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Avalanche

by The Wine-Dark Sea

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1.
Abnegation 02:30
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Fell asleep at the wheel Now your nightmare is real Boy you’ve got to choose to Run, Hide, or Fight White hoods on parade Fascists made in the shade Girl, you’ve got to choose to Run, Hide, or Fight Didn’t canvass those doors Now they’re breaking down yours Kid, you’ve got to choose to Run, Hide, or Fight I just can’t appreciate The foundations of your hate The fear in your eyes Is empowered by lies A coward wrapped up in the flag Your neighbor down the hall Is Afraid to wear her shawl Will You tear down the wall? Don’t Run, Hide, go Fight Resist collectively Overwhelm the registry Who will choose to finally Stand up and fight? Just another day underground Our prospects and dreams slowly drowned Along comes this bastard He’s spreading disaster We have spilled this blood before Coal fired machine made of fear Will you throw yourself on the gears? Along come these bastards They’re spreading disaster No one will be left behind Run: your own destiny Hide: your anxiety Fight: for your liberty Wake up and Fight No time for crying Wake up and Fight No time for fear Wake up and Fight Wake up and Fight Wake up and Fight Wake up and Fight Wake up and Fight Wake up and Fight
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Operation Garden Plot 02:40
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Up, up, down, down, left, right, B, A, start Up, up, down, down, left, right, B, A, start Up, down, up, down, up, down, push it hard Left, right, left, right, left, right, march They’re shipping you out There’s no room for doubt You signed on the line It’s finally your time Up, up, down, down, left, right, B, A, start Up, up, down, down, left, right, B, A, start Up, down, up, down, up, down, push it hard Left, right, left, right, left, right, march They break you down To make you a spear Reprogram your mind A specter of fear This is the path that you chose Face it there are no cheat codes Rise Up, up, down, down, left, right, B, A, start Up, up, down, down, left, right, B, A, start Up, down, up, down, up, down, push it hard Left, right, left, right, left, right, march Suppress your emotions And your empathy Question your purpose And your enemy This is the path that you chose Face it you get no cheat codes If reintegration’s your goal You have to make peace with your soul Up, up, down, down, left, right, B, A, start Up, up, down, down, left, right, B, A, start Up town, down town, suit and tie, purple heart Less fight, live right, laugh light, find your part Your scars remain A mark of change Up, up, down, down, left, right, B, A, start Up, up, down, down, left, right, B, A, start Up town, down town, suit and tie, purple heart Less fight, live right, laugh light, find your part Your scars remain
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Chaosmi The Infinite 02:07
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Endless power, endless knowledge Flowing down these rocks Holding roots and holding life Never to be lost He Seeks And he Builds In the river through our city Where he’s found his peace Rearranging, ever-streaming Water through his veins He Seeks And he Builds Chaosmi The infinite This Potomac, Reconstructed No stone left unturned to find his truth he guides the water knowledge he has earned He Seeks And he Builds Chaosmi The Infinite
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A Fable for Tomorrow 03:54
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Hydrofluorocarbons Choking air and sea Keep our man in comfort The cost of breathing free He builds his bunker walls high Claims you’ll be alright Buys a shield of white noise Hears no cries at night The only thing that trickles down is death, disease, and blight Add the mortar One more stone Dichlorodiphenyl trichloroethane Seeps between the seams And still the gap remains Locked in, disengaged Freedom from our context Eyes only on his pay The only thing that trickles down is death, disease, and blight Add the mortar One more stone Built without connection he wants a lullaby Not part of society Boxed out of this world He lays down the final seams today To keep the weather out He can’t breathe He can’t breathe No one hears him shout He can’t breathe He can’t breathe No bailout
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The Forge 03:47
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Brought up by denigrating epithets Prejudice is a subconscious mindset Raised in isolation from your True life experience Conform under pressure, adapt to deflect The breadth of distrust from myopic neglect Disregard that die-cast feeling Free of empathy Our first impressions make the deepest cuts Crippling kinship among all of us Hardened by this faulty process Break the cycle Seek discomfort Let your fragile ego fade Arise from your stupor There’s nothing to fear An uncertain future It’s your path to clear Your balance is shaken when you realize Your world-view is flat when it’s seen through your eyes Struggling, stumbling, seeking the light Your manifest destiny is aiding this fight Broken from your isolation Trumped-up leaders set your will to Defy bigotry The face in the mirror is knotted with guilt Endowed of this privilege, heavy and shrill You finally see the advantage you bear A powerful aspect you’re eager to share Searching for a better way to Break the cycle Seek discomfort Let your fragile ego fade Empower your allies Fight by their side Resist oppression Justice amplified
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Congress of Cowards 01:44
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Billy club Pepper spray Kevlar hides your heart Broken bones a bloody nose Drag me off in cuffs I’m not a snowflake terrorist I’m the patriot For your freedom I will stand We’ll never stand apart Radical fucking love Breaking down the wall We shall overcome We’ll redeem you all Pussy hats BLM we will save the earth You broke our hearts And sold us out But we still see your worth I’m not a snowflake terrorist I’m the patriot For your freedom I will stand We’ll never stand apart Radical fucking love Breaking down the wall We shall overcome We’ll redeem you all Radical fucking love Opens up the door We are family don’t start a civil war Resistance Is fuel. It’s hard to love you But we still do Billy club Pepper spray Kevlar hides your heart Broken bones A bloody nose Drag me off in cuffs I’m not a snowflake terrorist I’m the patriot For your freedom I will stand We’ll never stand apart Radical fucking love Breaking down the wall We shall overcome We’ll redeem you all Radical fucking love Breaking down the wall We shall overcome We’ll redeem you all Resistance Is fuel
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Scars on the Mountain 05:36
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Hang onto your idle hands that hang low This mountain, it will crumble A valley below Minor solutions Attempt to calm our thoughts Incremental change Where only time is bought A small drop of acid Burning like fool’s gold Quickening our blood No chance to grow old Lay us down on concrete Bury us in mud Don’t make us lose The comfort that we sought We all need to see We all need to hear We all need to find this Fading choice we’ll lose Feel this giant rise We’ll all feel it coming Sixteen Billion hearts Will see a different morning This unseen destroyer Will become more clear All these wrong decisions Leave us less than 50 years As our coastlines crumble Our reservoirs dry The storm that will awaken The behemoth of our time We all need to see We all need to hear We all need to make this Fading choice we fear Bring on the storm Bring on the waves When water fills our lungs We’ll learn from our mistakes We all need to see We all need to hear We all need to find this Fading choice we fear Water fills our lungs
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Dirt Farmer 06:18
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This fragile skin lives with us Layers of gold, horizons high Lend us your breath, that we may thrive Built by aeons of countless lives Digging through this gentle crust Giver of life, eternal youth fed by light, movement rough Never still, all in flux Unseen hands and unseen eyes Layers built with patience and time This fragile skin, it lives with us Built by aeons of endless mouths Why would you silence this? Churning force of energy These empires below our feet We sacrifice and give our lives Why would we let this die? The vital source on which we thrive Break softly into this soil With respect in your eyes Stay strong, dirt farmer We’ve left you your space Come back, life giver Forgive this violent race Hold for us, this raging river As our breath escapes Come back dirt farmer

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Awake Red Sin

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released September 1, 2017

Vincent Verweij: Bass, Drums, Backing vocals
Raphael Tisch: Lead Vocals
Kristian Perry: Guitar

Resist.

www.aclu.org
www.blacklivesmatter.com
www.earthjustice.org
www.greenpeace.org
www.hrc.org
www.nature.org
www.womensmarch.com


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