RACE, RACISM, HATRED IN AMERICA

Only the best soldiers in the world will be able to understand race, racism, hate, and Civil Rights in America. Before America was even a nation, the Ku Klux Klan and the African Americans, who were the former slaves, signed an evil compact with each other to come to the New World and take it over. They would use their collective efforts and large pool of labor to achieve this economic model for the world to study and loathe over. When neither delivered on their promise, relations soured and they were forced into centuries of conflict, war and political domination with each other.

In this war to take over North America, both sides began recruiting other groups and new groups who would support their economic model or would be willing to support their endeavors. This ambitious endeavor then fueled the massive immigration and expansion into the Western territories in order to control, dominate and take over North America from the natives who were advancing in the field of political ideology and organization.

This war between the Ku Klux Klan and primarily African Americans, which had now spread to the Catholics, Jews and even communists, will end up destroying the nation, all the groups involved and most of all cause them to rewrite their biblical texts. What was originally a scheme to support each other in the New World and promote immigration, will end up driving all of them mad. They all failed their God and they all failed to deliver on their promise to take over North America.

During this period of internecine warfare and strife, many other groups tried a different approach or tried to capitalize on what the Ku Klux Klan had already built on. This time, instead of using hate as a vehicle to achieve their political ends, they tried to use the opposite, love and peace. Love and peace would now be split these groups into various extremist groups to carry out this evil blood compact signed a long time ago to take over America or take it over from each other. They could not agree on what type of vehicle would be best to carry out the domination and take over of North America. Will it be hate, love or some combination in between?

Now, centuries and centuries later; we have a problem with the left, a permanent underclass, and radical ideology. All of this is a remnant of a time when no governments and no political ideology existed, only religious doctrine and the American dream. This American dream is what brought them here using each other as a pillar to stand on like a friend who stands on another friends shoulder. None of the original members of this compact will end up fulfilling any contributions or fulfilling any of their original stated compact with each other which was nothing more than a mechanism to immigrate and to survive in the New World under harsh conditions and savage beasts.

Instead of fulfilling the American dream, they will wither away their days making war against each other while trying to drag everyone else deeper into it or with them. In this hell, they are short of manpower, resources, and leadership. What began as a love and respect for each other to thrive in the new world has turned into sadness and reflection. There were no laws and no form of government in the deep wilderness where absolute freedom could thrive and love and honor could coexist. It was only when government was introduced and organization of the human soul became a way to make war by dividing the sacred territory of power struggle did a disruption occur. Their love and absolute state of freedom to exist in a wilderness of nature was stolen by a wonderful lasting compact of love to exist with each other untouched. This power was a conspiracy to teach or educate each other on different forms of government and models for the world to follow in their search to be one with nature and wilderness. It is only the logical mind that is even capable of seeing through this conspiracy and it is only the thinking mind which can be sophisticated enough to understand this reality. It is this truth in merit which will outlast and destroy any opposition to figure out how the best in this world will ever be as victorious as their beautiful grace.

Unfortunately, the real story behind the struggle of these people has been lost in the wash of power struggle, government intervention, and most of all the beauty of their struggle to be free and to live out the American dream. It is a beautiful witness to a story created by itself alive like the leaves that fall and regenerate with each passing season. Unfortunately for the public, their beauty will never be truly revealed for the public to witness and admire, only the victorious will end up having a final say and writing the books of their wild struggles in the wilderness of ideas and the freedom to live them out. It is in this beauty and struggle that we honor them, their memory and the American dream they made so real when they came here centuries ago with that same torch for freedom and respect to work together and collectively to achieve the impossible. When it comes to racism and hate in America, these groups have made contribution which stand unchallenged and forever binding to the soul of this earth, it is in that beautiful wisdom which we honor and cherish their gift to humanity and this earth.

