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Promises to Myself

by A Trivial Hero

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1.
Promises to Myself 01:06
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I swear this story is not yours That's not to say you weren't influential I promise this life will not be yours But that's not to say I'll never share So please don't take it back All the things you used to push me farther I'll never give them back I'll pack them up and drive And I'll write my whole life
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Sustenance 02:44
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I know this world won't wait for me It keeps on turning So I'll keep learning to love 'Cause I'm just where I'm supposed to be Not where I planned it I'll never understand it, but Things will all work out for us you'll see The stars will guide us There's something inside us The universe is written on our bones I feel it coursing inside of me The same hand that's writing our future Wrote our history So give me words Give me books Give me music Find your talent And learn how to use it To give me art Give me love Give me art give me love I swear I'll Give you words Give you books Give you music Refine my talent And learn how to use it To create art Create love Create art Create love And then you'll Give me words Give me books Give me music Find your talent And learn how to use it To give me art Give me love Give me art give me love I swear I'll Give you words Give you books Give you music Refine my talent And learn how to use it To create art Create love Create art Create love for life (Tonight)
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We Shall See 02:43
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Don't make me out to be a hero yet These words are nothing but empty promises Combined with chords, the thoughts might fill your head Until we take to action, they're only things we've said Harbor hate for no one Rid myself of possessions Use my gifts only for the good See the world as the children Don't make me out to be the next prophet These songs are ramblings, babble at best These melodies can't get the starving fed So hold me to my word until my time on this Earth ends Free myself from anger Envy those with nothing Rule my world from the inside Be the teacher I can be Don't make me out to be a hero yet These words are nothing but empty promises Combined with chords, the thoughts might fill your head Until we take to action, they're only things we've said Hold me to my word until this Earth ends
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Reflections at 23 04:07
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I was always a loud one Always had an answer Reinforced in the classroom A smart mouth that moved faster than my mind Conscience: Non-existent Blame it on adolescence Learn the lessons the hard way Driving friends other places Is this the type of apology you get from a smart-ass? At age 12, picked up 6-strings Certainly thought impressive Wrote songs that I thought I should Singing things that I knew nothing about High school left me numb then Though without medication Just the wasted potential Of all my friends and me If you're waiting for the part where I turn it all around, I'm not sure we get there At 18, got my heart broke And dove into depression Head-first with a frown on As if it was my only choice Rebuilt walls of sarcasm Decorated my island Saved by education Clocked in from 8 to 5 Sometimes the things we don't want to do are what we need to get where we want Earned degree with high standing While still earning a living Some say I should be proud of that But I just put in the time Got trapped in the comfort Of commas in my bank account But digits will mean nothing Until they are all gone I was always a loud one But now I'm all out of answers So the world is my classroom But it turns so much faster than I'd like So I'll pack up my 6-strings and get lost on a highway Learn my lessons the fun way Driving other places
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Voluntary Confinement 02:05
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I want to go to sleep Lose every memory Run off without fear of hurting anyone I want to climb aboard A boat, never see shore Crawl below deck and hide from the sun And I'd have such fun I want to flee this town Ride the waves of my sounds Surf couches, flipping cushions for spare dimes I'd like to sink my teeth Into what lies beneath This world of poppy, self-betraying crimes That I commit (Commit Me) I know I've lost To the new white man's burden I paid the cost For the comfort I live in
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A Eulogy for Punk 03:25
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Oh god, I'm Dawson in a sea of Paceys And it has got me pacing nights I'm Gwyneth Paltrow's head meets Kevin Spacey Yeah, I think I need a night-light Next, I am hobbled by Miss Kathy Bates As I have sold my artistic soul So Sartre surrounds me by all that I hate Still I can't walk out the door So give me anything else Please take me anywhere else And make me anyone else I don't know Now I'm Luke Wilson, lost a chunk of time Got to solve the world's issues Drowning in those of a much feebler mind And it's flipped my world askew So give me anything else Just take me anywhere else And make me anyone else I don't know Is it my empathy that's undoing me? When will I learn to let go? It is the pride in me; forced to obscurity No place that I would rather go I see myself in Monsieur Dujardin Clinging to a dying art But as the ship sinks, Fat Mike holds my hand Still, he laughs at my bleeding heart The notion that it could be kept elite I thought I might receive the torch And though I can't, I'll firmly plant my feet Something new from scraps I'll forge And I'll make everything else Yeah, I'll go everywhere else Being everyone else all at once
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Club Trance 03:28
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You won't hear this song in the club tonight You won't hear this fucking voice Looking for your moment in the spotlight You will compromise your choice Is that all you want? I don't give a shit if we have a hit I don't give a fuck if you say we suck In every review It's about the music, it's not economic We're not gonna stop when our records flop And that's the truth Don't give a shit about you I don't care about the airwaves Or the video top 10 I don't know if we'll get radio play Or fill our wallets But that's not what I want I don't give a shit if we have a hit I don't give a fuck if you say we suck In every review It's about the music, it's not economic We're not gonna stop when our records flop And that's the truth Don't give a shit about you You won't see this face in the club tonight But that's by choice I'll be home alone with these songs I write Whether or not it employs And that is all I want I don't give a shit if we have a hit I don't give a fuck if you say we suck In every review It's about the music, it's not economic We're not gonna stop when our records flop And that's the truth Don't give a shit about you
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Surviving the Vortex 03:14
