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*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.  

Introverts Unite

It amazes me how people can't be 

alone from time to time

They always call a friend or text instead 

of enjoying the peace of life

Yet somehow when they look at me

Their eyes show only pity it seems

They must project their loneliness on me

But I'm the one who's happy and they just can't see

Don't think I'm lonely, you don't know me

I'd rather be on my own

Not everyone needs to be with someone

I like spending time alone

I was born whole

I'm not half-done

Being happy doesn't happen cause of someone

Love is the effect, not the cause

Of true happiness in spite of all flaws

A waste of time, a waste of space

Don't waste your life always on the chase

You were unhappy before, you'll be unhappy with them

Just another divorce waiting to happen

People bring problems

and want me to solve them

That's not who I want to be

I don't want to be your savior

or change your behavior

You do you and I'll do me

Yet somehow when they look at me

Their eyes show only pity it seems

They must project their loneliness on me

But I'm the one who's happy and they just can't see

In this age of information saturation

I want to get off the map

I don't need an overdose of communication

I'm not looking for 'my other half'

I was born whole

I'm not half-done

Being happy doesn't happen cause of someone

Love is the effect, not the cause

Of true happiness in spite of all flaws

A waste of time, a waste of space

Don't waste your life always on the chase

You were unhappy before, you'll be unhappy with them

Just another divorce waiting to happen

*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.