I Am

Confusion inside me
And sadly it defines me
Left feeling frustrated
But that's never all
Play the cards that I'm dealt
Never gain ground that I've felt
Left feeling deflated
but that's never all

I don't know what I'm doing
I don't know where I am
I don't know where I'm going
I only know where I've been

Excitement inside me
Opportunities still surprise me
Left feeling elated
But that's never all
Seize the day so they say
But how do I find my own way
Left feeling degraded
But that's never all

I don't know what I'm doing
I don't know where I am
I don't know where I'm going
I only know where I've been

I don't know what I'm doing
I don't know where I am
I don't know where I'm going
I only know where I've been

I only know where I've been

I only know where I've been

If it's not one thing, it's another
Day-by-day I discover
that the weight on my shoulders
only gets heavier as I get older

I don't know what I'm doing
I don't know where I am
I don't know where I'm going
I only know where I've been

I don't know who the fuck I am

It's the same shit on a different day
As I pass this life away
And I want to know where my life will go
But I settle for the mundane

It's the same shit on a different day
As I pass this life away
And I want to know where my life will go
But I settle for the mundane

It's the same shit
It's a different day
As I pass this life away

I don't know what I'm doing
I don't know where I am
I don't know where I'm going
I only know where I've been

I don't know who the fuck I am

Shadows

How did I get here?
Is it darkness that creeps in my bones?
On the edge of that fear
On the edge of everything that I've known

I can see it's the end
of the way things used to be
Breaking down
Dissolving everything inside of me
There's no love in the end
only what you want from me
Giving up
Letting darkness take control of me

And I stand here alone
And all these words
can't bring me home
My mind is filled shadows
Shadows of the soul
These shadows
Shadows of control

Stake your claim on me
It's the dawn of the age of fear
You tell me I'm free
The illusion whispered into my ear

I can see it's the end
of the way things used to be
Breaking down
Dissolving everything inside of me
There's no love in the end
only what you want from me
Giving up
Letting darkness take control of me

And I stand here alone
And all these words
can't bring me home
My mind is filled shadows
Shadows of the soul
These shadows
Shadows of control

The music here was all written by my buddy Larry who was cool enough to let me give a shot at doing some vocals on it. It probably seems nerdy, but the lyrics here are actually influenced by the video game Alan Wake.  I wasn't sure what to write about, and I was in the middle of a replay of Alan Wake: American Nightmare.  I decided to try writing from the point of view of someone falling under the influence of the Taken and what it must be like.  Although, when I was done, I've had people tell me the the things they think the song is about.  It's been insightful in regards to how people think and relate the contents to their own experiences. 

Machine

Dug my way out like I wanted

Took 3 years of stress, but I got it

Changed my life, changed myself

It all took a toll on my health

Looking back I have to wonder

What did I do this for

Built a new life, but I don't want it

I'm back where I was before

Is it fear that keeps me here now?

Stagnation haunts my waking dreams

I'm trapped behind this desk now,

a machine behind a machine

Tried to stay away from this

Brok out o fthis life obscene

But is it all I know now?

Is this all I am?  A sight unseen?

So much left to do now

So much left in life yet to see

But I put my job before myself

Fell back into this dull routine

Is it fear that keeps me here now?

Stagnation haunts my waking dreams

I'm trapped behind this desk now,

a machine behind a machine

Am I just a machine behind a machine?

