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Eleven Alive

by Doug Hawk

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1.
Calorie Bomb 04:06
It ain't rational what we do. It doesn't make much sense. People eating poison being plied as food. It's a capital offense. It's all because we eat wrong feast while families starve. Eat because a sad song made us feel depression Look at how it's all made. Try to appreciate how we are with everything. Nothing can make you separate. See how this system propagates the symptoms. Takes your hand puts your finger on the trigger of a calorie bomb. The rules being written underscore the truth. Corruptive greed so evident Notice how the more they try to take control That they actually get less Try to stop this slave trade started by conglomerates who blindly made one farm from all this was built upon Saving woman, child, man giving everyone a chance For a noble life lived getting better than the give Won't you wake us all up from this slumber? Predicated by another. Medicated getting dumber from your calorie bomb. There's no reason for someone to die To lack then not survive. Die right before our eyes. Everything we need to be complete, thriving human beings Is right under our feet. Believing what an ad says? Profit-driven nonsense. They prey upon your sadness turn it into madness All you pretty people who could be so hopeful You keep on eating it exhibiting no discipline See how your pride dies with every bloated mouthful Wobble on by as you obliterate your system with a calorie bomb.
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Teach Me 04:03
It's been a while since you went away. There's a big, empty space where you left our race. It would help if I could see your face to know that somewhere there's somebody to teach me. Can you tell me why we worship the warriors and end up shooting the lovers? I think it's better that we saw individuals as a part of each other. Brother killing brother and mother and other Sister and a daughter it's an endless slaughter We're only doing what we're taught I'm begging on my knees. I'm begging you to teach me, please. I'm sick and tired of being alive in a day where anger is all the rage. Can somebody help me turn the page read something else for a change? Being scientific taught us to hate to discriminate, vacate faith. Well that lying learned us how to behave to believe everything indiscriminately.
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There’s poison in my well They said it’s not enough to kill But they’re saying it in such a way It makes me think I better move today It was the rich guy on the hill An unnecessary spill An act sadly preventable Yet no remorse was shown at all So I went to ask him why Stared into his vacant eyes Asked why he couldn’t empathize He said it wasn’t in his bloodline I took one look at this crook standing there in the door His empty treasures piled high on the floor I knew he’d never let me in So I told him that I loved him Because that’s the only way to make a man realize his egoist ways have nearly brought the whole world to its knees this is our world you can love it or you can leave.
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Heroes? 03:27
I’m ‘bout to spit a bunch of shit that ain’t so popular Don’t try to slander me or twist and rearrange my words I hear so much about these heroes fightin’ overseas Aren’t all these wars illegal? Of corporate decree? Now we ain’t fightin’ for our freedom or to save the world We’re just making customers out of these boys and girls Create a marketplace with promises of all you need Monopolize commodities, communities set up to bleed Do you notice how the propaganda be runnin’ its course? Malicious front legitimizing cabbalistic use of force Don’t try to question the direction that it’s headed to This mass indoctrination alienates the best of you Public opinion doesn’t allow for any critical thinkin’ There’s just one flavor of the Kool-Aid that they got you drinkin’ It sets the standard which the talking heads will argue from but baseless claims create a platform you can’t stand upon Open your eyes. It’s all just a lie. Heroes of mine only fight for what is right. I plan to sit upon a rocking chair in my old age On a porch with revolutionary figures that defied the state Of obedience to dominance of military ways Entire generations taught that it’s acceptable to take Life or limb from foes or kin And then rinse. Repeat. Do it over again.
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Fortunata 03:19
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I'm caught in a quiet room with no one to listen to me it's not the way I choose to be. An empty seat next to me the seed of my destiny keeping the best of me from you Life is such misery. Life just won't set me free. How can one love at all when all that they've loved is gone? Take what she's given you and keep it right next to you let all your words be true, indeed. For tomorrow may never come where nothing can be undone where I am the only one in need. It's the best and the worst of things that the twist of this tragedy is how something so sad can lead to so much growth. A basic dichotomy just like the front and the back of me all alone with a memory of me and you. Life is a mystery. Life's more than history. Where it has been is gone. The best thing is to move on. Live on.
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Words 03:20
Words shouldn't make you do nothing unless it's what you wanted Words can't lead nobody if they doesn't want to be led Words are merely suggestions. Uniquely human inventions Utilized to cloud intent. To blur what a deed means to do To pull the wool over you Read between the lines. That's where truth resides. (You'll find it there every time) Gotta look into their eyes. Their mouths are full of lies A double-speaking enterprise Words are just a grouping of symbols Congregate to give you an earful Repeated to impress upon the people that their living is dead. Words are less better than actions Turn family to opposite factions The difference lies with intent So mean what you say what you mean what you do Stand up to what they're trying to do For words can also be divine Amplify the joy and holiness of humankind It's all how we decide to accept the positive vibe From every possible side
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Whatever happened to kings? The bloodline never dies. It's still the same old thing wearing a different disguise. They still be keeping you down run you into the ground They hypnotize -- rule your world with lies Kings used to wear a crown lived in a castle on high But now they're dressing down slither into suits and their ties They still be keeping you down run you into the ground Monopolize. Make your world their prize. Well it's about time you paid more mind to noticing the signs that honor YOUR majesty 'Cause that's the one thing The way to slay a king? Never let 'em in. Their purpose is to put you away -- and keep you that way
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NASA 03:16
Take this place - look at what it used to be So disgraced - a populated apathy There's no wrong 'cause nobody ever does it right Endless days eventually destroy the night. It comes back to bite. Take a little look at your patriotic lean Politely grease the guts of a killing machine You wonder why everybody hates our breed I know it ain't because somebody tells you you are free That's not how it be If we keep fighting foreign wars, mounting death on foreign shores There'll be nothing at the end that is worth fighting for Remember when we did things good? Remember when we used to do things good? Remember when we just did good? If we keep fighting foreign wars, mounting debt on foreign shores There'll be nothing at the end that is worth fighting for Remember when we did things good? Remember when we used to do things good? Remember when we just did good?
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I come from nowhere and nothing is what I'm made of I'm just trapped here in my soul's chosen home Let's make this one thing clear I'd rather be none or no one Just an idea - part of one collective whole So when I know it's time to go when I feel it's time to leave I have no fear . There's something more. Eyes unclosed. Dispatch with anything that tells you how to live base your ideals on unrelenting 'truths' Your faith is so severe but there's nothing that's as sacred as having no fear of being all alone So when you know it's time to go when you feel it's time to leave have no fear there's something more -- eyes unclosed. Say something that's not what you've been told. Take hold of that which you are owed. Lead a life that's guided by your soul.
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Recorded live on 11/11/11 at Black & Blue, Easton, PA.
Please play loudly!!
Produced by Doug Hawk
Engineered, mixed and mastered by Jim McGee of SpectraSound Recording. Nazareth, PA.
CD art by Matt Nixon. Layout by Leo Vasquez.

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released January 16, 2012

Doug Hawk - vox.keys
Mike Lorenz - guitar
Lee Clarke - bass
Paul Wells - drums

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Doug Hawk Easton, Pennsylvania

This is intelligent, inspiring, grooving music that not only makes you think but move, as well. Lyrically topical with a positive message. Comparisons to artists such as Stevie Wonder, Jamiroquai and Steely Dan are accurate but in a purely derivative sense. Hawk has emphatically created his own unique sound. ... more

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