such a cherished, sacred thing Carelessly reproducing Shove It-When you're bitchin' and your itchin' just to blame somebody else Shove It-Live your lie until you die cause all you're loving is yourself Shove It-In your face cause you're complacent and you're draggin' us down Born into a world of pain Born unloved, it's such a shame Finished up before life starts Broken home breed broken hearts Right to life alone and scared Learn to never learn to care Family values laughed away See morality decay

Submitted by Grave666 — Apr 26, 2025

Talking to myself suffices Better than support devices I do fine sans such connections Never need their false protection Emotion locked safely away A calm, indifferent doubting display People always let each other down In false hope and trust they soon drown I choose to believe in no one It's a wonderful lie Being my own best friend is helpful Now that I am so distrustful Isolated, I so hate it It's a wonderful lie And it's a pleasure to be living it with you

Submitted by Pestilence — Apr 26, 2025

Yeah, life's a short lived role On that point I cannot console One day shall be last Sink into the pase We will, no, we must become Dust My friend in sickness toils He sees all those futures sad and soiled Can't dwell on what could be While you've got health and youth enjoy it Time deals but feels no pain Embrace your life cause it's one quick campaign

Sound the bells Sounds like a death knell For every child down one parent It's hard enough to learn Life's pure and realtime versions Can't discern them from the virtual Responsible, Be Responsible It's cool to be the anti-norm Ultimately we are all alone Species-wide Slippery slope slide Down the hatch, sleep it off Next day the world's the same Our troubles right there Where we threw them yesterday

Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 26, 2025

Because I wonder what makes us tick Why some are sane while some stay sick I see the saint, I see the sin, I see the me that might have been The struggling layman, the lazy lush Boisterous bragging or modest hush A suit and tie life, tied down in debt Or pennyless with no regrets Content to stagnate or get ahead Much time to rest when we are dead Alter reality see that me that might have been High on his luck or rotting in a coffin Cacophonous sound of our diverse voices Where would you be now Had you made different choices?

Submitted by The Void — Apr 26, 2025

It's a shame really, that humankind cannot advance on social and civil levels as a single race with the same rampant and voracious growth of its technology. We can create some of the most awe inspiring machines, but we're so naive in other ways that we may well wind up victims of our own knowledge one day. That's the downside. The upside? Overpopulation problem solved. The Downside

Submitted by BloodShrine — Apr 26, 2025

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