DESCRIPTION:
Portraits Of Past was a band from Half Moon Bay, California that made an impact on California's hardcore scene of the time, with a melodic, yet aggressive offshoot, playing a genre we could now call screamo.

Lyrics:

This is what it is.
This is really important.
This is what it is.
This is useless.
I'm wasting my time.
I'm wasting myself.
I won't bleed for nothing,
because to me this is something.
I won't turn myself inside out for your pleasure.
And I don't want this just to be background noise.
This is something.
This is what runs in my veins.
I put a lot into this.
I get a lot out.
Out of myself -- out of what I do.
I live for this.