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Robinson​(​fairmount)

from You're (Not) Alone by Ikari

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This song is about how easy it is to get lost in the cities we live in now. Also, about how easy it is to ignore the problems facing everyone living the same as we do. A mother struggling with an addiction problem, and an abusive ex-husband. A father that has worked his hands to the bones to support his family, and has a problem with the drink, and with abuse.

Turning a blind eye to the things we see happening can cause us to become complacent with crime, injustice, hatred, bigotry, and violence, in a world where more than ever, we need to keep our eyes, minds, and hearts open.

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and i've never liked
these streets at night
how the light is just bright
enough to blind and
underneath my feet
dirt and concrete
slowly give way to cold
the unfortunate ones
who sleep to the sound
of a gun
as if it calls out
to set the sun
he hopes this winter
will be a short one

jane doe has four children at home
holding dearly thiers dreams
of a life without pain
but little do they know
thier lives are set,
that thier mother is about
to die alone in the rain

she had cleaned up her act
by letting god take hold
she was ready to be a mother agian
but her past came back to haunt her
her pain wore as shackles
needles became her chains

john smith had spent his life
in the service of others
in the company of many faces
just like his
with one hand on his heart
and a hammer in the other
a pale face from cold that
worn stone grin

and when she said
she was moving on
he had never felt
the pain so strong
she was leaving him
and taking his four kids
"who the fuck do
you think you are
taking the one thinat
that keeps the junk
out my arm
I am thier father
I am thier fucking father"

oh on these streets filled with light and sound
its so hard to hear, the rain pours all around
it was too bright to see what was happening
and her screams were drowned out

in the dark stood jane and john
the hammer's hilt tight pressed against his palm
and in the other hand he held his heart
he took a swing
and he broke it
he had broke
she was broken

and I was there
standing in that rain
i saw john walk out
i never heard her pain
I swear I never saw that hammer hit
I never saw him swing

and from the south
I heard the sirens sound
oh how this city blinds
oh how our hearts are bound
I made my way back home
never knowing
she had broke
he had broken
she had broke
he had broken

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from You're (Not) Alone, released July 25, 2012

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Post-Hardcore from Richmond Virginia. God is in his heaven, all is right with the world. We strive for instrumentality.

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