song changes

We have changed out the EP version of New Empires and What We're Fighting For for the full length version. It should have been done a long time ago. So now that makes six of our songs from Atrocities up for download on our myspace page. Let us know what you think about these songs, it's always great to hear!

Plans in Minneapolis

So tentatively, we plan on recording a few covers while in Minneapolis. We tend to procrastinate a lot, but we'll see what happens. Any requests? A few bands brought up: Misfits, Squad Five-O and our old live cover, Stretch Arm Strong. We'll record the songs at the same studio we recorded at for 'Atrocities.' So these few songs will have the same live-raw sound. Stoked!

Our friends in The Wedding

Our friends in The Wedding needs your help. Visit them www.myspace.com/thewedding

"In San Antonio, TX around 1-3pm our van was broken into, evey single computer and contents in the van and all backpacks were stolen and not covered under insurance. This includes personal information and thousands upon thousands of dollars of items. We are not a wealthy band, these things were aquired thru years and years of hard work.

We can only ask for prayers and financial help if felt led. Numerous songs and lyrics for the new record are now lost as well. We just need prayer right now. We have our heads up and understand that God has a purpose for everything. We are blessed beyond belief considering the state of others in this world and truly have nothing to complain about.

To all of our current and future supporters...thank you for always sticking by our side. Please keep our travels and safety in your prayers as well. We love you all sincerely. Thank you for your help."

helping

Besides prayer - and we should all be praying powerfully 

and frequently for Haiti - we can also do something else, 

GIVE. Here is a list of legitimate and effective places 

to give to help the disaster in Haiti. They are 

experienced, love Jesus and need our help. Click the link 

for a list of links you can choose from thanks to Desiring 

God ministries. Links to Viable Donation Places

Tours TBA & CD release show update.

We're about to announce a sweet tour with Ambush and Continuance. It will route up to the North East towards New York and work its way down the East Coast to Florida. We're very excited about it. After this tour, there will be many options for our next tour. Nothing set in stone yet, but it will be sweet!

Two nights ago we had our official CD release show in our hometown of Bentonville, AR. Skia and Solace made it happen. We can't thank them enough for their continuous support. Lots of bands, few dollars, and lots of friends! One friend in particular, Ramon, from Michigan, made an impressive bus trip to our CD release show. He's one of the nicest guys we've ever met. It amazes us that someone could be that dedicated. There were some other close friends from Minneapolis that made a hefty drive as well. With that being said, the CD release show was a blast. Thanks to everyone, long drive or not, that came! If you missed it, we're constantly posting new shows on our myspace. Some in TN just confirmed. 

New song posted on our myspace. Lyrics to the entire album>>>

The beginning. Nothing.

Is this all worth something
Cause I admit that I can see nothing
Good coming from this life that I live
A life clouded by selfishness
With no love to give
Can I change if I feel nothing at all
Will we change if we feel nothing at all
How can I change if I feel nothing at all

New Empires

Ive been tossing in my sleep
Plagued by the things ive seen
I see grown men in the streets
begging for food to eat
I see a young mom in the church
Shunned because her baby has no father
I see a war on the tv
That leaves orphans in the streets
And i think to myself
what a world we live in
where people use God's name
to expand their empires
They say its just the way it is
That i should just learn to accept it
Well i beg to differ man
I wont give in
You villainous men
With your treacherous hands
Have taken away all the meaning in this
Road you claim to travel
Is in the path of his steps
All the while your the shell of a christian man
So i wont tread lightly
I wont go quietly
I wont speak softly
I wont let you get the best of me
This has to end here
This has to end right now
No longer can we wait for things to all work out
Just open up your eyes
And look past your front door
Your sisters in the streets and your brothers at war
Compassion has been lost
in a nation built by greed
But we could be a generation that is truly free
No longer will we answer
To a king who wears a crown
But a king who ruled through peace
Then laid his life down
Rise up
Rise up true sons of zion
I will be the change i want to see in the world

Lost generation

I’m afraid to talk
cause your scared to listen
will your judging eyes bring down
heavens fury?
I might not say a lot
but ill speak my heart
so judge if you will cause ill still be screaming

this is why we are here
broken bruised beaten down feeling used
by the ones we put our trust in
the ones who deserve it least
this is why we are here
disgruntled youth in a room
screaming till our lungs are sore
cause this is where we're safe

and I owe you nothing,
this is not my apology.
Instead this is to say
that i'll carry this burden
with or without help, from the likes of you.

and as I stand here a broken man
filled with broken words (and empty hands)
i'll keep singing broken songs to my one true love

but now there’s broken windows in the halls of the church
cause you cast the first stone
so now that cold breeze
sends a chill up your spine
as you realize all thats left

this is why we are here
to give all that we have to give
to hold nothing back in fear of regret
this is why we are here
even after our voices have left
i'll scream until you hear me
until you hear me...

