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by The Way An Animal Operates

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    This is a complete discography for The Way An Animal Operates. This digital-only album contains the following releases:
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    • Instinctual Flaws EP (tracks 1-6)
    • What's The Point? LP (tracks 7-14)
    • My Revenge LP & Nothing. Absolutely Nothing. EP (15-27)
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    The Way An Animal Operates was the solo project of William Gustafson, aka Anima Logic, from 2000 - 2007.
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    Also included with the download are album cover scans, PDFs of lyric sheets and fold out posters, and a music video for Alpha-Beta-Kill Bullets
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You've got this feeling someone's always breathing down yer neck you gotta get out and away but you don't know where to go next the weight of the world, the pressure of society it just ain't for you, just like it wasn't for me you've got no fucken choices and yer life's looking dim these expectations aren't yer creation but yer living up to them and when you wake up one day in yer 'perfect' little world you'll say its just too much and yerself out a window you'll fucken hurl are you really happy just living doing what yer told? or does it make the world feel a little empty bitter & cold are you too complacent to find the things you really want? or do you think that if you just sit back, to you they will be brought?
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Oh Lord, wont you buy me a Mercedes Benz? My friends all drive porsches, I must make amends Worked hard all my lifetime, no help from my friends So Lord, wont you buy me a mercedes benz? Oh Lord are you up there watching in the sky? Are you comfortable just sitting back and watching your little humans die? Have you had enough to eat today? Do you find it hard not to smile? If I could bring myself to believe in you then I might just want to fucken die Oh lord you might be credited with saving us from sin But sin is not so pressing when fucken napalm is burning off yer skin Aren't you gonna send a savior? Cause it's been a little while... And if you're reading all my thoughts Just forget the one about the knife and yer 1st born child
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do you wake up feeling angry do you wake up feeling used? don't you know we've got a cure for that, a little pill made just for you! it takes away yer feelings of insecurity you gotta take it in the morning and then again before you sleep hey! hey! don't you listen to the press? we got FDA approval don't you think we know what best? if you dont believe the studies or you think they might be fixed just try it for a week and we're sure you'll be convinced don't you wanna feel better? don't you wanna put to rest all your feeling that are causing you this overload of stress? our side effects are minimal in all our clinic tests just a little bit of bloody vomit as you body adjusts
4.
I’m back from the recession and I see more than reflection Like the prism splits the spectrum I’ve got nothing left to hide Its evolution at its best, I attest, I’m enthusiastic This project’s now osmosis and from the reeds I pulled this baby out a basket Its true, for me there’s no more sitting quietly on a bench Cause when those gears are running smooth you know I can’t help throwing in a wrench Thoughts that splatter quickly shifting that you’re missing my point exactly, cue the laughter I’ve got unfinished business with half the population Got no intention of accusation, this is purely emission But if it’s weakness that you want, I’m sorry I will not disappear You might find more resolution when you look into the mirror Its evolution at its best, I attest, I’m fucken manic This project’s now an open door where before we just had static Its true, for me there’s no more walking blindly thru this mess Cause now that things are running smooth I just have to put you to the test.
