⚠ TRIGGER WARNING — SET LIST FIFTEEN — LIMINAL STATE Lead Rating: PG-13 | GX: 25 ✅ CLEAN | 13 Tracks This set contains intense political rhetoric, violent imagery, psychological distress, and anti-institutional themes, often delivered through satire, sarcasm, and exaggerated bravado. Several songs blur the line between metaphor and menace. VIOLENCE AND REVOLUTIONARY IMAGERY "Flim Flam Man," "Solving Problems," "Messy Room," "Sign of the Times," and "Heavy Machines" contain violent metaphors, threatening language, mentions of weapons and explosions, and revolutionary rhetoric that escalates from frustration into confrontation. Not instructional — but emotionally charged and aggressive. EXPLICIT PROFANITY "Solving Problems": "motherfucker" (twice, explicit, not self-censored) · "ass out" · "Punk!" · "shit" (self-censored: "s%^t"). "Heavy Machines": "s%^t" (self-censored). Frequent profanity throughout. MESSY ROOM — SPECIFIC FLAG Contains vivid depictions of bloodshot eyes, cold steel (implied weaponry), and violent fantasies becoming "real." Source trigger warning flags this track specifically: "fantasy vengeance has now become real." PSYCHOLOGICAL DISTRESS AND EMOTIONAL COLLAPSE "Shield," "Story of My Life," "Monarch," "Brain Games," and "Floating Head" explore avoidance as survival, self-loathing disguised as humor, chronic indecision, emotional manipulation, and being trapped inside one's own mind. Persistent nihilism, despair, and exhaustion throughout. ANTI-INSTITUTIONAL THEMES "Come To Me," "Other Times," "Heavy Machines," "Sign of the Times" include distrust of government, media, religion, and corporations; divide-and-conquer narratives; apocalyptic or revolutionary framing. RACIAL LANGUAGE — TRACK 3 "Floating Head": "I'm a white boy with no rhythm and even less soul" — self-deprecating racial humor. Flagged in source themes table. PARTIAL LYRIC — TRACK 6 "Other Times" flagged as partial in source. Full version pending Tom confirmation. Listener discretion is not optional for those sensitive to violence, weapon imagery, or political extremism.

SET LIST 15 — LIMINAL STATE 1. Shield 2. Story of My Life 3. Floating Head 4. Come To Me 5. Flim Flam Man 6. Other Times ⚠ (partial) 7. Solving Problems 8. Messy Room 9. Monarch 10. Heavy Machines 11. Brain Games 12. Chit Chat Chatter 13. Sign of the Times (1) SHIELD "Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing" Looks like Benjamin Franklin's right again So rather than be a man of action I'm off to get my pen… Whatever keeps me free from blame Surely, that's the choice I'll choose For in this game I never said I had to win I'm happy to draw if it means I don't lose Call me a coward Call me what you will While you're crawling among the fallen Well, I'll be standing still So what if I'm standing still? At least treading water Means that I'm still alive Just look here at my great big book So what if it lacks a spine? It makes for a magnificent shield Which I use to hind behind And I hide behind it all the time! (2) STORY OF MY LIFE I just picked up my pen It's been God knows when Since I really tried To see something through to the end And now I'm back at it again Don't know just where to begin Sifting through the rubble Digging myself out of trouble Won't someone come and burst my bubble? Unentrapped me and I'll simply walk away happily I'm just waiting for the time to be right Always hesitating… That's the story of my life Probably cost me a dozen loving wives To think that I might have made it Had I acted on what I knew Everyone knows I've always said it But why are there some things That we can just never do? (3) FLOATING HEAD I'm a white boy with no rhythm And even less soul I've faced the fact that I'll probably be like this Until my last days of growing old Hell, what I've been told You know I just won't allow myself to believe it Every girlfriend I've ever had Tells me I dance just like a quadriplegic I give….They take They live…I die trying to save A drowning doggy from the lake I give…And they take some more Both me and the doggy Never paddle back to shore (Because I have no arms and legs) (4) COME TO ME You were right to come to me... When you wanna learn about the system uh ha About how the powers that be Try to keep greatness down So that people like me Lose our will to fight and resist them uh ha Divide and conquer... The oldest trick in the book Mix in politics and religion Add a little gender and race Into this melting pot And now they're ready to cook uh ha Can you hear us screaming? As we're being boiled alive Oh, oh they say we're dreaming If we want more out of life than to survive uh ha uh ha You were right to come to me... When you wanna learn all about love uh ha About how I have no doubt That the greatest feelings Come from the inside out The light within shines brighter than the light above uh ha Falling in love is overrated While growing to love Is what true love is really made of This is the truth that is rarely stated It's such a simple idea You know that greeting cards hate it (5) FLIM FLAM MAN Flim flam man Flim flam man You would