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Crush
01:13
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Open fire on everything you love / Open fire on everything you call home / Crush.
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Riding the Fault-line
04:09
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With or without you / I'm screaming these words / With or without you / Until I have nothing left to say / FUCK IT. This is tragedy / So here's your "love song" / You make me so sick / And I abandoned you the day we met / You could die with half a heart. I wouldn't shed one tear / I would break your heart and bury you in the pieces / You make me sick / And I don’t give a shit anymore / In all your faults, I see my face / I would fucking kill this if I could pull the trigger and if my words weren't firing blanks / So give 'em hell because that’s all you're good for / With or without you / Let’s get one thing perfectly clear: we want blood.
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Watch as the warheads fall from the sky / Give me the avian flu, the Bubonic Plague, the worst of our fears / How I would love to end these years / A dose of death for every individual / The dullest blade across the softest throat / An end to all, for all shall end. May you perish with the rest / This is a call to every martyr, every lost soul / Bring the fourth horseman and every bit of hell with him / Let us destroy the rest and leave none breathing / No patience for the living.
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So Saith the Lord
05:22
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"So Saith the Lord"
(Lyrics: R. Plasencia/S. Jackson)
["Why did you choose to love a god? I think you’ll find the romance one sided."]
I want to be the reason you don't believe in anything / ["Of course there’s a heaven honey." "Prove it."] Open your eyes. One mindset for the masses / This is the perfect death to your happy ending / An education in hypocrisy, a crash course in disbelief / I am not afraid and I call 'em like I see 'em / No trial for your brother, straight to execution / You have the facts. (I am not afraid and I call 'em like I see 'em.) / Where do you stand? / I am not afraid / This story's villain is wearing white / And he is masked under blue skies / This is the fold of your "revolution" / Let Him bleed on the cross, he’s your false resolution / A turning point; the end of faith / This will be your God's dying day / "Vengeance shall be mine," so Saith your Lord / You're shit out of luck and the look on your face is priceless (and I can’t stop laughing) / This is the fallout, this is the end of faith.
["I need to believe in something. Maybe there’s nothing to believe in."]
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(Lyrics: R. Plasencia, S. Jackson, J. Lee Davis)
["But I being poor have only my dreams. I have spread my dreams under your feet. Tread softly, for you tread on my dreams."]
I cant breathe and it’s my dreams that are killing me / The search for inspiration takes its toll and it’s taken a lifetime to turn back and face my past / Running became so easy, and just as easy to forget what I was running from / This life never game me a reason, so I’m balling my fists / I’m fighting back / Tonight can be make or break, because we’re pulling out all the stops / Yet I digress...I cant breathe and it’s my dreams that are killing me / From what I’ve done comes who I am / Now I’ve made my choice and I refuse to die without a voice / No one ever said that this was going to be easy / It’s in this moment I will live forever / With the grace of what I let unfold / Living long enough to spit back everything shoved down my throat / In this moment I will live forever, with the grace of what I let unfold / Inspiration was found where never searched / And even though its taken everything from me / It’s never enough / I refuse to die without a voice / Let my last breath be a sigh of relief.
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Plot Holes
04:08
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The vocabulary has been scourged / I'm running out of words / And I've got to remind myself that this is just a fairy tale / There’s no way that something can hurt this much and be real / Right? / [Tonight you will get your dick ripped off. That doesn’t sound right does it?] And it all seemed so staged, the way you left and abandoned me / He won’t tell you the words you want to hear / But anymore, I don’t think I know those words / This is bigger than you and me / We played out our scenes / So I will bow out gracefully / The lines are all up / This story so far has played out just the way I begged you not to write / Well, Shakespeare couldn't write a plot twist like this…With my hands around your neck, I will reap everything you've sewn / For every action, every lie, every word / You will die a thousand times over / Squeezing tighter and tighter until the only bones left to break are my hands / Choke. Choking.
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A Heartfelt Graveyard
01:38
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Built to Abandon
08:53
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All I ever had was this “promise of tomorrow” / Give me another empty hour, I’ll give you a reason to let it go / Let this go / And now all I can do is retrace these fucking memories / As I choke to death on my own regret / These memories are fucking poison / And it’s the noose that I'm hanging from / Time shows its face, and I turn my back (these memories are poison) / These memories are poison / And I know I lie to myself when I say I've never been here / The truth is I've lived here all my life / I can’t find comfort in escape / When every exit leads me to the same goddamn place / It’s okay tonight, because we killed it together / Even though you've left, I've carried on / I can still see a spot for you / For every time that I turned my back, every smile laced with regret / These memories are fucking poison, but they’re all that I have / We built a world we'd love to forget / A brick out of what we built to abandon / Every farewell said is just a heartfelt graveyard / These memories are poison.
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Open Fire! Tacoma, Washington
melodic hardcore band from Tacoma, WA
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@openfiretacoma
steve, rick, zach, matt, daniel, a bunch of other assholes
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