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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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Abolitio et Iustitia
03:31
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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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4. |
Terrorism
00:31
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Replicants
03:43
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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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6. |
Nothing Left
05:46
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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
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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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7. |
Demons
03:20
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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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8. |
If Not Now
03:58
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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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10. |
Tongue Tied
03:59
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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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11. |
A Day Without a Saint
03:40
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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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