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The Things We Carry

by Have Heart

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1.
Ambitions fail, Complications hail all when my insecurities all fucking prevail. Do I turn to a drink or into what I really wanna be? Is a substance gonna be the crutch that's gonna set me fucking free? The pressure rises and I feel the strain The doubt begins and confusions reign Directionless, where do I turn Don't fail me now, the one thing that I've learned... I've learned the strength to fucking push it aside We know, we know I got the strength inside You know I got it and I know it so I'll show it To live, with pain...the choice is in my hands That's just an anchor that'll drown you, man We know, we know you got the strength inside To defeat the problems of our lives Without, the "crutch" ...cause we all know, Life is hard enough as it is.
2.
A breaking in spirit, a breaking in promise, a breaking in me How can I find the peace inside me, in a world I can see.... That's taking and taking all for ourselves, taking and taking And it's dragging me down, deeper and deeper Watch me sink like a stone In a sea of selfishness, Where 'me' is more and 'you' is less The vanity, it becomes insanity We eat the shit that's fed to us. We stomach it, and we embellish it, And we confuse our love with lust. Can't we find another way? The way that goes against the grain. Abstain, the grain. Abstain, abstain, abstain, abstain THE GRAIN The ugliness, licentiousness, The love that is just skin deep PLEASE GET ME OUT Before I become just a memory of what I used to be GET ME THE FUCK OUT We're deaf and blind to an age's cry We refuse to fucking hear. Not learning to grow, just losing the one I used to see in the fucking mirror The egoists, the narcissists The shallow waters wade in PLEASE GET ME OUT Before I become just a memory Of what I used to be GET ME THE FUCK OUT "Of a world that's doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else" -E.E. Cummings Please take me out... Of a world without any heart Take me out When they see my hope and rip it apart Take me out Of a world we built to serve our selfish-fucking-selves, Can you tell me, Where does love fit in? Remember what love is?
3.
Caked up and faked up, She's obsessed with the outside. Nothing earned, too afraid to fail. So she leads a hollow life void of insight Loving what you see, but you fear what you think Because between your mind and your body There's a missing fucking link That leaves you vulnerable, susceptible to pain You're a garden of potential submerged in the rain I said true beauty can't be seen with the eyes Armed, armed with a mind I'm gonna strengthen my action with thought Make use of the gift I got And walk fearless because I'm armed with-a mind A weak offense when you step to this Mind over matter is power over fists I walk fearless because i'm armed with a mind I walk fearless with a mind far greater than just a fucking fist. Spineless and mindless, You flex your muscles and not your fucking head A deep man with a strong point, Made without one thoughtful word said? "Huff and puff", the fierce fists will do the talking Can't speak for yourself, so your "crew's" with you walking Tell me what's worth fighting for... And it better be something greater than an evening of the score Boy, your true strength sleeps behind your eyes! It's the absent minded fool who's afraid to think, To extend an open hand, To dare to earn a thing. It's the gift inside our heads not to take for granted.. Because an unexamined life is a seed unplanted. As the animals, they cant reason But as humans, we can. So are you just a wild animal or a rational man? Our bodies take us nowhere, might does not make right. There's a gift inside your head called your mind.
4.
About Face 02:38
fucked it up again. but i'm not looking the other way. i see my errors and i know i'm wrong, but it's gonna take way more than that To change my ways and start thinking straight, Be the person I aspire to be. Own up to myself, turn my life around. Make amends to my friends, I owe to myself and them. Pledge of allegiance to myself. So i must fucking say: I will change No more selfish ways, no more for # 1; it's done. Arrogance is of the past, So I must fucking say: I will change So you gonna try, or is it gonna be the same fucking song? I must find, I'll strive for i must find, I'll strive for HUMILITY. So don't lose, don't lose your way. Don't lose your way. I said it's time we really take a look at ourselves, And start caring about someone else.
5.
He was a kind hearted man in a hateful world Who caught every thing that life ever hurled Like the oldest mountain he always stood so tall Forever showing what it means to be unbreakable Paycheck to paycheck, 3 jobs a day, He's the ransom for his family's pain In the coldest world with the warmest heart, He puts to shame what you consider hard He's the man you don't see in the mirror While the world was screaming death, He chose a different song to hear He's the band thats playing while the ship sinks The song of hope, he forever sings He taught the sun to shine Now please teach this "son" to shine How can this world never break Your warm heart in this frigid fucking place? You're like the river: Always flowing and growing, Never changing; rearranging How can this world always never take Your solid stance in these turbulent time? You're like the tree in the burning forest That never was burned down And what he said to me was this "Just love the world that won't love you back" Old man look at my life I'm nothing like you are Take a look at my life I'm so very fucking far From the person i aspire to be UNBREAKABLE
