Straight edge is a subculture and subgenre of hardcore punk whose adherents refrain from using alcohol, tobacco, and other recreational drugs. It was a direct reaction to the sexual revolution, hedonism, and excess associated with punk rock. For some, this extends to not engaging in promiscuous sex, following a vegetarian or vegan diet, and not using caffeine or prescription drugs. The term was coined by the 1980s hardcore punk band Minor Threat in their song "Straight Edge".
Straight edge emerged amid the mid-'80s hardcore punk scene, in part as a reaction against the perceived "jock" element of the developing scene. Since then a wide variety of beliefs and ideas have been incorporated into the movement, including vegetarianism, animal rights, communism and Hare Krishna beliefs. In many parts of the United States and UK, straight edge is treated as a gang by law enforcement officials. A 2006 study suggested that the vast majority of people who identify as straight edge are nonviolent.
In 1999, William Tsitsos wrote that straight edge had gone through three eras since its founding in the early 1980s. Later analysts have identified another era that has taken place since Tsitsos's writing.
The Courage (formerly known as "Noah Gundersen & the Courage") is an indie band initially started in Centralia, Washington by siblings Abby & Noah Gundersen and expanded to Travis Ehrenstrom and Ivan Gunderson. The group has two EPs, a live CD, and a studio album. Before the removal of Noah Gundersen's name from the title and the incorporation of the entire band, a majority of the songs were written and recorded by Noah and Abby.
Noah Gundersen began playing music when he was 10 or 11 years old when his parents had him take piano lessons. Later he taught himself to play the guitar and recorded songs with his father's recording equipment. Around the age of 16, Noah was performing solo in local cafes. His sister Abby began to accompany him with violin and harmonies in 2006 . Noah Gundersen & the Courage began in 2006 in Centralia, Washington. They began playing shows throughout the Washington/Oregon region, and quickly gained a fan base there. Noah's first CD, "Brand New World" (recorded by himself, Abby Gundersen, and Michael Porter) was recorded in Eugene, Oregon in a home studio. It began to be sold on the internet in 2008. That summer, an internet hacker named "andrewlandon" discovered Noah Gundersen's music and stole his song "Winter" (as well has three songs by a neighboring musician, Jacob White, and several other artists) and put it on his own MySpace.
Phillip Jack Brooks (born October 26, 1978), better known by his ring name CM Punk, is an American professional wrestler signed to WWE and appearing on its Raw brand as the reigning WWE Champion.
In professional wrestling, Brooks is a seven time World Champion, having held the ROH World Championship and ECW Championship once, the World Heavyweight Championship three times and the WWE Championship twice.
In addition to these championships Punk has also won the World Tag Team Championship (with Kofi Kingston), and the WWE Intercontinental Championship making him the nineteenth WWE Triple Crown Champion and the man to achieve this honor fastest at 203 days. Between WWE and Ring of Honor (where he is also a two-time World Tag Team Champion), Punk has won a total of eleven championships. He was also the winner of the 2008 and 2009 Money in the Bank ladder matches (the only wrestler to win the match twice in a row), and was the 2011 Superstar of the Year Slammy Award winner.
Punk initially came to prominence through his career on the professional wrestling independent circuit, primarily as a member of the ROH roster, where he was the first head trainer of the ROH wrestling school as well as winning both of their championships. In 2005, Punk signed a contract with WWE and was sent to its developmental promotion, Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW), where he won every championship available in the promotion. Throughout his career, Punk has consistently used the gimmick of being straight edge, a lifestyle he follows in his actual day-to-day life. Depending on Punk's alignment as a crowd favorite or villain, he emphasizes different aspects of the culture to encourage the desired audience reaction.
David Howell Evans (born 8 August 1961), more widely known by his stage name The Edge (or just Edge), is a musician best known as the guitarist, backing vocalist, and keyboardist of the Irish rock band U2. A member of the group since its inception, he has recorded 12 studio albums with the band and has released one solo record. As a guitarist, The Edge has crafted a minimalistic and textural style of playing. His use of a rhythmic delay effect yields a distinctive ambient, chiming sound that has become a signature of U2's music.
