A blanket stained with piss and alcohol Despite the poverty, despite their dignity. Knoxville kills their integrity. You’re running the essentials into the fucking ground. And now they’re sleeping right beside an underpass flooded with faded dignity and washed up dirty needles Big brother cashing in when all they strive for is a bed to sleep in. Lead Paint from this decay falls on their heads As we sit and Disregard the dread of waking up tomorrow At the end of the day it’s the end of the world so we see right past the inhumanity

Tell us where you're from What you want to become And we'll say if you're OK Where did you go to school? Right answer and you're cool Yeah, you're the kid the whole day You get a sticker in your face Information 'bout the case So you know your potential Don't think you can extend Don't think you can extend, just comprehend But I don't wanna hear it No, it's more than I accept 'Cause I don't care where I belong no more What we share or not I will ignore I will ignore We will shut you out We'll put you in doubt If you think that you're special We'll tell you who you are We'll tell you that you're close but no cigar But I don't wanna hear it No, it's more than I accept 'Cause I don't care where I belong no more What we share or not I will ignore And I won't waste my time fitting in 'Cause I don't think contrast is a sin What they say is Go back where you came from They'll tell you that, I don't want to hear No, I don't want to hear No, I don't want to hear it No, it's more than I accept 'Cause I don't care where I belong no more What we share or not I will ignore And I won't waste my time fitting in 'Cause I don't think contrast is a sin No, it's not a sin

Knocked off the pedestal. We work as one to break u down. I work for the stale bread that sits at your feet. You’re born into this wealth giving credit to god’s amazing lies. I hope your faith begins to fucking die I spread the sickness against my will because Without our desperation, you can’t continue your consumption You’ll fly the betrayal of your ancestors. I’ll tear down these monuments one by one. You beautify the wrong side of history while the past of ignorance still holds a boot on their back. I’ll watch the histories go up in flames while my hunger reminds me of where to stand. Your stolen land tells me which wall to burn. Your democracy gives u no say. Just Stand in their way the whole fucking day. Mix styrofoam and gasoline and watch their glory burn for eternity Take the power out of their ideologies and replace it with the guilt of our history.

Conforming to the social statuses. Well educated with our philosophies. While you’re hidden behind their hypocrisies Brag about your education. Brag about your open mind when you won’t listen to our message unless is contributes to putting your ideas in a ballot box. It’s twisted words so you can justify The dead little boy’s and girls who died in front of your eyes We’ll repay your Terror with an infantry revolution cause your stuck 60 years behind your fucking evolution And I’ll stand against the conformity of public education cause we know you’ve hidden the histories, there will never be proclamation From ballot to ballot it doesn’t make a difference. There’s still a third world parasite eating away at a little boys intestines and if you think modern technology can keep a bullet from your head, that’s where your wrong cause we fucking want you dead. Paying my homage by burning the thread thats painted with glory. Put the bullet in the poverty. Restore the meaning of humanity. Burn the flag that was laid out on his coffin cause he knew what freedom really meant.

Walking the train tracks pass the water tower. Graffiti on the walls that’ll never fade. Black tar in our lungs that’ll never break away. Stuck with memories lll never trade. The pawn shops have shut down now our drive through town is as dead as our futures for tomorrow. We didn’t waste a second. We gave everything until we hated each other like we promised we never would. I promised myself I’d never write another song but here’s to 3am. I’ll dedicate it to my best friend. I’ll always love you and I’ll mention You to my future friends and talk about how much I fucking hate you but internally I see right past all your mistakes. We kissed in a stairwell and I fell down the fucking stairs. It’s all over now so who fucking cares. I’ll torture myself with pixies and it looks sad. Like I did when I first heard the songs on the hood of my car starring up at the sky. Skip school and hold you under the bridge. Now I’ve moved on and I’m bound to oak ridge I’ll get an apartment and achieve what I always wanted to. Play shows, work shitty jobs, live life to my best ability. Maybe I’ll run into you In the real world. Maybe your face will fade into the crowd like my memories will fade when my mind starts to jade. I’ll do everything I can to not turn into my father just like you’ll do everything you can to not turn into your mother. I don’t know why I always end up here. All the smallest things added up about you. Sitting on my bed smoking your cigarettes, looking down at you while I sing a song about you. You faded away gave needles and the other chemicals a try. I stayed strong and kept my head up so I wouldn’t drown with you. I am who I am cause of your mistakes and the memories we made. You’ll never be who you used to be. We all change. Toxins changed you while you were a toxin that changed me. It fuels the boy I wanna be, forever drug free. I don’t love you but these streets I remiss on all resemble you. Condensation on the bus window at 6am reminds me of you. Lenoir city train tracks bring me back to you. I can’t get near the tracks. I’m in love with oak ridge and your name isn’t the one I’ll be thinking of while I listen to the songs. The songs that played while I weeped on my floor. The songs that played while dad beat you outta me. I remember the exact song. The song that made you fall away from him and the song that made me fall for you. Lenoir city will remember but Knoxville will never know. Yesterday was stuck Today Is the day that I keep my promises and discover new songs that oak ridge will teach me so you fall further behind.

Held high on your throne cashing in while the poverty pushes us to pull the trigger to enter a land where you don’t have the anxiety of sleeping in the street or paying monthly to keep your heart beating. I wanna trade these destinations where I gotta get to Knoxville and not the civilization made up of rocks and minerals buried 6 feet in the soil. Trying to escape our systems poverty and toil. Relying on the ballot yearly listening to bureaucrats but you’ll be fooled again and they’ll sleep in the their beds in comfort not knowing there’s a bounty on their heads And we’ll hang the officials from an underpass and serve justice with a napalm fire that’ll burn for eternity. And we’ll dance in the downfall of their hypocrisy. You hold me down under your favoritisms. Working 7 hours to make 20 fucking dollars.

Running outta words to say. Screaming in the sun for the 8 hour day. Despite the pain in our feet. The sweat on our faces. We strive for justice for the back that gets the boot and the neck that gets the knee. These streets are ours in Tennessee. The sun sets behind the sunsphere Silently armed femmes march for unity. Screamed in his face, fuck the KPD We don’t take the dehydration as a weight that slows us down. We don’t take our strained vocal chords as a reason to keep us quiet. No justice. No peace.