Crown of Apathy, by Mick Blankenship

Crown of Apathy

by Mick Blankenship

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1.	Transcend the machine 03:10	lyrics	buy track
bottle of whiskey, a bottle of pills You’re still trying to change the way you feel You’re broken and empty You’re hollow inside There’s one thing that’ll ease your mind now stand up! STAND UP! Think with your own mind or stand on the sidelines Tell me right now what you want it to be Feed us with headlines and drown us in deadlines Choking on the ashes of your facias decree Now stand up! We live our lives, believe their lies We’re afraid to stand alone Conformity, we have a social screen disease Transcend the machine Hide with a fake smile, but feel that your on trial You’re only adding to the corporate greed Trapped in your own hell, Identities for sale Pay the price for what you want but not what you need stand up! We live our lives, believe their lies We’re afraid to stand alone Conformity, we have a social screen disease Transcend the machine Now be the one, the prodigal son that makes the whole damn world with they wouldn't have judged. The want to see you fall, and tell you you’re wrong. The want to be in control but they ain’t running the show. Now be the one, the son of a gun that proves them all wrong and takes the all to the sun YEAH! Rise above the machine! We live our lives, believe their lies We’re afraid to stand alone Conformity, we have a social screen disease Transcend the machine
2.	Eye for an eye 04:27	lyrics	buy track
They’ll call my my name, you killed in fame… Eye for an eye! Prepare to die! You still think you belong here? Can’t lie to me! The feelings pulling you under, it won’t break away Now the judgements coming, it comes for you! Your afraid of falling, your death is due Bare down and take the fall I’m here to right the wrong Listen for it, its the moment the light will leave your soul You want forgiveness? Don’t want to hear this! Where were you when they begged for their lives? A revolution, a dissolution Come and meet your fate… eye for an eye yeah! You can’t change the masses, or who you are You’re an evil coward, hides in the dark How the mighty has fallen, here comes the truth A resurrection of your conscious… wasted youth Bare down and take the fall I’m here to right the wrong Listen for it, its the moment the light will leave your soul You want forgiveness? Don’t want to hear this! Where were you when they begged for their lives? A revolution, a dissolution Come and meet your fate… eye for an eye yeah!
3.	Flashback crash 03:16	lyrics	buy track
Numbness rules, disconnect, powerless, I’m obsessed! I can’t breathe, endlessly, can’t control, I’m not free! Hide my eyes so you can’t see me weep One deep breath, holding it for keeps Caught in a flashback crash, live it over and over Sick familiar feeling, walls getting closer Suffocate me gently, I thought it was over Watching my six looking over my shoulder Flashback crash! Disengaged, re-arranged, divide the lines, stuck in time! Grips my chest, takes my breath, panic breeds, disharmony! Hide my eyes, so you can’t see me weep One deep breath, holding it for keeps Caught in a flashback crash, live it over and over Sick familiar feeling, walls getting closer Suffocate me gently, I thought it was over Watching my six looking over my shoulder Keeps me trapped… flashback crash! Reject! deception and fear Obsessed! with what brought me here Regret! those wasted years If you’ve never been here, you won’t understand Hide my eyes, hide the lies, hide my eyes, its my disguise So you can’t see me weep Caught in a flashback crash, live it over and over Sick familiar feeling, walls getting closer Suffocate me gently, I thought it was over Watching my six looking over my shoulder Over and over! Keeps me trapped Watching my six looking over my shoulder!
4.	If you died today 04:10	lyrics	buy track
Looking down from heaven now at a world that seems so small There’s no-one left… chaos consumes us all All the wasted years that pass there was a chance to last And now it’s over, destiny has called! And when we are all defeated Death comes calling you fate will follow through If you died today, what would you regret? What haven’t you done? What was left unsaid? The things you think you want won’t matter in your grave There’s no-one left to blame, if you died today Can you find the will some how to remember what you saw? Has static turned to gray? Has pride come before the fall? And all the times you’ve been let down you remember it’s the sound You know its over, but now your chance it gone And when we are all defeated Death comes calling you fate will follow through Fate will swallow you! If you died today, what would you regret? What haven’t you done? What was left unsaid? The things you think you want won’t matter in your grave There’s no-one left to blame, if you died today If you died today One more night of perfect lies The risk your gonna take In this moment you’ll decide So can you let your heart break? Its gotta break your heart…
5.	Crown of apathy 03:11	lyrics	buy track
It’s getting cold with iced over faded dreams, I am so numb It comes alive inside or maybe so it seems, to grow Ooh but I don’t care it’s the cross I bare Push it all aside I’ve tried a thousand times I hate it, can’t change it You don’t understand this makes me who I am I need it, my Crown of Apathy I tried so hard to be what they want me to be, I am so low I hold the lies inside now it’s clear to me, they’re wrong! You know I‘ve faced that fear that brought me here Make this nightmare disappear! Push it all aside I’ve tried a thousand times I hate it, can’t change it You don’t understand this makes me who I am I need it, wear my Crown of Apathy All that I wanted and nothing that needed could leave me this way Waiting, wanting and there has got to be a real way to get through the pain Get through the pain! Push it all aside I’ve tried a thousand times I hate it, can’t change it You don’t understand this makes me who I am I need it, my Crown of Apathy Push it all aside! Hey! Push it all aside! Hey! Push it all aside! Hey! I need it right now I need it pouring out I need it! My Crown of Apathy
