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Enough To Drive You Mad

by The Present Moment

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1.
Take this fight out into the streets As you move forward and struggle to breathe He's a loaded gun, an American Dream A nightmare, corporate fantasy. As your eyes flashed from the tear gas blast Black baton, white knuckle Pentagon cash So tell me what is it that you need? As society watches you bleed As tensions rise we find the mess that we're in Where justice presides, paper thin Then your eyes flashed from the tear gas blasts Black baton, white knuckle Pentagon cash They sit and sleep on the sidelines Watch and watch and watch, watch the decline Their faded faces that history erases Are forgotten in due time Now I see that you're taking no chances Don't shake the system Avoid all circumstances Stare into space While you're washing the dishes Lock the door Pray away Selfish wishes The time will come They say God understands No sacrifice without blood on your hands And for all your obedient ways They'll reward you For how you behaved Are you still buying everything you're sold? Is there still dignity in just getting old? Still throwing stones from the pyramid schemes Making love to your White picket dreams
2.
News For You 05:20
The fires burn, from a mile away The smell of smoke, diesel, crushed metal The sirens scream, all night and throughout the day Now the pressure's on the petal The blind servants merge on the counterattack They'll paint a different picture So where's the truth in that? The story's old, and so it's been sold out before But things are different now These signs you can't ignore They say such revolution Is just in fashion, man All of your self-delusions Against their master plan They hold the dice and the cards, darling You'd better cheat while you can Cheat while you can So does it take your own daughters and sons to die For you to wake on up Stop pushing this aside They say the calm is right before the storm Then chaos factors in As the tide turns Moving, shaping, crashing, burning Out of the ashes, what have we learned? Seeking, holding truth to power Beyond the realm of human concern We've seen it all We know what they'll do I'll toe the line But I've got news for you See I've got news for you All of the questions need the answers We deserve to know We need more comfort from this misery Then just another candle to hold As your friends drift away like a ghost Who were the ones you loved the most?
3.
Take at look at yourself now See all the choices that you made Looking for room to grow Turned the page past the names Emotions set to stone You begged for the stage Sociopathic in trades Abandoned and left to roam In a windowless room That you called a home It seems you lost the plot You know you did You damaged kid Remember all you lost in those forgotten years It seems you lost the plot It ended all in tears You damaged kid Remember all you lost in those golden years The selfish revenge Of complex designed You lost friends along the way But now you're feeling fine Burnt and banished from the sun Shadows eclipsed a golden dawn As the rain did fall For a harvest to have But you kept it all It seems you lost the plot You know you did You damaged kid Remember all you lost in those golden years It seems you lost the plot It ended all in tears You damaged kid Remember all you lost in those forgotten years Look to forgiveness unplanned Smooth the three poisons from your hands A wise man says and knows To learn, to live and let it go
4.
Dharma 05:17
My dharma My emotions are a troubled sea Trying to break free from the curse When life goes from good to bad The magnet attracts all the worst When pressure's suffocating All the things I hate come to play In dying mystery the blue light Flashed and ripped half my heart away Calling Mr. Pharmacy Looking up to the cloud I know just what you make of me I wanted to feel like a child When life goes from good to bad The magnet attracts all the worst My emotions are a troubled sea Trying to break free from the curse I know what you still make of me Wanting to feel like a child Calling Mr. Pharmacy Looking up to the cloud
5.
In circles how we ran Searching for a divine plan Looked up to the skies to see The sun crashing through the trees Then reality starts to crack It's enough to drive you mad Beyond the looking glass So far, so gone, never coming back Off your head like a spinning wheel Hyper-numb to how you feel Are you scared, alone or sad? Its enough to drive you mad Crushed to death by the machine Marked by the beast of the routine No heartstrings, no melody No voices calling you and me Never to be alone or sad It's enough to drive you mad Remembering all the things we had It's enough to drive you mad The sky will open, swallow us intact Then rip us open and throw us back The chaos of the quantum track It's enough to drive you mad The waters testing you and me With such uncertainty It's enough to drive you mad All the good things that went bad All the good things that we had
6.
Life-Line 05:19
Things are complicated, I know Mend your heart so it can heal Take comfort in your solitude Remember the time it felt real The picture of a perfect world A gathering, a flag unfurled No wicked words To twist the nerves Both the psyche and the soul Running hot out of control Then returning back To the balancing act Tonight You're mine The life The line The pressure is still driving in So much is lost Oh how to win Against these crooked vultures Turning us against each other So I wipe away every tear I know the end is drawing near It's a dark time, friends So why deny Why pretend? Tonight You're mine The life The line Something has to change now Something has to bend To love or to fail Is how this will end. Things are complicated, I know Mend your heart so it can heal Take comfort in your solitude Take the time you have left Tonight You're mine The life The line
7.
Lucky you, You came out untarnished With all your highbrow friends In your white-bred ways Making hand over fist Topping the list Thoughts and prayers for days Living large when conspiracy's king Making bank from the chaos that it brings Old tricks Transfixed The prey The grift Pimping out the devil's daughter Still raising hell and high water The ruling caste the spells we're under Watch the pendulum It swings, it swings, it swings and... All the while the caged bird sings You can't have nice things The odds are stacked against you The walls keep closing in And one day to the next It's either us or them It's safety in numbers The social siren cries And you can see the madness Behind their eyes Its safety in numbers The social siren cries The hive mind's algorithm As the needle stings The concept of security The so-called safety that it brings And all the while the caged bird sings You can't have nice things.
8.
Love me or hate me I've nothing to prove to you Don't go away now We have so far to go Have lots of affection For a heart of gold If you don't believe in something It'll only drive you so far What are you going to do when it all blows away? So many people Knocking at your door You're such a glutton for punishment Acting like such a child Baby talks, never listens You're testing my patience I'm begging you I'm begging you please To change your style Love me or hate me I've nothing to prove to you
9.
Only the strong survive But I've got my eyes on you As God is their witness Makes you suffer in sickness The death toll climbs Rising above you with the story they sell you And pardon their crimes Holy rollers seize control The power, the glory holds Their white washed minds Custom suits and ties Tailor made for these biblical times Only the strong survive But I've got my eyes on you The war against their grand alliance Deaf and dumb in sheer defiance The tall tales they tell Corrupt the truth With each passing day who will survive? Out of control, set to collide Deflect and deny The numbers don't lie This is my hope for you That you make it through somehow This isolation's supposed to save us Stand up and fight Not a moment too soon Just light the way Drag us out of the dark ages Drag us into the day
10.
America, America how are you? You seem so sick The last time I had checked in you had checked out You're not making the grades anymore I'm worried about you Squirming in their seats, demanding refunds Saying the joke's not funny anymore Sequel after prequel after sequel The tickets aren't worth the dirty floors No one cares about your starlet's daydreams They're blocking up the doors Concession stand sells only ammunition I can't take anymore America how are you? Still worried about you America, America how are you I'm worried about you I need someone, I need someone to love me No matter what I do The promise of a shining city faded I tried to make it true But now it's just an exercise in history Written by a privileged few But now it's just an exercise in history Written for a privileged few and I can't sell a hundred thousand torches Then say I wasnt coming after you So I draw all the blinds I don't suffer fools For the things that they do

