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Music: Lawrence/Brennand
(Instrumental)
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Thesis/Antithesis
03:30
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Music: Brennand
Lyrics: Van Lanen
Right now let's throw our cards on the table
And stop being nice to this nightmare
Peel off the layers, spit in their faces
How long are we gonna keep taking it in the neck?
Here we find ourselves as the battle rages on
Ten thousand years of expansion and conquest
Resistance against the treachery of totality
Still nor lost struggles have been won
But on the periphery we remain
Impotent in the face of power
The devastation that plagues us all
I plead solidarity to those in opposition
Veneration for those who take action
Let our arrows pierce the heart of industry
This wreckage eternalized everyday
I know we all have fury
Consider the energy generated by this scene
Where does it go?
Destined to be one more fragmented
Superficial movement as you continue
To direct our efforts into success
By the system's terms
Must it always end in defeat
As kids continue falling prey to deceit
Lured away by promise and fantasies
Used to justify
A false heaven
We will carry the torch
Of insurrectionists past
Stand by this resolution
To never live in denial
Never to live in denial
Of what we inevitably face
Our potential as beings lost
In a fetish of commodities
We can be something so far beyond
A faux alternative to their standards
Disguised by image
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3. |
Alethia
02:53
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Music: Lawrence
Lyrics: Van Lanen
There was a time
When we lived bona fide
Through wisdom passed on
From elders held inside
We listened to the land
And heeded every sign
Participated in the process of alethia
This is our place
Wild beasts of the forest
Living by voices
The civilized
Will never hear
Ritual of sustenance
A simple way the blood spills
The spirit grateful for
Sacrifice to oneness of life
A proud people show reverence
Eating raw heart
As it passes around
The circle of flames
Embrace the blood
Swallow the life
Exalt the wonder
Leaver culture
Found solace in the
Propriety of here and now
Sophists proclaim
Supremacy of their ways
You fucking liar
Show me proof
Which justifies your world
The body transcends the flesh
A congenital contract
In occupancy of place
Ancestral embodiment of limits
Life in the circle of mutual influence
This is my search for the primal
Vision quest for cosmos
In a world got awry
This is my search for the primal
I embrace the forces
Of pre-cognitive life world
Pathologic culture of domestication
Foolishly embracing myths of progress
Inexorable warrior chief stands
Magnanimous in the face of enculturation
I abandon the entropic project
Of planetary domination
And proudly celebrate the demise
Of your world
I will resist as you eradicate yourselves
In the irreversible recession of a functioning earth
And on that day
When civilization dies
We will begin anew
Immersed within the great lesson
Of relatedness
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4. |
Sink or Swim
03:41
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Music: Brennand
Lyrics: Brennand
I have a confession to make
Those times when you can't get out of bed
Because being awake hurts too much sometimes
Well I feel that way too
Yes I feel that way too
Those times when all
When all that you care for
Seems to lose all meaning
I understand where you're coming from
And I know it's an uphill battle every day
And here we are
Singing songs about honor, strength and determination
When deep inside I'm as scared
And lonely and jaded as everyone else
As everyone else
But this life, the only life
There are only two real choices
And there's only two that matter
Dying and living
And I think that I've been spending far
Far too much time dying as of late
So I'll rise up again and I'll confront
I'll confront the world
And all that's wrong with it
With every breath that I take
And at the end
At the end of the day I still might feel
A little bit hopeless
But I'll know that I gave it my all and that I stood up
Stood up for what I felt was right
And here we are
Singing songs about honor, strength and determination
When deep inside I'm as scared
And lonely and jaded as everyone else
We will never forget
That this is something worth fighting for
We'll take this life we live
And we'll let the world know that we exist
Not as apathetic remains but as intelligent youth
Striving for change
We'll take this life
And we'll live
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Music: Brennand
Lyrics: Van Lanen
Through all these years of living and learning in life
There's one conviction I hold priceless until the end
This quality which separates the fakes from my friends
So many have brought it all down
So many have let me down
Still never to hinder my eternal spirit
To you I will always remain true
What do we do when we’ve got no one left to burn?
You left me here with nothing
As I sit and watch these dreams die
What happened to the power?
What happened to the drive?
Please remember you can always count on me
Honor lives forever inside me
So sacred I hold the value of integrity
I will never let you down
You can always count on me
Respect is the foundation of trust
Discipline to always remain on track
With the benefit of never letting you down
I know a pledge can sometimes be a nuisance
Always remember what lies on the other side
It’s time to hold strong and stand your ground
From the most inner vessel of my should
Comes this pride of knowing I will always stand by
What I promised to you
Through all these years of living and learning in life
Comes this wisdom that must always apply
Your externalities destroy everything
This precarious balance will make the difference between
The shame that kills our energy
And the honor of knowing our efforts live on
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6. |
Beyond The Threshold
04:08
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Music: Lawrence
Lyrics: Van Lanen
Let us break the deadlock
Between fear and our heart's desire
The best kept state secret
Is the misery of everyday life
Complacency is the transmission of the times
We cast aside our hearts, what we know is right
Surrender solid ground we stand
To achieve a sliver of status
A mirage of prestige
I know how it feels to be so weak
I know how it feels to be so weak
We must position intuition against convention
Cash in convictions, what is in your heart
We will challenge ourselves to run the risks
Bring our wildest dreams into being with every step
Why do we choose to look away?
