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Through the Eye

by Groupthink

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Close your eyes, take a look around Surrounded by the sound Wound around the frowned faces Mouths are bending Words are sending Fending the brain from the contending strain Train yourself to be happy… No ones satisfied Break away from this Step up and loosen the grip of the trends squeezing you Easing your journey by burning your fingertips Wonder sparks the sun The one that’s shown light on What underlies… What underlines your interest? Does it benefit a cause? Is it positive? Are you? Step up and loosen the grip of the trends squeezing you Easing your journey by burning your fingertips Through the eye of creativity The colors of life define themselves Under a sky of opportunity The shade of death is like an ice cube in one’s tea You can create happiness With very little effort Just smile
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Everyone 03:06
Everyone lies just a little beneath the truth Distorting and beseeching for a mouth full of words Even though a mouth too full could make you swallow your tongue Follow the dumbfounded thoughts of new explanations The abuse of the chance to do what you want destroys reality Everyone lies just a little to hide the truth Routine is calling out your name It's not the same as it used to be, easy and free It's a long story, end it short with your needs Go ahead and concede The abuse of the chance to do what you want destroys reality Everyone lies just a little beneath the truth Arranging and judging when the next perfect time will be A little voice of compulsion tempts the conscience It's alluring whispers drown out my voice of choice We all lie just a little and that is the truth We mask our addictions, whatever they may be Suddenly fake our pains Take notice: things need to change
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The Sound 04:17
One step to go the mood is high All of our smiles are "million-dollar" The rhythm pierces our brain It pulls the chain to the stress drain No need to complain It crawls up our neck Feel the pulse just to check Too fine to define the vibe It's just too fine Ten feet below the moon seems high Our skulls take a seat on goose-bumped collars Our enlightened optics see 360 degrees The feel's so free like the sky Feel the music is what we imply If you are ill at ease The vibe is just to fine to define Take your head off and have a seat with me, we'll talk The vibe is just too fine to define
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Reprise 02:18
The vibe is just too fine to define when you have this sound to hold your ears
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Music Embryo 08:11
Dear Society, It seems most music lately is all the same song Cookie cutting its way to the top Killing people in its path with familiarity Music is waiting for a savior It pleads for an option of discrepancy It bleeds from neglect and audible cruelty It radiates now-a-days from made up personality We’re all waiting It pleads for a chance to renew itself It bleeds out the bodies of humans It mediates day-to-day life …or it could anyway We’re all waiting It’s been a couple of years now We’ve been waiting patiently We need something that can paint the evening Please write back soon We’re all waiting I write this letter to all who cut this tree from its roots. Damn the time moves so slow in this music embryo. If we make it there the hatching will begin. It will be celebrated by the world with an unruly release of all worries. Listen to what has grown, traditions been overthrown But if we make it there the hatching will begin Make the change happen, bring music back to life Bring us an unruly release of all worries, I’m begging you please. This impatience hopefully proves the urgency. Yours truly, Music Embryo
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Prologue 00:37
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Another look at this face could kill One’s will can and will fail restraint The beauty carves its place in the memory banks…oh the memories The hearts in a lock box…but still… Have mercy Hold on to the one thing that made that smile Hold on to the one thing that kept that smile from ever being withdrawn. The preceding days fold the corners of their pages Just burn the book if disengaged When loved to death one gasps for breath This rose just takes it away…but still… Hold on to the one thing that made that smile Hold on to the one thing that kept that smile from ever being withdrawn. So damn scared of what the future holds That the book is burned before its read Take heed and read on before those words are gone Baby…baby please read on Maybe crazy things will spawn
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Epilogue 01:18
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I'm lookin' for self-respect. I'm lookin' and I just can't find none. I'm lookin' around for someone and there's no one in sight All hearts are dark in here. Does someone have a light? Hatred has us by the spine Reach back and put it's hand over your heart I'm searchin' for self-respect. I'm lookin' and I just can't find none. All bombs are falling can no one hear my plight? Hatred has us by the spine Reach back and put it's hand over your heart; believe me. Love Our lives are more important This includes yours Our lives are more important This includes theirs The ultimate neglect Hate's nest in the roots An unfortunate prospect Love's grave below soldier's boots Still the odium remains The reasons for this are somewhere Wander backwards in war while we must sit and watch While our brothers and sisters die, selfishness consumes the world Who's life is more important? Who's the judge? Where's the judge?

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released January 3, 2009

Written and performed by Groupthink
Engineered by Groupthink @ Studio CTS
Mixed by Chris Turnbaugh @ Studio CTS
Drum recording and engineering by Miles Vandiver @ Studio V/B
Mastered by Carl Saff www.saffmastering.com
Original Artwork by Lindsay Meyer
Photography by Christopher Melton

Groupthink would specially like to thank: Miles Vandiver, Zeb and the Brikovich family at Studio V/B, Studio CTS, Webster University, Rick Haydon and all the SIUE guys, Carl Saff, Lindsay Meyer, Chris Melton, and of course all of our friends and family for supporting us through the making of the album.

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