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Fit the description of a suspect
Another man cut down without respect
Trash their reputation
Attack with slander, create a martyr
it's not Chicago in '31
he pulls a knife, you pull a gun
People once again enraged, backs against this cage
Turn up the chaos, this pot will boil over
The steam will scream for justice, but left starving for closure
Stay your hand -- Nobody's gotta die today
Stay your hand -- There's gotta be a another way
Fit the description of a suspect
Another man cut down without respect
Both trying to make a living
Two men enter, only one still breathing
Bias fuled by fear
Still a problem after all these years
People once again enraged, backs against this cage
People once again enraged, backs against this cage
Disenfranchised, drove to violence -- Shattering the silence
Disenfranchised, drove to violence -- Shattering the silence
Drove to violence -- Drove to violence
Drove to violence
Stay your hand -- Nobody's gotta die today
Stay your hand -- There's gotta be a another way
Stay your hand
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Shock the masses with this shameless tirade
Spewn bombastic jargon that no one asked for
Cut the rhetoric, nobody's impress
self indulgent libel shows rot to the core
Enough, you've had your say and everywhere to hide
Grasping for straws but still won't show your face
Paint the portrait of a better world
The canvas of hope won't be stained by their hate
Nothing is Sacred with no more secrets
We're all afraid, we're all afraid
We tell ourselves we are strong but
We're all afraid of everything we're...
Not going to listen to another fucking word
No faceless warrior will fight in the field
stop passive aggression thrown at the wall
if we're so righteous then why won't we yield
The lights are on, nobody's home
The lights are on, nobody's home
What will it take for us to realize our faults
The lights are on, nobody's home
The lights are on, but nobody's fucking home
Nothing is Sacred with no more secrets
We're all afraid, I'm still afraid
We tell ourselves we are strong but
We're all afraid of everything we are
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I'm awake in the american dream
Trying to sleep while they're picking our teams
But if you really think about it does it make any sense
The constitution was written past tense
It's almost like they make it up as they go
Aren't you glad that the president got his man
With his kids in a cave where they made their last stand
but even if they didn't, we still needed a face
Try to make a point you will get erased
Wonder why? It's because we said so
Wonder why... because we said so
Are we the villains
Are we the villains
We needed someone to blame
Are we the villains
Are we the villains
Are we just pawns in this game
Change and hope won't come if you beg
Getting anywhere costs an arm and a leg
prerogative shifts where the money falls
The crooks are here and there's noone to call
At the cutting edge, with nothing to show
Are we the villains
Are we the villains
We needed someone to blame
Are we the villains
Are we the villains
Are we just pawns in this game
I'm tired of hearing, "yes we can"
I want to say, "yes we will"
I'm tired of hearing, "yes we can"
I want to say, "yes we will"
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I spend my mornings in the afternoon
The sun crashes through these broken blinds
Stagger up to get the evil out
Leave the frame, never knowing what I'm going to find
In this desperate neighborhood, we drink to stave off the gloom
You can tell by the debris
Hide away in our shelters, waiting for the clouds to break
But they're always coming back
I found her sprawled across the sidewalk
Press into the earth, littered in broken glass
Queen of Wands, torn and faded
Queen of wands, thrown away
Joy and satisfaction can't solve your mystery
black cat at your feet shadows your history
My lady Fair, Queen of wands
Beater skateboards are the Chariots
We ride to reach out colosseum
Huddled for warmth in the darkness
Expel our lungs in celebration
I found her sprawled across the sidewalk
Press into the earth, littered in broken glass
Queen of Wands, torn and faded
Queen of wands, thrown away
Joy and satisfaction can't solve your mystery
black cat at your feet shadows your history
My lady Fair, Queen of wands
No one's got all the answers
the meaning's up to you
Fall from grace -- Rise to the thrown
Show us what you've got
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Rolling over, while you're sleeping 6 feet under
This can't be what you meant
A world by the sword or the pen
Educated and indentured to our debt
We're just so evolved
With my knees at my chest -- Hiding behind the wall
I try to bite my tongue -- But my ego wins out
Congratulations kid, You've earned it -- It's your problem now
Falling backward, while you're crawling up a landfill
of stained glass and shrapnel, and bad ideas
I read the paper, but I can't comprehend
Same denial again and again
Excuse me sir, can you spare me some change
I left my sense of pride in a dumpster at Forest and Baynes
We're just so evolved
With my knees at my chest -- Hiding behind the wall
I try to bite my tongue -- But my ego wins out
Congratulations kid, You've earned it
We spent 6000 years with sticks in our hands
Just symptoms of growing supply and demand
We spent 6000 years with sticks in our hands
Just symptoms of growing supply and demand
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We are the Atlas of our elders, supporting those who came before
Bound by policy in a system. We never had a choice
Please don't read the contents of this page
Simply scroll to the bottom, service will be provided
Distracted by handheld screens and instant gratification
The subservient masses remain divided
Pieces move in the tower
orders sent from underground
tell me friends, will this be the hour
that we learn our enemies face
We are the Atlas of our elders, supporting those who came before
Bound by policy in a system. We never had a choice
We'll never be taken care of, only taken advantage of
One day they'll be in the ground. Our world in ashes, we start from scratch
Rising cost and declining value of a college education
Drown the field and knock the generation off course
Wealth sits at the the top with breath held for trickle down
Bosses learn it's more efficient to outsource
The eagle may feed on all our livers
But we'll get the job done
Now's the time that this nation
Calls to its daughters and sons
United in fire, we stand as one
United in fire, we stand as one
We'll never be taken care of, only taken advantage of
United in fire, we stand as one
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Tell me when did your heart stop beating
When did the blood in your veins run cold and dry
Tell me when did you stop believing
You laid your weapons down and went back inside
Was it the cellophane or the insincerity
Staring down the barrel of mediocrity
We came here to move mountains
But you got up and you walked away
Was it the ringing in your head
Was it just too much to take?