The Edge was born in England to a Welsh family, but was raised in Ireland after moving there as an infant. In 1976, at Mount Temple Comprehensive School, he formed U2 with his fellow students and his older brother Dik. Inspired by the ethos of punk rock and its basic arrangements, the group began to write its own material. They eventually became one of the most popular acts in popular music, with successful albums such as 1987's The Joshua Tree and 1991's Achtung Baby. Over the years, The Edge has experimented with various guitar effects and introduced influences from several genres of music into his own style, including American roots music, industrial music, and alternative rock. With U2, The Edge has also played keyboards, co-produced their 1993 record Zooropa, and occasionally contributed lyrics. The Edge met his second and current wife, Morleigh Steinberg, through her collaborations with the band.
Paul Michael Levesque (born July 27, 1969) is an American professional wrestler, wrestling executive, and actor better known by his ring name Triple H, an abbreviation of the ring name, Hunter Hearst Helmsley. Currently, Levesque works in the front office of WWE as the Executive Vice President of Talent and Live Events, and as Triple H appears on television as the (storyline) Chief Operating Officer, and part-time wrestler.
Levesque began his wrestling career in the International Wrestling Federation as Terra Ryzing before joining World Championship Wrestling (WCW) in 1994. After briefly using the Ryzing name, he changed his character to Jean-Paul Lévesque, a French-Canadian aristocrat which would be similar to his character Hunter Hearst Helmsley, that he used in his early years with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) from 1995 onward. He later abbreviated his name to Triple H and adopted an alternative image in the D-Generation X (DX) stable. After the dissolution of DX, Triple H was pushed as a main event wrestler, winning several singles championships. As part of a storyline Triple H married Stephanie McMahon, who later became his real-life spouse. In 2003, Triple H formed another stable known as Evolution, and reformed DX with Shawn Michaels in 2006 and 2009. He is heavily involved in the writing process of WWE programming, and holds complete creative control over his television character's storylines, win/loss record, and championship reigns.
I'm a person just like you
But I've got better things to do
Than sit around and fuck my head
Hang out with the living dead
Snort white shit up my nose
Pass out at all the shows
I don't even think about Speed
That's something I just don't need
I've got the straight edge
I'm a person just like you
But I've got better things to do
Than sit around and smoke dope
Cause I know I can cope
Laugh at the thought of eating ludes
Laugh at the thought of sniffing glue
Always gonna keep in touch
Never want to use a crutch
I'm a person just like you
But I've got better things to do
Than sit around and fuck my head
Hang out with the living dead
Snort white shit up my nose
Pass out at all the shows
I don't even think about Speed
That's something I just don't need
I've got the straight edge
I'm a person just like you
But I've got better things to do
Than sit around and smoke dope
Cause I know I can cope
Laugh at the thought of eating ludes
Laugh at the thought of sniffing glue
Always gonna keep in touch
Never want to use a crutch
I'm a person just like you
But I've got better things to do
Than sit around and fuck my head
Hang out with the living dead
Snort white shit up my nose
Pass out at the shows
I don't even think about speed
That's something I just don't need
I've got the Straight Edge
I'm a person just like you
But I've got better things to do
Than sit around and smoke dope
Because I know I can cope
Laugh at the thought of eating ludes
Laugh at the thought of sniffing glue
Never want to use a crutch
Always going to keep in touch
I've got the Straight Edge
I've got the Straight Edge
I've got the Straight Edge
I've got the Straight Edge
I've got the Straight Edge
I've got the Straight Edge
I'm a person just like you. But I've got better things to do. Than sit
around and fuck my head. Hang out with the living dead. Snort white shit up
my nose. Pass out at the shows. I don't even think about speed. That's
something I just don't need.
(Chorus)
I've got a the straight edge.
I'm a person just like you. But I've got better things to do than sit around
and smoke dope. 'Cause I know I can cope. Laugh at the thought of eating
ideas. Laught at the thought of sniffing glue. Always gonna keep in touch.
Never want to use a crutch.
Only emptiness in me
A coming end I could not see
All the time I ask myself why
All the stars for just one night
slowly fade away their lights
All your words to me passed by
For the first time I see clearly
what you really mean to me
We were always without fear
But I didn´t feel free
The failures in my life
I can not stop! I really can´t deny
if I look in your eyes
Nothing real of you remains
This pain is driving me insane
walking on an endless way...
Forced by black spirits inside
Every time I had to fight
hoping I will win one day
All the stars for just one night
slowly fade away their lights
But your light is shining bright
suck my dick!
I hate your face and I hate your voice
you think that the others are just your toys
you will never have a friend
you´ll stay alone until your mean ends
fuck for your life and the things you do
no enemy could be as cruel as you
I´d like to rip off your eyes
just do me a favour: shut up and die!!
thorn of truth stuck in the face of mine!
