# The Pursuit of Happiness (MW version) Lyrics ## By Mantits ### Ballad Of The Monkeys Please wouldn't do, nor would gunshots make a sound. Monkeys were born onto the spinning rock: There in the dark, black void, With a question and a thumb— To build and to dream, And to kill and wonder why it is. … Some were well hung, and some hung themselves as well. All of them only wanted to be heard: There in the dark, black void, All spat on and ignored. They would brush themselves off, And get back out again to fight: 'Look at how fast I can juggle antelopes!' 'Look at how wise I am and how mature!' (there in the dark black void) 'I'm building little shapes, piling high, so high, Casting shadows on the rest of you!' … In roll the tanks to defend the monkey gold; Monkeys will die by thousands for fantasies. There is the dark black void— So frightened and alone— Bleeding now, dying here; To be free and understood and back home. … And, none of the monkeys would ever know why they're building and breathing. And, why the pain would never leave. And, why the killing goes on. And, why or where they're going, In their little monkey towns, On the spinning rock, In the dark, black void. ### Kicking Your Shins They could burn your flesh, They could rearrange your colon, They could have you drawn and quartered, You could be decapitated, They could slice your dingy slowly with a rusty carrot-peeler, So be happy they're only kicking your shins. They could slowly squash your eyeballs They could rip out your fingers They could pry apart your asshole Insert pins into your pussy They could gradually kill you with rat poison in your tea, So be happy they're only kicking your shins. You know the world is filled with genocide / and famine and disease And it's not like we're all existing / just to fill your needs Yeah, life is filled with travesties / and everlasting pain It's all a huge catastrophe / and none of us complain 'Cause while the world is burning / we're safe in a routine Keep moving and consuming / till we don't know what we mean So if existential crisis and uncaring's got ya down If you feel small and helpless as you walk around your town If everyone just spits your way or tells you what to do Just suck it up and remind yourself: That nothing was put here for you That nothing was put here for you ### Box Away From The World Every time I try Every time I try, I fall on my face Every time I try, they laugh or run away Every time I try, I fail, so… Here's to a love of no one else Here's to a life where I can show my strength In a box away from the world You'll never see me cry The silent life of my box away from the world Every time I love Every time I love, I end up in rage Every time I love, my arms reach out to space Every time I love, I fail, so… Here's to a love of no one else Here's to a life where I can show my strength In a box away from the world You'll never see me cry The silent life of my box away from the world The world wasn't made / for me, this I know I refuse to be / the victim anymore I'll just hide away / in my scars Here's to a love of no one else Here's to a life where I can show my strength In a box away from the world You'll never see me cry The silent life of my box away from the world ### Stranded If someone who knew better could tell me that something mattered, Then I could rip myself of 'nawing doubt. And if someone who knew better could tell me that something mattered, Then I could just relax and carry on. But I know better than to think that someone could know better, So the choice without a meaning's up to me. The truth of things is scary, And it makes me feel alone and crazy, And it makes me wanna go back home— But home was never real, it was a lie, Just like the comfort that false answers give. So, I can never go back home again. I guess I'm just stranded now, And all that I can say is: "I don't know" ### Running From the Silence Keep on moving forward, filling up the space; Building many monuments and throwing out the waste. And then when you stop walking, and the flies have gone away You hear the silence, that was all there ever was Keep on moving on-wards, filling up the days; Reaching out for something in a thousand different ways. And then when you stop walking, and the flies have gone away, You hear the silence, that was all there ever was. Just pass it off as nothing or as boredom, And find another trail that you can take. Just run another mile into no-where, Talking in your sleep while you're awake. Keep on moving forward, filling up the space; Building many monuments and throwing out the waste. And then when you stop walking, and the flies have gone away You hear the silence, that was all there ever was. Keep on running from the silence. ### Fuckhead In The Phonebooth Family doesn’t understand, they’re talking babble, pushed it far away, Just like the neighbors— Who knew who they were? I don’t care, Time to walk the dog. Just let me through, and spare me all the bullshit. This line’s too slow, why can’t you watch the road? And I can’t stand that fuckhead in the phone-booth. Yeah, he’s what’s wrong with people nowadays. No-one listens to a word I say, But nothing matters anyway. I’d like to lie down now, Gee, I’d love to care, but there’s no time for games I hate your shoes, and everyone who wears them. That woman on the phone was awful cold. And I can’t stand that fuckhead in the phone-booth. Yeah, he’s what’s wrong with people