IIOI/SG Split Lyrics

Trying to tie up some loose ends on the site, adding the IIOI/SG split lyrics for reference.

Minstrels
Did you know the half listening world is sitting on its throne?
Kings and queens judging you from home.
And you’re the minstrel in their court,
With looks like that who needs any support?
Those lights that shined on you just masked the fucking truth.

So play what they want to hear success is based upon your fear
Of consequences if the king does not approve.
Then it’s back to the cell for you,
And you’ll never make the music that you want to.

I was told that music was the expression of one’s soul,
I guess that means that yours was sold.
The next ten years of songs have been written and if you get
A fat enough check you can buy yourself the next big fucking hit.

I’ll play what I want to hear my passion lies in my own ears.
In another year the king may draw his gun,
Then it’s back to square one.
And I could care less ’cause I’ve already won.

I thought that music was an expression of one’s soul,
I guess that means that yours was sold.
And when you stand to think, it doesn’t mean a thing.

The World That You Live In
Well hey, how’ve you been?
It’s been so long since you were a friend.

All of these people inside a room,
pretend to care less about themselves than they do you.
When nothing else could be farther from the truth.
This is the world that you live in.

Well hey, when you said that the world was going to end,
I don’t think that’s what you really meant.

All of these people inside a tomb,
And they won’t be coming back any time soon.
Centuries of crawling backwards towards the womb.

I won’t go, will you please. so please just leave me.
Eaten, drowned, or diseased. Eternally.
So the next time that you see evidence of me,
I’ll be out on the sea with strength to be
the man that I want to be.
And nothing that you think will make a difference in me.

Nothing that you say will make a difference in me anyway.
And besides I know that you don’t have to be
Part of the world that I live in.
Fuck the world that you live in.