I hate you just till the end of time!
you don´t give a fuck `bout another`s life
you destroyed mine with your goddam lies
my pain seems to be your pride
the hate I feel is to strong to hide
just suck my dick little stupid guy
that´s all you can do and you deny
the fact that you´ll loose the game
then you´ll know how it is to be insane
my only wish is your creeping death
I don´t allow you one single breath
one day you´ll be on your knees
I saw the eyes of this warchild
They are so cold and so tired
Do you hear, his face is always in my mind
The end is near, are you insane or are you blind
I hear the blood-shoked screaming
and nothing else can´t deny
The endless fear, till all the greed is satisfied
a bloody tear, there is no place where you can hide!
I smell the fear of the victims
but I can´t pay for their life
The rescue´s still in our hand
but we won´t fight just till the end
A bloody tear, there is no place where you can hide
The end is near, are you insane or are you blind
I feel the hate in my mind
There is no love I can find
My heart is full of pain
I´m down on the floor I´m beggin´for more
and I realize that you´re the god that I adoreI´m kissin´your feet you´re all that I need
what I feel for you is more than love I think it´s greed
why are you killing me?
I am your slave you´re the stone to my grave
I will love you tomorrow though you cheat me today
I´m down on my knees you´re my destiny
I´m your toy I´m your tool but I´m too blind to see
your beautiful eyes your sweet little lies
I could never live without this although I really try
I really love you I know I´m a fool
please don´t tread me like a dog oh please don´t be so cruel
you´re the only thing that I can´t resistI hate myself and I clench my fist
I should kick you trough the door
but I know that it´s hurts much more
all my life I thought that I was free
but without you there ain´t any life for me
I don´t know what I try to find
This is a story ´bout yourself
and I´d like to tell it to you
There was a child with big brown eyes
which became dim and blind by the truth
When he was older he lost his mindin a vague world of heroin
he gave a fuck about his life
and he don´t fulfill one of his dreams
Don´t you remember
what your father said when you were young
life ain´t forever
and you shouldn´t wait till it is gone
One day a girl was by his side
and she loved him more than her life
But she couldn´t break through this wall
behind that he used to hide
He lost the faith in fortune and love
just when she left him crying at all
This was the darkest day of his life
but it was like an old veil that falls
Don´t you remember
what your father said when you were young
life ain´t forever
and you shouldn´t wait till it is gone
You are the guys who changed his life
and you earned a place inside my mind
The mania put her arms ´round you
but now you learned to face the truth
Enjoy the best days of your life
Enjoy the best days of your life
Today your mind is free and save
and you found a way trough this pain
You solved your problems on your own
and you won this round of the game
But don´t forget all the shame and fear
when your life was so graceless to you
You should remember it´s hard
Just to learn what´s a lie and what´s true
Don´t you remember
what your father said when you were young
life ain´t forever
and you shouldn´t wait till it is gone
my fists out of control
my eyes to blind to see
my mind in a black holemy skin to numb to feel
my life is just like I´m in hell
every day my heart is just bleeding
peace of mind are words that I can´t spell
but now I can´t predict what I´ll do
Determination!! is what you regret
Determination!! rules you till the end
these hands are not my own
these hands that scratch my own face
my brain has never known
that my life is just like a chase
the darkness is my only friend
it´s surrounds this shame like my body
no time that I will ever spend
with all the things that make me feel free
Determination!! is what you regret
Determination!! rules you till the end
I can´t imagine what I´d do
I was so blind my whole live
I can´t imagine what I do
I kick my ass about my past
I open up the door
I don´t believe what I see
a thousand little wars
and nothing´s just like it seemed
no faith, no trust in anyone
those who were winners are loosing
nobody knows what he has done
I close my eyes but I can´t rule this hate
Determination!! is what you regret
Determination!! rules you till the end
I can´t imagine what I´d do
I was so blind my whole live
I can´t imagine what I do
I kick my ass about my past
I can´t imagine what I´d do
blow up the chains of all this pain
I can´t imagine what I´d do
The last year was one lost year of my life
I loved her, but this was the worst thing I could ever do
Now that I´m free, I know that this one lost year
was a year without faith and freedom
I saw no lightin this unequal game
But now I tryto forget all this pain
This is me and this is you
There is nothing else to do
Time is on my side
and you know I´ll win this fight
This is me and this is you
There is nothing else to do
I know you are a fake
but your might will leave today
You can´t deny
that all you tried
was to fill my head with lies
I spit on you
and I dispice your face
And all you can do
is to plead for my grace
we go different ways
and my way is just clear
My life ain´t grey
You were just one lost tear
I don´t give a fuck about you and all we had together
because my life is much more important than a painful expierience
Now my eyes are open for the new things that fate will bring me
I reached this mountain
never known that I could fall
bright blue eyes gave up their life
we reached these moments
and at once you were at steel
did you ever care, you ever ask:
what do you feel?
