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Stay Home & Rot

by El Capitan

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1.
Timeline 01:51
I won’t live by your timeline. The blueprints you’ve laid out, claiming there’s a right and wrong way, to reach the goals laid out by me. Set directions you follow orderly, not a black and white as we are taught to believe. Time to see the world for what it truly is. Time for us to finally start to live. There’s too much at stake to simply make claims on how to be. Based on very different times, and fear of any other way. Change at monumental rates, we’re no longer built to fade. Stay at home, rot away. We hope for something more now I see. Some things, must be cast away if we can hope to, grow as a race. And I can see it playing out in different ways. But I keep being pushed towards what’s considered safe. So what’s the point in choice when it’s already made for us. What’s the point. It’s all the same to me, the way you choose to live. Taking no chance to see, what could have been.
2.
Haunt 01:57
I’m a free man, what right have you. Chasing cheap thrills, to get you through. Blade to my face telling me what’s mine is yours. Am I wrong aching to want to settle the score. There’s a demon in me that still struggles to sleep. Waking in the night cold sweats and clenched fists. Feeling afraid ashamed and full of rage. Stolen from me the right to choose my fate. So what’s your mother think, and how’s your father sleep. They looked me dead in the eyes, and they asked me to forgive. Well I’ve tried and tried but I, I can’t stop. Looking over my shoulder, night after night. I can’t shake, these dreams that haunt. Faces laughing, power lost. And I want to forgive. But I don’t know where to begin.
3.
Holiday 03:00
It seems to me this has almost spread beyond control. Nearing the point of no return. As long as it continues to be taught to us from birth, we’ll be blind to just how wrong they were. The new leaf turned starts with us. Those who came before failed to pass on, the values needed to wipe out the plague. The damage caused by years of fear over what they don’t understand. Failure to comprehend all the hate they were fed. Taking all the negative you were shown. Mimicking everything wrong with your upbringing, and pass it on, a sick tradition. We’re not born into this world with prejudice so formed. It can only be taught with time. And it’s taking hold. Time to break the cycle, form a new mould. That’s free from all you wish that you could change. Break the cycle, form a new mould.
4.
No Warrior 02:42
With all your time spent inside. Trapped in virtual versions of reality which is now a joke. We make our stands in the safety of our homes. Where no sacrifices need to be made. With forged personas at centre stage. Where you can be whoever you want to be. Just not the shadow hiding behind the scenes. Claim to be warriors fighting for truth. Just as long as the gain outweighs what you could lose. Just cowards who have found a way to spread their own brand of hate. I can’t see a way out. Good ideas are forever lost in a constant stream of misinformation that’s fed to us by people with a selfish cause. Can we get back to a time when actions powered change. When doing something meant more than voicing your opinion. So take a step back. Take a long hard look. Are you still able to see yourself through all the fog. So with the lights down low, who’s staring back at you. Through the screens you hide behind protection from the truth. A fear of missing out, a shameful waste of youth. A misuse of power you flaunt in the faces of those who choose, to truly sacrifice themselves selflessly for something that they believe. Despite the chance they won’t succeed. While you sit back on a throne you don’t deserve wasting away the day too afraid of getting hurt. So step back from behind the screens you hide behind. Realise to make a change face to face has its place. Face to face.
5.
Autopilot 02:09
At what point did you decide to fall asleep at the wheel. At what point did you decide to lose your ability to think for yourself. Handing over the reins, and for what. What are you so afraid of. I won’t become a prisoner in my own mind, and believe in the things that I know, despite the comforts and conveniences, won’t consume me. What kind of world do we live in where I’m the crazy one. It can’t be easy to wake up every day and convince yourself of what you can’t explain. While the rest of us are meant to sit back accept and entertain ramblings of a madman. So is it worth everything that you are, that you could achieve. You have decided its safer too give up on rationality to maintain this false comfort. It’s something I’ll never do.

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released November 20, 2015

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