1. |
The Future Sells Silence
02:49
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you really think you know
what death tastes like
then they open you up
you feel nothing at all
pain kept me conscious
I accept the embrace
half numb self-negating
so sick of waking up
let the fruit of despair
liberate your belief
moments of clarity
burn away like a shadow
become what you
seek to know
as we trace along
scars fade with each new dawn
inviolable dread plagues me
anxiety intrudes
still I force myself
to live another day
if it gets any louder I can’t ignore to pretend things will get any better
I cry out and wish I could take all this pain make it passion and happiness
mirrored would life do the same when you’re all alone who the fuck is to blame
at these heights a fall seems like floating
traces of chaos set gravity free
I stare into a world without an anchor
as I free myself of the curse of being and time
in solitude I don’t need mediation
if I choose to live I must endure
we’re a violent kind we live violent lives
I welcome the tempest
mirrored would it do the same
we’re a violent kind we live violent lives
at these heights
a fall seems like floating
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2. |
Tools of Rhetoric
02:43
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I’ve got a suggestion for you
unfurl the red white and blue
glorified blood-soaked rag
consider your “stars and stripes”
they symbolize ethnocide
erased indigenous lives
at the behest of avarice men
we can’t sit by for it to happen again
we're on borrowed time
bad luck is infinite, we thought
we had a great moment, we bought
ignorance ruined it, we lost
these are the consequences
a fever in the blood
they'll make the children witness
the horrors they construct
we’ll take the power back
with every death our needs will be met
discovered salt to cure
to cure the kill, by force of will
don’t confess don’t repress don’t repent for wanting to exist
we know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death
with a riot right outside your door
will you still be obsessed with domination over all around you
as fascists rise up like a sore we’ll disinfect their hate
your silence will not will not protect you
here’s a list of demands
take the power out of old hands
discuss the ramifications of 400 years
of enslavement and murder
recognize that women’s rights are a human right
recognize that trans rights are a human right
your silence will not protect you
your silence will not protect you
your silence will not protect you
your silence will not protect you
Trans Lives Matter
Black Lives Matter
your silence will not protect you
your silence will not protect you
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3. |
Temporal Decay
04:47
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the wind in the shadows
under the light of our own day
nothing interests us beyond
our own personal agony
past the point of no return
we wrote our final poem
it’s hard to say goodbye
but we all live to die
blood relative to
the inscrutable knife
written in ink
thicker than life
convulsive beauty, delicate tissue
pain kept me conscious, now it wants me back
in the shadow of Abraham’s curse
under cross, stars and crescent
I am heavens runaway
I am heavens runaway
convulsive beauty, delicate tissue
pain kept me conscious, now it wants me back
speak in love analyze the lens of
necessary truth long enough
you find It’s just as subjective
sometimes it’s best to just remain silent
only we can save ourselves from each other
few alive know how very precious a quick death is
at the end our mortality permanently confirmed
they tell you nothing of the pain you can expect at the end
as you suffer the yoke of belief
the structure of religion
mirrors the current economic tactic
for coercion by the ruling class
thereupon I cannot doubt except,
to doubt and to live consuming
information and despair
we can’t save ourselves from a nation expired
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4. |
Malignantly Useless
02:19
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we want some place to call our own
born into bodies betrayed at birth
we stay closed inside ourselves
if I could I’d become someone else
willingness to live or die
I meet my fate the world and I
willingness to live or die
I meet my fate the world and I
led by indulgence
pride in pain
lyricism of suffering a chant of the wretch
my flesh accidental limits disappear
absolute uselessness subjective fear
I can’t contain the joy that this end is near
prisoners of fragile bodies
paranoia in post-modern times
with my claws I confirm my vessel
I howl and claim autonomy
life a long agony on the path to death
obsessive I linger until my last breath
keys to depression I scream at the air
if I can still love me I’ll live without fear
open the hearts of those who object
open the necks of all assailants
if I can still love me I’ll live without fear
if I can still love me I’ll live without fear
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