Between Me And Civilization

from Our Brother Atlas EP by Our Brother Atlas

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Pressure to outlast the others
Find any way to outlast the best
Expect the praise of those around you
Who’s who to care when there’s no one left
Nothing becomes the only motive
Climbing and climbing into your lonesome at the top
Fearless to spend your whole left just to
Defeat, repeat, defeat, repeat; an infinite cycle

Wasting all of your life just to tell the whole world your morals
Failing communication, forget it all

Patiently waiting for another crack, another crack in the ice
Our eyes open wide to close in on reality
Patiently waiting for another crack, another crack in the ice
Our eyes open wide to close in on the enemy

Overcome: Tearing down the wall
Overdose: Tear it down
Overrun: Tearing down the wall
Overthrow: Tear it down
Overcome: Marching through the wall
Overdose: Marching
Overrun: Marching through the wall
Overthrow: Marching on

Pressure to make the right sacrifice
These hands were not meant to be bloodstained
Every life is a pawn on the chessboard
Mankind is my career

Get to the top, Get to the top scrambling
Get to the top, Get to the top to breathe
(I am alone)
Kill what we have made for ourselves, what we have done for this world

Crisis: Freedom is what freedom does
And if a home is a just a place to untangle our minds,
Then this Earth is just a place to give up the fight

My power is nothing but a flicker in the flame that I have created
To take control; to gain stability; to find a conclusion
All of these I have longed for knowing that they will never be achieved
To measure my success is to measure a continuous line
I will find an end to this. I will be the end to this.

My life is the only breathing thing that’s left
But no one is here to watch me live it
My life is the only breathing thing that’s left
But no one is here to watch me live it

My life is the only thing that’s breathing
The world will call out my name and rejoice, rejoice with a deafening silence
The world will call out my name and rejoice

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from Our Brother Atlas EP, track released February 19, 2011

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