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Conflicts: The Best of PLD

by Pathetic Little Dog

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1.
Walls 05:01
I see the sun set and wonder where the day went some say as long as you're having a good time that's time well spent I try to live my life to the fullest and have no regrets but that state of mind might change yet Because I can't let the most fulfilling thing I do all day be when I get my ass out of bed and go outside to smoke a cigarette I dread facing the people I respect seeing how much my negativity affects Their goodhearted gestures I reject I would resurrect my values if I knew how to I brought my self down, I was bound to I looked in the mirror the other day and said I don't even want to be around you but I cant go on without you and I don't know what to do Sure is a pity feeling blue not enough dollars in my pocket to change my mood oh, by the way, I'm addicted to drugs to hey maybe I'm screwed maybe things'll never improve and I'm suck with this bad attitude but if that is a true claim I'll take it in stride and turn my guilty shame into filthy pride So far life has been a pretty shitty ride But I did all right considering I didn't even try
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Oh, baby It's been so long since we talked That I can't even remember the last thing we talked about But I still remember how it felt to hear so much resentment in your voice And it's been so long since we fought about How we got nothing to to talk about I've almost convinced myself it's all noise I was just your toy I care about you more now more than you ever cared about me And it feels like I've been whispering that over and over in my own ear For at least a century We weren't meant to be But you knew you meant so much to me I tried to downplay your sexuality You were so pretty I could've waited an eternity But I don't blame you for eventually needing to get away from me That's fair I shouldn't have tried to make you fill the void I always made you so annoyed You always made me so jealous I used to give you presents Just to let you know I cared And every one in a while I'd say something stupid so you'd give me a smile Just to let me know I'm real I loved our wild little schemes I still want to give you everything you need I want you to feel the way I feel I want to give you all my seed But all you ever give me is five minutes in a dream I know I hurt you Hurts me too still hurts me every single time you find someone new You gave me fear, anxiety, tears and cigarettes when I was broke I gave you tears, lies, bad vibes and the first cigarette you ever smoked I gave you an addiction because I wanted you to be addicted to me Like I was addicted to you But I couldn't afford your love and love is never free Now all you ever give me is five minutes in a dream And baby all you ever give me Is five minutes in a dream Yeah, all you ever give me Is five minutes in a dream Why visit like this? Five blissful minutes Entranced by your ethereal image Isn't enough to explain where the light went You left me lifeless I spent all day craving you until I passed out from exhaustion And you arrived when the night did With all your devices Your timing is perfect like you look once you're all did up under the lights On the pedestal I always, always put you on And as soon as I begin imagining this fantasy will last You're gone I used to wanna fight like cats and dogs I'd stay awake until dawn Learning all the words to your favorite songs And it all felt worth it because I thought I would love you forever But I was wrong I thought I loved you just the way you were But I was wrong I didn't want you I wanted the angel inside you I didn't need you I needed the angel inside you I didn't want you I wanted what's inside of you I didn't need you I needed what's inside of you I didn't want you There's an angel inside of you I didn't need you There's an angel inside of you I don't want you I want the angel inside you I don't need you I need the angel inside you I don't want you I want what's inside of you I don't need you I need what's inside of you I don't want you There's an angel inside of you I don't need you There's an angel inside of you And I don't want you I only what's inside of you And I don't love you I only love what's inside of you I don't love you There's an angel inside of you And I don't love you I I love what's inside of you I don't love you There's an angel inside of you I don't want you any more You're a filthy little whore I don't love you any more Just leave me on the floor Leave my corpse to rot Cuz I gave you all I got can't give anything else I can't even help myself Thought you were heaven sent Instead I only loved what you represent There's an angel inside you Tore my pride in two Couldn't be your friend Now we'll never speak again