Greensboro massacre[1]

The Greensboro Nazi-Klan shooting occurred on November 3, 1979 in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States. It was the culmination of attempts by the Maoist Communist Workers Party (CWP) to organize industrial workers, predominantly black, in the area. Five CWP marchers were killed. They were: Sandi Smith, a nurse and civil rights activist; Dr. James Waller, president of a local textile workers union who gave up his medical practice to defend workers; Bill Sampson, a Harvard University graduate in the school of divinity; Cesar Cause, an immigrant from Cuba who graduated magna cum laude from Duke University; and Dr. Michael Nathan, chief of pediatrics at Lincoln Community Health Center in Durham, NC, a clinic that helped children from low-income families.

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Rally and attack

On the day in question, a rally of industrial workers and communists against the Ku Klux Klan, then active in the area, was due to march in Greensboro. The Death to the Klan March was to begin in a predominantly black housing project called Morningside Heights.[1] During the rally a caravan of cars holding Klansmen and members of the American Nazi Party drove by the housing projects. Several marchers began taunting the Klansmen and Nazis who got out of the cars and opened fire on the demonstrators with shotguns, rifles and pistols. Cauce, Waller, and Sampson were killed. Smith was shot between the eyes as she peeked from her hiding place. Eleven others were wounded. Mike Nathan later died from gunshot wounds.[2] Much of the armed confrontation was captured by four local news camera crews.

Role of the police

One of the most dubious aspects of the incident is the role of the police. Normally, the police would have been present at such an event, yet no police were present at the shooting, thus permitting most of the perpetrators to escape. One police detective and a police photographer followed the Klan and Nazi caravan to the site, yet did not intervene. Edward Dawson, a Klan member since 1964 who had turned police informant[3], was in the lead car of the caravan.[2] Two days prior to the march one of the Klan members went to the police station to obtain the map of the march and the rally.[1] Bernard Butkovich, an undercover agent for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms later testified that he was aware that Ku Klux Klansmen and members of the American Nazi Party unit he had infiltrated would confront the demonstrators. In previous testimony, the Nazis claimed that the agent encouraged them to take guns to the anti-Klan demonstration.[4] This has led to accusations of police collusion in the event.

The Klansman and Nazi party members involved were not from Greensboro, but came to the city in response to a challenge from the march organizers. Articles in the Greensboro News and Record at the time indicated that the police were not at the scene initially, because the march organizers gave them an incorrect address for the march on their parade permit. However, it has also been noted that the Klan caravan was organized by a man later found to be an informant for the police, using the parade permit to guide the caravan to the correct address, in radio contact with the police all the while the caravan was forming and proceeding to the site of the shootings, and that the police were on the scene early, but had been dismissed "for lunch," just prior to the shootings.

Aftermath

Legal Proceedings

Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission

In 2005, Greensboro residents, inspired by post-apartheid South Africa, initiated a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to take public testimony and examine the causes and consequences of the massacre; the efforts of the Commission were officially opposed by the Greensboro City Council. The Commission determined that Klan members went to the rally intending to provoke a violent confrontation, and that they fired on demonstrators without being attacked first. It also found that the Greensboro Police Department had infiltrated the Klan and, through a paid informant, knew of the white supremacists’ plans and the strong potential for violence. The Commission also concluded that some activists in the crowd fired back after they were attacked.[5] Filmmaker Adam Zucker's 2007 documentary, Greensboro: Closer to the Truth, examines the work of the Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

In Popular Culture

The British band Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark wrote the track 88 Seconds in Greensboro about the incident. It was on their album Crush and was the B-side to the U.K. version of the single for If You Leave.

