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Take Effect
03:29
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You got a problem, what you gonna do?
Complain in circles or find the power in you?
You got a problem, how you gonna act?
Lay idle in defeat or rise and react?
You got a problem, did you know?
Perpetuate that which you oppose
You can take effect
I know you can effect
You can take effect
But you're telling yourself otherwise
You can take effect
I know you can effect
You can take effect
I don't even think you realize
A lot of people can't get control
A lot of people born or fall in a hole
A lot of people need our help
You may be down, had a taste of how it felt
You can take effect
I know you can effect
You can take effect
But you're telling yourself otherwise
You can take effect
I know you can effect
You can take effect
I don't even think you realize
Why are you here?
I don't know
Are you alive?
Let it show
Why are you here? Why do you give a damn?
What is your fucking plan?
You got a problem, what you gonna say?
"I put it off for one more day"
You got a problem, life's so unfair man
Well, what about the lives chained to hunger and despair?
We've got a problem, can't wait too long
Or it will be our hands the blood is on
You can take effect
You can take effect
You can take effect
But you're telling yourself otherwise
You can take effect
I know you can effect
You can take effect
I don't even think you realize
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2. |
Instrumental (Untitled)
01:21
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Incomplete
02:43
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Have you ever known sincerity?
(Not while others lie)
Did you forget the lesson in honesty?
Your answers are... incomplete
You're leaving me... incomplete
Your answers are... incomplete
You're leaving me... incomplete
That was then, this is now
Don't relive, create somehow
Permit a future
Allow a future
Concede a future
Are you secure in your cynical world?
Well I'm afraid I object to what you say
That history confirms
Well, it don't confirm
Your answers are... incomplete
You're leaving me... incomplete
Your answers are... incomplete
You're leaving me... incomplete
That was then, this is now
Don't relive, create somehow
Permit a future
Allow a future
Concede a future
But there is an angle you apparently missed
It'll bring down your entire analysis
You set a limitation in circumstances of the past
But we are free of their history
We must be free of history
Your answers are... incomplete
You're leaving me... incomplete
Your answers are... incomplete
You're leaving me... incomplete
That was then, this is now
Don't relive, create somehow
Permit a future
Allow a future
Concede a future
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Fuel Hymn (Activate)
02:50
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I can feel it coming on
Been buried underneath this shit for much too long
Feel it burning in the silent rage
Melts down the bars of this iron cage
Gonna live the life I advocate
It's not too late
Participate
Participate
Activate!
I can feel it coming on
Been buried underneath this shit for much too long
Feel it burning in the silent rage
Melts down the bars of this iron cage
Gonna live the life I advocate
It's not too late
Participate
Participate
Activate!
Participate
Participate
Activate!
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TheBandFormerlyKnownAsFuel Berkeley, California
Fuel was:
Jim Allison
Aaron Arroyo
Sarah Kirsch
Jeff
Stofan
We met up in the Bay area in 1989. We found our community at Gilman St and the MRR house. We were supported by Very Small Records, Lookout, Rough Trade, Ebullition, Allied Recordings and Broken Rekids. As a footnote, we opened once for Fugazi.
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TheBandFormerlyKnownAsFuel recommends:
This was one of our favorites.
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Both their first two albums were on heavy rotation...
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At the very least, you must own "Walkin' By Myself"
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