Rising Appalachia - Scale Down lyrics
[Rising Appalachia - Scale Down lyrics]
Stand up look around and
Then scale back down too
See I believe in a revolution
I believe it is a hell i believe in it
Take care of it daily daily on demand because
I am a blacksmith of metal and words
And a sheep that pitch black too
And in this life spun short in
The span of things I
Believe there's a bit more that
We ought to be trying
Cause 500 hundred years ago
When these trees were more dense
And the colors pristine
So the chaos made sense
There was no knowing of loss of a mountain
The whole mountain that I call home and
These same hills roll on and on
Without mention of vanish or
Where fools belong and
These same mountains that go to peace
Long before the noose, and now
That soon is really gone
Now that too is nearly gone
So tell me what have we done as a
Civilization to destroy in our own wake that
Metaphorical hand that feeds us we are
Trashing our own birthday cake
And I consider myself a skeptic
But I'm optimist in
Soul and we are all getting force fed
We are led around like the bull
And he is huge and
Rageful and somehow subdued and hauled
By those thick rings
So don't you too shut out the filthy, nasty
Sticky truth of things
So here we go, get the
Fuck out your car, walk
It's good for you stop consuming blindly
Get by on what you do have
And then scale that down too
Take a long hard look at you
It starts there, we all got a lot to
Say about everybody else it's
Our own transgression that always
Tends to melt into
Who's fault who's blame who's wrong
But each and everyone of
Us is doing something
Its too hard, too fast, too long and there's
None but ourselves to make this thing last
None but ourselves to make this thing last
Stand up look around and scale that down too
It starts there, take a long hard
Look at you, you stand up
Look around and then you scale that down too
Then scale back down too
See I believe in a revolution
I believe it is a hell i believe in it
Take care of it daily daily on demand because
I am a blacksmith of metal and words
And a sheep that pitch black too
And in this life spun short in
The span of things I
Believe there's a bit more that
We ought to be trying
Cause 500 hundred years ago
When these trees were more dense
And the colors pristine
So the chaos made sense
There was no knowing of loss of a mountain
The whole mountain that I call home and
These same hills roll on and on
Without mention of vanish or
Where fools belong and
These same mountains that go to peace
Long before the noose, and now
That soon is really gone
Now that too is nearly gone
So tell me what have we done as a
Civilization to destroy in our own wake that
Metaphorical hand that feeds us we are
Trashing our own birthday cake
And I consider myself a skeptic
But I'm optimist in
Soul and we are all getting force fed
We are led around like the bull
And he is huge and
Rageful and somehow subdued and hauled
By those thick rings
So don't you too shut out the filthy, nasty
Sticky truth of things
So here we go, get the
Fuck out your car, walk
It's good for you stop consuming blindly
Get by on what you do have
And then scale that down too
Take a long hard look at you
It starts there, we all got a lot to
Say about everybody else it's
Our own transgression that always
Tends to melt into
Who's fault who's blame who's wrong
But each and everyone of
Us is doing something
Its too hard, too fast, too long and there's
None but ourselves to make this thing last
None but ourselves to make this thing last
Stand up look around and scale that down too
It starts there, take a long hard
Look at you, you stand up
Look around and then you scale that down too