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Greensboro, North Carolina[2]

Early history

The city was named for Major General Nathanael Greene, commander of the American forces at the Battle of Guilford Court House on March 15, 1781.,[1] The Americans lost that battle but the Pyrrhic victory slowed Cornwallis' British forces enough to allow the Americans to prepare to defeat them at the Battle of Yorktown, where the British were forced to surrender on October 19, 1781, after a 20-day siege, thus ending the American Revolution. Historian David McCullough considers Nathanael Greene to be "the best general" in the American military during the Revolution, including George Washington.[2]

Greensboro was established near the geographic center of Guilford County, on land that was "an unbroken forest with thick undergrowth of huckleberry bushes, that bore a finely flavored fruit."[3] Property for the future village was purchased for $98, and three north-south streets (Greene, Elm, Davie) were laid out intersecting with three east-west streets (Gaston, Market, Sycamore).[4] The courthouse stood at the center of the intersection of Elm and Market streets. By 1821, the town contained 369 residents.

In the early 1840s, Greensboro was selected by the state government at the request of then Governor Morehead whose estate, Blandwood is located in Greensboro, to be included on a railroad line. The city grew substantially in size and soon became known as the Gate City due to its role as a transportation hub for the state.[5] The railroads transported goods to and from textile mills, which grew up with their own mill villages around the city. Many of these businesses remained in the city until the 21st century, when many of them went bankrupt, reorganized, and/or merged with other companies. Greensboro remains as a major textile headquarters city with the main offices of International Textile Group (Cone, Burlington Industries), Galey & Lord, Unifi, and VF Corporation (Wrangler, Lee, North Face, Vanity Fair). Rail traffic continues as Greensboro is a major North Carolina freight hub, and four Amtrak passenger trains stop in Greensboro daily on the main Norfolk Southern line between Washington and New Orleans by way of Atlanta.

Though the city developed slowly, early wealth generated from cotton trade and merchandising led to the construction of several notable buildings. The earliest building, later named Blandwood Mansion and Gardens, built in 1795. Additions to this residence in 1846 designed by Alexander Jackson Davis of New York City made the house an influential landmark in the nation as America's earliest Tuscan Villa. [6] Other significant estates followed, including "Dunleith" designed by Samuel Sloan, Bellemeade, and the Bumpass-Troy House (now operated as an inn).

Civil War and Reconstruction

The city played an important role in politics at the end of the Civil War. During the closing days of the conflict, the Confederate Cabinet had evacuated the Confederate Capital, Richmond, Virginia on their way south. The group reassembled in Greensboro on April 11, and for five days, Greensboro served as the temporary capital of the Confederacy.[7] At nearly the same time, Governor Zebulon B. Vance fled the capital of North Carolina in anticipation of the arrival of Union General Sherman.[8] During the brief period beginning on April 16, 1865, the capital of North Carolina was temporarily maintained in Greensboro.[9][10] Governor Vance proclaimed the North Carolina Surrender Declaration on April 28, 1865.[11] Later, Vance turned himself over to Union officials in the parlor of Blandwood Mansion. In the words of historian Blackwell Robinson, "Greensboro witnessed not only the demise of the Confederacy but also that of the old civil government of the state" of North Carolina. [12]

Industrialization and growth

In the 1890s, the city continued to attract attention from northern industrialists, including Moses and Ceasar Cone.[13] The Cones, of Jewish faith from Baltimore, established large scale textile plants, growing Greensboro from a village to a city within a decade. By 1900, Greensboro was considered a center of the Southern textile industry, with large scale factories producing denim, flannel, and overalls.[14] Prosperity brought to the city through textiles resulted in the construction of notable twentieth century civic architecture, included the Guilford County Courthouse, West Market Street Methodist Church by S. W. Faulk, several buildings designed by Frank A. Weston, and UNCG's Main Building designed by Orlo Epps. During the twentieth century, Greensboro expanded in wealth and population. Rapid growth led to construction of grand commercial and civic buildings many of which remain standing today, designed by hometown architects Charles Hartmann and Harry Barton. Other notable industries became established in the city, including Vicks Cemical Co, Carolina Steel Corporation, and Pomona Terra Cotta Works. [15] During this period of growth, Greensboro experiences an acute housing shortage. Builders sought to maintain a construction goal of 80 to 100 affordable housing units per year in order to provide homes for workers. [16] Greensboro's real estate was considered "the wonder of the state" during the 1920s. Growth continued through the Great Depression, as Greensboro added an estimated 200 families a year to its population.[17] The city earned a reputation as a well-planned community, with a strong emphasis on education, parks, and a profitable employment base.

