I look around and I find,
The spirit of our kind,
Been slowly desecrated,
Miscommunications inside of the system,
We ride on the broken rails of time,
I see that cliff ahead,
But I can only try to stop the train,
Why,
When all I can do watch, listen and fear,
All of the things that my peers,
Manifest over the years,
All of the tears,
All of the screams,
All the lost sleep,
All the bottles,
All the unseen battles in between,
Chorus
I've been thinking about my life,
Days of thievin and alibis,
Never knowin how life would turn out,
Tell me why can't you sleep at night,
Looking on the inside,
You gotta let it go,
To the world that you left behind,
V2
I tried to escape the confines of mankind,
To no avail,
Tried to ignore this atrocity called America,
Pride's no longer what I feel inside,
It's the polar opposite,
Lost sheep in the herd in some corparation's pocket,
Profit like pirates perpetrating while people are pillaged,
Villages damaged while they feast on the image,
And dreams diminish,
Swallowed by greed and a false sense of purpose,
The massed shuffle along to find that life is worthless,
Cause on the surface is their nerve,
No deeper roots sewn,
Shallow thoughts are all we're programmed to know,
And so I go on everyday like a pawn in the game,
Am I insane or are we really the same,
And what made them change.
Chorus
V3
As a man I walk the surface of this earth as a parasite,
As I feed off the bites that I take from the site,
Of the scars that were left, and the new ones we leave,
And it seems as if we're making more than we can percieve,
But no one grieves for the loss of intelligence,
Knowledge was power,
Now I guess it's irrelivent,
Kept in the dark, we feel around in an ignorant bliss,
And our hands will never come across the edge of their abyss,
One day I'll kiss the sky,
And all the answers why,
Will come right to my eyes,
No need to summarize,
Till then I'm stuck right here,
Can't make no sense of it,
Why am I the only one left,
That wants to make more of the life I live.
The enigmatic punk-rap duo of Justin Pearson (The Locust, Swing Kids) and hip-hop producer Luke Henshaw make their long-awaited return. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 7, 2024