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I have no desire its locked inside a cage like a homeless man upon the street ignored and pushed away i have no desire at least that's what i'm told i'm rejected time and time again i wonder – am i human anymore? my aim is a direction, influenced by my root and if i had a gun, there's only one thing i would shoot i'm just a selfish prick who should try to understand can't always blame the supplier for not keeping up with the demand finely-grained time fills a bucket of lost sensation i'm still waiting for the train after they've already closed the station i find it hard to comprehend the current state of affairs the apple fell, i took a bite, and then it flew back up in the air i'm chain-smoking cigarettes because it curbs my appetite my heart is beating so fast i can't get no sleep at night if i had a little window i might sympathize the view but the walls are bleak and barren when yer locked inside a padded room
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i’m sick i’m fucken sick & tired this overpopulated shithole takes its toll and i just wanna die and every morning i wake up already bored nothing to look to, nothing left to hope for i've said it before and dont you know i’ll say it again nobody's gonna tell me how to live but this apathetic position's got me thinkin once again theres only one wat to free yrself when the blade of a knife is yr only friend dead man's float i cant even find the strength to fuken cope the possibility of a future worthwhile is so dim i dont even try i’m sick i’m fuken sick and tired of cliches and lies that keep me thinking this is life dead man's float
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Already Dead 02:33
i’ve got a problem and I cant find a solution the end is not in sight & im losing faith in revolution and I cant discuss it cause its such a fucken bore we just end up in the ground after being treated like a whore when I look in yr eyes I cant help but see myself an active mind, motivated& convinced this fight will be a success youthful optimism- used to think it was a joke but now all these politics are makingme sick and when hard to swallow you wanna choke theres nothing left there is no hope all the potlucks and soccer tournaments wont save you now we’ve got 24hrs. The bombs gonna drop we’ve got nowhere to go this is annihilation it cant be stopped everything we worked for is dead we never had any control we convinced ourselves of our own lies, just like they did to us the world we dream of is death we’re already dead I’m sorry to say but the bombs can not be stopped the power structure is not affected by our posters and bike tube slingshots the only chance we’ll ever have is a suicide revolution we can burn down all the city halls but the human race remains an institution we can sit and discuss rhetoric and political tactics we can even go as far a putting theory into practice but even on yr mountain home they’ll be no place to hide when the earth itself is screaming cause napalm bombs are raining from the sky yr already dead
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is it worth the time everytime I wanna fight? no its never gonna happen no I’ll never get it right and I just wanna I wanna see it burn the insight gained thru mistakes are the greatest lessons ever learned I cant compete with this system of repression I cant afford to eat and I’m dealing with my own depression I thought I had hope for a world with a new tomorrow but now I’m just bored cynical obsessed and filled with sorrow my lifes a mistake and I’m believing it more everyday my hands are stained & this blood will not wash away if I’m living in privelidge then why do I feel this way jesus damned the world but he goddamn loves the USA I cant escape this cycle of produce and consume and I know my every purchase is someone else’s doom but I wanna find a way to end the worlds affliction I’m looking in the mirror and the only solution is hanging from the ceiling why did I wake up today?
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sometimes I have to question how effective are our tactics using the same old methods is becoming problematic and I don’t wanna step on toes but isnt it time for change? aren't we all a little tired of holding back all this rage? I’m not a pacifist but I play one on TV cause they’ve put it all on film and now that reality we could all live in peace (after we’re annihilated) so take out as many people as you can before you kill yourself I had a daydream sequence happen just the other day dreaming of anarcho farms in places that were far away and I used to think thats exactly what I wanted but I’m realizing now that nothing can be picture perfect and I could turn a blind eye to the way things really are but the workers keep on working and they’ll still not getting very far there will always be suffering there will always be pain but no longer will you have to suffer in my name if i kill myself it doesnt really matter what I wanna do this world is ruined and consequently that means you are too I’m destroying the world without even being conscious but suicides the one thing I can actually do on purpose humans = garbage so don’t even waste yer time just live the way you wanna live & then yr gonna have to die fight the the things you have & love the truth if you can find it but don’t get too attached cause were all hypocrites & liars
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Fuck Love 03:08
theres no such thing as love and I’m under the impression that we mistake love a lot for what is really obsession feelings and emotions are mere chemical at best and if I really had a heart I’d stab myself in the chest ”don’t hold my hand if you cant look me in the eyes”-? or we could keep our mouths shut and then we wont tell each lies I’ve had enough of make believe and I want reality I want to know its nothing when yr bodys pressed against me we all find it hard to escape social conditioning but its not fair to each other to keep up this old tradition and I for one refuse to be manipulated and I wont rely on falsehoods to help justify our existence falling in love is just another superstition you might get tricked a few times but soon you’ll lose yer erection and then they give you pills to help cope with yer dis-ease but the real problem you refuse to face is called monogamy you can call it what you want just to make yerself feel better but the way you think you feel about me isnt what gets me wetter and if my body is a temple then come on and give me head but the truth of the matter,Love, is that yer God Is Dead. we all find it hard to escape social conditioning but its not fair to each other to keep up this old tradition and I for one refuse to be manipulated and I wont rely on falsehoods to help justify our existence theres not much in this world that really matters to me I don’t think I’ve ever hear a truth that I could believe so if love isnt real then what is there left? may be life is a lie and the truth is death?
