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Unaltered Perspective
01:01
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The world around us is designed to keep us distracted, subdued and divided
Those among us who are active, conscious and united are deemed a threat to the status quo
This is about outrage
This is about the pain of loss and the power of connection
This is about existing contrary to norms
This is about strength and self determination
This is an unaltered perspective
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Epidemic
03:15
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What a wonderful mess we’ve made
Letting lobbyist play a dangerous game
Regulation thrown to the wayside
So many loved ones left to die
This capitalist nightmare that we call healthcare is a sorry excuse
like a machine producing drug abuse
Let the pushers run rampant
The masses wallowing in discontentment
Situations like these make me fall to my knees and feel so hopeless like I’m completely voiceless
A plague like no other
Declared by its very manufacturers
Avert your eyes so you won’t have to see
The countless lives lost to apathy
Bear no witness to those enslaved
Dead flowers rest on unmarked graves
Broken alone
Nowhere to turn nowhere to run
It really seems like nothing can push this off course logic and reality have become divorced
Sanctioned by law
The working class pays the cost
A desperate time and place
A country in an epidemic state
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Thoughts and Prayers
02:28
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Politician can’t you answer?
We’re dying in the gutters you offer us a prayer
Whispers in the wind while they watch more constituents meet their end
Your hollow words seem so absurd
To families ripped apart by crisis
You offer no solace
Your obvious negligence eclipses your thinly veiled selfishness
Not your problem you don’t care
feel no responsibility for this despair
You offer nothing but thoughts and prayers
You feel a sense of perverted justice that the lower classes somehow deserve this
As the population drowns in poison
You prepare and angle for position
We sink into an abyss of alienation and loneliness
Spin the story anyway you can
absolve your guilt of the mess we’re in
Scum sucking motherfucker you offer nothing but thoughts and prayers
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Predetermined
02:21
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When I heard about your demise there wasn’t a part of me that felt surprised
An unavoidable end for my first best friend
You drifted away at a most impressionable age
Fell in with a darker world always chasing a different girl
Letting your loneliness lead you somewhere it could multiply and truly thrive
Despite my lack of shock I still felt my stomach drop
I thought about your sister and what the fuck this will do to her
What about your parents no one should outlive one of their kids
I tried my best to keep it together in front of your family and friends
All with matching expressions in a room missing a coffin
On the way home it hit me like a ton of bricks listening to lights went out thinking about the life you missed
My heart breaks
Only in photographs can i see your face
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Bystander
03:05
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I watched you slip so many times
I lost faith you would ever make things right
Gave you so many chances
Listened to so many promises
You broke every one of them without any semblance of hesitation
Heard so many excuses
Dissolved all my expectations
After being let down again and again i turned my back on a friend
don’t think I ever said I was sorry
I’m accepting part of this was on me
It got so hard to continue to have your back and stick up for you
We may have had a history I guess it didn’t mean shit to me
Felt pushed away by your erratic behavior
No concern for your health or welfare
Relegated myself to the concept of seeing you in a casket
What a help I was just another motherfucker counting on you to screw up
You needed a brother not a fool losing his faith in you
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Without A Word
02:36
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We reconnect at the moments our lives intersect
We just laugh and laugh and laugh about all the great times we had
What happened?
What made you break this off?
We were a tribe we were bonded together but one day that all stopped
Without a word
I remained loyal but got treated like a child
witnessed your exodus and i still mourn your absence
My feelings never stopped though I’m nothing more than an afterthought
You abandoned everything we built
I’m only a reminder of your guilt
We used to be this close we used to be like best friends but now you don’t know me and I’ve got no idea what I did
I was a lost found a surrogate family
Now I’m ditched dismissed and pointing the blame at me
I stand testament to everything you regret
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Marooned
03:12
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I am an island never shown much consideration
Stuck in rotations of isolation
not sure what to do when I find myself locked in this room
Every wall a mirror
I’m drowning in my fear
I know I should reach out but I’m sinking in doubt
The unaltered perspective can lead to dismal trains of thought
I’m stuck on the tracks feeling fraught
I know these feelings are fleeting they still feel so defeating
gotta try to keep on believing
I’m worth more when my hearts still beating
need to pull myself from feeling worthless even though I think I deserve this
gotta fight i gotta try i gotta never quit
I got what it takes to never sell out and never submit
keep myself to myself when I’m spinning out
No one can tell I’m checking out cause I got no place to fall when my backs to the wall
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Connections
02:47
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“I am not alone” something i must remind myself
It can be so easy to convince yourself you have no one to count on
I promise you that is not the truth
Stunted over the years of self diagnosis reinforcing fears
Fear of rejection
An all out assault on any shreds of self esteem
Gut wrenched daily making it hard to breathe
A laundry list of reasons to stifle yourself place blame on the seasons
for you as much as it is for me to remind myself connection is what sets you free
Power of connection
technologically accelerated warfare
Stigmatized mental care
I’m not alone and neither are you
Keep telling yourself that’s the truth
Even if you don’t believe it
I know i don’t but i hope to achieve it
I know it’s hard to see it
the forest for the trees but you are not alone in this
I see you hear you and feel you
You exist to me if i exist to you
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9. |
Segue
01:14
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10. |
A Decision
02:46
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I made a choice years before I found my voice and that decision has been held strong by a commitment to keep holding on, could have shrugged it off like the rest a couple years later just to keep with the pack
I felt a connection and found something to believe in
Always questioned myself til i found where i belong
This was a decision made consciously of my own volition
I found a place to call my own
One dreadful night I swore would be my last
I felt the weight lift off the world
and put this x across my hand
Your “fun”, it leaves scars, once you bury your friends it really tears you apart
I’m still holding
onto this life that always seemed to feel right
When things are broken
It’s the one thing that feels permanent
Your “fun”, it’s taught me, that to be myself I’ll never pick up that drink
My decision is made
I made a choice
born in the wake of tragedy and pain
to forever seize control and remain the master of my fate
A decision to grow
A decision to believe
A decision to embrace who I was meant to be
A definite choice shaping the person i am
A decision was made to be straight edge
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11. |
Commitment To Self
05:11
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Sometimes I’m lost
So far off track I don’t know who to trust
I look at myself
Unrecognizable i reach out for help
And that’s ok
Weakness doesn’t have to produce shame
The possibilities of progression exist as long as you maintain a pulse
The ability to learn a lesson persists as long as your mind can function
making a commitment to self for the benefit of the ones i love
Don’t wanna slip into comfortable negligence
Won’t be a product of trauma
Won’t submit to my problems
I will face myself and be a contender
When it comes to my life i won’t be a bystander
I’m not gonna stop believing that i have exactly what it takes
To take this life in stride and do more than simply survive
I deserve more than what I’ve been allotted
I deserve a dignified existence
I’m not gonna stop believing that I can break this routine
Pain perpetuates pain I’m determined to break the chain
I’m demanding more from myself than to be a slave to my emotional shifts
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