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Life isn't fair You learn that day one It's all too much to bear by the time that day's done You can hear time tick in the beat of the drum Or watch it burn from the heat of the sun you can taste time fly from the tip of your tongue Or ten years later when your still coughing up lungs You can smell time rotting when you live in a slum But you notice it the most When it's crawling slow While you're alone and cold and numb If it wan't for the irreversible nature of time I'd redo everything I ever done If it wan't for the irreversible nature of time I'd redo everything I ever done You can lick your wounds which I do Or go looney tunes which I did But you're still inching away from the womb Into the waiting arms of some puny gloomy tomb if there's room for you Which there is I wish they'd stick me in the ground naked and careless Like when I came into the world before I knew what fair is Villains are just victims that are no longer children So, you stepped into the system Expecting to find a rhythm Without realizing you were imprisoned On the wrong side of the prism They say alcoholism is curable But autism isn't Neither is capitalism Our new religion where christians join hands with sinners To manipulate women and children If you'll pardon the euphemism Who took the youths ambition? I used to be a musician I used to perform compositions Now I'm more like an oral mortician Embalming the mortal remains of my morality With more discipline Might as well get it off my chest now before we're senior citizens No more heartwarming normality for me My inner war's first casualty's now long deceased After ego death arrogance increased Burning sexuality just took a short leave Until the morning when I force-feed Reality down my throat till I bleed At some point in time we've all been deceived Grieved Then reconfigured the fundamentals of what we believe Hiding beneath the sheets for weeks Time leaps forward But your progress creeps We're splitting at the seams Awake yet asleep The cost of living is far too steep Sometimes the irreversible nature of time makes me want to weep Weep, weep Sometimes the irreversible nature of time makes me want to weep Weep, weep Fast forward the bad moments and rewind the good times If I could Skip the breakup Play my first kiss and pause it Yeah, that would be good Facebook can't keep track of everyone I un-friended Burnt bridges can be rebuilt But these wounds will not be mended I used to be mature for my age Now I'm just demented Coulda been prevented Too late to turn back Ain't even worth the mention It would've all faded to black But I gave me an extension The irreversible nature of time will get me eventually Retained every shred of shame I ever gained Never say I didn't pay my penalty I only experience happiness seldomnly I don't know where my heart is I wish I was still sellin' weed Cuz the irreversible nature of time will be the death of me regardless And I'm still smoking' weed cuz eternity ain't shit to me You won't live to see it's mystery Gosh darn it
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Mario Speaks 00:10
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Slipaway 05:28
Hey Don't be so worried about tomorrow That you're always in hurry to finish with today It seems like you got lot's of dreams about who'll you'll be and the places you'll see but don't cha know that they're all gonna slip away? Now I know what you're probably thinking But I'll never remember what you're trying to say so you might as well fuckin' chill on that Still, when you're ship has sailed and you've decided to stay well l hope you'll remember your old friend BK And I think frankly you've made a grave mistake in craving Sick days and paid vacations instead of trying saving your generation I think you're wasting your inspiration Some of the questions you're asking have no explanations They're baseless and I've got no more time to find your great big revelations Don't understand my frustration Cuz I couldn't give a damn if you did I'm complacent I hope every memory you have what remains exactly the the way it tasted because there's no way to escape this even the greatest things we savor are all gonna slip away. See, regrettably every memory we made became just an effigy that we'll split down the center to be burned separately that's acceptable though I wish I could have kept one of the especially special pieces next to me those were the seeds of ecstasy But I'd be a hypocrite If i guarded my treasure endlessly So everything I love, envy or cherish I'm gonna set it free When I slip away and I don't know Maybe we should love each other like one, another Let's just shut up about everything we suffered and slip away Tell me when you've had enough and then we'll skip today I don't give shit to play I'm just a young nigga trying to get Good, we square I'd don't even care if you care that I don't care Tell me what you really need when you don't breathe air beware you could be a millionaire Or gather a million prayers But I swear that's all gonna slip away So you better prepare for what we all share and I'll be there when you face despair Still singing the same "I don't care" song and that's not fair, it's wrong but I can't give a damn so so long because I am what I am A man. Hell, Life doesn't seem so long when ya gone And until that point this is just something to dwell on Dwell on Before you slip away You weigh me down with what's hurtin' you when you can't explain what's hurtin me and even though this is so personal you shouldn't take it so personally it wasn't what it was supposed to be My love was murdered in the first degree Now it's locked away plotting ways to burst free I loved, I lost I lust at a cost My trust was was tossed aside there were some crossed lines but pay it no mind It's all over no closure Composure turned frost The light has gone off and it was all in vain I wrote her a love song and she told me i'm insane