Blend in with utility that feeds on vacillation
Evade the strife concomitant to the affirmation
Our lives are bound to the torment of all
This was never about being accepted
Because all my life I've been rejected
Conditioned to be comfortable you pass the buck
We will sacrifice convenience in the path of being real
To this world and to ourselves
This is about being real to ourselves
We can no longer afford to deny
Something is misplaced and we're all compliant
At least I fucking try to understand
Where it was we all went wrong
Disrupt every boundary in the face of those who lie
To us and themselves
Let's push the limits now
Society sucker, your life is based upon
Maximization of your ego
We will take you out
Never cower in the face of your ravage
This is a war
Let us empower people to be themselves
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7. |
The Facade
03:27
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Music: Brennand
Lyrics: Brennand
I walked that line myself
The one that forced me to close my eyes
Rather than investigate
I’m free but you’re still blind
Solace in your servitude
Faith in your lack of judgement
Every day you kiss that cross
Is another day you destroy your reason
Is this live oh so bad
To warrant a postulation
Of a nonexistent sphere
Of peaceful bliss and false salvation
This world deserves much more than that
And our lives are worth much more than to
Give them up for some intangible god fairy tale
Future life destroying the present day by day by day
The more man puts into God the less he reserves for himself
And I know it’s difficult to watch childhood fables die
But everything is dying as we speak
And Sunday visits and nightly prayers won’t mean a fuck in the end
What it all boils down to is what matters more
The reality of this world or some deluded dream
So instead we try where reason’s needed most
I follow not the selfish path of salvation
Now the time has come once and for all
To free ourselves from the lies we’ve clung to
A new dawn of temperance and reason
Based on empirical truths, not grand narratives
Awakened form our dogmatic slumber finding beauty in an earth
That’s free from an artisan
A privileged primate finding our place in life fulfilled
Complete, and fully responsible for themselves
I vow to never follow false chronicles of a hollow god
My divinity, my salvation, lies in this world that I love
Burn every shrine
Smash every altar
Erase the facade from existence
Posit yourself as your own deity
And posit this earth as it’s own temple
No gods, no masters
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Art of a False Critic
02:25
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Music: Lawrence
Lyrics: Van Lanen
Spend your time speaking lies
Mislead the youth, alter the truth
Deceivers have formed the disguise
You can trick the masses
But you can't fool the wise
Spreading lies
You're hiding behind a front
Image market monopoly
Your art form is the enemy
Network to communicate the falsehood
Broadcast to breed the ignorance
Transformed consumer clone
Conditioned to serve the death culture
Chain reaction passed on through generations
You're confused taught how to use your mind
To achieve what they believe is life
Shown on the screen, with your bitches and gold
Luxury auto, estate on the coast
Avaricious tool, you play the fool
Loot sucked into a media pawn
Relentlessly enforcing this life of ego, lust, greed
Majority lives within this horrifying fantasy spectacle
Society
Competition
Depression
Fueling our
Oppression
Your cookie cutter culture
Will never mold me
Identity sold at the expense of your soul
To increase profitability
Watch your life flourish with sanctity
As you break free
From the images on your TV
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9. |
In Defense of Virtue
04:35
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Music: Brennand
Lyrics: Brennand
At the end of every single day
The promises I've made
Are what keep me going through this life
And all the things I've sworn to myself
Are what matter most in the end
But can I live up to these goals?
Or will my convictions fade so quickly?
Will I choose to be
A hypocrite in the end?
Setting no example and failing expectations
I will pick myself back up
I will not just lay down and die
It's time to turn the page
Stand up for your dreams
All of us together
All of us together
So many occasions in the past
I've procrastinated, telling myself that things can wait
For now but this lethargic state has gone too far
And I've got to stand up for what's left of my heart
These actions are born from honesty and these words
Are much more than empty promises
This courage that we all possess
In some it remains buried
In some it shines through till the end
Like a flame within that never burns out
In these days that try our convictions
And virtue is nowhere to be found
We will set ourselves as examples
We will take back the strength that's in our heart
All of us together
Their domination
Relies upon us being disconnected
From our hearts and bodies
Let us erode all resistance to feeling
And allow ourselves to come undone
We must regain agency
Either we are anesthetized in a life
Of unequivocal negation
Or we forge the locus
To come back to ourselves
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10. |
Do What You Want
01:15
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11. |
Capable Of Agency (Demo)
02:49
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Music: Lawrence
Lyrics: Van Lanen
Uneducated, self-taught
The story of demise
Self-realized through the experience
Of torment in this life
A strength attained
To never settle for an acceptance
Of “that’s just the way it is”
So young
So innocent
So much love stripped away
With each passing day
Exposure to the wicked ways
And the cure of illusion, which I could never accept
So here I am more withered, but stronger than ever
Every moment of each day we’re fighting for our lives
With no desire to decipher accurately
An explanation of reason
Left with only the instinct of a being
Who knows what must be done
I’ve been there; I fucking lived in the dirt
Had my face smashed in by steel toed boots
And the first of kin
Stared down the barrel
The barrel in my eyes
And barely escaped
Escaped with my life
Felt the cold sting of inhumanity first hand
Where the fuck were you?
Deep within my every cell
Lies pathological
Epidemic of domestication
The colonizers have become
Colonized themselves, throughout
I will not fall into their lies
I will not fall into their lies inside of…
A twisted mind
A twisted heart
Born of a twisted culture
Lifelong torment the consequences
Of coming to acceptance
With this veracity
It will make you cold
And unforgiving
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Rally The Fray Fort Collins, Colorado
Crossover positive hardcore/metalcore from Fort Collins, CO. Rally The Fray was highly active in the Northern Colorado hardcore scene from 2004-2007, playing hundreds of shows across the country with tons of awesome bands. Download our music for free!
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