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Academy O​.​C.

by Academy O.C.

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1.
A patience test to acclimate today Stand in line and do just what they say Pick a side and then adopt their views Assimilate A faster horse is not the path ahead Set your sights to what’s around the bend Raise the stakes and buck prevailing trends Automate Order up it’s time to be served No steps ahead unless you’ve got the nerve Expectations have you slave a grind Buck the trend there is no grand design Face your fears they’re kept you down too long Strive for more than merely just belong Start from scratch to build a better wedge Innovate A faster horse is not the path ahead Set your sights to what’s around the bend Raise the stakes and buck prevailing trends Validate Order up it’s time to be served No steps ahead unless you’ve got the nerve Expectations have you slave a grind Buck the trend there is no grand design Made up rules to keep you far from risk Push their buttons kick against the pricks Collective thought can’t make up your own mind A walking stick intent to fool the blind A single chance at going hard - push the buttons - pull your card Chase your muse lean into it - fuck your habits - blown to bits Without a shadow of a doubt it’s time to deal it like you’re Faust Trust your gut forget your head before you know it you’ll be dead Status quo will always rule the day Break away and play with within the grey Trust your instincts and fuck what others say Exonerate A faster horse is not the path ahead Set your sights to what’s around the bend Raise the stakes and buck prevailing trends Resuscitate Order up it’s time to be served No steps ahead unless you’ve got the nerve Expectations have you slave a grind Buck the trend there is no grand design Made up rules to keep you far from risk Push their buttons kick against the pricks Collective thought can’t make up your own mind A walking stick intent to fool the blind Celebrate
2.
Teflon 05:07
Friendly fire in the circle of trust Verbal shrapnel cutting through our guts Indifference to my wants and needs Won’t let your bullshit cling to me Happy to just watch us bleed  Keep the wolves at bay get through the day by saving face Time can’t heal these wounds they’ve turned to scars you can’t erase Keep the wolves at bay and live to fight another day Time won’t heal these wounds they’re who you are Save yourself don’t stick out your neck boy Stand your ground don’t stick out your neck boy Ebb and flow don’t stick out your neck boy Stand your ground and look out for you Kick those pricks they’re right next door Attacking just because they’re bored Crosshairs trained on all they see Pettiness seems to cling to me Indifference is their core belief Keep the wolves at bay get through the day by saving face Time can’t heal these wounds they’ve turned to scars you can’t erase Keep the wolves at bay and live to fight another day Time won’t heal these wounds they’re who you are Save yourself don’t stick out your neck boy Stand your ground don’t stick out your neck boy Ebb and flow don’t stick out your neck boy Protect yourself and look out for you Stick and move evade their jabs Smile to your face and your back is stabbed Cuts you deep off at the knees Won’t let your hatred cling to me Intention hurts commitment bleeds Keep the wolves at bay get through the day by saving face Time can’t heal these wounds they’ve turned to scars you can’t erase Keep the wolves at bay and live to fight another day Time won’t heal these wounds they’re who you are Save yourself don’t stick out your neck boy Stand your ground don’t stick out your neck boy Ebb and flow don’t stick out your neck boy Pick your spots and look out for you The happiest times that we ever had laying waste to our own clan Too deaf to hear too blind to see Adolescence won’t be clinging to me A broken branch on our family tree Keep the wolves at bay get through the day by saving face Time can’t heal these wounds they’ve turned to scars you can’t erase Keep the wolves at bay and live to fight another day Time won’t heal these wounds they’re who you are Save yourself don’t stick out your neck boy Stand your ground don’t stick out your neck boy Ebb and flow don’t stick out your neck boy Save yourself and look out for you My friends are fucking with me Families fucking with me Teachers fucking with me My boss is fucking with me Colleagues fucking with me Partners fucking with me Strangers fucking with me My Conscience is fucking with me
3.
Skully Pez 04:00
Bastion of the rightest right Predisposed to fight the fight A fish aground - a raging sea A totem of the dream to be Skully Pez Skully Pez Skully Pez Skully Pez Seeking freaks that feel the same Strength among the meek and lame Skully Pez Skully Pez Skully Pez Skully Pez Skully Pez Skully Pez Skully Pez Skully Pez Bound Tied gagged and down Lost in the crowd Can't wait to be found Reach for the clouds An offering to join the tribe A talisman of blessed vibe Skully Pez Skully Pez Skully Pez Skully Pez Skully Pez Skully Pez Skully Pez Skully Pez Pound Fight for your ground Time to get loud Face down the crowd Vengeance avowed Push the bastards down No time like right now No longer allowed Rise up with sound! A symbol for us all to cling A gesture of the simple things Exposed expression a smirking grin Exposed aggression they’re darkest sins Resting place of the rightest right Predisposed to fight the fight Navigate the raging sea A compass to your sweetest dreams Skully Pez Skully Pez Skully Pez Skully Pez Skully Pez Skully Pez Skully Pez Skully Pez Proud Stand by your vows Lost souls now found Finally unwound Orange fields have been plowed Pushed the bastards down You’ve found your true crowd Forever now we’re bound Hypocrisy uncrowned
4.
Cul-De-Sac 03:56
