Live At The Crackhouse (demo)
Released May 2004.
   

 
1. Machine's Agenda (1:12)
 
2. Call Center (2:31)
 
3. Stand and Defend (2:11)
 
4. Waste (1:48)
 
5. Out Of My Loop (1:22)
6. Their Warfare (1:54)
 
7. Little Piece Of Heaven (1:42)
 
     
     

     
Heather Hell • Vocals
Zane Comina • Guitar
Mikey • Bass
Arena • Drums
 
Independently released May 2004.
Produced by Machine's Agenda.
Recorded April 2004 via live mobile recording at Greg's House (San Diego, CA).
Engineered by Greg.
Mixed and mastered May 2004 by Aaron Ward at ZenWhisper Studios (Imperial Beach, CA).

All songs published ZenWhisper 2007 (ASCAP).
All music by Zane Comina, except where noted.
All lyrics by Heather Hell, except where noted.


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"Machine's Agenda" music by Zane Comina, Stephen Muecke, Aaron Ward, & Arena.
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"Call Center" music by Zane Comina, Stephen Muecke, Aaron Ward, & Arena.
* "Call Center" lyrics by Stephen Muecke.
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"Stand and Defend" music by Zane Comina & Arena.
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"Waste" music by Zane Comina & Arena.
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"Out Of My Loop" music by Zane Comina, Stephen Muecke, Aaron Ward, & Arena.
* "Out Of My Loop" lyrics by Heather Hell & Stephen Muecke.
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"Their Warfare" music by Zane Comina, Mikey, & Arena.
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"Little Piece Of Heaven" music by Zane Comina & Arena.

Album layout and design by Aaron Ward.

NOTES: This album was recorded as a live demo and was originally
to be titled "Never Out Of Reach" and included different artwork.
Tracks may vary slightly on early versions, minus or rearranged a track.
 

     
LIVE AT THE CRACKHOUSE
 

Machine's Agenda

Everyone’s on the agenda
Who’s up next to be destroyed?
All the spoils will be divided
Between the good girls and good boys

Welcome to the mind machine
There’s censored thought and blinding screens
All the delusions are well fed
You like it here, the pain is dead

You like it here ‘cause you can’t think
Like it here ‘cause you can’t see
Like it here you’ve got no choice
Like it here you’ve got no voice

What will you do when all the options run out?
Look to the future and forget all the doubt
That the past has created and the present portrays
Just surrender ‘cause you’ve got no option

Welcome to the mind machine
There’s censored thought and blinding screens
All the delusions are well fed
You like it here, the pain is dead

You like it here ‘cause you can’t think
Like it here ‘cause you can’t see
Like it here you’ve got no choice
Like it here you’ve got no voice

My hands are raw, bleeding…bleeding
A happy thought there is no home in
What’s above and what’s below?
Who’s on the side, and who’s the next to go
And all I wanna know is…who’s up next
On the machine’s agenda

 
 
 

Call Center

Thank you for calling
Now I am dying
Stuck in my box
Many sheep are in this flock

Surrounded by idiots
The meaning is tedious
Well, one day I’ll find my way
Whatever happened to recess and play?

I don’t wanna talk to you
Rather be drinking a brew
I don’t really wanna talk to you

Your position of power I see as a joke
You sold out for a fallacy hope
Extra bonuses and kissing ass
Not me man, I’m in a better class

So tell me about your stupid plan
Jobs for monkeys, given by man
At least I see it objectively
I feel sorry for your life of stupidity

I don’t wanna talk to you
Rather be drinking a brew
I don’t really wanna talk to you

All the white lies
And all the half-truths
What is real, only you decide
I’ll try to make it
Hope that you do to too
But I won’t stay behind that line

 
 
 

Stand and Defend

Burned by their eyes
So silent in death
Get up, show up
Do fucking something
About the world that you left

When will you see?
It’s not all your pain
Wake up to the facts
We’re all just as fucking insane

