Serj Tankian - Harakiri, Imperfect Harmonies, Elect the Dead, System of a Down

01. Empty Walls
Empty walls, empty walls
Pretentious attention
Dismissive apprehension
Don't waste your time on coffins today
When we decline from the confines of our mind
Don't waste your time on coffins today

Don't you see their bodies burning
Desolate and full of yearning
Dying of anticipation
Choking from intoxication
Don't you see their bodies burning
Desolate and full of yearning
Dying of anticipation
Choking from intoxication

I want you to be left behind those empty walls,
Taunt you to see from behind those empty walls

Those empty walls

When we decline from the confines of our mind
Don't waste your time on coffins today

Don't you see their bodies burning
Desolate and full of yearning
Dying of anticipation
Choking from intoxication
Don't you see their bodies burning
Desolate and full of yearning
Dying of anticipation
Choking from intoxication

I want you to be left behind those empty walls
Taunt you to see from behind those empty walls
I want you to be left behind those empty walls
I taunt you to see from behind those empty walls

From behind those empty walls
From behind those empty walls
I loved you yesterday before you killed my family

Don't you see their bodies burning
Desolate and full of yearning
Dying of anticipation
Choking from intoxication

I want you to be left behind those empty walls
Taunt you to see from behin those empty walls
Want you to be left behind those empty walls
From behind those fucking walls
From behind those goddamn walls
Those walls, those walls

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02. The Unthinking Majority
We don't need your democracy
Execute them kindly for me
Take them by their filthy nostrils
Put them up in doggie hostles
We don't need your hyprocrisy
Execute real democracy
Post-industrial society
The unthinking majority

Anti-depressants
Controlling tools of your system
Making life more tolerable
Making life mroe tolerable
Anti-depressants
Controlling tools of your system
Making life more tolerable
Making life more tolerable

We don't need your hyprocrisy
Execute real democracy
Post-industrial society
The unthinking majority

Anti-depressants
Controlling tools of your system
Making life more tolerable
Making life more tolerable
Anti-depressants
Controlling tools of your system
Making life more tolerable
Making life mroe tolerable

We don't need your hyprocrisy
Execute real democracy
Post-industrial society
The unthinking majority
Post-industrial society
The unthinking majority
We don't need your hyprocrisy
Execute real democracy
Post-industrial society
The unthinking majority
Post-industrial society
The unthinking majority

I believe that you're wrong
Insinuating they hold the bomb
Clearing the way for the oil brigade
Clearing the way for the oil brigade
I belive that you're wrong
Insinuating they hold the bomb
Clearing the way for the oil brigade
Clearing the way for the oil brigade

Anti-depressants
Controlling tools of your system
Making life more tolerable
Making life more tolerable
Anti-depressants
Controlling tools of your system
Making life more tolerable
Making life mroe tolerable

I believe that you're wrong
Insinuating they hold the bomb
Clearing the way for the oil brigade
Clearing the way for the oil brigade
I belive that you're wrong
Insinuating they hold the bomb
Clearing the way for the oil brigade
Clearing the way for the oil brigade

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03. Money
Money
All for money
Save your money,
Hide your money,
Stuff your money,
Hump your money
Save your money
All for money

Waning patience
People's appetite
Disposition
This possession
Dispossessed from all the attractions,
Dancing bears of eroticism,
Self absorbed delusion
Inclusion of dysfunction,
I now await the triumphant
Lost baggage, train station,

The causes of ineptitude
Can be traced to my mandatory down,
The causes of my servitude
Can be traced to the tyranny of

Money
All for money
Save your money,
Hide your money,
Stuff your money,
Hump your money
Save your money
All for money

My final surrender
Away from inclusion
I now await the triumphant,
Left baggage, train station,

The causes of ineptitude
Can be traced to my mandatory down,
The causes of my servitude
Can be traced to the tyranny of a down,
The causes of ineptitude
Can be traced to my mandatory down,
The causes of my servitude
Can be traced to the tyranny of

Money
All for money
Save your money,
Hide your money,
Stuff your money,
Hump your money
Save your money
All for money

Money, money, money, money!

