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Trial
02:17
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TRIAL
One day I awoke to find the sun
Beating down on me
Thoughts and fears filling my mind
The truth was beating down on me
For that day
I stood trial
For all of my lies and denials
For my lack of discipline
And responsibility
I awoke and faced my judge
The mirror said that I'm guilty
I could not believe it
As the verdict was passed
The mirror said that I'm guilty
How can this be true
My sentencing followed soon after
My insides torture me
I cannot rest from my sight
I cannot be free
Until it is made right
The trial becomes my trial
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Understand
03:49
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UNDERSTAND
In eighteen years
You have it all figured out
You know the score
What it's all about
Such a short time
But so far to go
You cannot even understand
What you don't know
Eyes wide open
But you cannot see
Their helplessness
Their suffering
Their misery
Then in a contemptuous tone
You proceed to tell me
Fairy tales and bullshit
Of how it should be
It's not that way
Six white walls
Become a rich girl's cage
Sheltered from
Their impoverished rage
Your attitude hurts more
Than bombs ever will
It's stupidity that kills
Why can't you understand?
(When you're in your white walls
You don't have to see)
Why can't you understand?
You shut your eyes
And close your mind
But that can't hide the shame
Or the pain
I hold you to blame for their pain
You're to blame
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Running
03:07
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RUNNING
I'm running out of time
Forced to decide
To choose the beat path
Or to feel the wrath
When I take a different ride
There's nothing in this world
That you have to do
To be frightened by tradition
Is a cheap excuse
I, I realize
I, I sympathize
But we can't live with those lies
And you won't always be sure
When your judgments seem pure
Every choice you make
Could be a mistake
But at least they were yours
Complain that you can't win
When you've chosen to fit in
Responsibility's gone
I know that's wrong
Conformity can be a sin
Now I judge on my own scales
So I know when I have failed
The decisions are mine
I'll take my time
Only it will surely tell
I'm running out of time
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Never Stop
03:17
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NEVER STOP
The minute, the second
That we stop trying
The moment, the fraction
Of time that we start lying
To ourselves
Is when they will win
You ask me the odds of victory
I can only tell you this
If we stop we dig our own graves
If we stop
It will be the end
If we stop
No, never stop
If we do, it's the end
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Heal
04:06
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HEAL
Empty, with no respect at all
We expect what's been built
To crumble and fall
Shocked by the indifference
To our unheeded call
I ask you
What do we offer instead?
We cannot change around
Until we change within
To scream and yell and sloganize
Only shields us from our own lies
Without understanding
We offer our own views
What the hell are we doing, rebels?
I am scared by the way you act
Do you always know who is really
Being attacked?
With an unknowing shrug
We go and turn our backs
On the only few things that we have left
Commitment is not measured by
By the months
But by the years
The time to stop
Will not be our first tears
A life spent with more trouble
Time, pain and fear
Is there any way to stay
Close to what we hold dear?
Integrity, truth and love is what we need
Rebel, heal thyself
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Scared
04:10
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SCARED
I say that I love
I say that I believe
I say just a few words
And now that I'm exposed
I look out at you to reach out too
But your heart is kept closed
Hide behind laughter
And a smart-assed sneer
Cover yourself from what you see
What you see and hear
No, you can't believe
That means you'd take a chance
To reach out
There are small things
That we can do
Every single day
To make ourselves heroes
In our own little way
You are scared
(But so am I)
You are scared-so deep inside
You are scared-so you lie
You are scared-so you hide
You are scared-but don't you know
So am I
So am I
I'm scared
There's no exposure in darkness
No change in hate
I want to try to reach to you
But is it too late?
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Our Illusions
03:33
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OUR ILLUSIONS
Will we really live by what we say?
Will we really be open in every way?
I've seen it before, so many times
Must the past be repeated
With all of its crimes?
No, I really believe in what we sing
I'm going to try to live my life
In my own way
Our illusions
It does not have to be that way
Even if change does
not come in a day
We have to do all that we can
If not, the blood's on our hands
We're the only one to blame
If we do not dispel our illusions
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Alive
02:47
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ALIVE
The answers won't
Be anywhere but inside
It's the only truth
I really know for sure
The only truth they cannot hide
To live is
To fight what has come before
To live is
To struggle and begin
Again once more
To live is
To fight what has made you weak
To live is
To never find all of what you seek
The past is the enemy of now
To live is to move is
To grow is to learn
Anywhere, anyway, anyhow
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Search
04:24
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SEARCH
To search for them
Is to never succeed
You can't find
What will never be
Images on the page
No, your life is never that way
Images on the page
Don't you ever think your life
Will be that way
Your comparisons
Are futile tries
At perverted reality
And shallow lies
That is not your criteria
For you to judge me
Don't you ever think
That that is reality
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Atomic Action! Providence, Rhode Island
Punk/hardcore label from Rhode Island started in 1989 ended in 2000 restarted in 2012. We put out music we like by people we like. Fuck all the rest.
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