We’re all fucking insane
We’ve got illusions and delusions of grandeur
You’ve got to stand and defend
Stand and defend

Still finding time
To drink and to play
Watching our lives
Go straight down the drain
It’s such a fucking shame

But I’m not ashamed of who I am
And I’m not ashamed of what I do
And neither should you be
You’ve got to stand and defend
Stand and defend

Stand and defend your ideas and belief system
‘Cause no one’s gonna do it for you

When will you see?
It’s not all your pain
Wake up to the facts
We’re all just as fucking insane

We’re all fucking insane
We’ve got illusions and delusions of grandeur
You’ve got to stand and defend

Stand and defend
Stand and defend
Get up, show up, grow up
Get up, stand up, and fucking defend

 
 
 

Waste

Drum roll, stand up
Take a bow
What the fuck do you think that you are?

Still shaking in your boots
Still trying to pass off that act as natural

Well I can see right through you
Right through your vacant fucking eyes
You’re no one to me, no one to the world
You’re just a waste of time

You’re just a waste of my time
You’re just a waste of their time
You’re just a waste of our time
You’re just a waste of yourself

And everybody knows
Just how far you’d go
To see a picture of yourself on a television screen
Maybe this Sunday

Take a walk outside
And grab a piece of the “American dream”
And learn not to cry

You’re just a waste of my time
You’re just a waste of their time
You’re just a waste of our time
You’re just a waste of yourself
Waste…

 

Out Of My Loop

Covered in blood
A night on the street
You self-made half sane fucking whore
You’re not at all what you seem

Why can’t you see what you’re doing to me?
Why can’t you see what you’re doing to me?
Why can’t you see what you’re doing to me?
What you’re doing to me

Another decade gone terribly wrong
Your mothers, brothers, fathers
Sisters, sons have all got guns
And the bombs are gonna drop down on you

Why can’t you see what you’re doing to me?
Why can’t you see what you’re doing to me?
Why can’t you see what you’re doing to me?
What you re doing to me

Consider yourself out of my loop
Consider yourself out of my loop
Consider yourself out of my loop
Consider yourself out of my fucking loop

 
 
 

Their Warfare

This one’s for you…

All our pain and all our promise
Drains into one sewer cup
Drowning out and wearing down
The voices say we’ve had enough

But there is nowhere to turn
No one to hear our desperate please
If this continues
We’ll live our who lives on our knees

Well I’m tired of feeling useless
And I’m tired of feeling spent
I’m tired of trying, never winning
Tired of all I’m up against

What I’m up against
What I’m up against
What I’m up against
What I’m up against

As their war keeps getting closer
All our minds just fill with dread
Kept in fear by what the media
Is shoving into all our heads

The evidence of ignorance
Is written on their faces
When will all this madness stop?
So we can take our rightful places
Take our rightful places

I can’t be if you don’t believe
I can’t be if you don’t believe
We can’t be if you don’t believe
We can’t be if you don’t believe

We won’t be if you don’t believe

 
 
 

Little Piece Of Heaven

So you want a little
A little piece of heaven
Well it’s just not your choice to decide now

You want her to come in
And she wants to get out
Just go fuck yourself and stand aside

Tell me, tell me, tell me…
Did you think it was your fucking choice?

So you wanted to prove
You’re not the one being used
You’re the man with the plan and the tools

And you rip up a soul
On your quest for control
Just go fuck yourself and stand aside

Tell me, tell me, tell me…
Did you think it was your fucking choice?

And I already know
When you started the scam
That the plan was always to use your hands

Your two hands
With your two hands
Gonna make her understand

Understand you
Appreciate you

Tell me, tell me, tell me…
Did you think it was your fucking choice?

Just go fuck yourself and stand aside
Just go fuck yourself and stand aside
Just go fuck yourself and stand aside
Just go fuck yourself

     

 

 

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