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And now that seasons are changing
But you’ve remained the same
Still stagnating
In every antiquated way
We refuse to change
We refuse to sway
With the branches that will break
with the weight of the coming rain.
So here I am
I am nothing more
Than a soul trapped in a body
Wondering what the fuck it’s for
I hold no more meaning than the tear in the eye
Of a child amidst war
Waiting for their turn to die.
I’ve got no sight of the shoreline
But my heart is still full of hope
(Trying to) keep my chin above water
Learn how to swim before I fucking choke
With the weight of an anchor
Look up and try to float,
Sometimes it feels like a waste of breath
A waste of breath
Fuck it
Let me go
I boarded all the windows
I broke the key off in the lock
I’ll leave this broken home in my past
No I don’t want to talk
Bad thoughts
I never asked for more than what you could give me,
(End thoughts/Brain rots.)
Just your stupid sad little whore,
So you showed me the door
So you showed me the door.
If the hope we hold dies
Then so do we.
So burn with the passion
of a flame chasing gasoline
(with the bile that you speak, its got me on my knees)
Were we ever innocent and free?
Oh! Were we ever free?
I never needed your diagnosis
I just needed room to breathe.
Room to breathe.
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Lower the Flags
02:20
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One more day, to suffer on this earth
Another day, a step away from birth
lower me into the earth
Every day I feel the threat of an arriving hearse.
Are you like me boiling with hate?
At the thought of normalcy you feel you have to fake
To perpetuate false feelings
Masked hate
A way to keep all those around you at arms length
I know I hate too much
Maybe I love too little
every day everybody else is chasing false wealth
Keep telling yourself that it’s just a means to an end.
Your Gods not dead
No he was never even there to begin with.
oh
You see that next step
You’ve fought your way to the top
But now you’re finally where you wanna be the gears start to stop
The fading epitaph, the only thing that you'll leave
And it will weather with NO ONE TO GRIEVE
The name that’s etched in the stone
Preserve the memory
The man who died cold and all alone
A victim of his own greed
Told that it’s noble so nobody noticed when the animals who feed came to eat your conscience.
They save your heart for last now they devour it fast
Has revolutions spark come and passed?
Fuck it
Just give us two or three matches and some fucking gas
Lower the flags.
Our words fade with time, and so will you
It only matters what we do
For what we may become and what we’ll leave behind
For those who scream out when it’s their time to fall in line.
We won’t sit by while the heart withers and dies.
watch us rise.
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RISE AND STRIKE Modesto, California
Northern California Hardcore
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