American Survival Guide Vol.1 (2008)

American Survival Guide Vol.1 (2008)
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American Survival Guide Vol.1 is the first album released by Ventana, though they do have other music released in demos and played live at shows, this was the first official release.

Tracks:

This album has has 14 tracks including 3 bonus tracks and a Cover of Gerard McMahons Cry Little Sister.

1. Media: Watch Us Burn
2. Insanity: Coming Apart
3. Health: Stress Related
4. Violence: The Dying Sound
5. Addiction: The Fallen Idol
6. Technology: This digital World
7. Evolution: The Sad History Of The World
8. Religion: Face To Face
9. Politics: Swords
10. Transformation: Cry Little Sister
11. Acceptance: The Way The World Ends
12. The Defying Sound (Negative Red Remix)
13. This Digital World (Helltrash Remix)
14. Face To Face (Audio Flesh Remix)

Personnel

• Rick Thomas - keyboard / electronics
• Daniel Fox - drums
• John Sustar - bass
• Kyle Kotarski - guitar
• Matt Foran - vocals / samples

Lyrics:

1. Watch Us Burn

Burn

It's time to die

Glued to the screen, ambition's grown tired

Mesmerized by gossip in a world expired

Good evening America. Tonight we feature

Anorexic beauty queens

Serial killer documentaries

Million dollar action scenes

Dry humping teenage magazines

Preaching pervert hypocrisy

Prescription drugs. Plastic Surgery

High school drama killing sprees

Arabian-Redneck conspiracies

There's never been a better time to die

Waiting to die. We're waiting to burn

We're begging for it

World torn to pieces, live on tv

In the flames we shall drown

All together we bleed

No time for commercials now

Sit back and burn

Watch us burn

Disease infested third world countries

Celebrity sex tapes, a bald Britney

No music anymore on MTV

The tomb of Christ. the frozen corpse of Disney

The racist entertainers and the oil wars

The Wallstreet snakes. the consuming whores

Cant just pretend to accept this shit anymore

Need to kill ourselves just to find a fucking cure

An apple a day keeps the doctor away

Yet The Garden of Eden still full of slaves

Chew it down and swallow

Choke and die

Ashes to ashes we all fall down

Stay the fuck away from me

Let us burn

Hey kids, don't touch that dial

Watch us burn

When we return, you get to play in the fire

Let us burn

2. Coming Apart

I'm a little teapot short and stout

Smash me apart and fucking spill me out

I'm a piece of shit

I'm a fucking mess

I'm a little wounded bird

I fell out of my nest

I've been busy tearing out my motherfucking mind

Don't wanna kill myself

Want to rip out my fucking eyes

To all the noises that live here

And the answers in my brain

To all the TV cameras

And the innocence they play

To the fucking cults

To the pop star teens

To the crooked politicians and the ones who believe

I've been busy tearing out my motherfucking mind

Don't wanna hurt myself

Want to rip out my fucking eyes

No other motherfucker gonna take me down now

When I am perfectly capable of destroying myself

Don't you fucking look at me

Your pity driven stare

I'm fucking flesh and blood

I'm just a man without a care

There's nothing to see here

So pass the fuck on by

You're so obsessed with money

But you can't take it when you die

'Cause in the end we're all the same

You're nothing better than me

We all get thrown into a hole

Six feet deep

I've been busy tearing out my motherfucking mind

Don't wanna shoot myself

Want to rip out my fucking eyes

No other motherfucker gonna take me down now

When I am perfectly capable of destroying myself

My eyes are sore

From all the shit I can't ignore

I feel I'm losing my vision

Don't let me hurt myself anymore

'Cause when I'm gone, the world is dead

I am God, you are shit

I am God, the world is dead

I am God, you are shit

3. Stress Related

I don't want to live like this

All pissed off and all stressed

From the everyday bullshit

I don't want to die like this

Some kind of angry fit

My heart will call it quits

But I'm...

Never gonna understand the office lingo

The cornball Christians that play bingo

The fast food rejects. The white collar snobs

The quota seeking pigs and the brain dead jocks

No. Never gonna be an American Idol

Not with this gut, no. Not with this smile

Never gonna be a rich celebrity

It seems wealth was never in the cards for me

I don't want to be like this

But nothing seems to fit

Since I got used to it

I can't see the sunshine

Too many dark clouds are in it's way

I lost all hope that I could last

In this land of the walking dead

It's such a waste, what I could do

But I'm stuck here with you

I hate everyone I work with

A bunch of miserable pricks

Cuz of the chances they missed

Everyone I meet is a rude selfish asshole

Apparently please and thank you is a hassle

Nobody's bothered by the state of the world

Or the late night commercial child porn girls

Light me a cigarette. Pour me a drink

Make me a wasteland

so I don't have to think about you

I should really deal with it

Become a hypocrite

Somehow buy into it

But it's the only way I know how to live

I can't shut it out

I can't take this shit

Still I'm...