Addicted to a prick a needle in a groove Just a bunch of pricks trying to find their groove Bonded by a thirst that we would never quench Mucking up the gears just like a monkey wrench Suspended animation frozen on a tract - cul-de-sac Void of ambition save for watching each others backs Suburban dissolution backed into a tract - cul-de-sac Addicted without purpose, enabling our curses, detract Connected by a fate that we would never choose Sliding doors colliding and a ton of booze Happenstance a common lack of common sense Enabling each other, providing self-defense Suspended animation frozen on a tract - cul-de-sac Void of ambition save for watching each others backs Suburban dissolution backed into a tract - cul-de-sac Addicted without purpose, enabling our curses, detract Born of obsession bored and regressive Consciously a blessing, development suspending Scapegoat one another, the future left asunder If one of us is drowning then all are going under Champion each other through our thick and thin One of us would end where we would all begin Once each of us were lost and then we all were saved Carry these connections with us to the grave Suspended animation frozen on a tract - cul-de-sac Void of ambition save for watching each others backs Suburban dissolution backed into a tract - cul-de-sac Addicted without purpose, enabling our curses, retract Suspended animation frozen on a tract - cul-de-sac Addicted without purpose, enabling our curses, detract
5.
Stranded out in this hell hole All messed up and no where to go The flattest Earth and barren terrain German engineering left us stranded in flames Find a way to deal and just cope Fighting to just hope against hope Minutes passing like they are days Doubting that there’s hope on the way Friendships teeter out on their ledge Sanity crawls to the edge Find a way to deal and just cope Fighting to just hope against hope Find a way to get gonna get out, no we’ll never get out Now we’re all falling apart at the seams The situation is as bad as it seems Was the journey ever worth all the risk We’ll never be the same after all this Find a way to deal and just cope Fighting to just hope against hope We’re never gonna get out, gonna get out Relationship primed to erode
6.
Sink or Swim 05:16
Alive for the first time since I can’t remember when Spent too much time pretending and holding it in Expectations had me frozen still Pushing the same old rock up that same damn hill It’s time to sink or swim At last my life begins No more waiting in the goddamn fucking wings Time to sink or swim Patience's not a virtue but an excuse for standing still No bonus reps and there’s no extra time to kill We’re all in a free fall just a beat from hitting ground If the options treading water than I think I’d rather drown It’s time to sink or swim At last my life begins No more waiting in the goddamn fucking wings Time to sink or swim My life’s beating faster and time shorter by the day Tired of bidding my time living in the grey Ebb and flow back and forth with no specific goal in mind Deaf dumb numb and sick of being blind It’s time to sink or swim At last my life begins No more waiting in the goddamn fucking wings Time to sink or swim It’s time to sink or swim At last my life begins No more waiting in the goddamn fucking wings Time to sink or swim Last gasps are often the only one’s that count Desperation cuts through the shadows of doubt No time like the present to be all I’ve dreamt to be No one better to live out my wildest dreams than me It’s time to sink or swim At last my life begins No more waiting in the goddamn fucking wings Time to sink or swim
7.
Good to Go 02:25
Dystopia is here at last no more time left to turn it back Dividing lines now rule the day all black and white no room for grey Navel gaze your point of view don’t let no alt ideas get through Drop your bombs into the void no consequence to who’s destroyed How you know you’re good to go Depends which way the wind will blow Trust yourself, you’re always right ignore the truth with all your might Keep your inner circle close they’ll nod their heads at all your boasts It’s always darkest 'fore the dawn before you know it you’re good as gone Just because we’re paranoid don't mean we still won’t be destroyed Just make sure you’re good to go What that means, know one knows You go your way, I’ll go mine, don’t cross my path and we’ll be fine No table set for shared ideas easier to lean into fears Don’t stray beyond your comfort zone much safer just to stay alone Sometimes poke your head outside to just make sure you’re still alive Wipe the COVID from your brow we’ve got bigger problems now Still tweeting shots across the bow devolving by the day somehow The coldest of the coldest wars fought behind the hordes keyboards Battle lines in cyberspace, once you’re trapped there’s no escape Lucky if you’re good to go And able to contain your woes So this is it, the golden age, the darkest dawn, the end of days Technology has run amok, a megaphone for morons and schmucks The greatest time to be alive is anytime but here and now Fuck your neighbor, check yourself, build your bunker, protect your wealth Just tell yourself you’re good to go And keep your dignity in tow You’re good to go, you’re good to go...
8.
