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by Bears On Parade

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1.
Detonate 04:45
Since the dawn of man we have seen the evolution, now it's time to make your contribution the deceit is never ending, hate is never bending, but I know change is gonna happen 'cus brothers talk together we walk together. Livin' with the knowledge no matter the weather. For now's the time to respect your peaceful visions, my message says no to lies and yes to decisions. Where's your life of dedication from the womb to revelation? Need a world of appreciation to defy my expectations. Make the heart your destination. That's what I'm talking about, Pooh bear is out y'aaalllllll! In this post-apocalyptic world, where deceit is tyrant, the people's only choice is to be silent, or violent. So we start a revolution, the people join forces, pledging to the fact that deceit will never force us To submit or bow down, no, this is the revolution, no more war, our takeover is the conclusion, to tyranny and hate, our cause is to repudiate, the bears are comin through motherfucker, make way. Replacing guns with hugs, bullets with love, throwing out corruption and the shit we've had too much of, Parading to the top, comradery paves the way, breaking through the clouds to make way for the light of day. What's the necessity of war, is there really a cause, to kill and do harm, let's disarm, admit our wrongs no Vietnam, fuck the corporatocrasy, all I see is hypocrisy, let live is my philosophy, cus blood has thicker viscosity than water, and we all go back, all got the same father, lurkin in the shadows pondering cannibalistic slaughter. civilization's moved backwards since the time of cavemen, their morals and ethics were more advanced than spacemen's. Predicting world peace, clearly you were mistaken, your unaccountability's worse than human displacement, the time of peace has come and gone leaving us hopeless, the American people are the Remus to your Romulus. In this post-apocalyptic world, where deceit is tyrant, the people's only choice is to be silent, or violent. So we start a revolution, the people join forces, pledging to the fact that deceit will never force us To submit or bow down, no, this is the revolution, no more war, our takeover is the conclusion, to tyranny and hate, our cause is to repudiate, the bears are comin through motherfucker, make way. Replacing guns with hugs, bullets with love, throwing out corruption and the shit we've had too much of, Parading to the top, comradery paves the way, breaking through the clouds to make way for the light of day.
2.
Do or Die 04:38
Standing today, I know you're just livin to fade away. But I got to say if you don't stop movin you'll wash away. Now break away, run this way till the end of day. I'll take you home, when you're giving me dome I'm in the greatest zone. I'm In outer space in a race to taste your face. Prove to me now that you're worthy enough and take a bow. I can show you how. Learn to take the crown. Close ties, I can feel the sunrise, I'm free from you, my life's sole demise. I can feel my skin age, my spirit grows wise. I guess it's time to do my own thing, play my music and watch your hips swing. Life's new every day, I got to keep exploring. Work hard see the dream, go from home recording to touring! I'm on a mission to rise, feelin so high that I can Touch the sky. Now feel time fly, live with no regrets because it's do or die. I'm feelin on top of the world, but that's just my perception. I flip the script, how does it look from this perspective? Now the tops turned down, BOP turns it up, scholars study us, you couldn't learn this stuff. I can't explain it, the music that my brain arranges, I think creative, I look around, few things are changing. Yeah, we made it, now were on to the next one. Music and lyrics are my ways of expression. Made you think of it, now we're talking Inception. I tell it how it is, you can trust there's no deception. I'm transparent but you know when I'm there, the temperature drops, it's not dementors, it's polar bear. Arctic flow, so it's fuck global warming. Before you read my lyrics heed the surgeon general's warning. Don't abuse me take the prescribed dosage, you claim not to care but I know your claim's bogus. Take notice of my focus it's on point like ballet, I hit the target you just bounce off: ricochet. It's not a one way street, respondez si vows plait. My words are my weapons call my rhymes swordplay!
3.
Little Bear 03:49
