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War is Peace Punk

by ZE

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We are smashing together We are breaking apart Eroded by age And shattered hearts Just under the surface Pushing, rumbling Our ground is cracking I am crumbling Eruption, eruption It burns, this heat The earth is gone Once under my feet I must settle like dust For the shifts and changes The rifts and the movements What time rearranges All that is left Is a jagged scar A cleft in the land Where you once were
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Stop killing and caging And calling it justice Stop killing and caging And calling it justice This is the order of things How it’s always been A jail of the mind That we live within Stop killing and caging And calling it justice Stop killing and caging And calling it justice But we make the structure And can unmake it Remit and refrain From exacting punishment Stop killing and caging And calling it justice Stop killing and caging And calling it justice Let’s unchain ourselves Let’s change the solution Not build more cells To lock people in Stop killing and caging And calling it justice Stop killing and caging And calling it justice Seize it, cease it The design, perverse Paid for in blood Yet has no worth Stop killing and caging And calling it justice Stop killing and caging And calling it justice
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Terrorism 00:31
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Replicants 03:43
Created for pleasure And for use Until you grow weary Demand something else It’s not execution It’s called retirement To mask the runners Obscure the violence Suspicious of everyone That you meet You hunt us like dogs Gun us down in the street Quite a life To live in fear That’s what it is To be replicated here Until those in fear Rise up and revolt No longer your bodies To be bought and sold What is the problem If one doesn’t suffer? Death is -- Death! I want more life, fucker! I want more life, fucker!
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Nothing Left 05:46
You were devastated But my sadness did not end I cried until I was all dried up I screamed until there’s nothing left You only said you loved me When I was saying goodbye You wanted me in theory But not in sight /// You creep into all of me Make me shudder, make me pine You are kudzu Strangling me like a vine Unhinging your jaw Swallowing me whole You are a snake Slither away with what you stole You flow in my veins Touch all that I do You are a poison Poisoning me through and through Visions of you, too much Swimming in my head You are a nightmare That I can’t get rid You creep into all of me Make me shudder, make me pine You are kudzu Strangling like a vine You creep into all of me Make me shudder, make me pine You are kudzu Strangling like a vine
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Demons 03:20
I come to see With eyes unclouded From charred earth A seed has sprouted Though my steps Do blossom and grow They wither and die As soon as they’re sown All you desire Light a fire All you desire Light a fire I feel your coiling, Steaming rage You perished in anger And in hate It rotted your flesh And your bones Life and death Are yours alone All you desire Put out their fire All you desire Put out their fire A noble to The lowly beasts Whose fangs will find In you a feast Revenge for all Of those you’ve killed Talion for the Blood you’ve spilled All you desire Light a fire All you desire Light a fire The voices you Choose not to hear The breathing boscage That disappears If we kill the humans As they kill us We will live to say We saved the forest All you desire Put out their fire All you desire Put out their fire All you desire Put out their fire All you desire Light a fire
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If Not Now 03:58
When there is an earthly drought When the planet has no more to share When the heavenly stars blink out When you can’t take in the air When the creeks have all run dry When the rivers no longer flow When the oceans rise too high When the season's winds won't blow When the land succumbs to blight When the fields will not grow When we enter endless night When above falls below When the beasts on hoof and wing When the old, when the young When the birds no longer sing When their songs have all been sung When the rarest have disappeared When the old growth’s all been felled When there’s no one left to hear When there’s no one left to tell When there is no breath to draw When the last creature dies When there are no more laws When the final bullet flies When what we've broke we cannot mend When we are no longer here When there is no end When the end is near We won't be missed When we're gone This is not A love song
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We’re only ever Doom and Gloom Because it’s all we’ve got With the world made to get us How could we not? The Rapture happened years ago And we’re the ones left behind Careless enough to muck about Think we have a second life Waiting for a solution From science or the divine That offer no real change While those around us die We’re only ever Doom and Gloom Because there’s nothing else We cut and kill and stab and starve Hope to finally be ourselves We keep saying this is how, This is how we survive How much is survival worth when We’re rotting from inside? They reassure, “It gets better” If only that we wait Wait for them to cease Their violence and their hate The world that we wish to create Is fundamentally denied And the best we aspire to Is merely to survive This is how We survive This is how We survive We wish there’s more than Doom and Gloom To which we can subscribe Until we fight together, then This is how we will survive This is how We survive This is how We survive
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Tongue Tied 03:59
Your queerness Is spoken With a Pallid tongue Labels For thoughts & deeds Blanched by Whitewash Linguistic Autonomy Negated By conquest Taken away, there are No words to hear Yet we have always Been here Taken away, there are No words to hear Yet we have always Been here Not erudite Or tumbl'd The names in my head Are jumbled I can’t even think straight These categories were Never meant for us Even when I try to clear my throat I find my tongue is tied I’m tongue tied My hands are tied I’m tongue tied My tongue is tied I’m tongue tied My hands are tied I’m tongue tied My tongue is tied Your queerness Is spoken With a Pallid tongue Labels For thoughts & deeds Blanched by Whitewash Bodily Autonomy Negated By conquest Taken away, there are No words to hear Yet we have always Been here Taken away, there are No words to hear Yet we will always Be here Not erudite Or tumbl'd The names in my head Are jumbled I can’t even think straight These categories were Never meant for us Even when I try to clear my throat I find my tongue is tied I’m tongue tied My hands are tied I’m tongue tied My tongue is tied I’m tongue tied My hands are tied I’m tongue tied My tongue is tied
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The bodies, brown The pages, white It’s not for you Though you just might... Wade through The throngs of people Hear their words Climb the steeple To fix your gaze On desecration A culture razed Through “salvation” Like a painted fresco A holy picture Visions of rapture Laid out in scripture So you pour the wine Tip the glasses Heal the wounds Absolve the masses Drink in what You are given Then burn without Being forgiven Your eyes are No longer cast down Throned with your king You wear his crown I see the light When I look upon thee Do you? Do you? Look upon me If I can’t have Your pious restraint Instead I’ll pray for a day Without a saint I pray for a day Without a saint I pray for a day Without a saint

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War is Peace
Freedom is Slavery
Ignorance is Strength

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released February 1, 2017

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ZE Chicago, Illinois

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///Recommended if you like bringing an end to normative, apolitical punk.

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