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04. Feed Us
Maybe we believe
She was ready to go
In the morning light
Maybe you believe
That she was made of gold
In the east where you killed her
You lead us
When you need to feed us
You comfortably delete us
When you need your fetus

You cheat us when you feed us with the lie
Stars look out and,
Cheat us when you feed us with the lie
Stars look out

Goodbye, goodbye

She speaks unrehearsed
Languages from skin
In the morning light
Painting shadows on the
faces of the dead
In front of their windows

You cheat us when you feed us with the lie
Stars look out and,
Cheat us when you feed us with the lie,
Before its too late

Do you know that life is ending
As we go, the dots connecting
We had our chance to save the garden
As it dies, our souls will harden
With these words chastising your conscience
We're breaking through and praying for transcendence

But you deceived us all now

You cheat us when you feed us with the lie
Stars look out and,
Cheat us when you feed us with the lie
Stars look out and,
Cheat us when you feed us with the lie
Stars look out and,
Cheat us when you feed us with the lie
Stars look out

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05. Saving Us
Why do we sit around and
Break each other's hearts tonight,
Why do we dance aound
The issues till the morning light,
When we sit and talk and
Tear each other's lives apart,
You were the one to tell me go,
But you were the one for me
And now you're going through the door
When you take that step
I love you baby more and more
We need to laugh and sing and cry
And warm each other's hearts tonight,
Observing the fun of everything
And loving all of mother God

Tearing us, you're tearing us
You're breaking us, you're breaking us
You're killing us, killing us
You're saving us, you're saving us
You're tearing us, you're tearing us
You're breaking us, breaking us
You're killing us, killing us
You're saving us

Why so we sit around and
Break each other's hearts tonight
Why do we dance around
The issues till the morning light
When we sit and talk and
Tear each other's lives apart
You were the one to tell me go
But you were the one for me
And now you're going through the door
when you take that step
I love you baby more and more
We need to laugh and sing and cry
And warm each others hearts tonight
Observing the fun of everything
And loving all of mother God

Tearing us, you're tearing us
You're breaking us, you're breaking us
You're killing us, killing us
You're saving us, you're saving us
You're tearing us, you're tearing us
You're breaking us, breaking us
You're killing us, killing us
You're saving us

Forever alive, forever alive, forever, forever,
Forever alive, forever alive, forever,
Never and ever again

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06. Sky is Over
Everybody knows
Everybody knows
That you cradle the sun, sun
Living in remorse,
Sky is over

Don't you want to hold me baby
Disappointed, going crazy

Even though we can't afford
The sky is over
Even though we can't afford
The sky is over
I don't want to see you go
The sky is over
Even though we can't afford
The sky is over

Behind closed eyes lie
The minds ready to awaken you
Are you at war with land
And all of its creatures
Your not-so-gentle persuasion
Has been known to wreck economies
Of countries, of empires, the sky is over

Don't you want to hold me baby
Disappointed, going crazy

Lalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalala
Lalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalalala

Not even from the sun
Not even from the sun
not even from the sun
Don't you want me to run

Even though we can't afford
The sky is over
Even though we can't afford
The sky is over
I don't want to see you go
The sky is over
Even though we can't afford
The sky is over
I don't want to see you go
The sky is over
Even though we can't afford
The sky is over
I don't want to see you go
The sky is over
Even though we can't afford
The sky is over
The sky is over us

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07. Baby
You came to me within a dream
Not everyone is who they seem
All these words we can't redeem
Like the great magic of our world
Corroborated by your words
Splitting planets into thirds

1, 2, 3, 4

Baby oh baby
Baby my baby
Baby ooh babe
I miss you, lalala,
Baby oh baby
Baby my babe
Baby ooh babe
I miss you

To all the leaves that fall in vain
While god and goddess go insane
All these words in your domain
The watches kill time as the books read
Inadvertently we bleed
Fighting for what we deceive

Baby oh baby
Baby my baby
Baby ooh babe
I miss you, lalala,
Baby oh baby
Baby my babe
Baby ooh babe
I miss you

Leave me alone
Leave me alone

Now why can't you see that you always
perturb me so
Nearing the end of the world, just leave me
alone,
Leave me alone
Why can't you see that you always perturb me
so
Nearing the end of the world, leave me alone,
Leave me alone

Baby oh baby
Baby my baby
Baby ooh babe
I miss you, lalala,
Baby oh baby
Baby my babe
Baby ooh babe
I miss you

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08. Honking Antelope
Why don't you go photograph
Everything that ever passed in time
Indigenous traces, tribal chiefs,
Vanishing hereditary lines,
Poets gone wild on the muse
Prophets all destroying the Tao

When you see that honking antelope
The secret dance of snakes, the tales of it all,

Nature based beings will survive
Apocalyptic days of now
Poets gone wild on the muse
Prophets all destroying the Tao

When you see that honking antelope
The secret dance of snakes, the tales of it all,

Of it all,
Run away with me now
Run away with me now,
My life!

