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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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2. |
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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3. |
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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4. |
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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5. |
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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6. |
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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7. |
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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8. |
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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The Wine-Dark Sea Washington, D.C.
Vince
Kristian
Raphael
Occasionally complicated, always rocking. Tasty.
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