Devil Down

This song was written by my buddy Larry Greer on drums and a friend of his, Ian Murphy on guitar.  The music was absolutely great and he was cool enough to let me attempt vocals on it.  I still need to add bass to the first half of the song, but it seems like it's coming along.

silence is the worst form of cowardice

you rob and you take 

 enslave and you rape 

you prove through your actions 

your religion is fake 

you commit these horrors 

disgrace muhammad's name 

how is killing children 

anything but insane?

your actions are the worst sin 

there's a holocaust, 

and the world ignores it again 

when will we wake up? 

when will we take action? 

this happens every time 

socialism's on the rise again

war on women? 

 how bout the ones that they take? 

civil rights? 

what about the ones that they enslave? 

pedophiles? 

how bout 12 year olds getting raped? 

discrimination? 

 how bout people drowned in a cage?

we're more worried about messages on a cake 

than homosexuals being thrown from the roof 

we'd rather put a stupid rainbow on our facebook pic 

than take 5 minutes to seek out the truth

silence is the worst form of cowardice

when it comes to users 

you wear the crown 

and when you fall it's just 

one more devil down

isis is evil in it's purest form 

this is the war for which we've been born

and to the apathetic hollywood elites 

screaming 'human shield' with your voices so loud 

but when children are crucified in the streets 

WHERE THE FUCK ARE YOU NOW!?

when it comes to users 

you wear the crown 

and when you fall it's just 

one more devil down

When All is Sorrow (rough mix)

This is not really one of my songs.  My buddy Larry wrote and recorded this and was cool enough to let me toy with vocals on it.  I'm not settled on this yet, but this is a rough hack.

the things i overcome that keep me numb my life wasted on stupid dreams
i spent my life always on the run time to set aside childish things
trapped myself with promises I regret the mistakes i make when i agree
i'm meant to go with the wind on a whim, just unchained and free
i'm trapped by indecision now struggling to be the best i can be
but i'm smothered by expectation to be someone other than me
witness now the change of heart as cold as stone, it cannot bleed
i'm shutting down now to survive
i'm shutting off so i can breathe

time does not feel the same when all is sorrow
 when all is sorrow

do you think you can tame me use me just to change me
i can't save you i'm moving onward
now
i will not be your exit out
because
i can't save you i'm moving onward
i'm not your rewind i'm not your lifeline
i can't save you i'm moving onward
don't pin your hopes on me in the end you'll always see
i can't save you i'm moving onward

can you stand on your own two feet
without me, without love, can you be
the best version of yourself
not defined by someone else
who you are, who you were,
who you'll be
can you be you, without me?
cause i'm not always going to be here
you can't live your life paralyzed in fear
so i'm moving on so you can learn to stand
and when you find yourself I'll come back again
but until that day this is how far I'll go
cause time does not feel the same
when all is sorrow

Salience

After 15 years, I had my life ripped from under me

How could it be? I couldn't see, I planned so fucking carefully

Depression set in, I let it win, but it was temporary

My mesolimbic pathway overflows with dopamine

I was driven! Unstoppable!  I was fucking obsessed!

To climb my way back up, I'd be fucking relentless!

So, started at the bottom, pushed myself past my limits.

Ignored the pain from over strain, gave it all I could give it.

Years passed, life changed and now I find I'm here again

The rat race, a job I hate, my time is not my own again

I've been here before, yet repeat my mistakes?

Did I expect a different outcome? A life I could take?

Insanity.  Expecting different results

I need to break out of my prison of faults.

I'm my own man, now it's time that I live it

I need to take risks and give it all I can give it

You'd think that I'd know by now

That I succeed out of habit

To create a new life for myself

I need to just reach out and grab it

This is the only way that I can repair my fate

I will overcome the expectations of this world

Nice house, two cars, debt, white picket fence

Credit cards, more bills, living just to pay the rent

Friday night, go out, spend more than I take home

When life get tough, the government will pay my loan

That isn't me, I'm not a clone, I can't sit still

I need to live on the move, I also pay my fucking bills

No help, no hands out, leave that for the weak

No suburban mediocrity, leave that for the sheep

I've done it once, and I'll do it again

Break out of this routine and be my own fucking man

If there's one thing I know, it's life isn't fair

And no matter where it takes, you, it'll never be there

I've always done things my own way

That's how I'll always be

It's not that I'm stubborn

It's that man was meant to be free

I will overcome the expectations of this world

*recording notes - Music recorded in Pro-Tools.  Schecter Damian used to record guitar, Sansamp in Pro-Tools used for distortion.  EB-0 used for bass.  Zoom 234 used to direct line recorded.  Vocals recorded in Ardour using Heil PR-20 in my car in the upper parking lot of Snoqualmie Falls.

