1. |
For Adriana LaGrange
01:32
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Limiting the voices
Of those with expertise
So you can control
What is being taught
Cut all views that don't
Support the ones you hold
Abortion is healthcare x2
Anti-intellectual
Silencing the educated
Faith based choices
Experience negated
Who are you to decide
The fate of our minds?
Abortion is healthcare x2
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2. |
Remember The Kids
03:14
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Head out the window he screamed "East Bay Night"
Like it was the first and last night of his life
Cried on the steering wheel at his first heartbreak
A checkpoint he felt he passed much too late
Brought her flowers when she turned seventeen
Neglected as an only child it was unforeseen
Pupils as wide as the hole in her heart
The beginning of the end; the ending of the start
(Chorus)
Do you remember the kids?
Future unknown
Do you remember the kids?
How little they've since grown
Prayed every night he wouldn't go to hell
It was the Catholic guilt he couldn't quell
A man loving a man was to be despised
By every adult he knew at the time
The kids at school were likewise prejudiced
Judging by the words and slurs on their lips
Hate the sin was the party line
I'm glad to say he's out and that he's alive
Chorus
We're all grown up, but we haven't learned that much x 4
Chorus
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3. |
Black Card
02:37
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Some were given red cards and some of a yellow kind
Some were given white and walked away with peace of mind
Some were given green and walked, but with anxiety in spades
Some were given black to mark the ending of their days
(Chorus)
They gave me a black card and unfurled my body bag
Listened to my black heart, it'd never beat again
They moved on to someone who could be saved
And the world lived on to create a better day
Bodies laid in rows and I took my place among them
Closed my eyes and waited to be made numb
By a non-existent God I created in my image
Knowing I'd simply rot, I smiled, we were finally finished
Chorus x 2
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4. |
Flawed Design
03:33
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When it all fell down they simply built it again
Bailouts for the banks and for the businessmen
We asked when help would come for the homeless
For the crestfallen and the newly hopeless
They said it was on its way shortly after
The private sector needed a bailout faster
A decade plus later we're back where we started
Realizing our needs aren't highly regarded
This weight in our chest has been here all of our lives x 2
(Chorus)
We're the children of a flawed design
Defeated; you can miss it in the blink of an eye
Moving on with weary, but open minds
We're the children of a flawed design
Communiting in jalopies we struggle to own
From the studio apartments we call homes
Every move under the eyes of company drones
Who've conditioned us to never be without a phone
We lost the battle and we'll probably lose the war
Medical patents and accounts offshore
No wonder we're all on pills that end in pam
We know who did this and they don't give a damn
Chorus
Growing up we were viewed for what we could be
Potential consumers so they hooked us on TV
Then they move the TVs into our pockets
Trading in our youth for their personal profit
We're the children of a flawed design x4
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5. |
Never Alone
01:32
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Seventeen in the middle of nowhere
Similar friends nowhere to be found
Rural Alberta isn't a hotbed
For this altruistic sound
(Chrous)
With this music we're never alone
With this sound anywhere is home
Values shared through our songs
Help us feel that we belong
Seventeen felt so empowered
Just to know similar people exist
To keep that feeling alive
We scream this
Chorus
We are never alone x 2
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