So fed up with the mallrat punks

And the spoiled rotten white kids

Trying to be thugs

The popped collar douchebags

The spray on tan queens

Toupees, extensions, wigs, and weaves

So tired of all this crap on tv

The sugarcoated news and the talk show sleaze

The Hollywood gossip showing the worst

Of the silicone garbage. Thin as a corpse

I let the stress go to my head

I know someday soon I will be dead

It's not a waste. It gets me through

Being stuck here with you

4. The Dying Sound

I'm a danger to myself

But I'm a savior to everyone else

Cuz I'm a walking time bomb. Waiting for more

Stupid fucking people to ignite this war

So come to me

No one ever sees me coming

But they will surely hear the sound

Sound, sound, sound...

The beautiful dying sound

This is the end of me

I'm gonna go out loud

And leave the world with the sounds

I spread my blessings all over the place

I preach my deadly gospel to the human waste

Don't give a shit who you are motherfucker

Your body will be smashed to the ground

I hate this vision of shit that I see

Take this away from me before I make it bleed

No one know me

No one touch me

Only silence cures my sickness

Only violence can bring silence

Lock me up, through away the key

I'm your masochist messiah. Killing fantasy

Get down on your knees and pray for me

Death rattle, organs pop

Necks will snap then hearts will stop

Second coming can wait no more

Time to summon my final war

Yellow, red, black, and white

All the colors scream in fright tonight

5. The Fallen Idol

A simple disease

Simply explained

Contaminated my soul

And is devouring my veins

I try but can't stop

I can lie but can't talk

Can fly but can't walk

I feel as though I'll never stop falling

I don't know who I am

I don't know where I've been

I only know what I don't want to be

And where I don't want to end up

But I always seem to be there

To the place that scares

To the place that traps

And always seems to last

No escape, no hope

No gun, no rope

Can't live, can't die

Can't see even though I still have my eyes

Lost any ambition, which seems part of this evolution

Through all conditions

No matter how much the sun shines

It always seems to rain where I am

Cold and damp, I beg not to be damned

6. This Digital World

In this digital world

Full of artificial pride

Viruses and scams

Cowards and spies

We can't smoke a cigarette in the bar anymore

No polluting lungs while the liver gets fucked

Can't vote cuz what's the fucking point

When it's predestined no American voice

This is what we've become

Progress through cancer coated lies

This is what we've become

Zombies, cell phones drained our minds

Yesterday I saw a bright reflection

Today I see a big black fucking hole

(Failure to assimilate will result in prosecution

for criminal reality evasion)

Can't eat, can't breathe

Without catching some rare disease

Can't kiss, can't fuck

Germs of love will infect your blood

Yesterday

Stabbed in the back by our final ways

Gourmet meals in the microwave

Cooked fresh by radioactive rays

401K the sign of the slaves

But the dental insurance makes it worth the pain

Wake the fuck up

The world is falling down before your eyes

Motherfucker, are you fucking blind

It's too late

It's too late for you

You better lay your head back down to sleep little one

This will all soon just be a dream

Nothing will be what it seems

The pills should be taking effect any time now

This is the end of everything that's sacred

Just like the shit will attract the flies

The truth will always be covered with lies

Everything so fake

Everything so easy

Technology has replaced our souls

Is anyone creative anymore

Does anyone use their brain anymore

Is anyone breathing

Are we just too lazy

Is anyone still alive

Technology keeps evolving

But we've the lost the human touch

The end is near

7. The Sad History Of The World

We always catch on late

After we hurt the ones who care

And then we cry for ages

Yet we never learn to share

The teachings of our fallen heroes

To those who are different

We just repeat this deadly cycle

And become abhorrent

This is it, this is how we sealed our fate

By our hate, by our choice to discriminate

Every messenger we shall incriminate

We bleed the freak and then suffer from our mistake

What we need is some faith and discipline

We need to wash all this innocent blood off our skin

Access the ignorance, the secrets, the lies, and the sin

Reflect on errors of the past and let a future begin

We are monkeys with ammo

Nothing advanced more

We are a needy fucking species

We are dogs of war

Jesus Christ and Pontius Pilate

Martin Luther King and the L.A. riots

This is the sad history of the world

The people that we hate, then we kill, never

learn

Hitler, Bush, and Napoleon

Adam and Eve and the original sin

Lessons lost in time; hatred reoccurs

The sound of scraping metal, the earth can barely turn

Hiroshima and Vietnam

Albert Einstein's atomic bomb

The suffering still continues and always will until the end of time

Why do we expel the ones that could save us?