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I'm on a journey to be heard People used to tell me you can't hurt me with your words Are you sure? Desert the theatre of the absurd Love is for the birds I've been cured of that desire While I preferred to burn Inspired by the fires So tired Vison blurred Try speaking thru barbed wire and see if your speech isn't slurred There's a choir in heaven Assuring me the situation is dire But what's worse The prophecy or the curse? My body was public property at first Till the odysee was properly disbursed Immersed headfirst Into my birth reversed There's no point reliving your misgivings When your head is spinning with thirst Dead The end Beginning to comprehend Most men cannot defend their creations They befriend desperation And burn like cremation from the start They descend into desolation I turn isolation into real art inspiration comes from my steel heart The congregation gathers to hear me so they can feel smart Though one day they will attempt to peel me apart I'm not exempt from the grating hell of reality Casualties still feel sensuality Where once was a soul that failed me Now lies only a cold black cavity Never to be filled in by human emotion I see the future in slow motion Notions deeper then oceans I seek the means to an end And achieve it with no commotion Leave the comfort of home behind What you dream of is only a stone's throw in kind Blinded by cold No status quo defined Most are confined To limited lives When they can't describe what's on their mind And I? I depicted the sickest images of hell and heaven combined Inclined to grab life by the horns and swarm it you think there's nothing more to find in the storm? Misinformed Get out of the warmth of your dorm ya damn conformist My brain stay insulated You all do the same thing every day like your syndicated I look out from inside the blizzard and see that I'll never be integrated This is the illustration of my point Still waiting to be vindicated I'm trying to escape the simulated conversation I can't take it The hatred, the fakeness Makes me wanna break shit And make outrageous statements Makes me think when you go famous the brain quits And to me That's what shame is I might be on a road to nowhere If so I'll take it alone I don't care, my hope froze Encased the cold I said I might be on a road to nowhere If so I'll take it alone I don't care, my hope froze Encased the cold I know I'm alive because I can feel the wind Still blowin' look at the world I'm in Still going I burn up my sins And smoke memories I throw empty bottles At the homes of my old enemies I stay in doors for days And move on when I have the energy I stay healthy somehow Except for the lethargy scuffle up Cheetos And duck jeopardy Treachery is unavoidable I still exploit it tho Ice cold It's this again Poor excuse for a citizen Lack disciple I could have sworn I heard a voice but it's the wind I might be on a road to nowhere If so I'll take it alone I don't care, my hope froze Encased the cold I said I might be on a road to nowhere If so I'll take it alone I don't care, my hope froze Encased the cold
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The Bad Guy 05:44
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Not content to inherit irrelevance I think hip-hop: Needs more intelligence Change the format, try new experiments. Quit chasing dead ends And deader presidents converted my residence into a place where i can make new developments no precedent exit my presence when I Represent Faithless Sounding like I'm heaven sent I've never had faith before Fate is fake, why do we adore the image? Like what's in store is worth the wait if you receive the privilege We could wax poetic more conformist debate But your rhetoric is vintage That pale horse proposition cannot device the villagers We already sacrificed tradition The code written for our children Says don't believe your mind, heart or vision Relieved of their ambitions So they don't notice that the world we live in is one big prison And if the kid''s unfit for the mission Give him more prescriptions Clinical nutrition Life is a gift, the only thing given The sum total of which is worth less than a pot to piss in Some sinner's seek Heaven's admission Spend their whole lives trying to be forgiven Even if they found a gate there'd be no way to get in We're quick to forget history This isn't existence's definition Just an accurate description of its mystery I'm a Newport fiend Life's too short Abort the scene Forget the past Ignore your dreams The more I breathe The more it seems like My attributes are actually acid, right? Yeah, this hella pessimistic fat basterd spit it tight I been goin in ass backwards for like the past nines nights burn bright earn hype learn to love the lime light Leave earth come back try to find life look in my eyes when I'm done you'd think I died twice time's up and time was valuable Cold as ice and half as casual BK the actual manic gimmie hand claps for the silly raps packed with practical facts that's fuckin magic On the main line aim tactical Harder a cracked rock I be smackin you ooh thats tragic like human trafficking mixed with graphic slapstick you ain't got half the practice that whack shit's fruitier then a bitch's chapstick believe that or seek action come back when you've got half a fraction I diss satisfaction hack you up like allergic reaction my head spins when i lack traction pack up you bargain bin has been i had sinned with women cause i'm conditioned did not pledge allegiance to the devil I'm a One man joy division Now sit back and watch the ruins of a fallen empire glisten listen
