This is the first single off THE CONTAINMENT UNIT's debut album "UP WITH THE SUN" due for release in March 2015!! Recorded by The Containment Unit and Siegfried Meier at Beach Road Studios. Song and Lyrics by Joshua Gropp. Vocals by Adam Barnier. Guitar by Joshua Gropp. Bass by Jeff Clayton. Drums by Chad Bart.

Lyrics: 

23 in spring, yet I've yet to do a thing and now trying's exhausting.  
Equal portions rancid goals with wasted potential, all under achieved.  
So I blame my schooling, blame my upbringing, blame it on everyone but me.  
Is there an app for that? 
I thought by 23 I'd be on pace to be a little less in debt, but my student loans and rent have me struggling just to eat.  
Where are all the jobs?  Where have my dreams all gone?  Where is everything I've never worked for?  
Can an app teach all that?
How good can it be if it can't correct my history to make of me something I don't deserve to be?
I sincerely believe I've done all you could expect of me.  I've grown accustomed to doing nothing for me.  
An interconnecting network all putting forth minimal effort will be lucky to achieve the bare necessities.  
Forget that they have dreams and lose all strive to thrive.  
Literally feel free to blame it on everyone but me.
My landline works just fine and it has for quite some time.  
How good can it be if it can't correct my history?
To make of me.  I sincerely believe 'how good can it be'?
How good can it be if it can't correct my history to make of me something I don't deserve to be?
I sincerely believe I've done all you could expect of me.  I've grown accustomed to doing nothing for me.  


Autocorrect My Life

Wake Up! Wake Up!! Lyrics by Joshua Gropp

Falling far from grace, we've fallen off our pace, 
Been displaced, paraphrased by our complacent ways.  No one to blame. 
 This is our right!  This is our time that we are free to waste.
Look away and rinse away the lingering taste of a life debased.  
This is our right!  This is our way of life, pantomime.  
To those who can hear me I say,'this freedom has made you enslaved'.  
It's not always better to change.  
With one foot forward we start to back away 
Until we end up outstretched and can't relieve the strain.  
This is our right!  This is our life that we are free to waste.  
Look away and rinse away the lingering taste of a life debased.  
This is our right!  This is our way of life, pantomime.  
To those who can hear me I say, 'this freedom has made you enslaved'.  
It's not always better to change.  
The tranquility in repeat makes all of us monkeys believe 
that we contribute to something.  
Still, there are those who wish that they had more to do with 
Taking the bulls horns for their own benefit, unheralded.  
Still, there are those who pray that they had more to say for 
The way their fate becomes attained.  
Wake up!  Wake up!!  We can't dream if we don't get to sleep.  
Enough's enough, we've dug ourselves down too deep.  
Shape up, shape up.  A dream's good intent we intend to keep 
Yet we wake up, wake up in cold sweats, burning effigies.
Wake up!  Wake up!!  We can't dream if we don't get to sleep.  
Enough's enough, we've dug ourselves down too deep.  
Shape up, shape up.  A dream's good intent we intend to keep 
Yet we wake up, wake up in cold sweats, burning effigies.  
This is our right!  This is our life!  This is our right!  This is our way of life!

Wake Up! Wake Up!!

Four guys from Stratford working the 9-5 and filling the rest of our time with the sweet sound of music. Our debut EP, "Up with the Sun" is due out in March 2015. Please check out our first single release of that track here on January 30th, "Auto Correct My Life" and listen for announcements of our cd release party!! Thanks for the support!!

The Containment Unit

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