"DownCast" genre: Industrial
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	DownCast is a cry of despair and alienation; of disgust at how the human spirit is so easily sold; and a question: are we forsaken?
	CD: Unreleased Credits: Written and recorded by Specimen 37
	Story Behind the Song From Specimen 37's upcoming (currently untitled) CD, scheduled for release in late '03/early '04 Lyrics Time marches on, oblivious And we approach our darkest hour The child within you suffocated Usurped by dreams of wealth and power Hiding beneath the soul's oppression Despair and anger trapped within A psychic shield our secret weapon And we will never let you in Screens flash, the advertising beckons a hollow sense of what is real We're told we all are so connected Yet we've forgotten how to feel Fat flies, we buzz around the trauma At least until the stench is gone Complacent drones, we take our soma And our attention spans drift on... The media manipulation distract, deflect you from the truth feeding our lust for new sensation and our obsession with our youth How can I fight the demon? The crippling apathy Mistrust and terror, feeding it's all around me Sometimes I feel so suicidal Sometimes I feel like I could die Sometimes I feel so unimportant And like the world has passed me by sometimes it's all so overwhelming sometimes it makes me want to scream the darkness, all-enveloping a sick and unrelenting dream Sometimes I feel forsaken and that all hope is gone but then the feeling fades, and I learn to carry on...

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