Thought You Were Into It (2007)



 The Bart EP (2008)

The Demo EP (2005)
Arms Aren't Strong

(verse)
Suffering
Instead let's bring
Hope to those who have to fight

Medicine
A shelter and
Food are fundamental rights

(bridge)
Take their side
Help them to regain their pride
'Cause we're just one step away
Take their side
Help them to regain their pride
'Cause we're just…one…just one step away

(verse)
Suffocation
This administration
Keeps its own people down

No starvation
The resonation
Of our voices ever loud

(bridge)

(chorus)
The wait's been so long
And these arms aren't strong
Enough to lift the shame

So take this song
As we sing along
And try to stop this pain

(bridge)
(chours x 2)

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Chalk Line

(verse)
He'll trace a chalk line
As if to block time
In here it's so cold
His pride he'll swallow whole

A past of half-truths
Nothing left to prove
And though she'd been told
In time, it swallows whole lives

(chorus)
All those lost times
Buried outside
When she thought he'd left
And come undone

And all those same crimes
Lay before him
Left with no choice now
He's gotta run

(verse)
Reach through a phone line
Reach back in his mind
Head rests on cold stone
It's time to take his own life

(chorus)

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End Ron

I jerk my hand back as you
Slam the door on all I wanted
And back it up with lies
Back it up with pride

Without integrity your
Only goal is profit motive
But I won't worship
At your golden calf

You've got me spinning 'round
Two feet from the ground
And then you sold me out
I never had a doubt

And with your gold pen you spent
All the hope of those that mattered
Scooping up your prize
You ruined all those lives

I should have taken heed through
Crooked teeth you hissed and flattered
And your blinding greed
Blindsided me

(chorus)

(end part)
And now you sold us out
I never had a doubt
But in the end you'll bend
And take your turn

So take a look around
Your bullshit topples down
I'll stand and laugh
As I watch your kingdom burn

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Excuses Can't Escape

(verse 1)
Then came the phone call
It was the last fall
In the winter of your life

Those words that disarm
You bow your head, and raise your fist
And shout out, "why?"
You want to know

(chorus)
This is your cross
(This is your cross)
That you have to bear
Excuses can't escape
You're not prepared
To raise a small child
And that mirror
(And that mirror)
Stares back with a face
You never thought you'd see
And now you're scared
To look inside...
(verse 2)
This tiny child
Can reconcile
All the wrong things you have done

Her trust it drives you
Small hands that hold your heart
To guide you through these times
Don't falter now

(chorus)
(chorus)

(outro)
Like it or not
She's your one shot
To be a hero

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Hedge Your Bets

(verse 1)
Turn a blind eye to the sight
'Cause our greed only feeds their plight
Hungry children cry all night
As they beg for us to make it right

Backed in a corner forced to fight
With a will to build a better life
We gotta make it right
Just show 'em the light

(chorus)
They've taken the long way 'round
Just to hear you say
You'd better headge your bets tonight
And they're left with a wandering sound
As you walked away
Don't ever hedge your bets tonight

Build a wall with bricks of fright
Build it tall to block the light
They've wandered wastelands through the night
To grab hold of a better life
With dignity and rights
We gotta make it right


(chorus)
They've taken the long way 'round
Just to hear you say
You'd better headge your bets tonight
And they're left with a wandering sound
As you walked away
Don't ever hedge your bets tonight

You've let them by the wayside

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A Hero Hated

Never taking lives
For granted
This hero hated tries
What's not said
And the amnesty
To help us see
Will leave you dead

(Chorus)
Eats through disguise
That we wore
No more designs
That we'll soar

Take steel wool to your wounds
To cleanse ours
Transgressions become tombs
For those last hours
And with that thought
You're left to rot
The loss of power

(Chorus)

(Break)

Empty pockets tell
We're bankrupt
Morals up for sale
The call-up
Vaccuous and dead
And in his stead
We fill this cup

(Chorus)

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Lashing Out

(verse 1)
Now your thoughts are abstract
They knock you off track
You won't stop reading
To stop the bleeding

This is not your last stop
A smaller grave plot
To fall into
As all this bullshit swirls around you

(chorus)
And your heart feels twisted
And filled with pain
You clench your fist and
Lash out again

(verse 2)
Rolling through the last town
On your way down
No time for treating
No loss for needing

Hands outstretched a last grasp
Your mouth a last gasp
You're passing through
And all this bullshit still astounds you

(chorus x2)

(break)
Two fists are stronger than one
One heart beats louder than none
When it's all been said and done
No one in this world can save you

(chorus x2)

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 Minus One

(verse 1)
And now it all comes down to this
A war of words and hate
It's something we've both missed
Instead retaliate

I stab at you with empty eyes
You parry with a fist
And now we both feel slighted
Cheated, hurt , and pissed

(verse 2)
I'm mulling this all over now
Of how we'd come this far
When I spent less time home
And more time in my car

