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Self Titled

by Message Received

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Fifty and Nine Lyrics: You've got fifty dollars You're smiling, You're holding You're going down to the Liquor store to buy a bottle He’ll give you anything You want it, you got it Then you can wash away All of your thoughts and your pain Oh the shame You’ve got not control You lost it, you want it Not gonna find it down In the bottom of a bottle I know that things get worse Everyday She took the house and kids She left you out in the rain Oh the shame Didn’t your mom tell you when You get dealt a hand That you just can’t win Pick up your head and go Now you think about All the things that you wanted It wasn’t supposed to be Quite like this Now was it? Working fifty hours Still got empty pockets And everyday? Well it feels like it’s the same Oh the shame Driving fifty miles Everyday just to get a Paycheck to pay For the car that you live in No wonder you Drown away all your sorrows I bet you are so Sick of playing the game Oh the shame Didn’t your mom tell you when You get dealt a hand That you just can’t win Pick up your head and go Have you ever wanted to be Someone else instead? So just keep screaming Oh, Oh God! Please save me…
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Designed for Dying Lyrics: I want a way to listen To the crystalline All pressure builds up To destruction We weave patterns In the sublime Transformative structures Encased in the temporal mind Release to stop the friction Of neuro-somatic lines, re-wired Resolute prophets Of the third eye Apocalyptic translucent lies Revealing the structures Ensnared to the end of our time Calloused hands tremble to hold The things we had when we were young Seventy years gone by, did you try? Did you find, love, love, love? They say, “you’re consciousness, It stops at your body.” But I know better still Because I crossed the line You don’t have to wait until you die To see what’s on the, the other side So leave behind the illusions of what we are We don’t know what its like But we could if we try, so try
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Chemical Life Lyrics: All the children, they’re medicated We’re the Rx Generation Boom Bop it begins, we don’t have to feel a thing Go on place your labels on all of us, all of us I can’t keep my focus on anything, anything She feels a little bit depressed, every Winter He felt devastated, when she dumped him for The boy next door, so give him his medicine Take one more pill, choke it down And you’ll feel better son. Go on, grow up, way too fast now Turn off all the things that make you feel sad so You don’t ever have to feel hurt or alone, again You don’t have to feel a thing Welcome to the chemical life
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I Didn't Want To Go (free) 04:35
I Didn’t Want To Go Lyrics: You know you must be tough my child I know you must be oh so tired But wrap your head around this my dear If you can hold on, you’re in the clear I know you couldn’t take a breath cuz You don’t know what is left To live for or die for, so won’t you… Stop waiting, you must be crazy You will sleep safely But I’m not coming, no I’m not coming home My sweet Josephine, my daughter You are so, strong and beautiful My dearest Daniel, take care of your mother I will miss you all, I will I didn’t want to go, but it was The best thing to do, to save you
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Dark Passenger (free) 06:16
Dark Passenger Lyrics: Unveil all the evidence Show me a way to make sense of this I can see the violence in their eyes The broken heart of a lonely child Saw his parents die when he was five But he was left alive I met him when I was twenty three We have the same dark, dark dreams When we were young Want to clean up the streets of the city Want to make it safe for all the children in it So cloaked in night We’ll put the dead in their graves Its time to talk about mission control Its time to walk the walk, I know it sounds absurd But we’ll climb into the depths of hell Until we find the source of it all And we’ll reverse the spell The skies are painted dirty grey Its their time to fade away We’ll give our lives to save the day Vanquish the dead back to their graves Its time to talk about this dirty operation Its time to let it out, any reservations? We are the vigilant We are justice in action We are the last defense From the violent, the violent The violent, the violence The skies are painted dirty grey Its their time to fade away We’ll give our lives to save the day Vanquish the dead back to their graves My dark passenger whispers “Tonight will be the night.”
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The Tongue and the Whisper Lyrics: You were the Tongue and I was the Whisper You preached the Word, I drank the wine You had a way with all the believers I don’t believe your kind, oh preacher Woah, Preacher, you’re getting it wrong Time is a fraud, not a frame or a picture Time is a gun that kills We have no time for this game of tradition You have lost your will We are all born from the blood and the violence Its all we know Silence the lies from the crowned benediction They have no right to say That God is on his way Woah, Preacher, you’re getting it wrong Jesus take me home You’ve been stuck in first with your blinders on You’ve been preaching only the same old song Waiting for the day but the day won’t come Singing, “Rapture take me home.” Woah, Preacher, you’re getting it wrong
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The Center of Will (free) 02:01
The Center of Will Lyrics: I saw pretty lights I saw them when I died Welcome to the center of will What a life we live It’s a crazy trip Use up the time we got Then we die alone But that doesn’t mean we can’t have some fun So come on, come on Welcome the center of will
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Don’t You Worry Lyrics: We’re up to our necks, in the blood of the fallen But we’ll have to wait, our eyes are all swollen These arms are like snakes, our backs are so broken If you can’t go on, you can turn back around But that’s not what you want, now is it? If you can’t make it on your own Don’t you worry I will carry you home You’re probably without Grace in your head That’s why you walk around Like the living dead You’re probably without grace That’s why you scream and shout I’d rather be, someone else, instead… If you can’t make it on your own Don’t you worry I will carry you home

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Debut "Self Titled" Album by Message Received, recorded at our studio in Brattleboro, VT. Message Received plays a mix of genres, with post-hardcore roots, that range from indie-rock and prog-rock to punk and metal.

"Self Titled" started out as a Zombie themed album but some of the lyrics were changed to make it a little more subtle. The album opens with the struggle of everyday life, the desire to be something better than you are and self-medicating. Then after the Apocalypse, it moves on to regaining strength, fighting the undead and protecting those who need protecting.

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released January 1, 2010

Benjamin Zeman - Guitar and Vocals
Carson Arnold - Drums

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