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Intro
01:49
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Lifeline
03:25
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I sit here all alone, in the glow of my “check engine” light
Under 15 feet of snow
I never wanted to be stuck here all alone,
I never thought I’d find a way to call this place my home
I never thought that I could stoop so fucking low
I wanted you to know
I’ve been waiting for a lifeline, baby
Feels like I’ve waited for a lifetime (woah)
Cause I’ve been stuck here on the sidelines, baby
Feels like I’m sitting on a landmine (woah)
The engine slowly dies, I watch all of these fading lights
Still buried here alive
With every shadow slowly casting over me,
I found a way to make this harder than it has to be
As if I wanted to be left here in the cold
And when you finally come to pull me out, you’ll find I’ll never learn
Maybe I’m something you’re better off without
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Ringtone
02:30
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You never had to stay, but you still did anyway.
Yeah maybe times were hard, I did all I could before it fell apart.
Well now you’ve got me on the phone, I’m saying words
That you’ll never understand cause I’ve lost your mind.
After losing you again, this time it’s real.
While I know that I will heal, I’m still in pain,
My love will never go away.
(Oooh) My love will never go away
It’s midnight in my heart. Yeah, you did your part.
Think back to when we were strong. An outcome I should have known all along.
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4. |
Hold On
05:04
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Highway lines and scheduled times, this is how we live our lives
Watch the days and weeks go by between when I can see you
I try to call but you’re away, we’re running out of things to say
You know it’s never quite the same, but it’s the best we can do
Breathe slow, If all you need is me just know as far as I may seem,
I’ll try my best to set you free until I can be beside you
Time slows down to a heartbeat, I just want you here with me
I’ve asked myself a thousand times, how could I be fine without you?
This is all I’ve ever known, I never learned how to let go
I’m trying hard but losing grip with prolonged conversations
All this rests on you and I, for all this time that we have tried
I know that we will both be fine, we’ll find a way to make time
Ooh
Hold on, hold on,
Hold on til the morning comes
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5. |
It's Your Choice
01:18
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Now it’s your choice, the power’s in your hands
You can do this like a man, or just blow us all to pieces
Now it’s your choice, but you don’t understand
Let us all be damned, while you tell us all we need this
And we all sit tight and just brace for the end,
like there’s nothing more we could have done
And we all sit tight and just brace for the end, but believe me, it’s only begun
HEY! Well this is gonna shock you!
But this oppression isn’t something anyone would choose
HEY! We’re coming right for you!
There comes a point where there is no more damage you can do
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6. |
Jar Jar Binks
03:17
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I’ve been feeling this thorn in my side, Feel its poison seeping inside
With every breath you still take mine away, But I never was able to stay
I swear I’m not trying to run away from you, But my heart doesn’t know what to do
I swear I’d give you my all in another life, but right now we’re just living a lie
I let you walk away from me, now it’s all that I ever see
And one day I won’t be there when you return
One day
Now this poison is finding its way, to each memory of much brighter days
You find a way just to hold it inside, while I’m stuck in this fight with my pride
I wish I knew had to be much more genuine, but my soul says that you’re not the one
I swear I’d give this all up in another life, but my choices left us here to die
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Middle Finger
03:11
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Please tell me what I wanna hear without a shadow of a doubt
Bar up the truth, lock it away, don’t let me ever find it out
A broken shell of what we once were
A final cry for help, but the future gave no answer
I wave my middle finger to the world, left with self-destruction to unfurl
When everybody bleeds, but it’s not as much as me
I wave my middle finger to the world
Each day begins with a new exciting way to dull the pain
It’s all up to you, but you still find another way to shift the blame
A broken shell of what we once were
Or so we claim, or maybe that’s what we prefer
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8. |
Survival Of Greed
03:30
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You’ve already seen what happens on the edge of death, yet you live your life as if you don’t care
As you comfortably crawl towards your own destiny, do you wonder if your materialism has meaning?
It can help to get what you want when you have the best, to outrun the beast you must not place last.
So why not replace survival with greed and trick the mind into buying things that you don’t really need?
I will stand back and watch
Before I let this consume me
Whoah, Can’t you see?
Whoah, Greed doesn’t mean survival to me
Whoah, We buy things like its royal decree
It’s really just your own greed
You may get lost in the details no one else sees, putting your faith in an object your own belief
Justified, the only choice it seems to be. Ever ask if this goes away what will be left of me?
Breeding races of debt the banker smiles. Living in innocence a coral reef dies. I watch the world die and my soul cries. Why would we agree to our own extinction?
You close your eyes to what you don’t want to see
Observation validates reality
Future earth or present me, one choice is awesome and the other is your greed.
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9. |
Victims Of The System
02:01
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Somebody’s telling me who I want to be.
Doesn’t that fuck with the idea of liberty?
Brainwash the brainless, keep that shit away from me.
Fuck all their profits, dollars are all they see
We don't need
To be
Victims of the system
Yeah sure, make it about money. Not like some of us don’t really have any
We’re under the boot cause they like the crunch
Our broken backs buying their brunch
The sad thing is that there’s so little we can do
We'll devolve until AI puts us into a people zoo
It's no wonder why people break the law
It seems to work against us and expose a fatal flaw
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10. |
Surveillance State
02:49
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We walk like zombies in the moonlight, all night
With weary limbs our heads all feel light, feel light
The pouding sun won’t break me
These stormy nights won’t take me
They’re sitting on the sidelines, watching, waiting
Just one false move and you’re theirs for the taking
They’ll find a way to break you, Before you know they’ve got you
I’ve seen this before and nobody’s safe, we’re all members of a surveillance state
Watching the colors all drain from the landscape
Why would we choose this sort of life?
The sound of screeching tires pierces the night
And from the dark we see the red and blue lights
But we know what we have done, we’re destined to be outrun
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11. |
As Creation Allows
02:50
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We live in a world of uncertainty. The future looks dark, in chaos rings. Hold on to your humanity, without love evil reigns.
Come on now, listen to the sound. Feel the weight as your heart pounds.
I don’t mean to spread anxiety, but our leaders lead us to calamity.
Hold on to your souls
As we run from society’s holes
We could be like the Gods
If we can master our fates
We could be like the Gods
With the beauty of what our minds create
I look around, and all I see, there’s people in town all just like me.
Unsure of what their days will bring, they grind away to buy their things
Consuming all that the Earth holds, wasting away to afterlives untold.
What’s the point of living in this world? Materials held, in Death’s fingers curled?
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12. |
Is It Worth It?
03:49
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I was so easy to please, when I had the world at my feet
So much brighter, outside, when you never knew what you would find
Enthusiasm fades with time
These days you find me stuck on the downside
Following a flickering light
Till the rest all burns out on the inside
For all we’ve known, is it worth it to keep holding on?
I just can’t let go, I’ll stay near til the last spark is gone
I grew jaded and tired, as I learned all my truths from a liar
A distant place in time, is when I felt a grip on what was mine
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Intense Reality Alberta
Intense Reality are a punk rock band from Stettler, Alberta. Formed by Michael & Taylor in 2009, the band has performed in
Stettler, Red Deer and Calgary.
After releasing Greatest Hits (2014), Altered States (2016), and Are We Still The Same? (2020), the band's new album Road Trip was released on Nov 18, 2022.
Michael - Lead Vocals/Guitar
Taylor - Lead Guitar/Vocals
Colton - Drums
Coleson - Bass
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