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A 5th LP is a benchmark in any artist's career, let alone an independent act like THE PRESENT MOMENT, and Enough To Drive You Mad is no exception. Arriving in 2022, the expansive ETDYM is the culmination of over a decade of releases that have powered TPM through numerous accolades and European tours, and is the product of a locked-down year's worth of in-studio writing, recording and production. At times channeling Portishead, David Bowie, Trent Reznor, Pink Floyd, The Cure and Depeche Mode, ETDYM is the band's most ambitious release to date. Enough To Drive You Mad was recorded in Los Angeles during the 2020-2021 lockdown against the backdrop of Covid-19's seemingly unstoppable fear and omnipresent suffering. Dark, blunt, and beautiful ETDYM dives unflinching into the horror of watching a world flail in helplessness through waves of sickness, misinformation, anger, hypocrisy and greed, all the while clinging desperately to the concept of empathy and the endurance of the human spirit.

Enough To Drive You Mad marks the second recorded collaboration between project founder Milton Scott and award-winning composer and singer/songwriter/producer Jason "Halogen" Dunn. Milton and Dunn began working together with the B-side of 2019's Split album, which expanded THE PRESENT MOMENT'S minimalist synth sound with the addition of live instruments and shifting arrangements, a melding of worlds that continues to allow Milton's haunting voice and gift for lyrical imagery to paint new characters and scenes over a lush landscape of shimmering guitars, driving bass lines, and pummeling drum loops - in concert with the hypnotic arpeggio lines and synth soundscapes that the band's fans hold dear.

Highlight tracks include the opening, industrial assault of "White Picket Dreams", written during the 2020 police brutality protests, the pulsating and hypnotic album centerpiece "Dharma", the infectious, 80's electro-goth banger "Nothing To Prove", the nightmare dreamscape of "America, How Are You?" in which the USA finally seeks out a therapist, and the title track: a meditative aural clearing in the forest of confusion and dread that is the totality of Enough To Drive You Mad.

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released April 29, 2022

Produced by Jason Dunn and Milton Scott
Engineered by: Jason Dunn
Lyrics by: Milton Scott and Jason Dunn
Music by Jason Dunn and Milton Scott
Recorded and mixed at Mad Science Audio Labs,
Los Angeles, C.A
Additional guitars, bass and production by Phillip Jordon
Mixed by Jason Dunn and Phillip Jordon
Mastered by Jeff Swearengin at Ritual Systems

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Based in Los Angeles, The Present Moment achieves a stunning hybridation and an infectious blend of dense cold-wave’s electro grooves, cyclical droning interferences, vigorous epic industrialism, dolorous nocturne-goth weirdness superbly sustained by a seductive eighties flavor. ... more

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