Keep Color

The Republic Tigers Keep Color Lyrics
1.Buildings & Mountains

Lyricist:Harry Anderson, Ben Grimes, Kenneth Earl J Jankowski, John
Adam Mcgill, Marc Adam Pepperman, Ryan David Pinkston, Ryan
Shank, Justin Matthew Tricomi

We've been waiting all our lives
For things we've always had but have no eyes to see
Something new is going to happen
The most natural thing but nothing we'd expect

All these buildings and mountains
Slowly they'll arise before our eyes

How do cities understand?
We drink our wine and wonder why we're really here
What's the point of even asking?
You take the good and bad and make the best of it

All these buildings and mountains
Slowly they'll arise before our eyes
All these buildings and mountains
Slowly they'll arise before our eyes

All of you watch to see us move
Just make your fall before this age of industry
But for today I'll let it go
You've been good to me, have I been good to you?

All these buildings and mountains
Slowly they'll arise before our eyes
All these buildings and mountains
Slowly they'll arise before our eyes


2.Feelin' The Future

Lyricist:Kenneth Earl Jankowski, John Adam Mcgill, Marc Adam
Pepperman, Ryan David Pinkston, Justin Matthew Tricomi

Feelin' the future on your skin, they say that it's hopeless
But I've seen what I saw, meant to say what I say
The future ain't so grim, oh since I touched your skin
And felt the dawnin' of a day that's spent in hidin'
Now it blinds me

Like a bike ride with a jet pack on my back
We got a moonlit silhouette that rivals the best
Like a hayride with hover jets on either side
We'll go the distance 'cause we can't help but to act
supernatural

We talk about problems just the same

For you the future will be grandiose though they say it's
hopeless
You got to know I'll be your man, do whatever I can
And I've seen the future that's not grim, oh 'cause I touched
your skin
And felt the dawnin' of a day that's spent in hidin', in hidin'

Can't see the sun when it's shinin'
So bright, it burns my eyes

Like a bike ride with a jet pack on my back
We got a moonlit silhouette that rivals the best
Like a hayride with hover jets on either side
We'll go the distance 'cause we can't help but to act super

Like a plane ride with uncanny velocity
We'll break the barrier of light if put to the test
Like a sky dive without any 'chutes packed on our backs
We'll hit the surface knowin' that we couldn't act more
preternatural

It helps to know we'll bounce back just the same
'Cause I've seen my future that's not grim
Feelin' the future on your skin
Feelin' the future on your skin


3.Air Guitar

Lyricist:Kenneth Earl J Jankowski, John Adam Mcgill, Marc Adam
Pepperman, Ryan David Pinkston, Justin Matthew Tricomi

Keep the time, identify the beat
Then you'll hear the chime resound callin' you to be profound
Use your hands to play guitar with no guitar at all
I don't care if fingers are fast to draw or slow to paw

Grab your axe and keep the time, identify the beat
Then you'll hear the chime resound callin' you to be profound
Use your hands to play guitar if you can say guitar
I don't care if you are tall black, or white, or very small

Grab your axe and play guitar, play guitar

With no guitar at all and make your fingers bleed
Your spirit scream, yeah
Play guitar, oh play guitar
With no guitar at all and make your fingers bleed
Your soul must sing now

Play guitar, let no one harbor feelings that say take it far
Guitar


4.Cast On, Cast Off

Lyricist:Kenneth Earl Jankowski, John Adam Mcgill, Marc Adam
Pepperman, Ryan David Pinkston, Justin Matthew Tricomi

If we keep in contact will you stand by?
Bide no longer in these times
Look to see the progress, keys are in line
I'm not the things you've needed, left parts behind

Retrieval on the sidelines
Cast on, cast off, bones will not bind
We've run atop my broken glass
This pain will not last, your pains are from mine
But may we keep in contact with no stand by?

Don't you think it's too much like fire and ice?
Yours is Home Alone while I watch the Poltergeist
Too much like fire and ice
Yours is Home Alone while I watch the Poltergeist

Don't you think it's too much like fire and ice?
Yours is Home Alone while I watch the Poltergeist
Too much like fire and ice
Yours is Home Alone while I watch the Poltergeist


5.Contortionists

Lyricist:Kenneth Earl Jankowski, John Adam Mcgill, Marc Adam
Pepperman, Ryan David Pinkston, Justin Matthew Tricomi

If we concentrate on a face
Could we conform to it?
And be free like contortionists
Who are free to bend around machines

Turn this place around to first
When light came and all was right
Can we bend that way? Can we calculate?
How to be at peace inside and keep color

If we concentrate we can calculate
Like contortionists bend around this place
If we concentrate can we calculate?


6.Give Arm To Its Socket

Lyricist:Kenneth Earl Jankowski, John Adam Mcgill, Marc Adam
Pepperman, Ryan David Pinkston, Justin Matthew Tricomi

C4 in my pocket
And I'm ready to show you what for
You got no idea what's in store
There's going to be an uproar

Family's not gonna like what takes place
But it's gonna win the war
I promise C4 in my pocket
And I'm ready to settle the score

Don't think I'll tell you 'bout the secret to victory
There's a place you can read a thing about the history
Remain who you are and it will remain a mystery

But no one's keepin' score
Everyone should know more before the powers implore
That our livelihood is at stake, so what?
We might have to go without the bigger piece of cake

C4 in my pocket
And I'm ready to show you what for
Give arm to its socket
And you'll notice much less when there's more

Don't think I'll tell you 'bout the secret to victory
Remain who you are and it will remain a mystery
You can't have it both ways not this time

But no one's keeping score
Everyone should know more before the powers implore
That our livelihood is at stake, so what?
We might have to go without the bigger piece of cake

There's no one keeping score
Everyone should know more before the powers implore
Why would we think there could be a winner
When it just might be the sinner in control?