As Greensboro evolved into one of North Carolina's chief cities, changes began to occur within its traditional social structure. On February 1, 1960, four black college students from North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College sat down at an all-white Woolworths lunch counter, and refused to leave when they were denied service. Hundreds of others soon joined in this sit-in, which lasted for several months. Such protests quickly spread across the South, ultimately leading to the desegregation of Woolworths and other chains. The original Woolworths counter and stools now sit in the Smithsonian, but a Sit-In Museum is being built in the old Woolworths building where the event actually occurred. (As of May 2007, efforts to finally open the International Civil Rights Museum have been postponed due to budget constraints.)

Prosperity brought new levels of development involving nationally and internationally known architects. Walter Gropius designed a factory building in the city in 1944[18]. Greensboro-based Ed Loewenstein contributed designs for projects throughout the region. Eduardo Catalano, and George Matsumoto both brought designs to the city that challenged North Carolinians with modernist architectural concepts and forms.

In spite of this period of progress, old wounds had yet to heal. On November 3, 1979, members of the Communist Workers Party were holding an anti-Ku Klux Klan rally, when a group of KKK and neo-Nazis caravaned into the Morningside Heights neighborhood in which the rally was being convened and ambushed the protest. Four local TV stations filmed the event as it happened. The Klansmen/Nazis (members of the recently created United Racist Front) allegedly were given directions and a parade permit by an undercover agent of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms who attended Klan meetings and, it is believed, acted as the final impetus toward a showdown.[citation needed] The alleged actions of the BATF agent, as well as the evidence of other government informers who worked with the Klan at the time, have led to allegations of city/state/federal wrongdoing by members of the CWP.[citation needed] Although a pistol was probably fired by a CWP organizer (allegedly into the air) and the Klan caravan was beaten with sticks prior to stopping, only anti-Klan protesters were hurt.[citation needed] Five CWP members were killed and seven were wounded and television footage of the event was shown across the nation. This event is known as the Greensboro massacre. The Klansmen/Nazis were all acquitted by an all-white jury in two separate criminal trials. In 1985, a civil suit found the five police and two individuals liable for $350,000 in damages, to be paid to the Greensboro Justice Fund.

Demographics

Historical populations

Census

Year Population

1870 497

1880 2,105

1890 3,317

1900 10,035

1910 15,895

1920 19,861

1930 53,569

1940 59,319

1950 74,389

1960 119,574

1970 144,076

1980 155,642

1990 183,894

2000 223,891

2006 240,955

2007 244,610

As of the censusGR2 of 2000, there were 223,891 people, 92,394 households, and 53,958 families residing in the city. The population density was 825.6/km² (2,138.3/mi²). There were 99,305 housing units at an average density of 366.2/km² (948.4/mi²). The racial makeup of the city was 55.49% White, 37.40% Black or African American, 0.44% Native American, 2.84% Asian, 0.04% Pacific Islander, 2.08% from other races, and 1.71% from two or more races. 4.35% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race.

There were 92,394 households out of which 27.5% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 39.8% were married couples living together, 14.6% had a female householder with no husband present, and 41.6% were non-families. 32.6% of all households were made up of individuals and 8.7% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.30 and the average family size was 2.94.

The age distribution is 22.3% under the age of 18, 14.1% from 18 to 24, 31.6% from 25 to 44, 20.2% from 45 to 64, and 11.9% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 33 years. For every 100 females there were 89.2 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 85.6 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $39,661, and the median income for a family was $50,192. Males had a median income of $34,681 versus $26,797 for females. The per capita income for the city was $22,986. About 8.6% of families and 12.3% of the population were below the poverty line, including 15.8% of those under age 18 and 10.6% of those age 65 or over.