Maybe it's time that we shut up and listen

Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy

A fatal shot to democracy

Area 51, cancer and AIDS

The holocaust and the crusades

The truth is buried

We kill what we don't understand

Maybe it's time to expand our feeble minds

8. Face To Face

Who is responsible for all this mess

Is it manmade or something that our brains can not digest

This is the time, this is the place

Is this the way it's supposed to be

Will it begin to make sense on the sad day when we leave

I want to meet your God face to face

Are we simply lost, misguided bastard children

Why have you forsaken me

Why do we torture innocent animals

When there's an overload of murdering convicts

These pieces of shit should be used as our experiments

Why do we spend so much on weight loss programs

Eat what you want but not like a slob

Then send the rest to the commercial for the ones who starve

This is the time

This is the place

I want to meet your God

Face to face

Why do we support a party keeping us buried at rock bottom

Why the fuck should these corporate assholes get tax breaks

While the rest of us can't even afford to drive

Why don't we burn every goddamn institution down

We want the truth

Or we will crush the fucking lies

Who is responisible for all this mess

Is it manmade or something our brains can not digest

This is the time, this is the place

Is this the way it's supposed to be

Will it begin to make sense on the sad day when we leave

I want to meet your God face to face

Are we simply lost, misguided bastard children

Why have you forsaken me

All this human sin has clouded your vision

Or is this what you've always seen

Where the fuck have you disappeared to

Where are you hiding or have we just hidden you

There is no power

There is no glory

This is not Earth

This is Purgatory

Why don't you care anymore

Why won't you come and disprove

All of these fucking vicious lies

9. Swords

Vengeance is bliss, don’t be naïve

Just like we deformed the Japanese

Those we had trained to have others killed

Have turned against us by our own will

My stare is blank

Yet my thoughts are out of control

It’s all gone wrong, it’s all fucked up

Still one last war just to top it off

Conspiracies surround us

Your gut instinct tells you to run

The curtain’s slowly closing

The final act is almost done

Can anyone keep hope alive

Answer me

Does anyone even give a shit

We live by the sword

We try to swallow it

Can anyone find a reason why

Fucking answer me

Does anyone give a fucking shit

We live by the sword and we shall choke on it

The towers gone, the first of the fall

But here comes the man that claims to save us all

The crowd absorbs his power

Generations pass yet evil never can fall

I have my reasons to believe

Liberty and justice will be deceived

A peaceful change is still just a dream

The new world order brewing behind the scenes

Look into their fucking eyes

Read their fucking lips

If it’s too good to be true then it probably is

Bin Laden’s running free

Saddam Hussein is dead

And the terrorists are praying as their chopping off our heads

Iraq is just a scapegoat

So who is the real enemy

Watch your back

They know when you are sleeping

They know when you’re awake

They know if you’ve been good or bad

So be good cause you’re life’s at stake

We live by the sword and we shall die by it

From New York City

To New Orleans

To California

To all those in between

Don’t look outside your window

Just lock all the doors

The troops are marching in

With our bloodstained swords

10. Cry Little Sister

A last fire will rise behind those eyes

Black house will rock, blind boys don't lie

Immortal fear, that voice so clear

Through broken walls, that scream I hear

Cry, little sister - Thou shall not fall

Come to your brother - Thou shall not die

Unchain me, sister - Thou shall not fear

Love is with your brother - Thou shall not kill

Blue masquerade, strangers look on

When will they learn this loneliness?

Temptation heat beats like a drum

Deep in your veins, I will not lie

Cry Little sister - Thou shall not fall

Come to your brother - Thou shall not die

Unchain me, sister - Thou shall not fear

Love is with your brother - Thou shall not kill

My Shangri-Las

I can't forget

Why you were mine

I need you now

Cry, little sister - Thou shall not fall

Come to your brother - Thou shall not die

Unchain me, sister - Thou shall not fear

Love is with your brother - Thou shall not kill