Their Web of Lies

Their web of lies

The lies they keep on telling you

Spinning truth

Drowning in prop they keep selling you

Robbing you

Of the hours of your one and only life

Breeding contempt, distrust

Fomenting strife

And what's the price?

The cost of shrugging blame

The cost of the avoiding shame

The cost of their slavers game

The road to hell is paved with good intent

But if you refuse to step up

We'll all default on the rent

We may all be in this together

But you use me like a check so you can spend forever

You don't ask me for permission

You just assume and forcefully take

And when I fight to keep something for myself,

you claim I'm evil for keeping what I make

You want your living off the labors of others

Condescend to us about how we're all brothers

A brother wouldn't hold a gun to my head for wealth

No destroy my property or sacrifice my health

You can't force compliance and pretend it's success

That's how dictators think, a bully at best

You can't drown our children while claiming its fine

Now they're smothered in debt and running out of time

The clock is ticking, the end is near

The world enslaved in poverty and fear

They us blame to divide us, while they cower and hide

And we're destroying ourselves in their web of lies

*recording notes - Music recorded in Pro-Tools.  Guitar was a Schecter Damian 7-string.  Sansamp in Pro-Tools for the distortion.  Zoom 234 for drums, direct line recorded.  EB-0 for bass.  Recorded vocals in Ardour using a Heil PR-20 in my car, on the overlook up the road from Dirt Fish Rally School.

Head Down

When life throws you to the ground

Keep your head down and you'll get through it

When your luck is fading and your chips are down

Keep your head down and you'l get through it

When you're tired of waiting and no answers are found

Keep your head down and you'll get through it

When constant rejection is the only sound

Keep your head down and you'll get through it

'Life's a bitch and then you die'

The clarion call of the over-trivialized

Cynics and hipsters that forever frown

And if you let them, they will drag you down

They live to be miserable, belittle and mock

But in their rantings, don't take much stock

They want the drama cause they love to act

Emotion's more important than logic or fact

Let them make their bad choices and let it

Go, go, go, go

They're always be in need of a helping hand just

Go, go, go, go

Or they'll pull you down with them like a drowning man don't

Go, go, go, go

They need to find their own two legs and stand so

Go, go, go, go

When life throws you to the ground

Keep your head down and you'll get through it

When your luck is fading and your chips are down

Keep your head down and you'l get through it

When you're tired of waiting and no answers are found

Keep your head down and you'll get through it

When constant rejection is the only sound

Keep your head down and you'll get through it

 

Let them make their bad choices and let it

Go, go, go, go

They're always be in need of a helping hand just

Go, go, go, go

Or they'll pull you down with them like a drowning man don't

Go, go, go, go

They need to find their own two legs and stand so

Go, go, go, go

*recording notes - Music recorded in Pro-Tools.  Guitar was a Schecter Damian 7-string.  Sansamp in Pro-Tools for the distortion.  Zoom 234 for drums, direct line recorded.  EB-0 for bass.  Recorded vocals in Ardour using a Heil PR-20 in my car, on the overlook up the road from Dirt Fish Rally School.

Breathe

When each day feels like it's worse than the one before

When you're running on empty and everyone wants to take more, more, more

Can we just take a minute to breathe?

To beat them, you have to put your nose to the grindstone and repeat

I'm not giving up

Not giving up

Giving up my dreams

It doesn't matter

What they say

They're just fragile

and so afraid

It makes them lash out

It makes them cruel

But in the end

They're just your tool

When you feel like your life is no longer your own

When every hour of every day is spent for others, even when you're home

Can we just take a minute to breathe?