Once upon a time when I thought she was mine, the only time when my heart felt right, she came to me on one very snowy winter evening and I could have sworn she was my queen! That's what it seemed... Nowadays rappers are reading their diaries. But I'm not one to sit and listen to 'em quietly. I spit my rhymes in ear canals of those who doubted me but now I'm taking over I'm the Lazenby to Connery. I took down MI6, now I'm going for the Parliament. Thought they could order my vocab to disarmament? You see to me victory's history not hard to get. Pay attention class 'cus if I haven't lost you yet I'mma leave never lookin' back over my shoulder my heart grows colder, not admitting I had known her a lifetime ago is what I try to tell my memories. But in R-E-A-L-I-T-Y like a spelling bee it seems like yesterday she was standing right here next to me, betting that she'd die like a life insurance policy. Expiration date: 2012, mass hysteria. My message from the future: I miss you America.
4.
Budda 05:18
Hey, when I see you there, I can't help but stare, but you don't even... Just wanna say watsup to you, grab a couple smoke and have a brew, yeah, it's just us two. Sometimes you just gotta spread some budda, you don't know, don't know when I'm gonna, spread on you, babe. Just like playin music, you is awesome, I just wanna see you blossom, I see you every night when I'm turning and tossin, then you fall into the bottom, I need you to... Stop the cryin, I'm tired of it. Tired of tryin, tired of all your bullshit. No more, no more, no more. No more, no more, no more. I hope you enjoy all the new friends, I know you'll stay posted on all the new trends, I hope you know I'm just tryin to be genuine. You know the sun don't only shine on you, cus I can feel those rays comin through to me. Can't you see? Sometimes It feels like the world is at my feet, but life's not to be messed with, no trick or treat. So come on down and join the Bears on Parade, the weather's fine, it's a beautiful day, come chill with the homies on our journey to get made. I need you to... Stop the cryin, I'm tired of it. Tired of tryin, tired of all your bullshit. No more, no more, no more. No more, no more, no more. Hey yo, My main objective's to bring satisfaction, to get the masses laughin', because you see to me there's no distraction, I stay focused on task son, so there's no use in askin', if I'mma spit the whole nine yards or leave it as a fraction, of my potential, I'll cross you off my schedule once I get you to admit that what you're witnessin' is special, and once you cross the threshold, you'll see my rhymin' skills are tenfold of what you thought I was capable of. There's no two ways about it, a skeptic couldn't doubt that, my rhymin' skills will leave you feelin' like you climbed a mountain. (fuck you) So take a minute to enjoy the view of my creation, life's about the journey not the destination, but the parade don't stop, you're only at the climax 'cus we brought you to the top, the Bears on Parade serenade till the chorus drop. But I need your help, I need you to... Stop the cryin, I'm tired of it. Tired of tryin, tired of all your bullshit. No more, no more, no more. No more, no more, no more.
5.
Cold like the winter snow, gone like the river's flow, it's what I didn't know that had me leave and go away. The words that you can't express left me empty feelin the cold darkness. It caused this relationship to regress. As in drift into the dark abyss. Thoughts floatin around in my mind are chaotic. Showed you the definition of attitude of silence, you closed your eyes for fear of the brightness, abandoned the pursuit of enlightenment. Check these lyrics you inspired me to write it. I didn't feel you tryin, fed you to the lions, Get out the ring I'm not fighting, still end your world like the Mayans. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to reveal that universal truth is not measured in mass appeal! The attitude of silence is Combat without violence Im Trying to get you to see Through your blinding creed But it's not your fault, you were force fed The lies of the government I'm tryin to get you to see Through your blinding creed The unknown bias of silence, the weakest form of compliance, you think its righteous, but it might just, be some sort of connivance, always poised and ready not dazed and confused like Gillespie, to try and test me's your proclivity shoot with words fuck the infantry. Rhymes acidic like six on the litmus, I'm committed, call me Seymour I'll feed you, now lick it up cunnilingus, my tongue's twisted, brain's lifted like nimbus, system of a down with the sickness, I'm burnin trees like an arsonist on the night before Christmas. Take a listen you hypocrite learn a lesson for life, what really matters' what it is, give two shits bout the hype, or what they'll have you believe, but no foundation to back it, like crooked politicians paying the top tax bracket. Playin the cards in my hand feelin like I'm cheatin, and I'm sorry for whoever takes the stage when we're leavin, but I'll take the higher route, walkin on cumulonimbus clouds, right when you're begging for more, free contraception I'm out. The attitude of silence is Combat without violence Im Trying to get you to see Through your blinding creed But it's not your fault, you were force fed The lies of the government I'm tryin to get you to see Through your blinding creed
