Survival, and What It's Worth (Zil)

from War is Peace Punk by ZE

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sur·viv·al
sərˈvīvəl
(noun)
the state or fact of continuing to live or exist, typically in spite of an accident, ordeal, difficult circumstances, or systems of violence and exploitation that were created solely to crush you and others under its weight

lyrics

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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from War is Peace Punk, released February 1, 2017

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

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