It cuts me quick every time I move Keeping me standing still All this time still something to prove Pushing against my will I made my stake I made a claim What more do I have to do? A lifetime of wanting someone to blame and now I’m looking at you Fit their mold to be left alone Prove yourself and gather your wealth boy Do what you’re told the seeds have been sown Play their game the stakes have been raised boy Don’t stick out, don’t scream and don’t shout Stand in line and you’ll just be just fine boy it’s way too late for shadows of doubt Accept your fate and swallow your pride Blood from a stone that gets me through Thrown at a big glass house Nothing feels right no matter what I do A looming mass of doubt Two steps up then two steps back Can’t seem to just let it be Blind spots shielding me from what I lack I should be looking at me Fit their mold to be left alone Prove yourself and gather your wealth boy Do what you’re told the seeds have been sown Play their game the stakes have been raised boy Don’t stick out, don’t scream and don’t shout Stand in line and you’ll just be just fine boy it’s way too late for shadows of doubt Accept your fate and swallow your pride Carve Carve a path just to have one last laugh Troubled times I’ve got half a mind to… Flip this goddamn script Never happy with what I do I’m really losing my grip I’ve made my bed I’ll lie in it It’s way too late to move I’ll ride it out and just do without What am I trying to prove? Fit their mold to be left alone Prove yourself and gather your wealth boy Do what you’re told the seeds have been sown Play their game the stakes have been raised boy Don’t stick out, don’t scream and don’t shout Stand in line and you’ll just be just fine boy it’s way too late for shadows of doubt Accept your fate and swallow your pride
9.
Fast as a myth, once you believe in it it’s gone - but you never were wrong Bliss, ignorance, Joy, wonderment just hold on - cause it won’t last for long Invisible friends safely in your head and belong - and they’re keeping you young Death of innocence an end of ignorance - So long to Fearsome Critters Birth of belligerence hello to arrogance and you're lost to the Wisdom of Winters Death of innocence, and the end of ignorance - So long to Fearsome Critters Birth of belligerence, hello to arrogance and you're gone in the Wisdom of Winters Where does it go? No longer wanting to know - as days tick by Growing old just because they say so - prep to die Fight the instinct, you’re as young as you think - don’t ask why The joys of this world needing to be unfurled - don’t let them by Death of innocence an end of ignorance - So long to Fearsome Critters Birth of belligerence hello to arrogance and you're lost to the Wisdom of Winters Death of innocence, and the end of ignorance - So long to Fearsome Critters Birth of belligerence, hello to arrogance and you're gone in the Wisdom of Winters Build your world - as you see fit There are no rules - for how to live Jabberwockies, Jackalopes, Captain Howdy, how you cope The pain of youth subsides in time but as you age your heart will die Fearsome critters, fantastic beasts manifest your purest dreams Protect them for as long as you can for once their gone your joy be damned Build your world - as you see fit There are no rules - for how to live Long in tooth and now you’re knowing the truth - just living proof - of waiting to die Not asking why and no more glint in your eye - farewell to youth - and living a lie Death of innocence an end of ignorance - So long to Fearsome Critters Birth of belligerence hello to arrogance and you're lost to the Wisdom of Winters Death of innocence, and the end of ignorance - So long to Fearsome Critters Birth of belligerence, hello to arrogance and you're gone in the Wisdom of Winters Build your world and live in it Rule your world so you can die in it
10.
Nothing’s come close to it and nothing ever will again ‘Til you’ve been beyond and back again to the journey’s end You’ll know it when you see it but only once you’ve lived a bit and you’ve had to root around in your own realities bullshit The proof is in the doldrums that’s the truth of your daily life Not sexy or romantic just boring and monotonous strife You punch a clock and suck their cocks ’til you can cash your 401(k) Then wind it all down reminiscing about bygone days Looking back again on what we lacked back then It’s nothing consequential now Dreaming to ascend, play dress up and pretend A lifetime tipping sacred cows Staring at the truth that living’s been the proof It’s better back where we began Facing down the fact we had it with the pack We started at the journey’s end Remember when the days were spent combing through the import bins? While still a haze, this time was gauged by when the party would begin We bucked the trends, were more than friends while living in our own cocoon Fighting fears and shedding tears the years would pass by all too soon Looking back again on what we lacked back then It’s nothing consequential now Dreaming to ascend, play dress up and pretend A lifetime tipping sacred cows Staring at the truth that living’s been the proof It’s better back where we began Facing down the fact we had it with the pack We started at the journey’s end Scratch and claw and beg and crawl you’re black and blue Set your goals to chase your gold it’s what you do Be careful what you ask for lest your dreams come true Your suit and tie they fit just right and now you’re screwed now you’re screwed now you’re screwed now you’re screwed what will you do!?!? Now we’ve seen around the bend, maturity and back again Brighter days were not ahead just nine to fives for which we bled Hindsight shines a spotlight on everything we really had Exactly what we needed and in our shitty little punk crash pad Looking back again on what we lacked back then It’s nothing consequential now Dreaming to ascend, play dress up and pretend A lifetime tipping sacred cows Staring at the truth that living’s been the proof It’s better back where we began Facing down the fact we had it with the pack We started at the journey’s end The journey’s end

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released March 4, 2022

Peaches: Vocals
Dale Nixon: Guitar
Patrick Sweeney: Bass
Mongo: Drums

Backing Vocals by The Academy Boys Choir

Recorded in Los Angeles, CA. & Fredericksburg, VA.
Produced by manhuntsman

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