Learn to take time out for yourself and repeat

I'm not giving up

Not giving up

Giving up my dreams

When pressure builds in your temples it feels like time has slowed

When you feel like one wrong word from someone and you're going to explode

Can we just take a minute to breathe?

Don't waste your time on them, just remember to repeat

I'm not giving up

Not giving up

Giving up my dreams

It doesn't matter

What they say

They're just fragile

and so afraid

It makes them lash out

It makes them cruel

But in the end

They're just your tool

*recording notes - Music recorded in M-Audio version of Pro-Tools.  Drums mapped individually from Zoom 234, drum bank 4, one hit at a time, then the drum beat was created inside Pro-Tools.  Bass was direct line recorded with an EB-0.  Guitar was a Dillon acoustic/electric guitar, using Sansamp distortion in Pro-Tools.  Vocals were recorded in the upper parking lot of Snoqualmie Falls, in my 2009 Ford Focus, using a Heil PR-90 in Ardour through an M-Audio Fast Track. 

The Road I've Traveled

And the road I've traveled

Well it keeps me hanging on

And I don't stop for nothing

Just a learning right from wrong

Life will stop for no one

and you will never sleep

Unless we search for answers 

Already at our feet, yeah

Doesn't matter what I do

Or where I stay, I'm always

Anxious to keep moving on, moving on

This never-ending unrest burdens me

It's like an hour glass in my soul

driving me forever onward

I see my face in the mirror getting older

Seasons passing as I blink my eyes

And still this restlessness tears at me

And no matter how far I run, I know I can't hide

I gotta go!

My soul screams at me

Am I running from myself?

I don't know

This just can't be

The only life I have

The only thing I know is I just

gotta go, gotta go, gotta go!

I've gotta go!

*Recording details: I used my Dillon acoustic/electric guitar direct line into Pro Tools.  The distortion on the acoustic is the native Pro Tools Sansamp, Rockstar setting.  I used an EB-0 bass direct line into Pro Tools, and the drums are from a kit I created using the 4th kit on my Zoom ...234 drum machine, sampling each piece individual into Pro Tools and laying them that way.  I used a Heil PR-20 for vocals in 2012 for Tom and then again in 2015 for myself when I completed the song using my car as a vocal booth. 

Poser

Think you're different, pretend you're bad
Think you're edgy, you're so sad
Anti-corporate, anti-greed
You prop up both with whiney need

Want handouts?
cause you're a poser
Try to stand out
cause you're a poser
you lean left
cause you're a poser
you're not a punk
you fucking poser

Support big unions and their greed
Spit talking points for going green
Hate on people that succeed
You're just a hipster wannabe

Want handouts?
cause you're a poser
Try to stand out
cause you're a poser
you lean left
cause you're a poser
you're not a punk
you fucking poser

You can't speak truth to power
when you're the one that's in power
You tell me you believe in hope
Anarchist?  What a joke

Want handouts?
cause you're a poser
Try to stand out
cause you're a poser
you lean left
cause you're a poser
you're not a punk
you fucking poser

*Recording Details: After buying a cheap Estaban G-10 practice amp, I decided to record all the punk rock songs that weren't attached to my Anti-Social(ist) playlist with the amp.  I used my Heil PR-20 to record the amp in Ardour through my M-Audio Fast Track.  I never even reached 1 on the volume and recorded it fairly quietly.  I'm pretty happy how it turned out.  I wanted a sort of tinnish overdrive for the mid-80's punk sound.  I recorded vocals with my Heil PR-20, using my car as a vocal booth.  I recorded bass through my Multi Track into Ardour.   I redid the drums in Hydrogen, mostly using the standard kit with a few exceptions. 

Just Scratching the Surface

Supported and expanded Bush's unconstitutional Patriot Act.  And then had four US citizens killed without judicial process.

Ordered private company, Boeing, to shut down and then fire 1,000 non-union employees.