We are the cause of a world that's gone wrong
Nature will survive us human dogs after all

Why don't you go and photograph
Everything that ever passed in time,
Poets gone wild on the muse
Prophets all destroying the Tao

When you see that honking antelope
The secret dance of snakes, the tales of it all,
When you see that honking antelope
The secret dance of snakes, the tales of it all,

Of it all,
Run away with me now,
Run away with me now
My love!

We are the cause of a world that's gone wrong
Nature will survive us human dogs after all,
We are the cause of a world that's gone wrong,
Wouldn't it be great to heal the world
With only a song

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09. Lie, Lie, Lie
Lalalalalalalala lie lie lie
Lalalalalalalala lie lie lie
Lalalalalalalala lie lie lie
Lalalalalalalala lie lie lie

My baby, my baby,
let me know
because you love me, you love me
Let me go
And you're my lover, you pay me
Twice my size
And on your knees you lay
In my thighs

Take my hand and let's end it all
She broke her little bones
On the boulders below
Take my hand and let's end it all

My baby, my baby
Let me go
And if you love me, you love me
Let me go
Cause I'm your brother, your brother
Have some pride
And now you love me, you love me
Then die tonight

Take my hand and let's end it all,
She broke her little bones
On the boulders below
Take my hand and let's end it all
Broke her little bones
On the boulders below
And while she fell I delightfully said

Lalalalalalalala lie lie lie
Lalalalalalalala lie lie lie
Lalalalalalalala lie lie lie
Lalalalalalalala lie lie lie

She took my hand and I let her go
She broke her little bones
On the boulders below
Took my hand and she ended it all
Broke her little bones on the boulders below
And while she fell, I smiled

Lalalalalalalala lie lie lie
Lalalalalalalala lie lie lie
Lalalalalalalala lie lie lie
Lalalalalalalala lie lie lie

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10. Praise the Lord and Pass the Ammunition
Come lay it down, won't you,
Come burn it down, can't you,
Lay it down, the guns above the ground
Come lay it down, won't you,
Come burn it down, can't you,
Lay it down, the guns above the ground

Nlelith is a prophet
From the prophet came the king
From the king came the pauper
From the pauper came the swing
From the swing came creation
From the creation came love,
You don't know what this love is all about

Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
Praise praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
Life affirming and our spiritual trust

Lay it down, won't you
Come burn it down, can't you
Lay it down, the guns above the ground

Nlelith is a prophet
From the prophet came the king
From the king came the pauper
From the pauper came the swing
From the swing came creation
From the creation came love,
You don't know what this love is all about

Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
Praise praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
Praise praise the Lord and pass the ammunition

Buddha, Mohammad and the Hindu
Lost 100
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
Praise praise the Lord and pass the ammunition
People still ask when will Armageddon begin

Dragging my feet any longer through the pussy litter,
Dragging my feet any longer through the pussy litter,
Dragging my feet any longer through the pussy litter

Nlelith is a prophet
From the prophet came the king
From the king came the pauper
From the pauper came the swing
From the swing came creation
From the creation came love,
You don't know what this love is all about

Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition,
Praise praise the Lord and pass the ammunition,
Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition,
Praise praise the Lord and pass the ammunition

Do we ever have enough
When we see that blue dove
Do we ever have enough
When we see that blue dove
We want to go where no one's been
No one's been

Come lay it down, won't you
Come burn it down, can't you
Lay it down, the guns above the ground
Won't you

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11. Beethoven's Cunt
Brushing, touching, feeling on your shoulders
Believing, appealing, kneeling in your worlds
Oceans are combined

Being that I love you so much
In the end they all will say
Breaking someone else's heart again

Find the little evil perpetrator
And feed him to the hungry alligator
You want it all
You want it all
Love is not about the profits
Nor the riches in your dreams

The arms of time are breaking off
Civilization is on trail
The clocks eliminating time
Do you believe in me?