6.	Freedom Hard 03:24	lyrics	buy track
s I wake to this day and feel the sone on my face Put my bacon on, coffee strong, join the rat race There’s a million people who want sympathy But you take your ass to work because nothing’s for free Because we work hard!  Be one bad ass, fearless, radical son! And love your independence, your freedom, your guns Like fireworks thats burning from a midnight spark Yeah thats just how it is, when you freedom hard Pedal to the metal with a smile on my face In the land of the free and the home of the brave We have guns! We have rights! Who wants to freedom tonight? Grab a beer and you can freedom with me American star… Be one bad ass, fearless, radical son! And love your independence, your freedom, your guns Like fireworks thats burning from a midnight spark Yeah thats just how it is, when you freedom hard Freedom! Red, white and boom! Freedom hard Bring that freedom back!
7.	Abandoned 04:18	lyrics	buy track
Another day feeling drawn away You want to see me smile… but i still feel the same But after all the tears and pain Your better off to runaway But you keep trying, you so undying It always feels like my last chance Another change of circumstance? Will you believe me? Am I worth it? Take my hand, and tell me you need me This world can be so cold This fight ins’t easy Know that I try, but all these demons inside Can play hell on me and steal my mind Abandoned inside, but together we fly Till we reach the sky, tonight I need you light and your eyes A vivid glimpse, running through my mind It’ll only be a while and I’ll be OK But after all the guilt and shame.. I wish I could have run away Still I keep trying, but I hear you crying Still it feels like my last chance Like pouring from an empty glass How can you want this? I feel so worthless! Take my hand, and tell me you need me This world can be so cold This fight ins’t easy Know that I try, but all these demons inside Can play hell on me and steal my mind Abandoned inside, but together we fly Till we reach the sky, tonight I need you light Don’t give on me!
8.	LOVE2HATE 03:02	lyrics	buy track
Yeah! A dead shot! I’m runnin’ hot, every arrow hits the mark All you haters in the dark can see You can try, I won’t lie but the truth doesn’t hide Whats inside your disguise Now watch me fly!  I’m all the rage… I’m all the fame… I’m all the things you love to hate I’m everything that makes me great yeah! And I’ll cut you from my life Like the sharpest kind of knife Won’t think twice, just give me one reason why Here me now? That’s the sound of the ground falling out Because I’m loud, coming round So how you like me now? I’m all the rage… I’m all the fame… I’m all the things you love to hate I’m everything that makes me great yeah! You better believe that I’m here to stay Your shit won’t stain me! You think you’re caught up? You’re not even in the game And you can’t touch me! I’m all the rage… I’m all the fame… I’m all the things you love to hate I’m everything that makes me great yeah! See I told you! you ‘ll never listen! You’ll never learn!
9.	Someone else? 04:34	lyrics	buy track
When I fell from grace I never realized How deep the flood was around me. A man whose life was toil Was like a kettle left to boil, And the water left scars on me. I know now who I am. If only for a while, I recognize the changes. I feel like I did before the Magic wore thin and the "baptism Of stains" began. They used to say I was Nowhere, man, Heading down Was my destiny. But yesterday, I swear, That was someone else not me. Here I stand at the crossroads edge, Afraid to reach out for eternity, One step, when I look down, I see someone else not me. Looking back and I see Someone else. All my life they said I Was going down, But I'm still standing, Stronger, proud. And today I know there's So much more I can be. From where I stand at the crossroads edge, There's a path leading out to sea. And from somewhere Deep in my mind, Sirens sing out loud Songs of doubt As only they know how. But one glance back reminds, and I see, Someone else not me. I keep looking back At someone else, me? LOG OUT
10.	Worthless me 03:26	lyrics	buy track
Well sometimes I feel that push back, live in my fears Living in the past until it's all that I hear I've gotta hate me, it's to late Now I'm drowning in my sorrows again So make me up a story of what you want it to be or medicate me to the point I don't know what it should be I feel so angry! Lately! All I want to do bury my sin... BURY MY SIN! Well I'm not trying to tell you I don't see something of value God you take this pain away... Worthless me! worthless me! When all I see is cloudy doesn't mean you're not around me God you take this pain away... Worthless me! worthless me! I'm so tired of all the stories that your selling to me There is only one thing in the mirror that I'm wanting see Because I'm God's child! I'm born wild! That doesn't mean you're gonna take it from me So many things I want to do to set myself free But all this man created poison won't allow me to be They want to chain me! and train me! Keep me coming back and living in fear... LIVING IN FEAR! Well I'm not trying to tell you I don't see something of value God you take this pain away... Worthless me! worthless me! When all I see is cloudy doesn't mean you're not around me God you take this pain away... Worthless me! worthless me!

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released February 24, 2018

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Mick Blankenship Cincinnati, Ohio

Hailing from Cincinnati, Ohio is the American Rock artist & multi-instrumentalist known as “Mick Blankenship”.

Influenced by artists like Disturbed, Shinedown and Sevendust Mick's music is sure to please a large audience.
His new record "Madness in the shadows" was released July, 9 2021. ... more