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System overload

from For those who can see without by Kinkajou

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Riffs etc. by Jukka Haapakoski
Arrangement by Kinkajou
Rat race announcer - Jukka Haapakoski
Lyrics by Jukka Haapakoski

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Running the
rat race dream
jack up the
engines for
the mad cap
efficiency
overload the
systems on red
give the victim
one more task
and he will
lose his mind
kill his soul

Pressure
builds within
terror
sinking in
pressure
all around
freedom
is thrown away

Escape to the
safety zone
from the bitter
mind control
what is left
at point zero?
another distorted
empty dream
must look forward
run much faster
than the pack
find another
rat race gab

One end is a new beginning
but who decides
from which book the page is turned?
One struggle may be another's
challenge, but
in the end of the chain there's
always someone dying...

Searching for comfort in new
distractions
the struggle leads the victim
farther from the truth

the fantasies of youthful
idealism slowly
melt away like ghost cities
near dried up rivers

SYSTEM OVERLOAD

Pressure
builds within
terror
sinking in
pressure
all around
freedom
is thrown away


(3. verse, not singed)
Taking orders from
dying minds
running the days
totally blind
packing the bills
packing the pills
the fever is raging
energy levels
are failing
life lived to the
edge a broken
body soon is
laid to rest

Pressure
builds within
terror
sinking in
pressure
all around
freedom
is thrown away

Hello people
Do you have
what it takes
to participate
'cause the rat race games are on
and all you have to do
is spin in the wheel

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from For those who can see without, released July 18, 2012

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Kinkajou was:

Mikael Leinonen - Bass, backing vocals
Rauli Heinänen - Guitar, vocals
Jukka Haapakoski - Guitar wizard
Oskari Tarvainen - Drums

Juhani Laine - Guitar wizard
(on The Dreams below & Sweet taste of wasted past)
Ville Välikorpi - Drums (on Sweet taste of wasted past) ... more

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