C4 in my pocket, C4 in my pocket
And I'm ready to show you what for


7.Golden Sand

Lyricist:Kenneth Earl Jankowski, John Adam Mcgill, Marc Adam
Pepperman, Ryan David Pinkston, Justin Matthew Tricomi

Break ground, buckle down, it's time
Yeah, it's time for the party to make some sound
Let's move from underground
Shed some of this black light to surrounding towns

How much responsibility do you bear
For the ill uses others might make of your ideas?
Almost as much responsibility that you'd bear
If you failed to speak your mind

When it might have made some kind of a difference
So make a difference and could you make 'em dance
Turn your bleeding hearts into some bleeding hands?

Line up, state your name, state your claims
Claim your stakes if you wanna fight with us
You've got to refuse to please the game, look ahead now
Oh let the countdown usher the philanthropic mimes to speak up
now
And scrape the paint that hides the crimes of a silent kind

Look up and make a difference
But the right difference would mean
The bleeding hearts got to be turned
Into some bleeding hands from solid lands

Yeah, you can make 'em dance and keep an upright stance?
Is the position that you hold, one that could parallel
A synergistically greater plan
Or would it force us all to be packed into a can?

How much responsibility do you bear
For the ill uses that the others might make of your ideas?
Almost as much responsibility that you'd bear
If you failed to speak your mind

When it might have changed things
Let's move from this underground
Blare some of this black light through their socket pride
Where their eyes used to hide when they had sight
Now only serving as a path for us to maybe reach that height

With a word to make a difference
Come on, let's make 'em dance
Turn our bleeding hearts
Into the bleeding hands of the solid lands

Now, can you make 'em dance and keep an upright stance?
Or has the premise of your cause
Been rooted in a sloping, quickly given golden sand?

'Cause the collapse you'd cause
Could pull us down with claws that don't let go
Yeah, the collapse you'd cause
Could pull us down with claws that don't let go


8.Made Concrete

Lyricist:Kenneth Earl Jankowski, John Adam Mcgill, Marc Adam
Pepperman, Ryan David Pinkston, Justin Matthew Tricomi

Tonight, I was haunted by some dreams
That we'd never run in the rain together
'Cause our feet were made concrete

And I think I could never love again
The way that I did when I was ten

Thinkin' back on fourth of July
Had you gone, had you gone too far?
Oh my, I just don't want to think twice
About the favors that you did for some other guys

Up and down the stairs jumpin'
Jumping with the ankle to distract my thinking with another kind
of pain

Don't know if I could ever love again
The way that I did when I was ten

Just don't look back 'cause everything will come
Around to where it began in time

And, and
Don't believe the scientists that tell you what to think

Today I was blessed by some fond dreams
That we'd never even met in the first place
And my skin felt so clean

And I think I could never love again
The way that I loved when I was ten
Delete the memory that you've installed upon my drive

Don't know if I could ever love again
The way that I did when I was ten

Just don't look back 'cause everything will come
Around to where it began

And, and
Go on live your life and everything will fit
Into place where it belongs in time

And, and
Don't believe the scientists that tell you what to think
And, and
Don't believe the media that tells you what to breathe


9.Stranger To The Eyes Of A Child-Man

Lyricist:Kenneth Earl Jankowski, John Adam Mcgill, Marc Adam
Pepperman, Ryan David Pinkston, Justin Matthew Tricomi

People everywhere you got to stop and breathe the air
Then you might see it but you won't believe it
And all your life you've seen the signs
They brought light to our design
It's perforated, meant to be upgraded

Science dubs more miracles
As distance grows from us back to the womb
It's stranger to the eyes of a child, man

But these lights don't make a carnival
It's all wrong as strangers walk on past
The light that's last, no shadows cast
And I'm one of them most of the time

No shadows cast, no shadows cast
It's stranger to the eyes of a child, man

The path is where you stand
It's not to be seen, so step ahead
Not complicated but the signal's faded
People everywhere you grown up breathing stagnant air
Now when you see it you got words to explain it

Everything's been stigmatized
By those who add their own surprise
Makes it stranger to the eyes of a child, man

But these lights don't make a carnival
It's all wrong as strangers walk on past
The light that's last, no shadows cast
And I'm one of them most of the time

But range is broad and even still more vast
With no livin' past, light built up blast
And I've never known a stranger thing
It's stranger to the eyes of a child, man

But these lights don't make a carnival
Though range is broad and even still more vast
With no livin' past, light built up past
And I've never known a stranger thing


10.Fight Song

Lyricist:Kenneth Earl Jankowski, Ryan Johnson, John Adam Mcgill, Marc
Adam Pepperman, Ryan David Pinkston, Ryan Shank, Justin Matthew
Tricomi

Evacuate now

Illegitimi non carborundum
If you cared, there'd be love in the air
Pharmaceutic-government got your mind
And your thoughts
Can you feel, where's your spine?

Evacuate now, 'cause
This storm's out for blood
Build a shelter for your kind
And protect the ones you love

It seems that
Everyday we're fightin', and we're
Causin' bolts of lightnin', like a
Hot and cold collision in the sky

You think your fellas, co-conspirators
Got your back?
When the fear they dispatch
Comes from a diffident path

What of then
Opponent ready to pass?
When the clouds clear
We'll be standing here

Get down in your basement
These sirens are loud
Lock the doors and eat the key
To elude the things you'd see

Take notice
Everybody's frightened by the
Radically enlightened, and they
Say to jump, still you reply how high?

Evacuate now, 'cause
This storm's out for blood
Build a shelter for your kind