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For the Dead 07:46
So, To those still alive: Will you grieve for every lost tribe? Will you pray for every woman raped in wartime? Will you mourn for every victim of every genocide? Will you sympathize with everyone that survived? Would you cry if the violin wept? Would it inspire you to sing till silence steals your last breath? Will you weep for the dead? Will you weep when the rivers run red? Will you weep for the dead? Will you weep for wheelchair Fred? Wheelchair Freddy wasn't ready For his limbs to turn in to spaghetti Sure is a pity Even before that shit his life was pretty shitty Mommy lost her dignity When he was diagnosed with muscular dystrophy Been drink's steady, started to lose it Haunted by visions of what her life would never be In her rage she became quite abusive To what she considered an intrusive nuisance Daddy was too busy making ends meet To notice all the bruises on Freddy Until it was too late Thinking they should've gotten an abortion Oh, the hate Now they're divorcing Poor things couldn't afford their mistake And the whole time these horrors were unfolding at home Fred was in the cafeteria eating all alone No bros, not even close to adults Everyones he knows makes life more difficult Until he was a sophomore Then he started to talk more When one day much to his surprise A couple semi-hot girls Appeared right before his eyes He was at a loss for words They were talking to him And he didn't know why It was all a blur They started to chill sometimes Introduced him to a couple more girls And a couple’ve guys First time in the world he had friends It made him feel so alive BriBri stayed over one night Couldn't do anything sexual so he didn't even try They were growing closer and it did feel nice But than he began to realize He was wearing a disguise Because he could never be a real part of their lives And as soon as he began to enjoy them They began to avoid him Began to annoy him He began to have fantasies of destroying them Subconsciously swallowing the same poison Nothing changed, like it ever wood He accepted his social skills weren't so good He didn't talk to anyone Though his therapist thought they should Fred didn't care Constantly despising everyone who ever stood His mobilized scooter became a lonely throne He forgot about everyone he's ever known So bitter it shows Back in the cafeteria Sitting all alone And at college it's still the same song When I reviewed his essay I spelt his name wrong He doesn't even come into the hub because he doesn't belong You simply won't catch the kid smoking no bong And when he isn't in class no on notices he's gone Now, Isaac Newton died a virgin And Fred will do the same But unlike Newton few will claim To even be able to remember his name Unaware of his pain Now, when I see Wheelchair Fred roll my way I run away Because I know his shame And how quickly life can waste away Like his muscles So go roll away Freddy I know it sounds petty But I will always remain dedicated to the hustle Oh Wheelchair Freddy, why do you make me feel this way? You've been labelled disabled And there's no way you'll be able To not take that label to grave Karma denied you the things you crave Be brave baby I know it sounds insane And it may be But would you really shed a tear if they didn't save me? Will you grieve for every lost tribe? Will you pray for every woman raped in wartime? Will you mourn for every victim of every genocide? Will you sympathize with everyone that survived? Will you weep for the dead? Will you weep when the rivers run red? Will you weep for the dead? Will you weep when you feel the scissors slice the thread? Will you weep for the dead? Will you weep when you see the end? Well Will you? Will you weep for the dead? Or would you rather weep for yourself instead?
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Collecting a version of every song in the PLD repertoire, this compilation features selections from all 3 PLD albums as well as rare and previously unreleased material.

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released February 11, 2015

perfomed by Pathetic Little Dog

PLD:
BK James: vocals, harmonica
Mario Baez: electric guitar, vocals (tracks 5 & 11)
Tom Wolfe: bass
Noah Scheer: piano, drums

with:
Aaron Bruzzo: acoustic guitar (tracks 7 & 13), bass (track 3)
Dylan Rice: additional electric guitar (track 3)

lyrics by BK James & music by Mario Baez
track 8 music by Tom Wolfe
track 11 lyrics and music by Lou Reed
recorded in 2013 & 2014 at SUNY Purchase

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BK James is the infamous co-founder of Three Penis Productions, an experimental music label, and has been steadily releasing music since a handful of BK & KGC songs appeared on Youtube in 2010. For more from BK, check out:

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