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maybe someday there’ll be a world where we all get along but I know I wont be around for it humans in my eyes are evil creatures and everything we do is selfish we destroy each other there cant ever be peace until we stop stabbing each other in the back but you'll see that even if we make a promise to better ourselves we just backslide its just our nature a small group of us think that we can change the world with our actions based on political thought some of us try to remind ourselves that when we were young we used to have a heart but as we’ve grown older we’ve turned to stone and the system feeds off our distrust and frustration in turn we’ve dug ourselves a hole so deep that fixing this world is too complicated maybe there’ll be someday when its worth it
12.
theres nothing left and I wanna die a life of sin has left me empty inside I cant be forgiven cause I’ve been so blind the devil controls me looking out thru my eyes jesus came while I was smoking outside said he wanted my life to the janitor guy he was gonna help me get my life right I cant live like this any more, hate filth and lies if I ever saw jesus I would grab a fucken knife I’d cut his fucken wrists so he’d fall off the cross I’ve got no time for doing what I’m told and with the devil on my side I’ve got some where to go
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Deprived 05:01
this life the price is high I can't pay to survive my life is this life? emotion deprived and I feel like I’m drowning and I feel like i'm suffocating
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My Revenge 02:10
Sometimes it seems there's nothing left worth fighting for And I don't care I don't care I never did before Things fall apart and the same shit happens to me What you need is not always what you want to see I found out there's alot of things still worth fighting for And you don't care you don't care you never did before there's not many people who really want to see things change A lot of them just sell the scence to get paid There is no peace This will never stop You can sing and dance You can pray to your god the only way this ends is the way it began It's in your hands This is my revenge
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So many bands are fucken full of it Using revolution to sell their bullshit "Bigger venues equal a bigger audience" More like bigger venues equal a fatter wallet You can't justify corporate backing What ever you say your story's lacking Corporations aren't either good or bad They turn the music into a fucken teenage fad Anti-Flag turns the amerikkklan flag upside down But they'll play with Vans (and Coca-Cola & Busweiser) ads all around At the the Casualties have nothing to say "Spikey hair punx and 40oz, Hey! Hey!" Well what's the point of music anyways? To stay underground and then just fade away? Then no one gets the message..... but thats not true! if you're fucken good your stuff gets out and people hear it.... that's just a cop-out Tell me what happened to DIY? Mail-order and independent shops Why can you buy punk rock at the mall? Epitaph, Fat Wreck - Hot Topic's got them all have bands just lost faith in themselves they words they sing now mean nothing at all "Well you know sometimes you have to compromise!" Fuck that shit, its just another selling lie Can't we organize this shit ourselves? Taking donations instead of tickets for sale We don't need fucken corporate sponsors But some people think its not a problem Oh, people like me take the fun out of punk "Bullshit Crass" so why don't I just shut-up?!? I know the underground is well and alive It'd just be cool if people opened their eyes
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I see so many things wrong Where does my resistance belong? There seems to be a set dialogue Set-up for playing this part Its always one or the other Extremes faced against each other There seems to be a set dialogue Set-up for playing my part, I gotta... figure it out The days tend to get so dark When I'm not giving them thought Passively drifting on by This is my consumers life I always feel the hope Squatting roof-tops and being broke Sometime I just get tired Its hard to stick with either side
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The streets aren't safe and I can't sleep Thinking about them holding down arms and feet Sick and twisted fucks are out in the dark Bag your head and have their way with you down at Franklin Park A girl got off the bus and was approached by a few men They gang-raped her on the bike trail right then and there high-traffic area and no one saw it? I read the paper the next day did anyone write a column? 2 males ride around in a well-described car picking up womyn by gun-point at sunset Brutally rape them and beat them with a gun Cops say their "looking" but haven't found anyone I put up some flyers and we had a vigil but it happens again and rapists aren't getting the signal The healing process takes more than days and hours But put a bullet in a rapist's head and the streets are ours Three guys wearing baseball caps grabbed someone outside the club last night they held her down while she kicked and screamed They carved the word "fag" right into her skin The tolerence in this city is so upsetting I'm not saying a song is setting things right again I fail alot in my own apathectic reactions I'm not sure how to stop this from happening It make me afraid of myself because of my gender Am I at fault because of my genitals? I start to think about self-mutilation Ease my mind that I'm physically incapable Of ever causing this kind of harm No blood on the hand at the end of this arm One sure way to find resolution Dead men don't rape so shoot to kill Dead men don't rape