Was fast and furious to put guns into criminal hands, ending in the murder of US Border Patrol Agent, Brian Terry.

Fired Inspector General Gerald Walpin for discovering his friend, mayor Kevin Johnson, had embezzled government funds.

Gave tax dollars to campaign contributors and lobbyists claiming it was for 'green energy', and rewarded others with high paying federal jobs.

Had armed SWAT agents raid a law-abiding guitar factory, Gibson, because it was owned by a Republican.

Forced banks to give mortgages to people who couldn't afford them, and collected $23,000 in legal fees for himself for doing so.

Ordered military to stand down while Benghazi consulate was under attack, resulting in 4 American deaths that could've been prevented.

We voted for death by hope.

(Just think, that clock was $10 trillion when Obama took office... a number he said was irresponsible and unpatriotic.  What does that make the current number?)

*Recording Details: After buying a cheap Estaban G-10 practice amp, I decided to record all the punk rock songs that weren't attached to my Anti-Social(ist) playlist with the amp.  I used my Heil PR-20 to record the amp in Ardour through my M-Audio Fast Track.  I never even reached 1 on the volume and recorded it fairly quietly.  I'm pretty happy how it turned out.  I wanted a sort of tinnish overdrive for the mid-80's punk sound.  I recorded vocals with my Heil PR-20, using my car as a vocal booth.  I recorded bass through my Multi Track into Ardour.   I redid the drums in Hydrogen, mostly using the standard kit with a few exceptions. 

Lost

Why
Would
You

Why would you do the things you do?
When you know it's bad for you?
Refuse to fix youself and mend
The wedge between family and friends
You can run but can't change your past
How long do you think you'll really last?
This is what happens when you mix up love and lust

*Recording Details: After buying a cheap Estaban G-10 practice amp, I decided to record all the punk rock songs that weren't attached to my Anti-Social(ist) playlist with the amp.  I used my Heil PR-20 to record the amp in Ardour through my M-Audio Fast Track.  I never even reached 1 on the volume and recorded it fairly quietly.  I'm pretty happy how it turned out.  I wanted a sort of tinnish overdrive for the mid-80's punk sound.  I recorded vocals with my Heil PR-20, using my car as a vocal booth.  I recorded bass through my Multi Track into Ardour.   I redid the drums in Hydrogen, mostly using the standard kit with a few exceptions. 

Lying Liar Who Lies

You turn to me when I say to you
And try to tell you that I'll be true
You left me without a goodbye
Told friends I left you alone to cry
Now all my friends are mad at me
Even though you're the one who left me
It was hard enough when you hurt my pride
But why'd you go and make up lies?

A lying liar who lies
A lying liar who lies
A lying liar who lies
A lying liar who lies

So I moved away, and I moved along
Even though I was the one who was wronged
Found new friends and a new place
My heart was healing, life was great
I picked up, started over again
Then you contacted my new friends
Made up more lies about me
What's your problem?! You left me!

A lying liar who lies
A lying liar who lies
You're a lying liar who lies
A lying liar who lies

*Recording Details: After buying a cheap Estaban G-10 practice amp, I decided to record all the punk rock songs that weren't attached to my Anti-Social(ist) playlist with the amp.  I used my Heil PR-20 to record the amp in Ardour through my M-Audio Fast Track.  I never even reached 1 on the volume and recorded it fairly quietly.  I'm pretty happy how it turned out.  I wanted a sort of tinnish overdrive for the mid-80's punk sound.  I recorded vocals with my Heil PR-20, using my car as a vocal booth.  I recorded bass through my Multi Track into Ardour.   I redid the drums in Hydrogen, mostly using the standard kit with a few exceptions. 