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Remember what you said when you set me down? You said, "I'm sorry, but we're done" Remember what I said when you set me down? I said, "I'm sorry that I'm not the one" Well maybe it's time that we got perspective It's probably high time that I grew some balls I think it's either time that I got aggressive or forever let go I took the world in my hands and I passed it off Saying, "I'm sorry, but I'm no god" You took the sun in your hands and you tossed it out Thinking it's you we'd now revolve around Well take a cake crumb and get perspective Or set yourself next to a gaseous ball If that's what it takes until you're reflective inside that black hole Remember what we sang as we laid tracks down? (Remember how we laughed at their ignorance?) Claiming such brilliance though we're dumb Remember how we danced syncopatedly? (Remember forgetting what they all thought?) We looked so foolish but had such fun Well, I wear a big smile from this changed perspective Broke my ego so now I just have a ball Once I saw that happiness was elective and I grabbed hold
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Gilded Handcuffs 01:22
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I once climbed the ladder I once made the bucks I thought the work I did mattered But that's all that got me stuck So take all of my high test scores And any money I've made Invest it in something worthwhile That allows me to create You think I'm after life's controls? I think I'd rather serve my soul These possessions won't leave me whole That, I know
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Tragically Optimistic 03:48
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I can still feel love in this place marked with tragedy I see the arms outstretch in protection and I know I see blood on the news so I put my own in a bag I hope that they carry it out to someone and fill back up their heart I still carry hope in these times I still carry trust that there's light I see flowers on graves and I'm sure there's after-life Maybe no hell nor heaven, but we live on through those we've touched I see friends sharing laughs, even strangers exchanging smiles I'm certain that all the love can outshine the darkness we create I still carry hope in these times I still carry trust that there's light So tell me why you live in darkness When we see the sun rises each day So ask yourself, "Why live in darkness?" You'll soon know that's your own choice I can still feel love though my friends are not around me I still have all the good times and they fill back up my heart I've placed flowers on graves and I've become their after-life I shall be all their heaven as they live on through me I still carry love in my life I'll always carry love in my life
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A Child's Cry 03:45
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We're falling down again, and hope is fleeting Got all these hearts to mend and minds to change I can be a voice that makes a difference And it will propound choice and insight thought And I want for you to notice me But not the way you notice them And I want you to fall hopelessly For everything I fathom And I want life Potential has yet to be tapped; minds are not yet open Maybe it's time we adapt, open up our hearts This world it screams for love, often misguided Which is indicative of what we've become So I want for you to notice me But not the way you notice them And I want you to fall hopelessly For everything I fathom And I want life So I want for you to notice me But not the way you notice them And I want you to fall hopelessly For everything I fathom And I want life I want life
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Cycle 02:22
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I'm headed home And I am done I'm not the one And I'm alone Back at the start With a broken heart This cycle is astonishing Too good a friend So head back to the start again I'm stuck at home Just left behind They can't find time And I'm unknown And afraid That this is where I'll stay This cycle is astonishing Run by lethargy And no one's to blame but me I'm leaving home I'm on my way It starts today And I'll be alone If that's what it takes I've raised the stakes This cycle was astonishing But it will be no more 'Cause I'm busting through that door
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My Home, Their End 03:27
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I miss the long days waiting here Watching friends leave home for home Ridicule, immaturity Shaping lives and friendships sewn And though I've watched good lives change I've even watched some disappear That won't keep me from sharing love To prevent the pain I fear And even sitting here with you On this pavement from my past Brings back faces and smiles Names written upon my casts And though some say those days are gone There is nowhere that they went For they are still within me Not past, part of present My words, my tendencies My values and morals Built in this place Friends and teachers give counsel And though I may leave here now I will take this place with me It is inside of me This was my second home But their departing gate And though the future is unknown I'll never leave this place But it is more fitting to say that this place will not leave me In every decision I make, it's in everything I see Though I may travel far This place will always be in my heart
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Just Because 03:53
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A familiar foe stands in the mirror My voice is the critic that I hear Claiming I've done no good Am I wrong? We've been around these past 4 years Fighting with verbal bandoliers As the bullets fly of "could" and "should" Is this too long? Well who's to say we haven't made it? Or determine what's good or bad? If you measure success with dollar signs Then you've already failed If you think you could measure success at all Then your coffin has been nailed Things come and go as time goes passed Empires fall, but art still lasts Creative minds live on forever Will I die? Achievements fade, possessions lost You fight to keep, always exhaust Then immortal hands cut through the tether Did we make good life? Well who could say if we'd ever make it? Or there's such things as "good" and "bad"? If you think you could buy anything of value Then you've truly lost your path If I were playing music for the money Well, I'd fucking stop right now
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Embrace the Maze 04:41
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I've got no hopes, I've got no dreams That I haven't already achieved And I have no intention To place myself above anybody So they call me a fool I'm too idealistic, like a child These are the rules we all play by Find the ladder and climb But this is me all grown up And this is me taking on the world And this is life without walls I've got no plans for meteoric rise Or attaining lots of property And I have no ambition To escape out of the bourgeoisie From within I watch the rat race And feel pity for All the ones who value the cheese more than the maze Well this is me all grown up And this is me taking on the world And this is life without walls

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For everyone that is constantly saying they know they can be better, bigger stronger, smarter, more brave, more kind, more motivated - this album is for you, for us. A great way to put out all my New Year's Resolutions and say "This is about me and what I want/need. It is not about anybody else." So take more of the eclectic sound, throw in a ukulele, some shakers, and a bongo cajon, and you end up with A Trivial Hero's Third self-released album in as many months.

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released January 14, 2014

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We are a band from Las Vegas, NV and we like to play music. This music is our music.

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