I long for tomorrow
two minds that never will be one
...one forgotten
what it´s like to breathe all free
world´s a hole without a ground
time just passed by (too long)
silver and gold are not the same
we both broke together, but
a picture of you remains
I long for tomorrow
no matter for those things were done
voice choked with sorrow
two minds that aren´t forever one
I just can´t resist I´m in sorrow
don´t need no respect for tomorrow
I can´t rely I´m in sorrow
don´t need no respectcause tromorrow´s done!
I reached this mountain
now I know that you can fall
bright blue eyes give not their life
I´ll reach a moment
from this I´ll shake and feel
yes I ever cared, I ever asked:
You´re just a child, I entered your mind
and I´m your god when you pray
I don´t love you but I know what you do
come on, come on and hear what I say
Feel me, I´m in you
close your eyes and enjoy like I do
you´re just one of my
of my pearls, that I get for one night
You are so blind, you´re one of the kindwho wants to be loved for the fear
I know what you do when I´m next to you
you just will, you just will scream in my ear
Feel me, I´m in you
close your eyes and enjoy like I do
you´re just one of my
It´s like a brand into your skinlost in a world you don´t fit in
You can´t remove this fear from you
And now I´m praying to God: "Please tell me, what can I do ?"
You do not respect anyone
never ask yourself what you have done
Your whole life you were so blind
Look inside yourself - Let´s see what you find !
pull ! pull ! (the) trigger of your gunpull ! pull ! think you are the onepull ! pull ! waiting in your handpull ! pull ! aimed at your fucking head
I can´t show you the way I feel
seems like your heart is made of steel
at first sight you are as cold as ice
everybody believed in your shameless lies
did your parents ever pay attention to you ?
I can´t believe and you know it ain´t true
that I don´t try to change, that I don´t want to knowwhat you don´t want to know - but you have to go...
...through...
yourself...
to find...
what you...
are.
You´re slowly falling to the ground
`cause your dark soul has never found
you don´t give a fuck about any rule, without a reason
thinking you were cool
Don´t you know the feelings you always repress
are the reason for ending up depressed ?
you can´t hide yourself
For you it´s too late - welcome to your suicide !
knowing that you won´t reach it pull!! pull!!
feeling that you can´t change it pull!! pull!!
seeing your red eyes bleeding pull!! pull!!
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They told me
I'm straight edge nuffin
Keeps me sharp as a straight blade
Influence
they tryna blaze somethin
But I Am that influence
I'm tryna raise
To create
They say I'm too brave
Tryna throw temptation
But I ain't David RuffinOr Craig
So what you talkin
Verse:1
Always to keep a focus. Without the thicker focals.. To have super pupils, dilate the blurr with the hocus pocus this a holy opus nun'll notice bewitched twitch rem dreams of a floating lotus you see ya lids are loafers mine as high as high tops and some higher waters I be as high as you sober wouldn't know it least eye dropped to your seclera so you can see clearer than both of us. Navigated through hogwash then I graduated from Hogwarts a schooler. Summa Cum Laude of the potter, not a potter of plant to grow a chiefer. Might of dropped a seed to grow a tree up. You might have seen me. Built the bridge to Taribitha where the leaves whispered that I'm a wizard. And some'll soon follow me to the vineyard, where trees wove crowns for me, made me king of.
Chorus1x
Verse:2
Not determined to be a deter'er. Not concurring to being the Führer. Non preacher, non saint non Baptist or a non believer, just an observer of procedure, handed down from the highest hands in the meeting like look, let's make this an instrument to be acceptable, they'll become susceptible and start searching for a higher high give'em this one, make it perpetual. C circle the scientist at NASA they refer to us as data, non human, just some patterns and some habits, while they make habitable environments on Saturn. They made it fashionable to be non-applicable, made it palatable as a plate of food, they betting on ya to be unreliable, irresponsible, irreversibly cloned and heardable.
Chorus1x
Verse:3