Did you think this was going to be easy?
What did you think this was gonna be?
Wake up, wake up it’s time to go -- Get up, get out, you’re on your own
We’ll draw the maps and carve our path -- Through the bruises and the broken bones
You’re not alone
And the straight road ends
Where the cars are piled high
Forty miles lie ahead, then drive over the cliff-slide
Someday, when the tide rolls in I hope you’re in good health
Cause your necktie’s only good to hang yourself
Screaming, “no not me”
Did you think this was going to be easy?
What did you think this was gonna be?
Wake up, wake up it’s time to go -- Get up, get out, you’re on your own
We’ll draw the maps and carve our path --Through the bruises and the broken bones
You’re not alone
We never scratched the surface. Your feet never touched the ground
Now we’re riding on the pavement. Tearing the walls down
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Tough to say "bend don't break" when you're facing a power saw
Between a rock and hard place, trying to find her own way out
Hurried footsteps petrified -- Those listening above the stairs
Grab your things we're leaving now, this place will never be the same
March down the street to meet at the designated rendezvous
escape with only what you could hold, never knowing if you'd get back
Then you look back over your shoulder just beyond your childs head
a shouting spectre of a man, who once you thought you knew
You can't do this anymore, we're getting the fuck out of here
in this prison we call home, the warden's lost his mind
never again will we be subject to your will
never again
misogynistic sociopath
Played every card in the game
now ashamed, cast in exile
your son will never know your name
your son will never know your name
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Always running away
Shadows loom over our heads
nip at the heel and cut down the hero before the story's through
Not going to show our hands because the worst is yet to come
Strike up a deal with your inner demon when you've got no soul to sell
Hannah said she can't remember the feel
The rain, the dirt, the pavement and the sweat
But the sounds all wrong from under the steel
The colors dull and the sun won't set
This place smells like a memory
Always running away
Shadows loom over our heads
nip at the heel and cut down the hero before the story's through
Not going to show our hands because the worst is yet to come
Strike up a deal with your inner demon when you've got no soul to sell
If legends never die, why are we so afraid?
It's my youth, it's my blood. I don't want to be unseen
It's my youth, it's my blood. I don't want to be unseen
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Looking innocent, but you know what you're doing
Got the stare that always draws me in
Head to toe, your body's like a mosaic
Story told with ink and scars
All I gotta know, All I gotta say is
you've got my back - Got my back
Only ever had to hear your song and it Drove me mad
You know what you're doing to me
This locket holds my only dream
I'll keep it close 'til we touch down
Who knew what I could do, who knew what I'd become?
Turns out a woman in a corset is all it takes to make a man go to war
All I gotta know, All I gotta say is
you've got my back - Got my back
Only ever had to hear your song and it Drove me mad
You know what you're doing to me
Take my tags. Take my tags. Take my tags, I'm coming home
All I gotta know, All I gotta say is
you've got my back - Got my back
Only ever had to hear your song and it Drove me mad
You know what you're doing to me
Take my tags. Take my tags. Take my...
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The illusion of security has made us all blind
Manufactured danger planted inside all our minds
bureaucracy locks the systems, leaves us stuck in place
interest groups support the horses as they run the race
and we're left in a most precarious position
From everything I've seen, I've come to this conclusion
I don't think we're 'gonna make it
I don't think we'll even try
Society, ignorant and free. Never was and never will be
I don't think we're 'gonna take it
We are populace subdued by comfort
no need to raise a hand
the criminals that run the show will never take the stand
common sense that's my defense in a war we'll never fight
equality's a fallacy meant only to divide
I'll never let you down
I'll never live this down
I'll never let you down
I'll never live this down
I don't think we're 'gonna make it
I don't think we'll even try
Society, ignorant and free. Never was and never will be
I don't think we're 'gonna take it
Embers still burn on the forge
will it melt the wax and stamp the seal
thrown in with all the rest
left to standards that nobody knows
organized and overloaded
no difference in friend or foe
organized and overloaded
no difference in friend or foe
organized and overloaded
no difference in friend or foe
I'll never let you down
I'll never live this down
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You give a part of yourself to the miles
In the hours spent in transit to where you're called
But weary minds tend to get distracted
and reason bends beyond our own resolve
No we can't give up, we're on our way
The leg work counts in the long run
Inspired by those whose flights never took off
Bound by responsibility, chattel to their lives
Wet behind the ears, a call beyond your years
Sacrifice your every dream
No I will no squander -- I won't let it spoil
Everything they gave to me
No pity, no romance
Someday I will get my chance
Not fame, not wealth. Whatever end, I've done this to myself
Due diligence is not a formula
Surrender leads us to contempt
It's all for not without dedication
With no purpose, you might as well be dead
A man wears the face he earns
We all wear the face we earn
A man wears the face he earns
We all wear the face we earn
Like a phantom limb, always reaching
For greater things we've never known
No pity, no romance
Someday I will get my chance
Not fame, not wealth. Whatever end, I've done this to myself
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released April 7, 2016