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Dying To Be Free
03:49
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this revolutionary movement of which you claim to know
is it the one that always changes but never seems to grow?
are you another anarchist who wants to shoot a cop
or is the violence they maintain something you would like to stop?
we seek an individual lifestyle in a social communist existence
does this create a paradox in your anarchist resistance?
do our questions make sense to you or would you like to rejoin the struggle?
you need to learn how to catch before you learn to juggle
and while we’re using analogies, here’s one easier to perceive
a magic trick is more impressive with nothing up your sleeve
for your next trick you’ll inspire them to desist
can this really be accomplished with nothing but a fist?
but what exactly do you ask is all i’d like to know
because it seems to me so far along you have nothing to show
you have so much to offer but don’t know what or how
the time to change has come and gone, the time to grow is now
if what you want is freedom then open up your mind
the freedom to take what we have lost is exactly what you’ll find
they keep it to distort reality and make up their own truth
finding lies is easy but you’ll never find the truth
forget the facts that constantly change and focus on what is
the egalitarian reciprocity that means more than all of this
nature is a perfect design that we humyns try to escape
it keeps the Earth in harmony, it is this design we rape
in our attempt to have control over what keeps us alive
our own demise is the end with which we so constantly strive
but what are the answers, are they as simple as a song?
why does it seem that for justice we have to wait so long?
the Earth is dying and we’re at fault, this is all too true
the answer of course lies in truth and that is dying too
with this song we only hope to nurture a planted seed
that to save ourselves we must save that which gives us what we need
the air and water that make us whole, we consume to live
in return for this free right it’s poison that we give
wind blows the clouds which rain upon the land
“the Earth is our mother,” is something you don’t understand
you have been conditioned to believe this way of life
this government, this patriotism, this economic strife
this system defended through violence that keeps you its willing slave
has you working your whole life to put your sister in her grave
you defend that which binds you, a democratic lie
if government represents your interests then why is it you cry?
living in an environment which is fake and cold to feel
no wonder so many would rather die than accept what is real
well truth is a funny thing when you’re used to believing lies
but the potential is there to break free, i can see it in your eyes
free yourself from the chains of government and religion
of capitalism, of authority, of a fundamental system
the lines on a map which you claim hold so much worth
erase them and embrace your brothers with whom you share this Earth
now leave this utopia, open your eyes and look around
truth can be revealing but only when it is not bound
and if the truth can reveal one thing it is the fact that “anarchy”
is the logical destination of a world dying to be free
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Lake of Black Death
02:51
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a lake of black death surrounded by a fence
to keep the animals who don’t know better from flocking to their death
scarecrows in the water and guns firing systematically
this they do to scare away birds and anything else alive
another ecosystem destroyed
another old growth forest abolished
this is what drives the economy forward
and our futures into the ground
from fort mcmurray, the economic heart
to the Tetlit Gwich’in Nation
the people who live on this land are facing annihilation
the fruits of our labour are not so clearly seen
through the smog we are all breathing in
poisons like toluene and benzene
we ask for better treatment
many without a place to live
but the bosses are not budging
and still we give and give and give
they import migrant workers, instead of raising the quality of life
exploiting poor people from overseas
they twist and turn the knife
they have snuck it in the back of everything that is just
we must rise up
we must fight back
we must
we must
we must
we must see the life we have destroyed
where nothing good has grown
i too am frightened of the scarecrow
but that lake was once my home
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Peeping Tom
02:27
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you call them god’s creatures but you stick them in a cell
then gawk at them through the bars that keep them in your hell
you say that you appreciate the chance to see them here
but you don’t know the pain you cause, the suffering, the fear
when you pay admission you become a peeping tom
you’re not a nature lover, you’re just a peeping tom
would you cage the elderly, take a child from its mom?
well you support that system and you’re a fucking peeping tom
thrown into a zoo, into a life they did not choose
in their artificial homes they’re frightened and confused
there’s no education in the unnatural life of a creature trepid to its core
and in this drab monotony they’re trapped forevermore
they’re not your whores
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Tearing Down the Law
02:28
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we were sitting around a table
very calm and very sane
discussing the atrocities of the higher "moral" way
it seemed to us that right and wrong are circumstantial, to say the least
upheld through violence and through fear
they say to keep the peace
we found it rather funny
the way we pay to be jailed
you can clearly read your defined freedom when justice is for sale
we say we’re against violence, but only the unlawful kind
for when a pig beats up a starving man you’re given peace of mind
the violence you endorse will come back for you
when this system you believe in shows what it can do
sitting in your cell on the cold cement floor
thinking about your innocence behind the bars you paid for
it’s a nonsensical system where no progress can be made
as long as one is still not free; we are all still slaves
we decided that authority is the warden of us all
nobody is safe until we tear down the law
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don’t worry ‘bout a thing just kill your conscience with TV
the government will take care of you with their false sincerity
keep consuming and decomposing with every breath you take
forget that with everything you buy there’s someone’s life at stake
after your mind is dead make sure you kill your children’s future too
our progressive society likes to rape the Earth with everything we do
and at the end of the day lay down for sleep on your nice big comfy bed
and dream of how you’re the walking grave of the murdered animals you’re fed
what makes your mind believe that it’s true?
what makes you live the way that you do?
what will it take until you change too?
and what is a life to you?
don’t think to change, don’t think to grow
just close your eyes and get in line
there are so many others just like you
fearful of the pointless measurement of time
focus on the little things that keep your intelligence at bay
and the one who tell you there’s more to life
just ignore what they say
morality is just a word but cheese and money taste so good
now go to church and go to school just like a good drone should
stand up tall and sing your country’s anthem loud with pride
shed a tear for the fallen soldiers and for who and why they died
now kiss this stolen land you love so much and that you help to kill
and drink the water and air we poison and make sure you get your fill
because before you die you must teach your children the way in which we live
and they will see how fortunate they are when it is to them the Earth you give
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Sam - vox
Lex - guitar, vox
Tara - bass, vox
Taylor - drums, vox
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