Social Circkle - City Shock

Social Circkle
City Shock
2009

lyrics:
1) CITY SHOCK

City Shock

Life's got him beat
He's all leering eyes and gnashing teeth
For 56 years it's been the same
His mother died last year so who's to blame?
It's all he's ever known
No real friends and he's all alone
Age creeps up and hope fades away
He's just another sad face on the subway train

He's got
City Shock

Sick of the smells, the noise, the sights
Bricks and trash and sirens in the night
It's the same routine
Another week chained to the computer screen
Moved him to the basement from the second floor
At least his desk is by the door
Still drinks too much
Sneaks a shot when he eats his lunch
He'll stagger on home when his work is done
Like a shock troop after a night on the front

He's got
City Shock

This is his life and he's stuck with it
Just hopes and dreams of how it should've went

He's got
City Shock

Sick of the smells, the noise, the sights
Bricks and trash and sirens in the night

2) FINGER ON THE SWITCH

There's no use to try to fight
Just hide out every night

Paper headlines scream in fear
It's coming down the end is near
USSA's the new Iraq
Just wiping cities off the map

So this is how it's gonna end?
At the hands of selfish men
The switch - the switch
They've got their fingers on the switch
The switch - the switch
Got their fingers on the switch

There's no use to try to fight
Just hide out every night

War planes fill the darkened skies
It's not a dream believe your eyes
Panic starts to hit the ground
T-minus ten they're counting down

So this is how it's gonna be?
There's no hope for you and me
The switch - the switch
They've got their fingers on the switch
The switch - the switch
Got their fingers on the switch

4321

Paper headlines scream in fear
It's coming down the end is near
USSA's the new Iraq
Just wiping cities off the map

So this is how it's gonna end?
At the hands of selfish men
The switch - the switch
They've got their fingers on the switch
The switch - the switch
Got their fingers on the switch

3) THIRD SHIFT

Can't get a normal job
And can't do nine to five
You're getting up when it's dark outside
It's the only way to survive

Squinting eyes in the morning light
You sleep all day
You're up all night
Living life in a sunless pit
You're living life on the PM shift

And you can't stand the routine
So fed up I see it in your face
Stuck in the ten to eight
And you're not going any place

Squinting eyes in the morning light
You sleep all day
You're up all night
Living life in a sunless pit
You're living life on the PM shift

Hate this life and you just can't cope
You're working nights and you've lost all hope

Your life's out of balance
You're always tired
So messed up
Your brain is fried
Hate this life
You can't cope
You're working overnight
And you've lost all hope

Make it out
Gotta try
To make it out
And make it out alive

I can see it in your face

Squinting eyes in the morning light
You sleep all day
You're up all night
Living life in a sunless pit
You're living life on the PM shift

4) VACANT LOT

Knocked down - Built up
Putting urban blight to use
They'll buy up your old neighborhood and sell it back to you
Knocked down - Built up
The cycle only stops
When there's no more money thrown around and the market drops

Is city life just like you thought?
You've got a nice view of a vacant lot

Built up - knocked down
People living in the streets
Empty buildings overhead but no place for them to sleep
Built up - knocked down
Tell me what's the use?
We haven't got a chance in a gamble we all lose

Is city life just like you thought?
You've got a nice view of a vacant lot

And you moved to the city from far away
Got a good job and money to waste
You bought a place with a skyline view
In a brand-new building built for people like you
Moved to the city from far away
You've got a good job and money to waste
Bought a place but the building stopped
Now you've got a nice view of a vacant lot
You've got a nice view of a vacant lot

You've got a nice view of a vacant lot

5) DRUNK COP

Standing on the corner
Blue shirt red face
No such thing as law and order
You're just a big disgrace

And your breath stinks of alcohol
I saw you drinking on the job

Sitting in your cruiser
Drinking beer you stole
From the kid on the corner
You left him laying in the street

And I watched you kill for alcohol
I saw you
You left him laying face down in the street

You're four to the floor
You're three sheets to the wind
'Cause you're a drunk cop
You're a drunk cop

Standing on the corner
Blue shirt red face
No such thing as law and order
You're just a big disgrace

And I watched you kill for alcohol
I saw you
You left him laying in the street

6) WHAT'S SO GREAT?

You and everyone you know
You all think and act the same
You may call that perfectly normal
But I don't think that's perfectly sane
I must be so out of touch
'Cause I can't relate
I wish someone could explain to me

What's so great?
What's so great about normal
Normal thinking
What's so great?
What's so great about you?

Your politicians are pop stars
Your heroes actors from T.V.
Your sex symbols are all sixteen
It doesn't make any sense to me
You say there's something wrong with me
'Cause I can't relate
But it's not my fault that I can't see

What's so great?
What's so great about normal
Normal thinking
What's so great?
What's so great about you?

