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. 

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. 

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. 

Be Progressive!

Bourgeois inequality

Owners of all the property

Progressives of the proletariat

Marxism is just a lariat

The narrative they try to tell us

Preaches only Social Justice

But history tells us the truth

Despite it, they want us to

Be Progressive

For the Collective

But be subjective

What's their objective

They got tax obsessive

Makes them aggressive

They make our laws excessive

Makes them oppressive 

Yeah!

It's become a youth pandemic

Excited by academics

on naive students with polemic

arguments about systemic

failures of capitalism

but it's a faux aproism

Class war's a fake aphrodism

Promoting Communism 

don't

Be Progressive

For the Collective

But be subjective

What's their objective

They got tax obsessive

Makes them aggressive

They make our laws excessive

Makes them oppressive 

Yeah!

**Recording Notes - I programmed the drums with my Zoom 234 drum machine and direct input recorded them.  For the distorted parts, I mic'd a Hughes & Kettner Warp 7 head and a generic cab with a Heil PR20 in Magix at my buddy Jeremy's.  I used a Schecter Diamond Series Damian 7-String.  I used the native distortion on the Warp 7 for one side, and Boss Metal Zone MT-2 for the other side.  Recorded vocals with a Heil PR20 in Pro Tools.  For bass, I direct input an Epiphone EB-0 into Pro-Tools.

2nd For A Reason

One look at the statistics

Drives home one simple fact

Our Fore Fathers gave us guns

So we could fucking fight back

The logic is extremely simple

Allow the people to arm themselves

The weapon acts as a deterrent

And allows them to protect their wealth

Banning assault weapons and tracking ammo

Is just a quiet, subversive first step

To door-to-door gun collection

And paves the way for dictatorship

State's Rights is one solution

Over federal government

And maintain control over an issue

Important enough to be the 2nd Amendment

Fight for our rights and freedoms

The Right to Bear Arms

Fight for our rights and freedoms

The Right to Bear Arms

The idea that taking guns away

From law abiding citizens

To stop crime and prevent violence

Is about as stupid as it can get

Criminals don't care about the law

They buy their guns on the streets

Not in stores with paper trails

And documented receipts

Fight for our rights and freedoms

The Right to Bear Arms

Fight for our rights and freedoms

The Right to Bear Arms

*This is the second song I ever wrote on guitar.  More punk-ish, and that was the direction I began heading early on because it's easier to play for a new guitarist. 

**Recording Notes - I purchased a midi keyboard from M-Audio that came with a cheap version of Pro-Tools that was locked down.  Not knowing much about Pro-Tools, I programmed the drums with my Zoom 234 drum machine and direct input recorded them.  Then I mic'd a Hughes & Kettner Warp 7 head and a generic cab with a Heil PR20 in Magix at my buddy Jeremy's.  I used a Schecter Diamond Series Damian 7-String.  I used the native distortion on the Warp 7 for one side, and Boss Metal Zone MT-2 for the other side.  Unfortunately, somehow I lost the doubles, so the guitars aren't as beefy as they probably could've been.  I used a doubler plugin to emulate a second guitar track on either side to make up the difference a little.  Recorded vocals with a Heil PR20 in Pro Tools.  I direct input an Epiphone EB-0 into Pro-Tools.