6.
You think our love is just a big game! I cherished it and you threw it in my face! What's there to say when I've done all I can? I tried my hardest but you ruined it instead! Our love was so good but I'm already dead? You lied to me and it fucked with my head! What do you want girl my hands are tied you left me crying all day and night! Out of the blue your warm heart it bites and somehow turns to ice. You fucked my best friend. Ha! guess he wasn't! Hope you don't make this a trend. As I take a trip down memory lane, the pain is here to stay it never fades away! But we fight this war for a long time, is it our destiny? Or something we have to do? That's the question in my mind! Well you know that i am constantly criticized for doin my own thing living my own life, where has all the love gone. You deceived it true but it turned out a pawn. A divot in time our leaders scramble to find. To accomplish the justice and destroy all the crime. Although I did not do shit to you All you give me back is your bad news bears! The funk is never too high, the antithesis of Icarus, don't let it bring you down like ignorance to a supremacist. My hypothesis goes further distances than Moses did, shut up like a ventriloquist I'll tell you what the picture is and paint it, not for the coronary degraded, faint of heart, from the start, rhythm and poetry is my art, it's not hard, to understand why people hate this, cus they ain't this, got nothing to hold onto like an atheist, or eunuch. Got units sold, locally rolled, goin' to be globally known, out the country call me Dorothy I'm far from home in an alternate reality, you train lions and tigers but the bears flip gravity, feed you what some call vulgarity, but I see with clarity The reality of the situation, crooks practicing cranium invasion, media fixation on this world that we livin' in, lobbyists are friends of them, the politicians who's hand's under the table, the people enable, this criminal behavior, congress should accept the failure, and laissez-faire, a tout a l'heure, we're the Bears, I'm outta here.
7.
The Dial 03:32
Once upon an opportunity I missed, And they told me ignorance was bliss. How could I have not seen the potential, I guess it was easier for me to let go. It was hard to hold on, didn't have the strength though, I called your name but just got back my echo. If I could go back in time, I'd turn back the dial and everything would be fine! Saw you leave, I never said goodbye. Too caught up, too busy gettin high. I thought I was cool, thought I was sly, little did I know I was risking the prize. It started out Monday morning, I went to school. Found out you were going to Europe, felt like a fool. I didn't care, too wrapped up in being a bear, I guess, too much to confess. You were always in the front row, always bought tickets when the crowd was low. At times you were our only fan, even supported all our half-assed jams. Came time for your trip, I didn't even blink. Thought I was invincible my ship could never sink. You came up to me, said your goodbyes. I owed you more but didn't even look you in the eye. Flagged down a cab, and made a beeline. Unfortunately you arrived right on time. Boarded the plane just like you had planned, headed for the beaches your head was in the sand. Captain on the speaker, put on your seatbelt, ask for a flight attendant if you need help. Safety video came on, so did your headphones. Only sound in your mind was the bear tones. G forces pushed you back in your seat, the flight attendant offered you your last treat. Landing gear goes up, but your stomach drops. Everything is fine, let the playlist rock. You smell the salt, the beaches are near. But something's off, 6th sense senses fear. The nose dives, you close your eyes. I can only imagine your life passin you by. The doctor said you didn't feel a thing. But in the night I can still hear you screaming. Fire everywhere, I think I'm scared, but I hope you found a better place up there Once upon an opportunity I missed, And they told me ignorance was bliss. How could I have not seen the potential, I guess it was easier for me to let go. It was hard to hold on, didn't have the strength though, I called your name but just got back my echo. If I could go back in time, I'd turn back the dial and everything would be fine.

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released June 8, 2012

Mastered and Produced by Speakeasy Studios
Kelby Kupersmid: Guitar/Vocals
Preston Rosemont: Vocals
Natanel Almany: Guitar
Michael Kay: Drums
Gabe Paganin: Bass

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Bears On Parade Agoura Hills, California

Up-and-coming band from Agoura Hills, CA. Our genre has been described as Hip-Rock, Alternative Rap, and Top Shelf Dank

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