So now you're trying to tell me
This is what you call feeling fine
Well I think there's something wrong
With your normal mind
You kill yourself with awful food
An awful job and an awful day-to-day
That's called perfectly normal?
I'd rather be called insane

Because there's nothing great
Nothing great about normal, normal thinking
There's nothing great
Nothing great about normal, normal thinking
And there's nothing great about you

7) OUT OF FOCUS

Make it through
Another day
Clear my thoughts
And find a way
Pressure's mounting might explode
Gotta force back this overload
Voices around me faces blurred
Nothing seen and nothing heard

I need a break
Can't take this much
Out of focus
Out of touch
Thoughts are racing
I stress too much
It's all out of focus
All out of touch

Another day
Is out of sight
Thoughts are racing
Mouth is dry
Tonight's a million years from now
Minutes stretching into hours
Don't talk to me can't take much more
You're one more detail to ignore

I need a break
Can't take this much
Out of focus
Out of touch
Thoughts are racing
I stress too much
It's all out of focus
All out of touch

8) PROBLEM CHILD

I'm only let out at night
My family keeps me out of sight
So I spend all day just locked away
They don't want me to be seen
It's been this way since I was born
When they saw my face their hearts were torn
And the doctor claimed with a startled gasp
I'm a thing that shouldn't be

No mind
No soul
My head's an empty hole
There's something wrong with me
I'm a problem child
Problem child

Closed up in my nursery
They can't find a nanny to care for me
So I make my friends from the things I find
It's how I spend my time
My parents keep me away
From the other children when I play
'Cause the games I like just make them scream
And scream and scream and scream and scream and scream

No mind
No soul
My head's an empty hole
There's something wrong with me
I'm a problem child
Problem child

Why do they all say there's something wrong inside my brain?

I have these secret thoughts, but I won't tell you what kind
People say there are these awful things hidden inside of my mind
The doctors try to reach me, to understand what makes me tick
I don't get it, what's the point? Why do they treat me like I'm sick?

I haven't got a problem I feel absolutely fine

They put me back in my room, but they forgot to turn the key
Now I'm going to leave the house to find someone to play with me

I'm a good boy really
Don't call me a problem child

9) PILLS

The doctors said these pills would dull the pain
They'd keep her grounded, they'd keep her sane
But now she's right back where she was before

Her room - The door
The walls - The floor

It's happened again
The world's closing in
Stays inside here only when
Her grounding slips away again
It's happened again
The world's closing in

The doctors said these pills would do the trick
Won't make him sad, won't make him sick
But now he`s even worse than he was before

His room - The door
The walls - The floor

It was never her decision
Feels like he's locked in a prison
And the door's always closed
And now they're upping the dose

It's happened again
The world's closing in

10) UNDER SUSPICION

Not too sure I know what's going on
Is it all in my head or is something wrong?
My name on a list
My face on a screen
They know who I've met and where I've been
Suspicious eyes in the cafes
Sinister faces in the alleyways
I don't know what they think I've done
But they've got me on the run

Do you know?
I can't say
Why they've got their eyes on me
They just won't let me be
I'm
Placed
Under suspicion

Cameras follow my every move
I've got a shadow I can't seem to lose
A glance in a crowd
A tap on my phone
They've got eyes inside my home
When they finally get me
You know they say they're gonna make me sing
Why won't they believe me when I tell them
That I don't know a thing?

Do you know?
I can't say
Why they've got their eyes on me
They just won't let me be
I'm
Placed
Under suspicion

And I can't get away
They follow me every day

Still don't know what's going on
But it's not in my head, there's something wrong
My name on a list
Face on a screen
I can't get away without being seen

Do you know?
I can't say
Why they've got their eyes on me
They just won't let me be
I'm
Placed

Do you know?
I can't say
Why they've got their eyes on me
They just won't let me be
I'm
Placed
Under suspicion

11) SO OLD

I got a feeling that this ain't right
And unpaid bills keep me up at night
Years pass by my hope starts to slip
As I wreck myself on this destruction trip and

Hate to say it but I think I see
I'm not as young as I used to be
And it's just blank faces it's all gone cold
I can't go back and it's all so old

Locked behind bars of my own design
People come and go I'm just left behind
Try to get by and ignore the shit
Still addicted to the noise the blood and spit and

Hate to say it but I think I see
I'm not as young as I used to be
And it's just blank faces it's all gone cold
I can't go back and it's all so old

I ask what's it all for
What is it all for?
It's all so old - So old
Step back and take a look at life
Every day it just seems more trite and
You tell me to keep up the fight
What is it all for?
It's all so old - It's all so old
It's all so old - It's all so old

SOCIAL CIRCKLE - "City Shock"
2009 - HWR-21

Guitar - Matt Smith
Bass - Cliff DeMedeiros
Drums - Ryan Abbott
Vocals - Christian Pedro

Recorded at Side Two
by Ryan Abbott and Allison Haar
www.side-two.com

Mastered by Nick Zampiello

Released by
Hardware Records
P.O. Box 1646
49006 Osnabrück, Germany
chris@hardware-records.com

Released in the USA by No Way Records

Social Circkle
6 Wadleigh Place
Boston, MA O2I27 USA
socialcirckle@gmail.com

Guest vocals on "Drunk Cop" - Jeff Walker
Photography - Sasha Pedro
Back cover models - Jamie Jones and Ryan Taylor

Thanks:
Chris and Hardware Records
Brandon and Lauren and No Way Records
Jeff Walker
Eric Yu