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Intro//Volition
02:55
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An identity emerges
Born of cyclic pain
A life of discipline
Derived from torment and shame
I see the true potential
The good that can be done
While instead they throw themselves away
A life of resignation
How can I make you see?
This doesn’t have to be your reality
Question convention, the lies you’ve been fed
You are more than a substance and all the pain you’ve bled
This volition represents a choice within
It separates the monsters from the men
Refuse to believe this is what you need to cope
This will forever be the truth that I invoke
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Reality Fades
01:24
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Suffer alone
A living grave
Self-inflicted self-defeat
No relief
Show me the way back
Into the light of the sun
Right my wrongs
Retrace my steps
So I can recognize myself again
Comfortable being miserable
All things good – unattainable
A crushing weight, I feel it in my bones
Afraid to live and relinquish control
Shouting into an endless void
The echoes ring out forever
Words on deaf ears, no solace to be found
Perpetual freefall, when will I hit the ground?
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Pastime
02:16
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A year from now will it be any better
How long has it been now? I can’t remember
Days held in suspension, ripe with apprehension
Compounding fracture, a view from the deep end
Every time I’m granted a gasp of air
My thoughts pull me back into complete disrepair
Will I ever find peace or the closure I seek?
Left to accept my fate on this cold, forsaken peak
Countless hours spent, devotion & sweat
The culmination of which I never got to witness
A life I used to hold so tight in my hands
Has escaped me completely with time I‘ll never get back
Change is a constant, nowhere that I can run to
Can’t escape this black hole
Time itself forever altered
But what I wouldn’t give for just one more day
The smell of sweet summer grass
And that old game we used to play
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Steadfast
02:53
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This fire burns within me, a reminder every day
Destroyed lives & broken families, I can’t look away
So many find themselves on a path of dependence
Identities erased; actions defined by a substance
I can’t, and I won’t, look away
Abstain and withstand, choose to convey
The meaning of this life, I won’t fall prey
To their manipulation until the end of my days
I refuse and oppose, those who seek to gain
From havoc wrought on human lives, left torn and slain
I’ve witnessed too much pain and loss to ever think different
I’ll never let them take me, an unwilling participant
I disown the cycle of addiction
And reject this societal expectation
This passion will never cease
Steadfast in the words I speak
The world will never take this from me
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5. |
As The Tides Change...
03:36
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As the tides change..
This force of motion pulls me out to sea
Will I be lost adrift or set sail strong and free?
As the tides change…
The worst fate of all is to be stuck treading water
Untethered from a purpose, true meaning felt no longer
As the tides change…
I can’t tell the sky from the shoreline
Swept forward by the current, out among the waves and brine
As the tides change…
My heart still belongs to the valleys I once called home
But now I must, once again, brave the unknown
Let me go
Set me free
Now I belong
To the wind and the sea…
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VOLITION St. Louis, Missouri
Midwest Hardcore
Levi - Drums
Teagan - Guitar
Tatum - Bass
Sam - Vocals
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