Asians

About 4,000 Vietnamese have resettled in the Greensboro area since 1979 as refugees or secondary migrants. They are a diverse population culturally, ethnically, and religiously, and not organized through any broad based structure. The Montagnards (French for "mountain people") are people from a number of different tribes from the Highlands of Vietnam. They had been isolated mountain farmers and hunter-gatherers until the Vietnam War when the US government recruited them as front line soldiers for the US Army Special Forces. About 5,000 have now settled in Guilford County making it the largest Montagnard community outside Vietnam. Over 1000 live in the Charlotte and Raleigh areas combined. A few hundred Nung, a tribal group from northern Vietnam, have been resettled here too and are often grouped with the Montagnard tribes. The total Montagnard population for the state is approaching 7,000 people. In the early 1980s, the first Cambodian refugees were resettled in Greensboro. A stable community of about 60 large families representing about 500 people are closely affiliated with the Greensboro Buddhist Center. An additional 800 Cambodians live around the Triad including a large concentration in nearby Davidson County. Greensboro was not an initial resettlement site for Laotians. However, since the mid 1980s many families came as secondary migrants from other states, and now the Laotian population is stabilized at about 1000 people. A few families of hill tribe refugees from Laos, mostly Hmong, live in Guilford County plus over 50 college students at UNCG. Other hill tribe populations from Laos in Guilford include approximately 200 Khmu refugees as well as small groups of other tribes. About 2,000 Korean immigrants, many well established, are represented in Guilford County. The local Chinese Association, comprised primarily of mainland Chinese, has a few hundred members. Ethnic Chinese here number in the thousands.

An Indian immigrant population estimated at 2000 is well established in the Guilford area and has a long history here. Many are connected with university and medical communities and have multiple community organizations. There are an estimated 600 Pakistanis living in Guilford County. There are estimates of over 1,000 Palestinians in the Guilford County area, and additional thousands in the greater Triad. Many came after the war in 1967. A few hundred Israeli nationals have also come to the Triad, particularly in international business positions.

Africans

There are close to 15,000 people from many of the 54 African nations living in Guilford County, but no official population numbers are available because the census categorizes these people as African-American or Black. They come from Christian, Muslim, and traditional religious orientations and represent numerous tribal affiliations. About 10 percent of Guilford County's African population are refugees. The African Services Coalition, a nonprofit organization composed of representatives from different African communities, seeks to foster cooperation between the various communities. Some communities have roots at NC A&T State University that go back to the sixties when the university was recognized as a valuable educational resource by developing countries. The Nigerian population is an older, well-established community believed to be the largest African community in Guilford County with about 3,500 people, including second and third generations. This group reflects a variety of religious and tribal traditions. Many of the Nigerians in Guilford County first lived in New York, New Jersey or Washington D.C, and settled in Guilford County after obtaining official status. Guilford County has a long-term, multigenerational Ghanaian population consisting of approximately 450 people. The few new arrivals are mostly international students at area universities, or friends and family members of previous residents. A well established population of 800 people of Sierra Leonese ancestry has made Guilford County their home. This population has either stayed the same or decreased because the temporary protective status that used to be available to some immigrants from this area has been ended.

The Sudanese population is a diverse population, and most have come to Guilford County within the last five years and are currently more than 2,700 people. Many are fleeing the long-standing war in this largest country of Africa. A group of young Sudanese from the south, commonly referred to as the "Lost Boys", have been recently resettled as refugees. Most Sudanese, however, are Muslims from the north. In the last year, many have become citizens, which has allowed people to bring family members from Sudan, leading to a population increase of several hundred in the last year.

There are approximately 400 refugees from Somalia who have arrived in the last six years, including Benadir from the city of Mogadishu and newly arriving refugees from the Bantu tribe. There are an estimated 1,200 Liberians settled in Guilford County. This population includes some refugees who are recent arrivals, and others who have lived in Guilford County for many years. In the last couple of years, a few hundred Liberian refugees who had been living in refugee camps in the Ivory Coast and Ghana have been resettled in Guilford County.