have me understand You hold my whole world in your hands But that's a lie I've found out your plans About me or my you don't give a damn You only build so you can break You give… just so you can take And I've grown tired Of fakes and flakes For goodness sakes I've had it up to here Not sure how much more I can take before I make a big mistake The weapon is loaded There will soon be explosions I'm leading the legions To a new Eden, yeah! The countdown has been ticking Since the problem needs a fixing As the balance keeps on shifting Many people've been predicting The coming of a fight Say it might be going down tonight But those who are likewise heady Know it's been happening already And by the time we get to see it There will be no way to defeat it Everybody have to beat it (OW!) That's bad in black or white No other colors needed 'Cauce once you see you start bleeding… You're only trying to stay alive To hell with getting even! (6) OTHER TIMES ⚠ PARTIAL LYRICS — FIRST PART ONLY The more get less as less get more They keep on raising the ceiling While dropping the floor The rich get richer Those in the middle grow poor When will the soldiers realize They've been fighting the wrong war? There's a curtain of silence Now draping over this island It blows in from the highlands Where everything's in ruins So many were trapped there stranded Left right where they were standing Poor fools lacking the tools Who got caught not knowing the rules We all know what leads you Your reputation precedes you You may say you've changed Still no one believes you Healing takes time Mending broken minds When the wound cut deep To all the way inside As my luxuries have become necessities I'm being slowly stripped of my spirituality This lack of harmony within humanity Has begun eating away at me I can't decide if this is a side effect Or the scheme behind the plan I don't know where it's going What I was or who I am Positivity triggers mental agility While negativity kills our ability To foresee a future better than the present As intuition tunes us in to what isn't evident Every pauper's voice shall be equal to the president's When we get things right no more will we be hesitant To speak out against what we feel isn't right Sometimes love heals other times it starts the fight (7) SOLVING PROBLEMS ⚠ EXPLICIT PROFANITY Precision beats power and timing beats speed I walk up to the biggest motherfucker and see that he's afraid of me My defiance and disdain Act as my suit of armor Your reliance on the same old same old Leaves you distressed while I get calmer When things change Chaos thrives Those stuck in chains Will not survive Minds with walls Will not evolve The riddle remains The puzzle's unsolved Cunning and wit can have the same effect To soothe the savage into deep introspect Or else prove to the farmer he's incorrect That a peaceful life is what is best Yeah, you told me the price And yet knew not the value The trouble was the bubble They been trying to sell you It's gonna burst there's no doubt You were the first man in but the last one out You lost your shirt, your spouse and then your house You're playing in the dirt so why you still running your mouth? Punk! Life just damn knocked your ass out! I suggest you stop talking and think about it Cork that kettle before you go off spouting Oh shit… he's still dribbling toxins And just the sight of him is making me nauseous When I get like this it's best to be cautious It can lead to flying fists or else me dropping logic I got answers to your questions either way the problem's gettin' solved, kid! Precision beats power and timing beats speed I walk up to the biggest motherfucker and see that he's afraid of me (8) MESSY ROOM The smoke from my cigarette encases me like a tomb As the aura of my bitterness becomes happier with gloom Don't you fret but can't you sense the oncoming distress? When you live inside your mind because this world is a mess Yes, there is danger out on the street Faces of anger for you to meet And some even stranger and others you can't see The chosen ones that always were Along with those that'll never be What we have found are many faces walking While looking down at the ground Hear the echoing of malicious words The first time they were ever heard See the small hands that have grown And the fists that have been thrown Traversing the uneven roads that we have traveled While watching the moral fabric that's unraveled When a sweaty palm fuses with cold steel A hand extends but does not feel A pokered-face turns the tables after a bad deal As fantasy vengeance has now become real Pent-up aggression can no longer be concealed Aim is taken and fate is sealed Two eyes full of blood are suddenly revealed As fantasy vengeance has now become real Don't you fret but can't you sense the oncoming distress? When you live inside your mind because this world is a mess (9) MONARCH My demons act as faithful dogs Arriving as if summoned How do they know even before me That there's trouble coming? If I let go of my anger for you Then baby I'll have nothing left Maybe that's what I should