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1999
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ZEKE
KICKED IN THE TEETH
THE DWARVES
THE
BOUNCING
SOULS
THE BOUNCING
SOULS
ALL
ARE YOUNG AND GOOD LOOKING
ALL
MASS-NERDER
REFUSED
AGNOST
AGNOSTIC
FRONT
SOMTHINGS GOTTA GIVE
THE SHAPE OF PUNK TO COME
REFUSED
SHAPE OF PUNK TO COME
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Better than a gay trucker
THE SYMBOL OF A RACE FUELED BY FEAR TO CREATE A WEAPON TO INSTILL FEAR.
A
A-TEAM
MARC JOHNSON,
M
dsminds enslaved for the
When we first heard about the possibility of using unstable elements to create a weapon
of unheard of power and destruction, we raced to assemble a group of thinkers and
ovators to realize this dream for us. Fearing that someone would get there fint, we
pashed further and further. Faster and faster. The project was forceably rushed, and the
thinkers and dreamers were turned into thought-cattle, their minds u
benefit of a few, and the destruction of millions. Many did not even know what it was
they were working on. Once the project was completed, the weapon was tested, and the
as were witness to the dream they had been working on for so many years. They
dreams
had fathered atomic warfare of taking what I can do an far as I can. We have entered
I have b
but my lide upon the
an age where we still have to go as far as we can, but now we have to get there FIRST.
For the mod part, all of our progression, our lives, our very dress, serve to benefit
others. And it seems that we never even stop to ask where we are in sach a boy to go, or
why we are eves going there. It seems that we are afraid of someone getting there fint
Some people believe that of those to which more has been given, more is, of course,
expected. We have gone too far to ever turn back. We have gone over the hills and into
w country. We are the thought-cattle. This is for
Marc Johnson