1. HOLDING ON

Acquantances
They don't stick around
I can only count my ture friends on one hand
I'm tired
I'm tired of holding on
I'm tired
I'm tired of holding on... to nothing
My feelings are taken for granted
Hey man, I won't leave you
But I'll still stab you in the back
In times of trouble
I call my friends all over
To lift and help me to my feet
And keep me free from harm
In time of trouble


2. PAST OUR MEANS

The branches break from the family tree
From the weight of the heartache...
Of disintegrating families
Look what we've created...
Illegitmate crack babies
Grandma raises... The drunkard's children
Kids at all cost... But an absence of true love
The license to breed...
We have taken advantage of
I've got fifteen kids... can't feed my family
No birth control... condoms are not for me
A future of... convicts/criminals
Our technology hasn't taken us that far
Open your eyes and see that times have changed
We can't keep using at this same rate
But who are the only ones to blame?...
But ourselves
Whats the point today to overpopulate
Birth control or abstinance
Most problems are self-made
Back in the days... we could all fill all of our needs
Back in the days... we suffer from our greed
You and I... violently go extinct
Back in the days... past our means


3. IN DEFENSE

Education without action does nothing
Bulldozers broken down
Destruction takes the day off
Tank is filled with dirt
Land locked and monkeywrenched
I've damaged
I've damaged
No compromise in defense
I've damaged
Another money day
Clearcut jobs they pay well
Ecosystems gone
Developers go build in hell
In defense
I've damaged
To preserve
The land is seen as cohmodity
Most revered end is money
Esthetics pass for just scenery
Most damage done in this century
We break the branches of the diversity tree
To get its fruit
But next year your children's yield
won't be half as good


4. EMBRACE

I look outside I don't like what I see
The scene is split into communities
I try and try to stay positive
But these struggles and fights
They upset me
Struggles/The Fighting/Don't throw away
Don't stop/Keep trying/Don't go away
Don't hate/Each other/We're family
There is a strength... through diversity
There's a love, a bond... through unity
We are all gone... people in this scene
Embrace one and each other... we're family
What will be accomplished by
Dividing and hanging tides
In the days of the violent breed
This hatred, it killed our scene
Today we have another change
We must learn from our past
Don't break this time and purge
These family, these family embrace


5. SELF-MADE MAN

I don't judge you
On what you say
But I judge you
On what you've done
Completely two-faced
Turned on me again
I feel so sorry for you
Because I know you'll have no friends
Screaming at the top of my mind
You don't listen to a word I say
I'm screaming at the top of my mind
You don't listen
I feel so sorry for you


6. TAKEN AWAY

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