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I Stand Alone

from Empathy by Cutting Through

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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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from Empathy, released April 14, 2018

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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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