do? Perhaps that's for the best… Playing stupid games Will only win you stupid prizes Truth never needed many words Or any veil or disguises They say never let 'em see you sweat And don't stay crying in your beer Yeah, all those good words of advice Passed right on through my ears When it feels guilty to laugh Tell everyone your secret Such burdens from the past We all know you don't need it If feelings are not facts Why do words carve like knives? As the scars left in the aftermath Reflect two broken lives Give the people some bread For they just want another circus And it's hurting my head Knowing I don't deserve this… I'm a prisoner of my brain A victim of biology How does a butterfly find its way? Maybe by using astrology (10) HEAVY MACHINES I try to comprehend infinity While operating heavy machinery And that's just by using my brain While slowly jogging in the passing lane Of time and space and rhyme and plane I'm trying to see just what makes me Superior to royalty probably because of my belief In fairness and equality to the nth degree for all humanity Which unfortunately includes the sufferers of insanity Stupidity, vanity… Are you kidding me? I have to fight for them, too? Couldn't we just let them be? For each one of them just add one to get their I.Q. – yup….it's two…. When that's your crew what the hell you gonna do? It sure beats me…So I ask you The time has come Something must be done The time has come We are the chosen ones The time has come No longer can we run from this Sure I talked a lot of s%^t But I never made a stand Can't take back any of it Well that's not what I have planned Time to let the new revolution begin All this time I've been blaming myself When I should have been blaming you and you…. And her and him This crazy look inside my eye Should tell you a little bit about me There's so much that I despise So many things that keep me from being free So let us make a list of the biggest causes Of our collective misery (11) BRAIN GAMES Brain games... Brain games... She's been playing brain games 'Cause he's been playing brain games 'Cause she's been playing brain games Since you get what you give... You just get more of the same... Brain games... Brain games... She's been playing brain games 'Cause he's been playing brain games 'Cause she's been playing brain games What a horrible way to live... When it's as monotonous as the rain As lovers turn to strangers Or couples that I call not lovers but painers When their broken hearts fill up Then start brimming over with anger As Valentine's Day greeting cards Are blank and black except for the word 'danger' And soon refused and remarked 'Won't you please return to sender' For sure sometimes silence is golden If or when speechless if and when powerless you are rendered Or when hurting words into your mind enter It is surely better to refrain... Rather than play brain games... Brain games...Brain games... Since you get what you give... You just get more of the same... Brain games... Brain games… (12) CHIT CHAT CHATTER Chit chat chatter... Can you hear their teeth rattle As if underneath the warm breath Of a baby and his rattle Chit chat chatter... Does it really matter Speaking just to fill one's idle time Without expressing what's on your mind Chit chat chatter... All the words blend together Like the birds of a flock Birds of the same feather Chit chat chatter... As words end up in a blender And the thoughts get lost When there's no core at the center Chit chat chatter... From the circling tongues Never ending, never starting Once the talking has begun Chit chat chatter... Sometimes the words hurt Sometimes the words flatter To me it all sounds the same Chit chat chatter... As their oohs and their ahhs Resemble goos and gahs One's candle of thought Slowly loses its flame (13) SIGN OF THE TIMES Calling all revolutionary reformists Just how long can we ignore this? Somebody's gotta try to resist Before the boot gets too big Sure, in my heart stands a pacifist But behind him stands a line of people Who are pissed and it's a sign of the times When it actually has to come down to this.... I fell down…. When I felt a smack to the back of my head Yeah, and so…. Didn't the sign I was holding which read: World Trade Organization You had best be on your way… We're sick and tired of evil corporations Getting caught and then just changing their names Sometimes all it takes To create a crime Is the wrong word At the wrong time To push a man Not unlike myself Right over the edge Right across the line I can see that now This time like never before A new place to go Just waiting to be explored So...just know that my last Gasping breath will be spent Denouncing at length against Whatever corrupt powers that be And judging not all but some Without regards to Or from they're from Whether or not they must pay a penalty Calling all revolutionary reformists Just how long can we ignore this? Somebody's gotta try to resist Before the boot gets too big Sure, in my heart stands a pacifist But behind him stands a line of people Who are pissed and it's a sign of the times