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This is one that I'm definitely interested in getting people's opinions on. I've only played it for a handful of people so far. This song is an attempt to bring the "holy shit" concept full circle. I think that human beings are the perfect example of holy shit and we can contain everything good and bad in this world.

Every day we are bringing life on this planet closer to destruction, but every day people are inventing and fighting for solutions and alternatives. We are constantly seeing news (some more trustworthy than others) that we have passed another "point of no return" and it just seems too big and too overwhelming to deal with. It feels like all we can do is pause for a moment before continuing to scroll through our feeds. I strongly believe, I strongly have to believe, that we have the potential to make things better. Today feels extra poignant as we see the struggle of American Indians defending their rights at Standing Rock against the Dakota Access Pipeline. To add to this, it has been underreported that last month there was an oil spill in Alabama of 250,000 gallons, causing the Governor to declare a state of emergency. I don't have all the answers, but I think I know enough history. I know that this country has worked to destroy the world (both culturally and ecologically) that existed before it moved in and claimed it as its own. I know that we have continued to use up resources at an increasing and unnecessary rate while blaming the poor for overpopulation. I know that colonialism, imperialism, and neoliberal globalization have enforced a status quo of profit over people and environment and a race to exploit whatever country has the least legal boundaries. I know that throughout all of this, there has always been a culture of resistance and a movement of those who fought back in whatever ways they knew how.

We need to step up where we can and we need to listen to those who are being affected by environmental issues all over the planet. If a god is an entity that builds the world that allows us to exist, then it is our duty and responsibility to step up and be the gods for those coming after us. What will we leave behind? I refuse to believe that this is something we should leave our most powerful and wealthy to decide. I refuse to let them be the gods of the new world. Maybe I am being dramatic and maybe I'm being a hypocrite, but l promise to never let myself forget the part I play in this world and my responsibility to ask what I can do to help those most in need.

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We are the gods of the new world.
They will have to use whatever we leave
Whether it be oceans or it be nothing
Whether it be mars or an empty shell

We are the gods of the new world
They will have to live in what we create
Whether it be peace or it be destruction
Whether it be love or it be hell,
or a little of both

We are the gods, of the new world
There is danger, there is potential
Whether it be a fight, whether it be peaceful
Whether it is remembered or just felt

I’ve been working in the city, still living with my parents
I’ve been eating a little healthy, but feeling pretty shitty
I’ve been teaching English classes, to adults who teach me Spanish
I’ve been growing, holding steady, but my heads been feelin’ heavy

I got love, friends, a family who cares, a ridiculous dog and time to spare
I got hope, about, an hour a day, I got a lot on my mind and a little to say

I’ve been feeling a little fucked up, I’ve been feeling a little scared
I’ve been thinking a little too much, I’ve been losing a little hair

I got faith, I think, in the people I know, I gotta focus more on taking it slow
I gotta fight, and breathe, and rock n roll, I gotta make this count I gotta let you know we’re

Gods! of the new world
and we are as infinite, as anything else
Whether we be drops of blood, or we be dust
They will bless us, or they will curse us,
probably both

Everything’s been feeling pointless, and I’m getting dragged right in
I can’t look at a single image without being a goddamn cynic
The world spins and I’m feelin’ sick, I think I’ve hit my limit
I find strength where I can, but I’m not sure we can win it

But I, am just, another fucking white boy, playing activist while I sit at a computer
and I, I need, this constant reminder, that no one’s going down without a fight here

Every day there’s people struggling, people fighting, people winning
so that I, can keep on living, keep on breathing, keep on sinning
and the advantages and the privileges afforded to me
are low hanging fruit, because I’m standing on bodies
Because I’m standing on

Gods! of the new world
I am not religious, but I’ll make exceptions
I see in your eyes, a million stars
the future of everything, the first ever rain

We are the gods, of the new world
There will be a legacy, wanted or not
There is a shining light, I hope you can see it
Whether it be the end of the tunnel, or just the beginning

And one day they will find, whatever is left of this earth
In the ash and in the mire they will find our bones
they will find our histories, they will find our skyscrapers
they will find our songs, they will find our home

And I hope, and I pray, to the gods that are you and me
that we can rest easy. And we can say
We can say it was worth it!

Gods of the new world
I depend on you
Gods of the new world
I count on you
Gods of the new world
I pray to you

Gods,

Don’t let this die
Don’t let it be killed
Do not back down
Do not sit still
I need to believe
I need to know
That there is a point
To what we call a soul

holy shit

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from Holy Shit, released December 20, 2016

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