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Eleutheros

by Eleutheros

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Alexander Jenssen
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Alexander Jenssen It's been a long time since I have heard Eleutheros. Classic Edmonton punk!
RIP big T. Favorite track: Tearing Down the Law.
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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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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
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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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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released January 1, 2007

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Eleutheros Edmonton, Alberta

Original lineup:
Sam - vox
Lex - guitar, vox
Tara - bass, vox
Taylor - drums, vox

Additional members:
Dave - guitar
Chris - drums

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