Paradigm Filmography

• Pick Up the Mic
  2006, role: actress , character name: Herself

• Lyrics: play full screen play karaoke
• Paradigm - Ani Difranco
• Paradigm - All Together Separate
• Paradigm - We Are The Fallen
• Paradigm - Subsignal
• Paradigm - Arkaik

I was born to two immigrants
Who knew why they were here
They were happy to pay taxes
For the schools and roads
Happy to be here
They took it seriously
The second job of citizenry
My mother went campaigning door to door
And holding to her hand was me
I was just a girl in a room full of women
Licking stamps and laughing
I remember the feeling of community brewing
Of democracy happening
But I suppose like anybody
I had to teach myself to see
All that stuff that got lost
On its way to church
All that stuff that got lost
On its way to school
All that stuff that got lost
On its way to the house of my family
All that stuff that was not lost on me
Teach myself to see each of us
Through the lens of forgiveness
Like we're stuck with each other (god forbid!)
Teach myself to smile and stop and talk
To a whole other color kid
Teach myself to be new in an instant
Like the truth is accessible at any time
Teach myself it's never really one or the other
There's a paradox in every paradigm
I was just a girl in a room full of women
Licking stamps and laughing
I remember the feeling of community brewing

Everybody loves a rose,
Will you be thankful for the thorns?
Love is easy when you're loved,
Do you curse another when you're alone?
Chorus:
Oh, I give my life to You so I can gain it back again
Oh, I stand solid while the paradigm is shifting
You say live and let live,
But people are dying everyday
And you say what I don't know won't hurt me
But if what I do not know
Is the very thing I need,
Then I say
Chorus:
Oh, I give my life to You so I can gain it back again
Oh, I stand solid while the paradigm is shifting
Humanity sees truth through a shattered window pane
That blocks the view,
And plants the seed
So we draw the curtains to close but I say
That the sun can still shine behind a closed mind
And sticks and stones do hurt
When tossed from the tongue of mankind
Chorus:
Oh, I give my life to You so I can gain it back again

Falling to my knees before you,
So ashamed to see my weakness fill your eyes,
Needlessly, I let myself stray before you,
Now I face the consequence of my betrayal.
My paradigm, my sweet love I breathe,
It's you I rely on,
Shelter me from cold, I die in paradigm.
Do we sacrifice, let our story die?
Blissful lullabies return again,
If we still a while, let love survive,
Delicately crawling to your grave.
My paradigm, my sweet love I breathe,
It's you I rely on,
Shelter me from cold, I die in paradigm.
Perfect sky, shadow find my lies,
Good enough for always wanting mine
Replaced all your love with pain
So afraid to face the world alone.
My paradigm, my sweet love I breathe
My paradigm, my sweet love I breathe,
It's you I rely on,
Shelter me from cold, and die in paradigm.

daylight sleeps as night falls
and marks the end of the day
while half the world lies sleeping
the other will start to find its lonely way
what do we do when no one needs us
where can we go when no one cares
what do we do when no one wants us
living a life with nothing there
open our eyes to a new beginning
open our minds to a paradigm
open our hearts to an understanding
in the face of adversity, not this time
i will walk this earth
i will clence this life
and I can justify my reasons
propaganda has run strong
etimology's sacred song
as they will multiply their legions
garvity holding me, space surrounding me
the threats of life as they keep binding me
wire in the blood, engine in the heart
ignite the light i feel is fueling me
I understand the reasons why I fall apart
finding my strength, controlling pain
a stronger and fuller heart which yet I have to gain
and in my paradigm I see my inner self
it's looking back at me, my entity
a life-support with reason and intend
through these eyes
for everything that I have seen
and my empathy that fills the spaces in between
as I am standing here
bathing in the morning light
as time moves forward I can understand
that in all of my empty thoughts lie
for all the things that be
and for all the things I see
energy that all around is holding me
me lifeline through the matrix of our times
close my eyes so I may see

Deceit, disease, decline, this virus contradicting reason and theology*
Contrasting ideologies fuel the vehemence through the imaginations of humankind
They are a part of the same feral beast, whose venom drips from ivory fangs
Waiting to rend the vacillating mind, her feast is our collapse incarnate
This succubus sits perched on a throne of misconceptions
She lies in a stagnant pool of spiritual afterbirth
Pregnant with deception she spreads her wings
As we receive her miscarriages willingly
The abscesses of human thought grow as she rapes her mind of its reason
Hope, faith, hypocrisy, rebellion, contorted into lifestyle distortions
Are the spawn that become her paradigm abortions
She feeds her dead offspring to the masses, holy men and counter culture
Both convulse in hunger, reduced to pains of famine
They will tell you who to worship, and advise you who to hate
You have become the canvas upon which they scrape their paint
All paths of logic lead to some form of light
Needle feast hemorrhages try to rip reason from insight
Clots from the womb pour forth with tides of delusion
We have become lost in a sea of illusion
[Chorus:]
There is a path of light for those who aren't blinded by the lies that their fed
There are still minds in which logic and the divine have not departed
From malignant tongues forked in abhorrence
Their odium seeps piercingly into the common rationality
Kneel to the snake, kneel to the stake, either side breeds filth
Seek the knowledge you wish to gain and think for your fucking self
The wonder in the unknown, the infinite Scraped away by clawed hands in jagged grip
Perceive the sacrifice of common sense staked
Ways of thought that disguise true meaning
Deceiving distractions seizing our eyes and our minds
Leaving shrouds of divinity
Bleeding us of our foresight, leaving origins cauterized, these inconsistencies of thought
Shall reap their stench and tear us under
As we rot in withered tatters, decayed within mounds of ruin
We must ascend beyond these paradigms of hypocrisy
For reason and insight are locked away in the enveloping patterns of destiny