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Explanation 02:36
Compromising myself and my ideas Actions of the world For a limitless black hole Bombardment Of no conclusion Pounding information Without the birth of any tangible Explanation: That's what would kill the soul Not one speck of sand to make it cohesive I'm killing my heart The innate - Anything to keep me tethered... tethered to this world
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Grab your flag and wave it high The blood from it is in my eyes amerikkka, oh I despise It's murder! It's Murder!! Always have to watch my back? The news says we're under attack I think the world's gone black No Hope No Future "Go get you gun, this 'Paki's' mine" Asking questions is just wasting time We've been at this war for years and never once have I seen a tear America's so pissed cause New York blew up Got a mouthful now, can't chew, so we spit it up no hope no future
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DIY is not a slogan to fill your appetite Its not supposed to be something that'll make you sleep better at night Clear Channel venues shouldn't make you feel alright Against Me!, Le Tigre - what happened to your insight? Once it was "DIY or DIE" Now its just something on the side When you cross that line, the meaning gets lost Hypocrisy won't get your message across Thats why... I'm doing it myself How many bands have to go down this path Before we realize Time-Warner waters down our wrath You say "fuck the war!" and the auidence buys a coke On Colombia's oppression I hope you fucken choke Ending is better than bending...
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And time sits still upon our minds Recollecting greys and blues A letter written but never sent Somethings you lose, somethings you give away Why do good things never want to stay? A bit more pay, a bit more poverty Sometimes it feels as though the past and the future Are pressing so hard on either side That there's no room for the present at all Those who can't forget the past are condemned to repeat it
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Its time to smash the class boundaries Peace can't exist while there's still poverty Middle-class working class its a type of modern slavery no more taking this abuse lightly We've gotta stand up and believe That you really can bite the hand that feeds It doesn't matter who you are It doesn't matter where you're from As long as you want some equality No war but class... war Far too long we've been living in this dream Of making it big on the american scheme Something we've all failed to see Capitalism enslaves us all
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Yr Choice 02:33
Fighting, whining, winning, and losing Get in or get out, the choice is yer choosing Living, dying, anger, repression Accepting you fate, accepting oppression The facts, or fiction, a life of afflictions Wearing the crown of yer submission I care too much to accept my position This is a fight worth your affection
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Went to the Music Zone to see the Toasters play Not that far just an hour's drive away $15 just to fucken get inside Pissed off already cause the cover was too high Drinking beer and dancing to Regatta '69 Got a free CD and everything was going fine Then the Toasters started playing and Isaac hit the ground He got back up but then he went to go sit down Asheville Music Zone don't care about the scene Making lots money is the owner's only dream Took some bottles and smashed up the door Broke some windows but we should've broke some more Isaac laid down on a couch in the back He wasn't bothering anybody - he just felt like crap Bouncers harrased him and tried to pick a fight Pushed him out the door, laughed, and said "Have a good night!" Somebody told me he was lying in the street And they were gonna call the cops if I didn't get him to his feet "Well whats the fucken problem, and why'd you kick him out? They said "This ain't no fucken hotel and you cover money -it don't count" Asheville Music Zone doesen't care about the kids They just want to see their pockets full of dollar bills Here in S.C. a few shows is all we get Just trying to have fun and they've got to be pricks Fuck Asheville Music Zone I won't support them
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Drink!(?) 01:37
I love drinking! It makes me me! Nothing wrong with it that I can see People say that I don't think, but that's the whole point when I drink/ DRINK! When I drink P.C. kids get pissed Start calling me asshole and sexist I'm so sorry, can't you see?? I've been drinking: The excuse for me! Drink! -?
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This is a complete discography for The Way An Animal Operates. This digital-only album contains the following releases:

• Instinctual Flaws EP (tracks 1-6)
• What's The Point? LP (tracks 7-14)
• My Revenge LP & Nothing. Absolutely Nothing. EP (15-27)

The Way An Animal Operates was the solo project of William Gustafson, aka Anima Logic, from 2000 - 2007.

Also included with the download are album cover scans, PDFs of lyric sheets and fold out posters, and a music video for Alpha-Beta-Kill Bullets

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