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by Allies

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Not so common to find any sense of compassion at the company’s expense you get what you pay for and you get whatever the company’s been selling off to shut you up and just stop this discussion from starting to give us troubled thoughts and keep us up to hours we should not be thinking of anything but turning off this alarm clock and just sleep the world off it’s not too late to wake up but you will have to break out of being taught to lock up your own thoughts you call them traitors but all the dark all the light all the time it takes to see there is a sight beyond seeing all the days and all the nights all the dark and all the light all the death and all the life all the truth and all the lies.
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Reclaiming by right reasons abound slums down in the south. Slums in the north around your corner one foot back to the wall. Being a leech trains models dripping with hubris policy bodies superfluous surplus of humanity is the thrust. Slowly builds inside you’re focused and fucked up and pushing the time. Brilliant so divine a permanent war tensions abound. Runways sewage power lines, are home.
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Pelé goddess of fire it’s a world of water out here, are you there to kiss it into steam it could lift you into the land you dream of a home to call your own a place to meet the waves but what will wash ashore? what will wash away into the sea that never stays the same it seems the past burns bright but that’s a light whose heat won’t last. Can you make your peace with that?
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to the rule 03:14
Patriot pay for it send sons and daughters to defend it patrol your borders parole your borders some kinds wanted more than others descendants of immigrants tend to forget when convenient go to the reservations ask “is the homeland yet secure?” go to the remnants of the old plantation, ask “have some suffered more terror than others?” If there’s truth in the wound what’s bleeding out of you bleeds out of them too victim/villain the mirror between them looking right at who did you right in victim/villain the mirror gets broken can’t look can’t see who did you right in.
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grey capital 04:35
Deceiving to watch the tigers’ rise then speculation and watch the markets crash. The king reigns a process that denies accumulation time for regicide. Adding up what takes away from our lives the days divide the nights we lost cutting the cost with hours spent saving seconds up count the change dollars and sense a balance kept despite this debt we are always now left with a matter of knowing better. How many years remain for a detour as the air fills up with us? Markets uncritically repeat lifelines destroyed the pattern is tragic.
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open books 04:18
Walking through the open door all along was thought to have a key what we read are open books what we watch are open seas. Walking along the rocks swimming in the blue all of my memories fading away in the mist the mortality the life enlivens me so when all the things we thought would work of all the plans. And all the things we thought would work and all the plans we did observe and all the pain for all its worth engaging a release. Foresee además a functioning system avoiding full level war by deceit or consent barring sensory details that implore one to see.
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Sun up sun down stopwatches wound days get numbered for counting down how much has passed? how much is left? who holds you back when you hold your breath? Stop watching the clock keeps ticking away from a life of looking for a way to see the light gone missing sun down sun up it never stops slipping right out from under us laying right here beneath the rush hours get spent with no movement stop watc
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swords 04:00
Did the words fail us or did we fail them over and over again? this speechlessness of the spirit speaks volumes if you can hear it with your heart hold this note and keep that beat but not this secret sinking us in silence when these voices would rise up in a conversation with the kids we always promised but never did learn to listen to any language but our own distanced from the damage done to the ones left behind in this education sunken in violence and voices imprisoned in a life or death sentence some die without a word written many things clouded many aren’t offered depending relations depend upon standards down fall the children raised just as weapons to only become them or their victims just disappear now without a trace how can you leave behind lives already erased? Put down your swords. Hand them the pen. They will be heard when we listen.
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hydra 03:53
Despite all the fear despite all that’s left despite all constraints what is your place in the mode of production? Reduction despite all the fear what is your place in the mode of production? Despite all that we miss what is your place in the sphere of things? Despite all the fear despite all that you say. All good things in time will it be enough? Something in its time will it be enough? A whisper will suffice which way’s the right one brother his sister said all good things in time but which way’s the right one? A wind defying rage a beacon that would warn all others a bright light lit all good things in time unfolding in its grasp the hydra proved the just way however it was beaten down all good things in time. Hewers of wood drawers of water outcasts of the earth.

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released February 1, 2008

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Allies Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Allies is a rock band from Pittsburgh, PA that formed in 2004. The current line-up consists of Joel Grimes, Joseph Vesely, and Chris McConnell

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