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before you knew me​.​.​.

by downshift

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SebLTMR It's been more than twenty years now, and I'm still listening to that skatepunk gem. That album helped me define my tastes in music when I was a teenager and it's still relevent today. A timeless classic.
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Miguel Thibodeau Damn these guys are fast! Good album to pop in once in a while!
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1.
ground zero 02:37
somethings wrong again, i see it in your eyes as you stare at me, and i can feel what's going on inside your little mind. it all seems simple now. "the weight of your world pulls me down." but i was too blind to see all that you've done to me. i missed the point of it all. you waited and watched me fall. but now i'll give my problems all to you. i've opened my eyes, now i know we're through i fought back tears last night, as i thought about your lies and all your broken promises and my empty dreams. i'm alone once again. i'm lost without any friends. i close my eyes and dream about better days and better times.
2.
i'm trying, i swear to god i'm trying but all i get from you are looks that tell me i'm no good you're lying, to my face you're lying you turn around and put me down with all your words i swear to myself every night your remarks won't phase me i'll pull your knife from my back until you realize you can't break me i'll hold my head up high i know i'll try to do my best to laugh it off one more time i'm going to be all right
3.
i look towards the sky and i shout out all my deepest questions, i seek a thousand answers that i'll never understand. time ticks so slowly now... as i spend my nights alone and lost. i feel as if i'm losing faith in everything that i've been taught. one more time around... my friends all falling down. i watch them waste away one by one. i'm lying here alone and i can't help thinking "why go on now?" i'm lying to myself in pretending that i'm gonna try. i choose to quit now... i'll let depression steal my soul, i'll take my pills, rescind it all, i'm giving up the fight. i look towards the sky... see my dreams come crashing down... denial.
4.
question me with your hesitation and i'll reply with indecision, the score is settled and you're no better, i won't hear your fabrications difficulty in showing pleasure comes with this pain i don't know where you're coming from these days expressionless i stare, sipping beer cold winter's day in solitude no new issues will come my way i don't need your help anymore my diminished pride, animosity builds inside rejecting sobriety, unwelcomed anxiety too many words, too many nights i won't be the same too many times i broke down and took all the blame i won't see it,i won't believe it why won't you relinquish? you're opening old wounds
5.
mere images 03:05
would you comply if i decided not to try should you disagree if i opposed all your beliefs could you see everything i told you to see can't you be tough and stand your ground or would you just go changing your mind after all, you're not what's important in your life have you forgotten that it's all in your hands it's up to you to make your own plans it's funny that you act the same way as me and listen to everything i say, except "think for yourself" what would you do with no one to guide you what would you do for my advice would you compromise your mind, your conscience look into your mirror, reflection of all my ideals, you're so shallow.
6.
seeing things just as straight as 'real' men claim to be grown-up fears the tired remnants of ornamental tears muse the hinterland until everything turns grey not bound to happen in this day and age it's unfortunate but it's true no one around me is quite like you what can i do thus deserving you do my best to be who i should be shine and glow and not be scared, of what others think at all ignorance is the only life for me
7.
transition 03:22
she left her old ways behind to never look back threw away her old life and her small town girl persona a new disposition the party girl indiscretion having her fun with a new outlook on the world and now she's on her back for some sweet talking motherfucker he laughs inside as she believes his lies that she could be 'the one'. he tells her that he's falling in love with the person inside her she's too naive to know that tomorrow he'll be gone she was at a loss for words again, how could it happen? made a promise to herself that it would be the last time someone got the best of her until she found out she was pregnant a new outlook on the world and she's feeling lost, like the whole world turned against her she tried to live a life where she didn't belong she feels like everyone she meets looks down at her everyday she regrets leaving her small town
8.
unbroken 04:50
you remind me of someone i used to know someone close to me, someone i didn't deserve, i'll shed this curse if i could just get unbroken and now we've met on my quest for happiness, a twist of fate and here i am and there you are i lost my nerve and would you let me in? complacency in the end if i could only start to begin a subtle glance of the eyes a chance to see if i could fill that void that you complain, they're all the same i could be different by coincidence a gentle tug at my shirt a seductive silent little smirk and there you are and here i am i lost my nerve maybe tomorrow will be the day i won't retreat i won't be defeated by anxiety satisfy my need to achieve complacency, i won't hold back
9.
the reason 03:13
i need to find the reason why i'm here realize i doubt myself, day-to-day life becomes unclear, and all the pieces that fit so perfect angles changes, reach out of range, i'd quit if i had the chance to exit all my efforts go unnoticed, self-pretentious in desperate need to be inimmune to all i've experienced before i need to find the reason why i'm lost in disillusion, a failure to reach a conclusion why i tried to keep my feet on the ground it looks like i faltered, every second seems a bit longer i don't want to be the same as you but i can't understand the reason why you let me go i feel i'm drowning here all by myself while you've become faceless, you're everyone else.
10.
we never really listened, now look at where we are void of answers we just float around to scores of questions we never could keep i try to play but it's too tekked out for me i'm inferior melancholic are the stages this emo ride presents me with attempts to walk but where's that led me now? weeping minds and streamful tears flitting through the blues-filled sky i coloured passed the lines once again strive to sleep but then i creep, to consciously achieve my equally pathetic way of life undefined, rearranged i may just get happy to that point where i believe a blissful feeling i'm yet to keep as mine my own, it's unattained i must say it's obviously by my choice i tried my best not to rock the boat i guess that wasn't good enough i coloured passed the lines once again.
11.
"Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth; Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim Because it was grassy and wanted wear, Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same, And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I marked the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way I doubted if I should ever come back. I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference." -Robert Frost

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released September 1, 2000

Steve Zuppa, Derek Wyatt, Gary Hazelton, Mark Zurawinski
Recorded at Easter Island Studio in Sudbury.

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fast Northern Ontario songs from the turn of the century

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