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Best Before (demo)
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Best Before
You best before beware of any revolution
when it's bought or sold for cash
by colonizers- subculture gentrifiers
outliers fetishizing the working class
that tear in those jeans you were trying to keep clean
is the fray they display to look mean
keep your rage to a sigh, cos in the blink of an eye
they'll pass you by on the way sell another scene
You best beware before labels like hateful and ungrateful
are the staples of a fateful decline
you might get what you asked for the disaster of a slacker
with Charms that shrink the more they're applied
every sly low key grand master plan to rebrand
is a monument to all that we strand
so suck up that serotonin, pinch your piss,
and muffle moaning,
cos not growing might be showing
without sowing your just slowing
every chance because your woe'ing
never knowing the real meaning of pain
At first we thought we won the day
but in the end we lost our say
flirting with games we shouldn't play
repaid for all that we betrayed...
the joke's on us now and the tragic comedy is one of
mistakes that we once embraced to have the laugh at them
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We dropped our arms and walked away
opened our hands when offered pay
we let convenience lead the way
we couldn't even- keep the sheep at bay
succumbed to comforts we never thought we'd see
did we give up after one day
we never made the bastards pay
we left the slopes greased up or iced over
we let the chips fall off our shoulders as they may
the televised predators draped in crude sheep carcass crept back in
sniffed out all our fears and pulled that wool over our eyes again
if you don't meet them with cynicism
then I sing to sling mud- you might be dumber than dumb
dismiss, resist the mockery the botched bought historicity they lend
we know the problems we create
we wait and see we watch and wait
and when it's not looking so great
we're only armed with votes and prayers to stall our fate
a cheer to the squad from another loud slob
trying to play the activist or eccentric
like a novelty gob of candy corn on the cob
so sweet so insincerely authentic
got all our rage out
or did we age out
does looking up to us require looking down
well I'm not giving up just yet
there's still some blood I have to let
and when I'm on the terms of the Earth worms
I'll rot with thoughts of times I did my best
in the moments I stood up to all the rest
with a torch but no mob to help me finish the job
when I tried to burn impervious castles
was there ever a chance to really win or advance
in and endless battle coveting our souls
got all our rage out
or did we age out?
does looking up to us require looking down?
is hypocrisy the noise that drowns us out?
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Royalty (demo)
03:01
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They were the elders
last living leaders of the tribe
and we took note
the rest had all but gone and died
so we knew
those of us to stay the course might be too few
but if we found doorways through the walls might not lock us in too
When we were subjects to the shrinking breed ahead
we were learning when to follow and when to know we were misled
royalty with a little more humility
with a touch of that humanity
with honesty among our priorities
We were bored and bold
refused to step where we were told
we were the pawns that made it across the board
and saw the bigger picture as we plodded forward
when we were kings and queens of our own different sides
secretly we earned our royalty by braving the divides
a crown of thorns just for moment
where the close minded stay dormant
while our kingdom opens up, spreads far and wide
and the punks they didn't like the skins but maybe Jimmy was okay
and the mods they never liked the punks but we copped speed any way
and the ravers took refuge with the goths so we could hate them both at once
while the hipsters attracted all the hate with all their cheap unsanctioned fun
When we were subjects to those rules we hid behind
we remembered the rejection that forced us to the outside
raising walls and drawing borders
paved the path of our disorder
we break free
let loose these honest open minds
I've got friends in the shallow end
because they hit their heads hard by diving in
and in the shallow they remain
sometimes I love them anyway
still got friends in the shallow end
must have hit their heads hard when they dove in
deep in the shallow they remain
and that's okay
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Apples to Apples (demo)
01:38
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Apples to apples
the hapless laughable hack trappings
In the know and just so on the nose
Oranges to oranges
forming the boringest forgeries
the impressed at least at best gutless to testing the unknown
wallowed in the reactions
before one note to tape or word one to page
who would've thought
we'd be the clouds to rain
grains of salt on our own pain
pokes awoken the liar
exhaling smoke, stoking fires
toking on broken desires
preaching in chorus to choirs
and when the jokes are too tired
we claim the ones who came prior
is all that will ever matter
which plants the seed to the chatter
are we the former or latter
who had the silverest platter
and who got richer and fatter?
and maybe we'll never matter
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The Enemy
02:19
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I am the enemy
of every vain attempt to find some sanity
and making sense of every grounded sensibility that's telling me it's time to walk away
so drain my energy
another vampire tapped into dry arteries
if these fangs get rearranged by fists- will the lessons force a change or suck me further in
fighting for the youth I tried to leave behind
respected or arrested dumb or wise
will it ever be better time?
will there ever be some piece of mind?
will I ever choose the path that offers up a little peace and quiet?
what if ego impaired fragile minds?
what if war was declared without pride?
what if every fight was righteous but compulsion for it wasn't right?
what if peace was right there the whole time
what if peace was right there the whole time
what if peace was right there right in front of you
offering other ways?
what you were just scared the whole time
what you were just scared the whole time
what if you were just scared that finding peace would make you nobody?
fighting for the youth I never left behind
respected or arrested dumb or wise
advanced or blind
every snake I try to guillotine
grows two more heads twice as strong and mean
so blades I use to slay are double edged not always striking clean
guess I'm never giving up this fight
that's the choice that let's me sleep at night
even if it never ever never ever never turns out right
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Solo acoustic non-herbert, punk, hardcore from Boston
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