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What a Time to Be Alive
04:58
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I wake up to another rising Sun
Already feeling like the day is done
I can't shake this weight
Another chance for us to save the day
But those in charge keep pushing us away
Are we just too late?
Why...do you close your eyes?
Why...do you speak your lies?
And I cry
Moving through another wasted day
Our future quickly vanishing away
We ignore the proof
Going backwards as we move ahead
How do we let ourselves get so misled?
Who will stand for truth?
Why...do you close your eyes?
Why...do you speak your lies?
And I cry
What a time to be alive right now
Just hoping to survive again somehow
Even with the darkness in our way
The time is now for truth to win the day
What a time to be alive right now
Just hoping to survive again somehow
The future is still ours if we just fight
We only have to choose to see the light
See the light
What a time to be alive right now
Just hoping to survive again somehow
Even with the darkness in our way
The time is now for truth to win the day
What a time to be alive right now
Just hoping to survive again somehow
The future is still ours if we just fight
We only have to choose to see the light
What a time to be alive right now
(What a time to be alive)
Just hoping to survive again somehow
(Be alive)
Even with the darkness in our way
(Be alive)
The time is now for truth to win the day
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I know what you're thinking
I know your pretense
But I won't subscribe
To your world of nonsense
You may think you're right
But your thinking is flawed
Your vision is blinded
Your feelings unthawed
The world keeps on passing you by
But you refuse to let go
Of some sense of values imagined
From a long time ago
From a long time ago
You talk about freedom
But that is not true
You want to subject us
To your point of view
Just go live your life
And just let me live mine
Get over yourself
And stop wasting our time
The world isn't yours to lord over
We all have to share
So stop looking out for yourself
And...try starting to care
Try starting to care
Why don't you care?
Why don't you care?
It's time to speak up and it's time to cry out
Your way of the world is not what life's about
We all need to live and that's where we're the same
But we're not some pawns that you play in your game
The things that you say drive me out of my mind
Stop with your bullshit, get back into line
Your thinking's not right
Your logic is flawed
Your vision is blinded
Your feeling's unthawed
Just go live your life
And I'll go live mine
Stop fucking around
And stop wasting our time
The world keeps on passing you by
But you refuse to let go
Of some sense of values imagined
From a long time ago
From a long time ago
The world isn't yours to lord over
We all have to share
So stop looking out for yourself
And...try starting to care
Try starting to care
The world keeps on passing you by
But you refuse to let go
Of some sense of values imagined
From a long time ago
From a long time ago
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Years Go By
04:13
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Ooh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh ooh
Find yourself on memory lane,
see faces from your past
Remember them like yesterday
How did time fly by so fast?
You see them in your memories,
you see them in your dreams
But nothing's as it was back then
Nothing's ever as it seems
Years go by
in your mind
Years go by
in the blink of an eye
Arrive at your reunion
and you start to reconnect
Lost friends and loves and memories
Regale in retrospect
Celebrate the times you shared
as the moment takes you back
But know the past is not today
you can't escape the fact...
Years go by
in your mind
Years go by
in the blink of an eye
Years go by
in your mind
Years go by
it's a matter of time
Years go by
Years go by
Years go by
Years go by
It's a matter of time
It moves along on a line
The past is left behind
in the blink of an eye
Years go by
it's a matter of time
Years go by
in the blink of an eye
Years go by
it's a matter of time
Years go by
in the blink of an eye
Ooh ooh ooh
Ooh ooh ooh
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Lay It on the Line
06:04
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Look all around you
and see what's at stake.
A movement is coming
which side will you take?
Battle injustice
or stay on the side?
Will you stand up and fight
or will you just run and hide
Take a look at yourself
Are you doing anything that can help?
Take a look in your heart
It's time that you start doing your part
Life's not worth living
if you don't take a stand
and champion the causes
of your fellow man
Your apathy's weakness
Your silence a joke
How can you sit there
when the system is broke?
Time to wake up your mind
and lay it on the line
Gotta lay it on the line
How can you keep saying
that nothing is wrong
when what's come to light
has been like this all along
The shield has been broken
the trust is betrayed
Lives have been stolen
by the system we made
Take a look at yourself
Are you doing anything that can help?
Take a look in your heart
It's time that you start doing your part
Life's not worth living
if you don't take a stand
and champion the causes
of your fellow man
Your apathy's weakness
Your silence a joke
How can you sit there
when the system is broke?
Time to wake up your mind
and lay it on the line
Gotta lay it on the line
(It's time to wake up and understand)
Now is the time
(It's time to support your fellow 'man)
For us to understand
(It's time to step up and do what's right)
(It's time to get up and join the fight)
(It's time to wake up and understand)
We must unite
(It's time to support your fellow 'man)
As one common 'man
(It's time to step up and do what's right)
(It's time to get up and join the fight)
Take a stand
Take a look at yourself
Are you doing anything that can help?
Take a look in your heart
It's time that you start doing your part
Life's not worth living
if you don't take a stand
and champion the causes
of your fellow man
Your apathy's weakness
Your silence a joke
How can you sit there
when the system is broke?
Time to wake up your mind
and lay it on the line
Gotta lay it on the line
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I see the walls are closing in
and I reach out for your hand
I pull you closer as I try to think
of some kind of plan
We start to run, but then I look at you
and think otherwise
This battle’s not about retreating,
but our will to survive
What must I do to make things right?
What can we do to win this fight?
It’s down to you and me
The world keeps swinging
and it’s landing blows that cut to the heart
With every shot we take it feels
as if we’re pulling apart
I take your hand and beg
that you will be right there by my side
There is no other way to win
no other way to survive
What must I do to make things right?
What can we do to win this fight?
Right here and now
It’s time to take a stand
I’ll fight for you
Hand in hand, we battle together
It’s down to you and me
The walls keep closing in
it seems the world has got us ensnared
But we stand our ground as we defend
this life we have shared
With our resolve, we get ready
to launch a counterattack
To claim our life, our love, our liberty
our dignity back
What must I do to make things right?
What can we do to win this fight?
Right here and now
It’s time to take a stand
I’ll fight for you
Hand in hand, we battle together
Right here and now
We lay it on the line
I’ll fight for you
Stand or fall, we’re in it together
Forever and ever...
It’s you and me against the world
It’s you and me against the world
It’s you and me against the world
It’s you and me against the world
We’re gonna stand our ground
It’s you and me against the world
It’s time to fight, it’s time to lay it all on the line
It’s you and me against the world
We’re gonna take them on, we’re gonna take them down
It’s you and me against the world
Now that we’re united, we’ll never be divided again
It’s you and me against the world
Nothing’s gonna stop us, nothing’s gonna stop us now
It’s you and me against the world
It’s time to fight, it’s time to lay it all on the line
It’s you and me against the world
We’re gonna take them on, we’re gonna take them down
It’s you and me against the world
Nothing’s gonna stop us, nothing’s gonna stop us now
It’s you and me against the world
It’s down to you and me
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Ferocious Designs Hamilton Township, New Jersey
Ferocious Designs is the mostly DIY music project of central New Jersey-based songwriter Brian
Kelley.
Influences: Peter Gabriel, Todd Rundgren, Kate Bush, Midge Ure/Ultravox, Howard Jones, Talk Talk/Mark Hollis, Tears For Fears, Simple Minds, Lo Moon.
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