Eastern Europeans

Settlers have also arrived from Eastern Europe. From the former Yugoslavia (including Bosnia, Serbia, and Croatia, and others from former Yugoslavia that have been arriving since 1994 as refugees. There are around 2,000 people who have been resettled here. Greensboro has been a resettlement site in the last few years for approximately 250 Russian and Ukrainian refugees, most of them Jewish. In the last few years a few families totaling less than 200 people have been resettled in Guilford as refugees. Some others have come as secondary migrants.

Latin Americans

The Hispanic/Latino population poses some of the greatest opportunities and challenges for acculturation. They are at the core of the North Carolina economic boom of the nineties as farm, factory, and construction workers. They now have young children born here who are US citizens, growing up as bilingual and bicultural North Carolinians. According to the 2002 and 2003 estimates of Latino population in Guilford County published by Faith Action Inc, there was a 4% increase in Latino population between those years, and in 2003 the population was 26,981. Though there were not follow up studies using this method, we can estimate that if population continued to increase by 4% annually, the current Latino population would be approximately 29,182. Other studies indicate the rate of increase may be even more. This dramatic Hispanic/Latino increase is sufficient to move Guilford County and much of North Carolina into becoming a bilingual and bicultural state.

The predominant immigrant population across North Carolina is a growing and diverse Hispanic/Latino population. Over two thirds of these immigrants are from Mexico, though it is thought that all 26 countries are represented. Most Hispanic/Latinos have arrived since 1990. Growth is expected to continue as long as economic opportunities prevail. For more information on the diversity of Greensboro, visit The Center for New North Carolinians

Economy

Greensboro is the location of the corporate headquarters of the Honda Aircraft Company, Lorillard Tobacco Company, VF Corporation, Volvo Trucks of North America, RF Micro Devices, and the International Textile Group. Jefferson-Pilot Life was based in Greensboro until it merged with Lincoln Financial Group; the corporate headquarters of the combined company are now in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. However, Greensboro remains a "center of operations" for the company's life insurance business.[20] Although traditionally associated with the textile, furniture, and tobacco industries, Greensboro leaders are attempting to attract new businesses in the nanotech, high-tech and transportation/logistics fields. A small chain of fast food restaurants known as Cook Out has its corporate headquarters in Greensboro.

Downtown

Downtown Greensboro has experienced new construction over the past several years with new developments such as NewBridge Bank Park, and numerous condominiums, apartments and townhomes. The Southside neighborhood in downtown examplifies this reinvestment as a formerly economically depressed neighborhood has been redeveloped into an award-winning neotraditional neighborhood. Many architectural styles are present resembling architecture from cities such as Charleston and New Orleans.[21] Downtown has also seen a dramatic change in nightlife with the opening of numerous nightclubs, bars and restaurants. In 2006, Elon University opened a law school in center city. Downtown attractions include: the Carolina Theater, Triad Stage (Pyrle Gibson Theater), Blandwood Mansion, International Civil Rights Museum, Center-City Park, NewBridge Bank Park, Greensboro Historical Museum, Greensboro Cultural Center, the Greensboro Children's Museum, and the Center City Park. One project under construction is the International Civil Rights Museum, which is to be located in the former space of the Woolworths where the first sit-ins were held.

Fed Ex

In 1998, Fed Ex chose to build and operate a $300 million Mid-Atantic air-cargo package-sorting hub located at Piedmont Triad International Airport after fierce competition for the hub among other regions in North Carolina and South Carolina. Greensboro was chosen because of its central location and Interstate highway infrastructure. After the announcement of the hub opening, the project faced court battles concerning noise and pollution from neighborhood nearby the planned Fed Ex site. The neighborhoods lost their battles and the hub is expected to open by 2009. The hub is expect to attract thousands of jobs to the Greensboro area and build on the city's effort in becoming a major transportation, distribution and logistics hub in the Southeast.