nowadays. Childhood was fun, but now I’m older, and I learned how to survive: Work like a tractor, Don’t look back, just move along through all the honking cars Her taste is bad, and he’s so fucking stupid. I hate her voice, and his dumb politics. And I can’t stand that fuckhead in the phone-booth, Yeah, he’s what’s wrong with people nowadays. ### Love Ain’t Real Don't let it get to you, turn and walk away. She is just a person, And tomorrow's another day. She don't really matter,it don't matter how she feels. There's millions left to take her place, And love ain't even real. Don't let it get to you, friends they come and go. Don't get too hung up on people, Just give us a show. You don't really matter, it don't matter how you feel. There's millions left to take your place, And love ain't even real. And if something comes between us, we'll just run away, 'Cause nothing ever means that much, and nothing's here to stay. We're just little insects running through a maze. Hiding from our own reflections, and each other's gaze. Who would never dream of basing life on what we feel, There's millions left to take our places, And love ain't even real. ### Black Empty Holes He's got no job. The days go by. The rent is late. Days pass on and every night: He drinks until he can't remember what it was he did, And this is all he says: I don't know where to go anymore. I don't know where to go anymore. She's got a job. The days go by. The rent is paid. Days pass on and every night: She drinks until she can't remember what it was she did, And this is all she says: I don't know where to go anymore. I don't know where to go anymore. And I don't blame them for going down. And I don't blame them for going down. What's a person in a world of BLACK EMPTY HOLES to do? What's a person in a world of BLACK EMPTY HOLES to do? Where's the reason, When the people are BLACK EMPTY HOLES to you? Where's the reason to do, to do, to do anything? ### Poisoned And Alone If we don’t get out of here, then we’ll keep waiting to live. If we can’t get out of here, then we’re just waiting to die. If we don’t get out of here, what’s stopping us, If not our fear… to feel? I can only tell you that I love you when I’m drunk— Other times, I’m scared you’ll go away; Politics, and movie scenes, and things that we both look down upon. Everyone is poisoned, and alone inside their minds. Everyone is poisoned, and alone. Everyone is poisoned, and they know not to cry… when in a public place. ### Everything I wish I could relive the past years of my life. I wish I could relive the past years of my life. I wish I could relive the past years of my life. I wish I could relive the past years of my life. Yesterday will never be again, Tomorrow, today will be dead too. And one day I'll wake up and find that my whole life is gone— And so is everything I ever knew. ### Nothing I’ve got nothing left to say to you, all you people in the world. Turn away or size me up. Pick a stigma and attach it; Everything is filed away in your little categories. I’ve got nothing left to say to you, all you people in the world. You don’t have the time to hear, Or to try and understand it. Running scared from what you know, And from everything uncertain. You can’t hear me anyway as you walk on to the slaughter, Spitting on the passersby while they just return the favor. I’ve got nothing left to say to you, all you people in the world. I’ve got nothing left to say to you, all you people in the world. ### The Extinction of The Human Race Cover your skin and cover your eyes / before you go and step outside, And boil the water, / sterilize your hands. There's people places low and high / could blow the cities to the sky— It seems as though we're hopelessly fucked. But in the meantime, just relax, Go back to work and pay your taxes. Go back home and stay inside, And watch some sitcoms… before you die. Go and buy yourself some clothes, And try to not focus on those / dead animals that line the street. Babies born with giant heads, And infants dying in their beds, And air that's slightly hard to breath. Just do what all the others do, If they don't panic why should you? Just go back home and stay inside, And watch some sitcoms… before you die The extinction of the human race The extinction of the human race This is how the world is run And there's nothing to be done Oh well, I know that it can be very frightening, And I know that it can be very sad, But the world is how it is / and you're just a bunch of fucking stupid kids. Mosquitoes with West Nile disease, E. coli meat, STDs and cancer coming from the sun, Droughts and floods and burning lands, A market no one understands, And angry monkeys sitting at the helm. But God is watching you and me. So choose your battles; Have some tea. Go back home and stay inside, And watch some sitcoms… before you die. But sit back and wait for the extinction Sit back and wait for the extinction Oh yeah, sit back and wait for the extinction Sit back and wait for the extinction ### So Long to the Icecream Bars When it all tumbles down This human race against itself When it all tumbles down We'll be the cause When it tumbles down Fair enough Only one way forward and nothing left to say, It's been a lively story but all things die someday. So, goodbye all you bankers, Goodbye all you kings, So long to the ice cream bars, And all the stuff and things. So long to the ice cream bars, And what we pretend they mean.