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A rallying call to answer your rallying calling and leave a legacy in life that you are personally proud of.
You don't have to be the wrench in the machine, but for the love of...yourself...don't be a cog in it.
If you're going to shovel shit, at least let it be to fertilize the gardens of your own dreams.
lyrics
I never want to wake with the thought
that I'm a slave to a cause that don't elate me at all.
Life is way too short to spend the days I'm allotted
complacent and cross, sedated and drawn in a matrix mirage,
hating my job, staring blank at a clock,
neighbors vacant and lost, blatantly bored,
the smile on each face has dissolved or stayed a blanketed fraud.
If this is a description of the place that you're caught,
played as a pawn, restrained by the law, and wage that's just wrong.
Go on and break the facade. Your situation is hard,
I know you need to make it, but God,
whats the rate of the cost? My prose tries to weigh out the cons,
between the gain and the loss. Don't end up gray in a fog,
summon your greatest of want's, and then create it cause ya'll
always got what it takes, now just take what it's got!
You gotta save up, savings? Save integrity.
We're getting billed here? build here, make your legacy.
Tax paid, cash fades rent's steep; Sam's gaze, glance glaze dense sleep,
fast pace sad shame spent week; ran great pathways breath heaves
lap maze, rat race get cheese; tail chase, can't make ends meet.
Ouroborus full circle biting our feet so passively,
The laborious aura bore us knives that have breached our back, as we're
crying a screech of agony, collars white as a bleach soaked tapestry
brows and noses too high to receive the tragedy,
hiding between the pageantry, blinded by gleaming glam and greed,
cash enacts cataracts like Charron asks to see the silver lining as fee for passage reaped,
it's a crime they'd be paid so handsomely as everything's getting ugly when trying to feed our families,
we're Leslie in Terabithia, dying to reach our fantasies.
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Now “The Secret” is about the laws of attraction,
and I agree with it despite some flaws in the practice,
I believe that if you involve all your passion,
and intrigue with things including hardworking action,
and keep persisting even if the obstacles' massive,
then you will seize your interests passing problems to clash with,
but if you plead and sit horribly stagnant,
with your dreams fixated on thoughts of your mansion,
squeezing fists calling God into fashion,
your fleeting wish as a bargaining tactic,
then that's when your “Secret” remains exactly that since,
you'll never know it, notice when you're drawn to something
you gotta sketch plans to draw it back in.
You gotta save up savings? Save integrity.
We're getting billed here? build here, make your legacy.
I believe it's true that anything you seek to do
is feasibly achievable with reach and pull,
nothing is unreasonable, and even though you think you know
your dreams and hopes. To see the whole of what you seek to own,
you gotta get a kick out of the things you tote,
have a ball which aids achieving goals,
like Jonathan Livingston Seagull's soul
tried teaching folks with sweeping flowing wings in tow.
You gotta save up savings? Save integrity.
We're getting billed here? build here, make your legacy.
credits
from The Inevitable Effort,
track released June 10, 2012
Lyrics written and performed by Bruce "AllOne" Pandolfo. Production by Charlie Button. Recording, Mixing and Mastering by Michael Korb. Track art by Julia Berkowitz!
Left-field rapper, slam poet, singer/songwriter, and author Bruce Pandolfo from Long Island.
Creating to connect. Obsessively exploring and creating art as healing and growing.
Deeply vivid/introspective lyrics populate this ambitious folk rock project. The arrangements span from mellow/minimal to rocking and grandiose. Consistently emotive, unique and sincere. Brilliance. AllOne
Progressive yet punk, aggro yet emotional. One of my favorite bands from Long Island and doing everything they can to live up to their name, raising money for causes and making badass music, AllOne
I have been listening to variations of this album a long time. I remember I was living in a cardboard dumpster when some young guy was like yo dude it's gonna rain come crash on my couch. He played The Many Faces of Oliver Hart for me. I fell in love, I set my favorite track as Rain because we looped it when the rain came. That was one of the early acts of kindness I received in the nearly 20 years I've been homeless. @NomadRoamsFree