4 Minute Warning

*Recording Details: After buying a cheap Estaban G-10 practice amp, I decided to record all the punk rock songs that weren't attached to my Anti-Social(ist) playlist with the amp.  I used my Heil PR-20 to record the amp in Ardour through my M-Audio Fast Track.  I never even reached 1 on the volume and recorded it fairly quietly.  I'm pretty happy how it turned out.  I wanted a sort of tinnish overdrive for the mid-80's punk sound.  I recorded vocals with my Heil PR-20, using my car as a vocal booth.  I recorded bass through my Multi Track into Ardour.   I redid the drums in Hydrogen, mostly using the standard kit with a few exceptions. 

The Only Easy Day

It's the tough times (It's the tough lives)
It's the rough times (It's the rough lives)
That make you who you are
Strengthen you inside
It's the hard choices, impossible choices
That define you even when you're lost inside
It's your actions that make you are
Life's about what you can shoulder
Not what's 'fair' or 'right'
It's integrity that drives you onward
Problems are only passing if you keep your goals in sight

Cause the only easy day was yesterday
When the clouds are forming and the skies turn gray
To face the coming storm, you must be brave
Cause the the only easy day was yesterday
The only easy day was yesterday
When the clouds are forming and the skies turn gray
To face the coming storm, you must be brave
Cause the the only easy day was yesterday

Life is hard (so fucking hard)
And getting harder
Because we as people are now broken in every way
That's how they want us
Groveling on our knees
No will left to fight
Just begging for release

The excuses you use to hold yourself back
are all of your own design
 To set yourself free, you have to face your fears
It's ok to fail from time to time
 Pick yourself up, brush yourself off
That's what sets people apart from sheep
Life has no safety nets, there are no life lines
Just you, your will, your heartbeat

 To fix your life
You have to make a choice
To embrace the struggle
And live with the pain
To no longer sit down
To give the voiceless voice
To do the right thing
And go against the grain

Cause the only easy day was yesterday
When the clouds are forming and the skies turn gray
To face the coming storm, you must be brave
Cause the the only easy day was yesterday
The only easy day was yesterday
When the clouds are forming and the skies turn gray
To face the coming storm, you must be brave
Cause the the only easy day was yesterday

The excuses you use to hold yourself back
are all of your own design
 To set yourself free, you have to face your fears
It's ok to fail from time to time
 Pick yourself up, brush yourself off
That's what sets people apart from sheep
Life has no safety nets, there are no life lines
Just you, your will, your heartbeat

The only
easy day
was
yesterday
The only
easy day
was
yesterday

Roam

 As I make it through each day
Will I stay, will I stay, will I...
Questions linger in this way
Will I stay, will I stay, will I...

What is it in me that just can't seem to find peace and rest?
Why is it I dream of moving and moving
I just can't be content

Am I just a man without a home?
Am I doomed to walk this path forever alone?

I was born roam
I was born roam

Man with no home
Man with no home
Man with no home
Man with no home

I always tell myself I'm free
Will I stay, will I stay, will I...
But if that's true, why do I repeat
Will I stay, will I stay, will I...


What is it in me that just can't seem to find peace and rest?
Why is it I dream of moving and moving
I just can't be content

Am I just a man without a home?
Am I doomed to walk this path forever alone?

I was born roam
I was born roam
 Man with no home
 Man with no home

There's always reasons not to stay
Will I stay, will I stay, will I...
But I can't tell if I'm running away
 Will I stay, will I stay, will I...

 What is it in me that just can't seem to find peace and rest?
Why is it I dream of moving and moving
I just can't be content

I was born to roam
I was born to roam
Man with no home
I was born to roam

Yesterday

When you woke up today

Did you stop?

Did you take a breath

and then open your eyes and say,

'It's gotta be better,

better than yesterday'

Don't be a victim to your past

and wallow your life away

It's gotta be better

Than yesterday

Yesterday

Yesterday

Yesterday

Defeat is believing in what others say instead of what you feel

Defeat is believing in what others say instead of what you feel

Defeat is believing in what others say instead of what you feel

Defeat is believing in what others say instead of what you feel

When you woke up today

Did you stop?