Honda Aircraft Company

In February of 2007, Honda Aircraft Company announced that they will build a multi-million dollar jet factory and world headquarters at Piedmont Triad International Airport. The company will be developing the new Honda Jet and the first planes will roll out in 2010. In 2001, the test flight for the jet took place at Piedmont Triad International Airport and that close relationship with Greensboro combined with the transportation infrastructure and planned Fed Ex hub was the reason the company chose Greensboro. Honda Aircraft Company will bring 300 jobs to Greensboro with an average salary of $76,000 a year.

“Beyond the Sun” lyrics by Shinedown

Speak to me
So I can understand your tongue
You seem rather fragile
It's been said
It's cold beyond the sun
Have you ever been there?

Communicating thoughts of ways
To never have to speak again
Let me be the fire in your head

Bring what's yours, I'll take what's mine
And meet you on the other side
We'll leave a sign so anyone can find us
A better place, a sweeter time
We won't need any wings to fly
A place beyond the sun

Look for me
The way you would if you were blind
Don't be so resistant
I've been known
To travel much too fast
Is that you in the distance?

Communicating thoughts of ways
To never have to speak again
Let me be the fire in your head

Bring what's yours, I'll take what's mine
And meet you on the other side
We'll leave a sign so anyone can find us
A better place, a sweeter time
We won't need any wings to fly
A place beyond the sun

Communicating thoughts of ways
To never have to speak again
Let me be the fire in your head

Bring what's yours, I'll take what's mine
And meet you on the other side
We'll leave a sign so anyone can find us
A better place, a sweeter time
We won't need any wings to fly
A place beyond the sun

“I Stand Alone” lyrics by Godsmack

Now I've told you this once before
You can't control me
If you try to take me down you're gonna break
Now I feel your every nothing that you're doing for me
I'm picking you outta me
you run away

(Chorus)
I stand alone
Inside
I stand alone

You're always hiding behind your so called goddess
So what you don't think that we can see your face
Resurrected back before the final fallen
I'll never rest until I can make my own way
I'm not afraid of fading
I stand alone
Feeling your sting down inside of me
I'm not dying for it
I stand alone
Everything that I believe is fading

(Chorus 2)

And now its my time (now its my time)
It's my time to dream (my time to dream)
Dream of the sky (dream of the sky)
Make me believe that this place isn't plagued
By the poison in me
Help me decide if my fire will burn out
Before you can breathe
Breathe into me

(Chorus 3,4)

"High" lyrics by The Speaks

Will it ever be?

I tried so hard to find sweet serenity

Are you still afraid?

Just close your eyes and dream

The feeling fade away

(Chorus)

Time wont flow everyone knows

When the pain fades away

Dreams won’t die tears in our eyes

You’ve got to hold your head up high...yeah

Yeah... yeah...

Hold your head up high yeah

Yeah... yeah...

Hold your head up high

It’s taken some time

And I’ve given off the will to change your state of mind

Just trying to understand

It’s not so hard to see that I am just a man

(Chorus to solo)

So will it ever be

I’ve tried so hard to find sweet serenity

Try to understand

It’s not so hard to see that I am just a man

(Chorus)