6.
"I remember the man who just wanted life, To live and let live while we're searching for our lives." Black elk never should you forget, People want to see you bleed. Sink not to their level, Surrender only what they need.
7.
Let me tell you a story about the man who loved to play with fire, He's the backfired rocketship, he's the seed that never splits. Some trees just cant bloom....they'll never. Born in a life of opportunity with every chance to excel Instead took his fucking chances with the cheapest goddamn thrills He'd do anything, he'd take anything for a moments satisfaction Sweet seconds of pleasure could never measure, To his agonizing life of addiction In the dark night, he tries to remember a future so bright "It wont happen to me, It wont happen to me, It wont happen to me" That's what they always fucking say. The man who thinks hes-above misery, And hurt and harm and pain, is the main who lives his life, Tightly bound as a slave in chains. In chains, In chains, In chains of a never ending abyss, In chains of an artificial bliss. And he lives just like a slave, for giving his life away for nothing.
8.
To Us Fools 00:23
To our foundations who fell apart, And all us kids who believed in you, To all the kids that you sold out, And all of us you made feel like fools. We'll stand hard We'll hold true We wont let go like you motherfuckers.
9.
Just take a fucking good look at just what you did; You set a raging fire in the heart of a kid. Your words and the message you sent are held In my heart as they burn inside my head. Burns, it's burning inside my head, Even if you chose a different path to tread. I guess it was something inside, it was something more to us. So you chose a different path from the one you once set. That's just the cycle of life so take your steps ahead. That doesn't change one thing in my life I'll never cease to keep your words alive. Because I still believe in what was said I'll hold on to the last thread I still believe in what was said Your absence doesn't bring my values death I guess it was something inside, it was something more to us. A "hero's fall" can never change what I think Because at the core of my heart this is something more than ink. Something more than ink.... On a page, on a shirt, on the back of my hand. Something written in stone, words we wrote in stone.
10.
I see the free which you enslave, The walking you keep chained. I see the growth which keeps you caged, And I've seen the minds that go un-raged I see the body robbed of soul To be the fuel for your control I see the standing knocked to their knees, And I've seen the human beings you treat Like machines MACHINIST I am not, I am not, I am not a machine I am, I am, I am a human being What the fuck A stagnant life's a victory For the lover of life that never breeds Perpetuate and obliterate Those addicted to living on their knees The dealers deplete you, Yeah, dealers beat you like you're drum without a tone YOU'RE JUST SKIN AND BONES Until you say, NO MORE, NO MORE Unlike the silent machines who won't settle, THE SCORE, THE SCORE Unlike the lifeless objects they want you to be. You want your object, well you fucking got it... I could be the knife in your backs, The noose wrapped around your necks, The bullet racing through your skulls, But I'd rather use the force of my spoken word. Let our voices form the weapons, Our voices, No silence, No compliance, In defiance of the rape of growth.
11.
"Goddamn", he said, "I promised myself , I'd never feel this fucking way." Again, this world has got me praying on my knees For one peaceful thought. In my mind, My stride, My life, My time, Is consumed with a thousand thoughts. Flying free like a flock of birds, With no direction or intention of finding home. It's so hard to think, It's so hard to change, When this world doesn't see you any other way In this world, they choose to see me, They choose to see me, Like a setting sun So it's up to me, I have to see me, I have to see me Like the rising one In my days somebody told me that the rain would always come, Always come to wash away the pain But nothing changes and this world still wants me down, Wants me down on my knees praying in that rain "Born this way, die this way" I'd rather die on my feet Than live on my knees I'd rather die on my feet So you can watch me, You can watch me WATCH ME RISE, With the things we carry The loss, The scars, The weight of heavy hearts So I say to the slaves of depression, CARRY ON, And sing the sweet redeeming song About living this life free and long Watch me, watch me, WATCH ME RISE, for miles and miles.

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released August 8, 2006

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