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Unrelenting

by Goldmill

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Shall I fill my heart with reminders of life's transience, and despair as they decay? Or feign contentment as I reach for more and slowly rot away? Empty philosophies give birth to empty lives Lacking all sincerity we've paid the highest price I want something more Shameful proclivities expose my humanity But in the end I provide my own authority Controlled not by propensities I reject these shallow tendencies I will not breathe the toxic air of influence and subject myself to insidious corrosion With persistence I will seek the truth And be not hindered by damaged youth
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Tear away tranquility Destroy the pretense and embrace anxiety For new life was just a pretext The truth burns: Our fear of damnation Was the reason we sought salvation Yet denial fortified our hearts and minds And we tore ourselves from the grasp of careful consideration: Could truth lie outside that institution in which we were raised? Every breath grows more shallow than the last as purpose eludes the inquiring mind. Meaning was forged only under the auspices of faith that's blind. Does any legacy truly transcend icy depths or a fiery end? Or does any conviction survive the graves of the dead?
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Unrelenting 03:07
I dragged my hand across the lake And prayed for the same stillness Recalling words of old He gives and he takes away He takes away The air vacated my lungs My request disappeared As it left my tongue The silence Disappointing But the truth is unrelenting And sometimes it leaves us empty I've pulled myself up from my knees And I'm not repenting For where is the value in wishful thinking? At what point do we stop believing? Some still say It's an issue of content and method But my conviction failed My conviction failed Is there an affair Of greater import Than the saving of a man's soul? There cannot be Yet my appeals shattered to pieces Against the ground The air vacated my lungs My request disappeared It was unanswered The truth is Unrelenting The burn of veridicality The sting of veracity The truth is unrelenting But from the chains it sets us free
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Breathe in And feel the melody move deep within Breathe out Exhale and it's just sinking in The sky painted black Overflowing with countless suns Lying motionless One moment of peace If we are mechanical Whence comes emotional depth? Yet can dualistic ideas Explain causal relations? Events subject to the study of physiology Need not give rise to complex psychology How could they ever provoke subjective experience How could they ever provoke A feeling Visceral Can you reduce me? Mechanical If you reduce me Then what's left? Can I ever truly know myself, and become enlightened, if my identity is fundamentally shrouded in mystery, beyond the finite reach of knowledge?
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I lack any profound insight Yet I search truly for what is right I lay to rest What illusions I can Knowing that I am just a man Sometimes I fear that Humanity's wasted The qualities that Have defined us And has given them up has given them up And replaced them With dogmatism Refusing to listen With blind opinion It blocks our vision It makes us less than what we are What is the point in speaking if no one listens? Language reduced to a triviality

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released October 18, 2014

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Goldmill San Antonio, Texas

Vocals: Jake
Guitar: Rick
Guitar: Steve
Bass: Forrest
Drums: Drew

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