I've been walking through these dead farms
But I don't mind
I've been screaming through these dead lungs
But I can't find

Being that I love you so much
In the end they all will say
Breaking someone else's heart again

Find the little evil perpetrator
And feed her to the hungry alligator
You want it all
You want it all
Love is not about the profits
Nor the riches in your dreams

The arms of time are breaking off
Civilization is on trial
The clocks eliminating time
Do you believe, in me?

But lately I've been blind
You leave me all alone, left in time
You left me here to die, left in time
Leave me all alone, left in time

The arms of time are breaking off
Civilization is on trial
The clock's eliminating time
Do you believe in nothing?

But lately ive been blind
Leave me all alone, left in time

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12. Elect the Dead
Arms are raised above the sky
But all I want is me

You are there beside the night
But all I want is me
All I want is me

Love we know
Comes from inside,
But all I want is me
All I want is me

Death we know
Comes to us alive
But all I want is you

Death we know
Comes to all of us alive
But all I want is you
All I need is you
All I want...

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13. The Reverend King
The visceral application of death in your own (applications)
Your own time (time)
The wedges of strength lie beyond you

Discover what it is that you need...

The reverend king said:
All the lights are gone (all the lights are gone)
All the lights are gone and the tracks,
The tracks that turn us into space.

Seeing as seeing is believing
Believing is seeing
Believing

The reverend king said:
Dare question me for the life of my subjects
But just had a great miracle!

The visceral application of death in your own,
Your own time.
The wedges of strength lie beyond you.

Discover what it is that you mean...

The reverend king said:
All the lights are gone,
All the lights are gone and the tracks,
The tracks that turn us into space.

Seeing as seeing is believing
(believing is being)
(seeing is believing)

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14. Blue
I'm
Wishin' and wishin' away at you girl
I'm
Wishin' and wishin' away at you girl

I don't see nothing but pain and misery,
Cause you are the one for me
Why can't it all be true?
Can I escape with my blue fallen reverie?
Why can't it all be true?
Why can't it all be true?
Can't it all be true...

I'm
Wishin' and wishin' away at you girl
I'm
Wishin' and wishin' away at you girl

Suddenly, I believe you are the one for me
Graciously you move through my closed hearts artery
Can I escape with my blue fallen reverie?
Why can't it all be true?
Why can't it all be true?

Suddenly, I believe you are the one for me
Graciously you move through my closed hearts artery
Can I escape with my blue fallen reverie?
Why can't it all be true?
Why can't it all be true?

Wishin' and wishin' away at you girl
Wishin' and wishin' away at you girl...

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15. Falling Stars
Please raise your child today
The way that you were born to play
Way that we all disappear
Allowing us to shed our fears

Pain, your every step
When you fooled enough to want to die
When you cry
You will find

Falling stars drain every night
Falling stars drain

Please raise your child to day
The way that you were told to play
Way that we all disappear
Allowing us to shed our fears

Pain, your every step
When you fooled enough to want to die
When you cry
You will find

Falling stars drain every night
Falling stars drain every night
Falling stars drain

(In our arrested silence [in our arrested silence]
We plead to our insane gods [we plead to our insane gods]
In our voices
In our heads [in our voices, in our heads])

Go now when you...
(Like the silence in the woods
To stop accusing man and his cool culture
Economic, global domination [domination])

Why can't you see that I always belong to me?
Now when we...
(The balance remains between that which is sought by the few profit)

Why can't you see that you always belong...
(And that which is sought by the most – peace, oh peace)

Fall, falling stars drain every night
Falling stars drain every night

I can't believe that you wanted me so much pain
Every

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16. Gratefully Disappeared
Have you disappeared
With all of life shining upon you?
Into the brightness of today

You encircle me room to room
Partaking of your grace

My heart is in trepidation
For I have a bit of fear
Though I am filled with love for your presence

You tease me like a virgin maiden
Galloping around
Showing me your autonomous capabilities

I love you
For you are my teacher
You have taught me much
In the small presence of a millisecond
Much more than a world of physical knowledge
More than a world of physical knowledge

I had the opportunity to lightly caress you
And for that I am a billion times grateful
For that, for that, for that
I am a billion times grateful...