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TRIAL (1987)

1. Trial 2. Understand 3. Running 4. Never Stop 5. Heal 6. Scared 7. Our Illusions 8. Alive 9. Search 10. [Notes]

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UNDERSTAND In eighteen years You have it all figured out You know the score What it's all about Such a short time But so far to go You cannot even understand What you don't know Eyes wide open But you cannot see Their helplessness Their suffering Their misery Then in a contemptuous tone You proceed to tell me Fairy tales and bullshit Of how it should be It's not that way Six white walls Become a rich girl's cage Sheltered from Their impoverished rage Your attitude hurts more than bombs ever will It's stupidity that kills Why can't you understand? (When you're in your white walls You don't have to see) Why can't you understand? You shut your eyes And close your mind But that can't hide the shame Or the pain I hold you to blame for their pain You're to blame

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RUNNING I'm running out of time Forced to decide To choose the beat path Or to feel the wrath When I take a different ride There's nothing in this world That you have to do To be frightened by tradition Is a cheap excuse I, I realize I, I sympathize But we can't live with those lies And you won't always be sure When your judgments seem pure Every choice you make Could be a mistake But at least they were yours Complain that you can't win When you've chosen to fit in Responsibility's gone I know that's wrong Conformity can be a sin Now I judge on my own scales So I know when I have failed The decisions are mine I'll take my time Only it will surely tell I'm running out of time

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NEVER STOP The minute, the second That we stop trying The moment, the fraction Of time that we start lying To ourselves Is when they will win You ask me the odds of victory I can only tell you this If we stop we dig our own graves If we stop It will be the end If we stop No, never stop If we do, it's the end

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HEAL Empty, with no respect at all We expect what's been built To crumble and fall Shocked by the indifference To our unheeded call I ask you What do we offer instead? We cannot change around Until we change within To scream and yell and sloganize Only shields us from our own lies Without understanding We offer our own views What the hell are we doing, rebels? I am scared by the way you act Do you always know who is really Being attacked? With an unknowing shrug We go and turn our backs On the only few things that we have left Commitment is not measured by By the months But by the years The time to stop Will not be our first tears A life spent with more trouble Time, pain and fear Is there any way stay Close to what we hold dear? Integrity, truth and love is what we need Rebel, heal thyself

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SCARED I say that I love I say that I believe I say just a few words And now that I'm exposed I look out at you to reach out to But your heart is kept closed Hide behind laughter And a smart-assed sneer Cover yourself from what you see, What you see and hear No, you can't believe That means you'd take a chance To reach out There are small things that we can do Every single day To make ourselves heroes In our own little way You are scared (But so am I) You are scared-so deep inside You are scared-so you lie You are scared-so you hide You are scared-but don't you know So am I So am I I'm scared There's no exposure in darkness No change in hate I want to try to reach to you But is it too late?

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OUR ILLUSIONS Will we really live by what we say? Will we really be open in every way? I've seen it before, so many times Must the past be repeated With all of its crimes? No, I really believe in what we sing I'm going to try to live my life In my own way Our illusions It does not have to be that way Even if change does not come in a day We have to do all that we can If not, the blood's on our hands We're the only one to blame If we do not dispel our illusions

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ALIVE The answers won't Be anywhere but inside It's the only truth I really know for sure The only truth they cannot hide To live is To fight what has come before To live is To struggle and begin again once more To live is To fight what has made you weak To live is To never find all of what you seek The past is the enemy of now To live is to move is To grow is to learn Anywhere, anyway, anyhow

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SEARCH To search for them Is to never succeed You can't find What will never be Images on the page No, your life is never that way Images on the page Don't you ever think your life Will be that way Your comparisons Are futile tries At perverted reality And shallow lies That is not your criteria For you to judge me Don't you ever think That that is reality

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[NOTES] Dylan Roy-bass Doug Ernest-drums Christopher Jones-vocals Pete Chramiec-guitar, piano Recorded June, 1987 at Audio Matrix and August, 1987 at Newbury Sound, Boston, MA Mixed August, 1987 at Newbury Sound Engineered by Stephen Seltzer Produced by Verbal Assault Lyrics by Jones All music by Chramiec except "Scared," "Search," and "Understand" by Roy. All music arranged by Verbal Assault Design: Tom Gorman/VA Layout/Production: Carla Porch Photography: Chris Gorman Thanks to: Carolyn DiPanni, Mark McKay, Steev Riccardo & Giant Records, Stephen Seltzer, Mark Chramiec and all of our parents, Mike Gitter, Dave Stein, Al Quint, 7 Seconds, Positive Force, Jason Traeger, John Reardon, Misi Bennett, Marcos, Kina, all the friends we've made & the cool places we've played across the country, our friends in DC, New York, Boston and our good friends in RI-thanks for the support over the years.

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