Scale Down [Song]

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SCALE DOWN
By Rising Appalachia

Stand up, look around and then scale that down too
Stand up, look around and then scale that down too
Stand up, look around and then scale that down too
Stand up, look around and then scale that down too
Stand up, look around and then scale that down too.

Woh, I believe in a revolution,
I believe it is at hand now, believe in it,
Thick hands are strengthened daily, daily on demand
Because see, I am a blacksmith of metal and words
And a sheep that's pitch black too,
And lord, in this life that's all, all we wound up to do
Because 500 hundred years ago, when these same trees were more dense,
And all this color pristine, so the chaos here made sense.
There was no knowing of the loss of a whole mountain,
Of that same mountain that I call home
And lord, lord, these same trees, they rolled on and on,
Without mention of vanishing or with whom to belong
And these same mountains echoed peace out
A long time before the news, and oh, now that too is nearly gone,
Now that too is nearly gone,
So tell me what have we done as a civilization
To destroy in our own wake
Oh, that metaphorical hand that feeds us y'all
We are trashing our own birthday cake
And I consider myself a skeptic but lord, I'm an optimist in soul
And we are all getting throwed around and dragged along like the bull
He is huge and rageful, yet somehow subdued and hauled by those thick rings
So don't you too shut out the nasty, sticky truth of things.

Here we go.
Get the fuck out your car,
Walk, it's good for you
Stop consuming blindly,
And get by on that that you do have and possess
And then scale that down too.

It starts there,
Everybody's got a lot to say about everybody else
But it's our own transgression that always tends to melt away
And fade into that critique of whose fault or whose blame or whose wrong,
But oh, no, no, each and everyone of us,
We are doing something it's too hard or too fast or too long
And there's none but ourselves to make this thing last, none but ourselves
No, there's none but ourselves to make this thing last, none but ourselves
So there's none but ourselves to make this thing last, none but ourselves
Oh no, there's none but ourselves to make this thing last, none but ourselves.

So it starts there,
Everybody take a long, hard look at you,  a long, long, hard look at you
Lord, it starts there
Everybody take a long, hard look at you, a long, hard look at you
Oh no, it starts there,
Everybody take a long, hard look at you,  a long, hard look at you
Oh no, it starts there,
Everybody take a long, hard look at you,  a long, hard look at you.

And you stand up, and you look around and then you scale that down too
Lord, stand up, look around and then scale that down too
Stand up, look around and then scale that down too
Stand up, look around and then scale that down too
Stand up, look around and then scale that down too.

[Woh, you scale that down]
Stand up and you look down and scale that down too
[Oh no, you scale that down]
Stand up and you look down and scale that down too
[Oh no, you scale that down]
Stand up and you look down, then scale that down too
[Woh, you scale that down]
Stand up, you look down and scale that down too.

Woh no, you stand up, you look down and scale that down too
Oh, you stand up, you look down and scale that down too
Oh, you stand up, you look down and scale that down too
Oh, you stand up, you look down and scale that down too.

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A Note From The Gull

"Patria est communis omnium parens" - Our native land is the common parent of us all. Keep it beautiful, make it even more so.

Blessed is all of creation
Blessed be my beautiful people
Blessed be the day of our awakening
Blessed is my country
Blessed are her patient hills.

Mweh ka allay!
Guanaguanare