"1979" lyrics by The Smashing Pumpkins

Shakedown 1979, cool kids never have the time

On a live wire right up off the street

You and I should meet

June bug skipping like a stone

With the headlights pointed at the dawn

We were sure we'd never see an end to it all

And i don't even care to shake these zipper blues

And we don't know

Just where our bones will rest

To dust i guess

Forgotten and absorbed into the earth below

Double cross the vacant and the bored

They’re not sure just what we have in the store

Morphine city slipping dues down to see

That we don't even care as restless as we are

We feel the pull in the land of a thousand guilts

And poured cement, lamented and assured

To the lights and towns below

Faster than the speed of sound

Faster than we thought we'd go, beneath the sound of hope

Justine never knew the rules,

Hung down with the freaks and the ghouls

No apologies ever need be made, I know you better than you fake it

To see that we don't care to shake these zipper blues

And we don't know just where our bones will rest

To dust I guess

Forgotten and absorbed into the earth below

The street heats the urgency of sound

As you can see there's no one around

“Sad but True” lyrics by Metallica

Hey I’m your life

I’m the one who takes you there

Hey I’m your life

I’m the one who cares

They, They betray

I’m your only true friend now

They, they’ll betray

I’m forever there

(Chorus 1)

I’m your dream, make you real

I’m your eyes when you must steal

I’m your pain when you can’t feel

Sad but true

(Chorus 2)

I’m your dream, mind astray

I’m your eyes while you’re away

I’m your pain while you repay

You know it’s sad but true, sad but true

You, you’re my mask

You’re my cover, my shelter

You, you’re my mask

You’re the one who’s blamed

Do, Do my work

Do my dirty work, scapegoat

Do, Do my deeds

For you’re the one who’s shamed

(Chorus 1, 2)

I'm your dreams,

I'm your eyes,

I'm your pain

I'm your dreams

I'm your eyes

I'm your pain

I'm your dreams

I'm your eyes

I'm your pain

You know it’s sad but true

Hate, I’m your hate

I’m your hate when you want love

Pay, Pay the price

Pay for nothing’s fair

Hey, I’m your life

I’m the one who took you there

Hey, I’m your life

And I no longer care

(Chorus 1)

I’m your truth, telling lies

I’m your reasoned alibis

I’m inside open your eyes

I’m you…

Sad but true

“I Want You to Want Me” lyrics by Cheap Trick

I want you to want me.
I need you to need me.
I'd love you to love me.
I'm beggin' you to beg me.

I want you to want me.
I need you to need me.
I'd love you to love me.
I'll shine up the old brown shoes, put on a brand new shirt.
I'll get home early from work if you say that you love me.

Didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you cryin'?
Oh, didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you cryin'?
Feelin' all alone without a friend, you know you feel like dyin'.
Oh, didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you cryin'?

I want you to want me.
I need you to need me.
I'd love you to love me.
I'm beggin' you to beg me.
I'll shine up the old brown shoes, put on a brand-new shirt.
I'll get home early from work if you say that you love me.

Didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you cryin'?
Oh, didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you cryin'?
Feelin' all alone without a friend, you know you feel like dyin'.
Oh, didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you cryin'?
Feelin' all alone without a friend, you know you feel like dyin'.
Oh, didn't I, didn't I, didn't I see you cryin'?

I want you to want me.
I need you to need me.
I'd love you to love me.
I'm beggin' you to beg me.
I want you to want me.
I want you to want me.
I want you to want me.
I want you to want me.

“Can I Graduate” lyrics by Third Eye Blind

Can I Graduate
Can I Graduate
Can I look at faces that I meet
Can I get my punk-a@@ off the street
I've been living on for so long
(Can I Graduate)
To the bastard talking down to me
Your whipping boy calamity
Cross your fingers, I'm going to knock it all down
(Can I Graduate)

Echo fading, We can't let go
She goes walking by in slow-mo'
Sell your Heart out for a buck
Go on, Fade out, Before I get stuck
Talking to somebody like you
Do you live the days you go through
Will this song live on long after we do
(Can I Graduate)
Can I look at faces that I meet
Can I get my punk-ass off the street
Won't die on the vine. I wanna knock it all down
(Can I Graduate)
Echo fading, candle blow
Did you flash out long ago
Cross my fingers, I don't know
Someone poked you down below

Can I Graduate…
Can I get my punk-a@@ off the street
Can I look at faces that I meet
I'm not waiting here for you to fly (I mind)
Will this song live on long after we do (I mind)

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