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Internal Fight
01:41
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Look at what youve done
The finger is pointed at me
I cant turn and run
The actions were taken by thee
Stand up for one thing stand up tall
Suppress you once and for all
I start to see that youre just really me
Time to grow up and move on
Cast you aside, so long
I let you rule me
Shape my own identity
Nows the time, take it back
Breakthough, kickback
Its time
Enough
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Just Wont Quit
02:17
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Just wont quit
We just wont quit
Times on our side
And we will prevail
Expectations on your back
Dedication you must not lack
Here till the end
Positive minds win again
A crew with empathy
Standing true, no enemies
No egos, no attitudes
Well make a believer out of....
You can change your life
Make the wrongs right
First you must acknowledge
And then gain some knowledge
Theres no room for hate
We all must equate
Respect those around you
Judgement from within
A crew with empathy
Standing true, no enemies
No egos, no attitudes
Building blocks from a better you
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Replace the Means
01:15
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Hateful views will never make you right
Shove them down my throat you have lost your sight
Given every opportunity
Lost the jewel of life youve lost all it's glee
Breath
Not much of it left
Stop wasting your life
Take a stand, set yourself free
Replace the anger, replace the means
The time is now for you to see
Take a stand, set yourself free
Before your chance is gone
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I Stand Alone
04:36
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Abbreviated quotation from "Bäume. Betrachtungen und Gedichte" by Hermann Hesse
“For me, trees have always been the most penetrating preachers. I revere them when they live in tribes and families, in forests and groves. And even more I revere them when they stand alone. They are like lonely persons. Not like hermits who have stolen away out of some weakness, but like great, solitary men, like Beethoven and Nietzsche. In their highest boughs the world rustles, their roots rest in infinity; but they do not lose themselves there, they struggle with all the force of their lives for one thing only: to fulfil themselves according to their own laws, to build up their own form, to represent themselves. Nothing is holier, nothing is more exemplary than a beautiful, strong tree. When a tree is cut down and reveals its naked death-wound to the sun, one can read its whole history in the luminous, inscribed disk of its trunk: in the rings of its years, its scars, all the struggle, all the suffering, all the sickness, all the happiness and prosperity stand truly written, the narrow years and the luxurious years, the attacks withstood, the storms endured. And every young farmboy knows that the hardest and noblest wood has the narrowest rings, that high on the mountains and in continuing danger the most indestructible, the strongest, the ideal trees grow.
Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life."
I stand alone
Like a tree standing alone
Absorbing all the oncoming foehn
Solitary, and on my own
My roots have grown
But in them I will not be drowned
Ill fullfill myself and wear the crown
Expectations stretched out along my bough
Represent myself as I see how
The forces of life are the forces that are shown
Scars of this life I have gained as I have grown
My whole history is luminous and gold
Contentment as I stand alone
I walk this path all by myself
Hesitations left up on the shelf
Forks in the road along the way
Ill live with the decisions that I have made
Getting to know myself is key
Focus all my internal chi
Regulate my temperment
Living life with no arrogance
The forces of life are the forces that are shown
Scars of this life I have gained as I have grown
My whole history is luminous and gold
Contentment as I stand alone
Forks in the road along the way
Ill live with the decisions that I have made
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Cutting Through Portland, Oregon
Cutting Through is a hardcore punk band residing in Portland, Oregon.
Sky - Drums
Poop - Bass
Bubbles - Guitar
Patrick - Guitar
Driggs - Vocals
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