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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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from S/T, 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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