The roads stretch on forever
When you've nowhere left to run
And now this perfect life
Is perfect minus one

(end part x2)
I'm not fine
And all those things I said
On that rainy night just
Echo in my head
So now I'll try
Try to change my fate
And it's not enough
But it's not too late

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October

(verse 1)
We're being lied to
By the ones that we elect
They further their agendas
While they keep us all in check

But what they've missed
Is one good reason
And if I resist
Will they call it treason

(chorus)
And I'm dreading this October
When they march us off to war
For rhetoric and posture
What will we have to show for

(verse 2)
It's daddy's grudge
From his failed attempt
To replace one tyrant with one
From this continent

I don't support their cause
But I don't support a war
That will leave thousands dead
With nothing left to show for

(chorus)

(end chorus)
And I'm dreading this October
When they march us off to war
For rhetoric and posture
What will we have to show for
And when it's all over
How many will have died
And all we'll have to show for
Is their lies

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Out of Sight

The coffins swerve and sway.
Caged up every minute of every day.
It ain't worth the prize, this inching march to die,
As you line for the rest of your lives.

I'm not here to say,
But I'm not here to lie to your face.
To feel what it's like, kickstart your bike,
And ride it to the end of your life.

We're leaving here today.
The miles they rush away.
Out of sight.
Take one final ride.
Twist that grip and fly.
Out of sight.

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Red State

(verse)
What gives you cause for hatred
To legislate against your son
For the way that he was born

Long years of youth and wonder
Came crashing down at 21
And instead you gave him scorn

(verse)
You wave the good book red-faced
You spew your homophobic lies
But we see through your disguise

And from your bully pulpit
Take that good book, and read it twice
Show me where you're justified

(chorus)
Fuck what you heard
I wanna watch your red state burn
Not one more word
Hate begets hate, an ill return

(verse)
We're free to love who we choose
To fuck and fight and live our lives
But you'd tear that down in no time

Call it abomination
That's an apt word to help describe
Your intolerant small mind

(chorus)
Fuck what you heard
I wanna watch your red state burn
Not one more word
Hate begets hate, an ill return

Fuck what you heard

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Serving Industry

Serving industry
To sign away our rights
Resign democracy

Auctioned policy
Sold to corporations
bent on tyranny

Your laws, byzantine
Smeared across the face of
Widespread poverty

Channeling Chomsky
Free form solutions
Organized to set us free

(chorus)
Why we’d want to compromise
We’ll smash you and smash your lies
While you’d have us disaffected
standing in line
Why we’d want to tow the line
We’ll no longer justify
You’ll be reeling wondering when and how
It’s over now

(middle part)
Reap profits, keep your score
Free markets kill the poor
In time

State charters weren’t the cure
Export labor to ensure
The line

You spill more blood each year
Of those who’ve lost the fear
To die
Now it’s our time
These are our lives

(chorus)

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Twenty Grand

Drawing breath in subjective sighs.
It's a painstaking promise in prime time.
Nothing is lost when losing's the prize
As you part it out, parcels of whole lives.

Feeding designs, you swallow them whole.
And I'm a part of this.
If hope's to survive this lapse of control,
And I'm a part of this.

Taking stock of all that's been bought and been sold
As you ration off rationale, then fold.
Lashing out at frustration's hold.
It's a bludgeoning, blood has run so cold.

Feeding designs, you swallow them whole.
And I'm a part of this.
If hope's to survive this lapse of control,
And I'm a part of this...rage.

Stuttered lines, so twisted and poor.
Tell your bullshit truth, bulletproof twice more.
You'll take page from neo-con lore.
Send your twenty-grand to foreign lands for your...rage.

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Vacant Stares

(verse 1)
You roll the dice
And bet everything you've gained
You wait outside
Where you tears mix with the rain
You're winded

(chorus)
When your dreams are met with vacant stares
Can you salvage hope and carry on?
When everything you gave up
Makes you throw your hands up
Ready to give in
It's only you that you've got to rely on

(verse 2)
You wrote it twice
Signed in blood, you've been resigned
But it won't suffice
And raze every bit of your design

(chorus)
(chorus)

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Wearing Off

(verse)
A friendship seems in passing
Over yet lasting
I'm overwhelmed

You stagger out of our lives
You trade what's inside
For an empty shell

Rhetoric and promise
From alcoholics
Is not much else

But there's one thing that I'll demand
Respect your friends and
Respect yourself

(chorus)
And it's wearing off
But it's wearing my heart thin
So you write it off
Nowhere to start, nowhere to begin
And I went along
For as long as I could take
There ain't no shame in writing this thing off

Three months dry and sober
You're starting over
And we're still here

In bad times you can't pretend
Or jusdge your friends in
Minutes, days, or years

(chorus)

(break)
And you broke these ties
And it's all
And therein lies
The stall
Or bind these lies
Down inside

(chorus)

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