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Artist: The Static Transistor Title: By Heart Release #: MIF088 Format: CD (Out of Print) / Online Release 01.Liberty Will Not Descend To A People [MP3] 02. The Wartime Opportunists [MP3] 03. Off The Clock [MP3] 04. Locus Of Control [MP3] 05. The Beauty Myth [MP3] 06. For Beast & Bird [MP3] 07. Sleepwalk [MP3] |
Liberty Will Not Descend To A People It's gonna get worse before it gets better We'll have to save ourselves It's gonna get deeper before we break the surface of the water It's gonna get steeper, but that just means we'll climb that much harder The Wartime Opportunists Make way for the wartime opportunists In these days war is big business Behind closed doors our leaders plot doomsday We comply through our complacency Their path to profit is paved And it leads straight to our graves If not us then who will stand in their way? The wealth of few seals the fate of many A quest for greed and global hegemony Burning up our throats into the sky Our weapon against an empire built on stolen lives And we're given no names or faces only statistics Let's put war out of business Out of business Off The Clock The factory walls are cracked and broken Our solidarity and here's a token But not one of our appreciation Are we really just components of a greater scheme? Are we really the bricks that make up these buildings? Are we the gears to their machines? We'll make our way Payday to payday For one small price we sell our lives to a force that takes our light away The space from nine to five Has proved to be everything but prolific and alive They've drawn the lines And so we climb with the constant fear of being left behind Punch in reach out In consolidation fill in the distance shake the foundations Who are you taking orders from? No such thing as an honest living Living in compromise Locus Of Control These rotations cannot cease Like the world it won't slow down The ship's capsized and I can't swim This tide will pull you down Our lives have slipped right through our fingers Or were they ever even there? Convince yourself your in control Come tomorrow you may not be here Stand on two feet Or die crawling Stand on your feet And look death right in the eyes I've been strapped in this ride That we all call life No short-cuts just one way streets When time is up I hope you got your moneys worth There's no getting out alive Death after life is inevitable But the way we choose to live life is in our hold You can't cheat reality No guarantee of longevity No one's getting out of here alive The Beauty Myth Feet planted stand your ground We've been brought up to be let down Emancipate yourself From the screen to every glossy page We languish in the shadow of an ideal An ideal that we can never attain Beneath the imagery lies and insidious plot Never focusing on everything we are But instead everything that we're not We all fall down sometimes It's not about the fall it's about the rise We all fall down sometimes It's your ability to read between the lies Lets challenge all that sets us back Let's veer off this path of self-hatred Reclaim what they stole from you Tear down the standards that you never lived up to Fuck everything that they expect us to be Here's a celebration of the real you A celebration of the real me Refuse to buy back your life To blossom we must first find the seed Inside us all True beauty lies bone deep Reflections revealing our greatest enemy Defined not by what we are, but by what we see For Beast & Bird "From street from cage and from kennel from jungle to stall the wail of my tortured kin proclaims the sin of the might against the frail" I am their voice Through me they shall speak Injustice and oppression Entrenched in tradition My family tree extends beyond my sisters and my brothers No life greater than the other A heavy heart and a healthy mind Is compensation for a deadly appetite Action through compassion and consciousness All life is precious I'll share the air that fills my lungs The ground that I walk upon A kingdom of one Equality extends beyond the boundaries of your species I am the voice of the voiceless Sleepwalk We'll wake to brighter days We'll break this canicule we all call daily life We write the future and shed a way For all of these dead end days Break these days Silence deafens me Has the whole world fallen asleep? When I can't believe the things I see Is it the world or is it just me? Just me Apathy erodes the pillars of change Life prospers on, but whats been gained? The human heart's still beating But our consciousness is slowly receding away We'll bury our yesterdays With the buoyancy of past mistakes Those things you wish you had the courage to say The maybe laters and tomorrows Is the air we breathe just enough to get us by? Is the air we breathe just enough to stay alive? You my friend might as well lie down and die Lie down and die I scream out what do you hear? Do my words fall upon deaf ears? These are only words they wont stand alone For every word let me actions follow I won't follow I won't sleep Rebel hearts keep the beat Our feet take to their city streets We're armed with a breath Our hearts never skip a beat Our lungs don't recognize defeat Strike the dischord Repeat I won't lie down and die I won't close my eyes With every breath I'll scream my last |