Hollow eyes

From the window of my middle class home
I watch a man as he sits alone
On the dirty streets
The cardboard under his feet
Screams about all his cold nights spent alone
People pass but no one seems to notice
His empty hands hollow eyes broken soul
And his need need need for just one person to care

So which of these words will brings him comfort
Cause it's sympathy not empathy I feel
But is it real
As I sit and watch from I suburban castle

Living a life I'll never know
I see a man walking through the snow
For this lonely man
The picture in his hand
Are all that's left of the life he used to know
The time goes by but no one seems to notice
His empty hands hollow eyes broken soul
And his need need need for just one person to care

And now I realize
That all of this means nothing without action
I will not just sing
I refuse to just sing songs about how hard life can be
While others lead lives that are more difficult than I can imagine
I will be a source of light in this dark world
A catalyst in this stagnant generation
I will use love to overcome this world

A reason to scream

I spend my time only wishing I could come up with clever words strung
together to make you feel how I wish I could feel

Apathy grips me hard I lie awake at night wishing I could feel
something more than nothing
But still I settle for mediocrity time and time again just so I don't
have to try and feel

Anything new
Anything different
Anything new
Anything at all

This time I hope it's different
This time I hope I change
Cause for once I feel sick
Sick of the same old nothing

For once I'll have a reason to scream

Apathy won't silence me
This is the end of nothing

After all is said and done
At the end of the day
I know I will have to make the choice
To try and feel
So I will look past myself
And stop waiting for the world to change around me.

What We Are Fighting For

Your story's been set
And i regret that i have been portrayed
As a villain in your God forsaking crimes
But if the fault is all mine
Then can someone tell me why
That theres no blood on my hands now
If that song is being sung
Why are we looked down apon
For not being another one
To fall in line
My convictions lead me
So this wont be a waste of time
For me this is exactly where i need to be
Right now
So why does a difference in opinion
Mean that i am wrong
Clear eyes clean heart and
A mind that wont forget where we came from
Its not that you were wrong
But your lifes not for me
Your story's been set
And i regret that i have been portrayed
As a villain in your God forsaking crimes
But if the fault is all mine
Then can someone tell me why
Im still breathing
And im sorry but i
Did not choose your life
Theres nothing i can say
But i will show you
These words arent in vain
My hearts still the same
And thats why i thats why i
I will love the unloved
I will cherish the hated ones
I will welcome the shunned
With my sweat and my blood
Cause if we burn down the walls of this world
Then we will burn through the hearts of the still
And if i must stand alone
I will stand with my head held high
Cause it seems to me
Like we're two enemies
fighting on the same side
Cant you see
This is all a means to an end
I hope that one day we
will live in harmony
unified in the same goal
cause now is not the time
for us to draw a line
in the sand to decide
which side we're fighting for

Minneapolis

I can't see, any good in me
just a cold heart full of hypocrisy.
I guess you could say i'm in need of a change
I guess you could say that I can’t go on this way.

Day in day out, (day in day out) it’s all the same.

They say "people never change"
and i'd like to believe that is not the case
it’s just so hard to see the light
when all around me it’s the darkest night i've ever seen.

but I will be the one to say
that everything will be okay
cause I know how it feels
to have nothing left to give.

I swear this time i'll make a difference.
 
The skies are empty

am I going through the motions yet again
or is this how I truly feel inside
are these words the ones taught to me when I was young
that I digesting without thinking

with the darkness that’s all around
it gets so hard to keep believing

they say we're blind
would a god of love
leave a man under a bridge (alone)
or cause a family
to loose a loved one(to a war)
while the corrupt stay home
and profit (from death)
while they’re praying in pews to "bring our boys home"

so what’s our answer to this question
have we bought in to the greatest lie ever told
I look up into the sky for answers
but come up with only clouds passing

but those clouds that gave me nothing
are what keeps me believing
that voice inside when I look to the sky
that says you’re not alone
so I keep believing

The prodigal soldier

there once was a boy I knew
a heart so full of light
in a world only preaching darkness he held it all inside
the only one true innocent in this guilty generation
he walked a lonely dirt road with no one to hold and nowhere to call
home

he walks the streets at night (all alone)
with a cold steel 45 at his side

a little brother,
a worried mother,

a burdened father says to his son

"no acceptance,
you'll find no acceptance"

oh courageous one
you're life’s worth so much more
then to be thrown away
for someone else’s war
and as he pulls the trigger
his humanity, gone forever

and after all these years,
there's still something there

my tortured friend,
please come home soon,
where you can finally,
rest your weary soul.

The end of apathy

We can't bring about change if apathy prevails
But if we can learn to look past ourselves past our mediocre lives we
can begin to hope to make a difference
One life is all we have
To stand up and be counted
To see that this is all worth something
And we will start to see the change

Take It Back!'s Xmas wish list (in no particular order)

10.)  King of the Hill seasons 1 through 13
9.)  1975 AMC Pacer
8.)  Jesse.
7.)  A trip to Minneapolis for some Mesa Pizza
6.)  To go on tour with Kings Of Leon
5.)  Our horn to work
4.)  Big screen TV for the van
3.)  Waffle House gift card
2.)  Giant metal trash can to light stuff on fire in and blow up stuff in
1.)  New NERF guns for everyone in the band