Did you grab a mirror

and look at yourself and say,

'I'm gonna be better, 

better than yesterday.

I won't be a victim to my past

and wallow my life away.

I'm gonna be better

than yesterday.'

Yesterday

Yesterday

Yesterday

Defeat is believing in what others say instead of what you feel

Defeat is believing in what others say instead of what you feel

Defeat is believing in what others say instead of what you feel

Defeat is believing in what others say instead of what I feel

Defeat is believing in what others say instead of what I feel

Defeat is believing in what others say instead of what I feel

Defeat is believing in what others say instead of what I feel

Defeat is believing in what others say instead of what I feel

Is This America?

Is this America we see when we walk down the street

Families in tent cities because of bankers playing for keeps

4 million unemployed leads to hard life and hard times

In desperation the best person will resort to crime

Is this America we see when we open our eyes

With people screaming at the government

'Stop all these lies'

With crisis after crisis, they use fear to heard us like sheep

If you recognize the truth they say, 'go back to sleep'

We get attacked, they respond with the 'Patriot Act'

But the fact they tracks us takes the world and paints it black

What kind of world do we live in if we can't live free

Addicted to their handouts just like it was smack on the streets

With every resolution called a solution Progressive evolution

rapes the Constitution, this institution breeds dissolution

Sold our freedom for security

Now watch them abuse it

Gave them power in our darkest hour

How can we do this?

Is this America we see when we walk down the street

Families in tent cities because of bankers playing for keeps

4 million unemployed leads to hard life and hard times

In desperation the best person will resort to crime

Is this America we see when we open our eyes

With people screaming at the government

'Stop all these lies'

With crisis after crisis, they use fear to heard us like sheep

If you recognize the truth they say, 'go back to sleep'

Investing in Smith and Wesson in case this recession

turns into a hyper inflated Greater Depression

Their intentions lead one direction

A Brave New World (Order)

Entitlements for every boy and girl (sort of)

Self reliant persons need no longer apply

Even when George Orwell warned us of the eyes in the sky

We didn't catch it, pay attention or even try to save it

A future for our children we forced into enslavement

Is this America we see when we walk down the street

Families in tent cities because of bankers playing for keeps

4 million unemployed leads to hard life and hard times

In desperation the best person will resort to crime

Is this America we see when we open our eyes

With people screaming at the government

'Stop all these lies'

With crisis after crisis, they use fear to heard us like sheep

If you recognize the truth they say, 'go back to sleep'

Is this America?

When 1 in 4 has an STD?

Is this America?
When we get so over taxed we can't succeed?

Is this America?

When they don't need a warrant to break into our homes?
Is this America?
When they try to shut down opposing radio shows?

Is this America?
When they choose for doctors who lives and dies?
Is this America?
When we let the Fed take control of our lives?
Is this America?
Is this America?

Impressionable

Think for youself

Think, think yourself

You can't think for yourself 

letting others run your life

You found the truth out for yourself

but now you want some help

to be told how you should feel 

instead of doing it yourself

Think for youself

Think, think yourself

You can't think for yourself 

letting others run your life

You found the truth out for yourself

but now you want some help

to be told how you should feel 

instead of doing it yourself

You found the truth out for yourself

but now you want some help

to be told how you should feel 

instead of doing it yourself

*Recording Details: I initially recorded drums, guitars and bass for this back in 2010.  I recorded vocals in April of 2014.  After buying a cheap Estaban G-10 practice amp, I decided to re-record all the punk rock songs that weren't attached to my Anti-Social(ist) playlist with the amp.  I used my Heil PR-20 to record the amp in Ardour through my M-Audio Fast Track.  I never even reached 1 on the volume and recorded it fairly quietly.  I'm pretty happy how it turned out.  I wanted a sort of tinnish overdrive for the mid-80's punk sound.  I kept the original bass direct line recorded in Pro Tools from 2010, but redid the drums in Hydrogen, mostly using the standard kit with a few exceptions.