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Six Weeks
02:55
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Born to protect and serve the wealthy elite
Like vultures circling, terrorize our streets
Playing god every day with another life
Six weeks of training and a gun
Answer to no one, allowed to hide behind another badge
Keep us in our place to serve the ruling class
State sanctioned murder, take a life in the name of liberty
One day you're cattle, the next day qualified for immunity
Enforcing changing laws, written to limit our strength
The will of autocrats clinging to their seats
Collateral damage in the fight over control
Of an empire with a blackened soul
When they come for me
When they come for you
We build everything they take
Shaped by everything we face
Caught in the middle of a war for more income
Lawyers and millionaires who always put themselves above
Nothing will ever change
Nothing to my name
Pennyless and broke as fuck
There's no digging out of this hole
Left to die in the street
Fading as you step over me
Born to protect and serve the wealthy elite
Like vultures circling, terrorize our streets
Playing god every day with another life
Six weeks of training and a gun
The healthcare worker, the lifelong civil servant
Underpaid teachers, activists with their life on the line
Time for a sea change, rebuild instead of destroy
The voices we need, buried beneath the white noise
Collateral damage in the fight over control
Of an empire with a blackened soul
When they come for me
When they come for you
We build everything they take
Shaped by everything we face
Caught in the middle of a war for more income
Lawyers and millionaires who always put themselves above
They can't jail the revolution
You can't jail the revolution
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2. |
More Than This
03:34
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For us it's permanent
It's permanent
Head first, blinded by endless greed
Nothing beyond what they can see
Short term, only think of today
Fuck tomorrow when you already have everything
Running out of time, stuck in the past on the same loop
We're out of time, the world is dying while we watch the news
When the waters rise they will be buried six feet below
Set another fire as their legacy unfolds
Poisoned by our inheritance
Their life at our expense
There has to be something more than this
For us it's all we've known
The death of our home
Jump first, never look or think twice
Their will, gifted by the divine
Destroy anything in the way
Entitled to a lifestyle we maintain
Running out of time, treating a gunshot with a band aid
We're out of time, what's gonna be left to save
When the waters rise they will be buried six feet below
Set another fire as their legacy unfolds
Poisoned by our inheritance
Their life at our expense
There has to be something more than this
What they don't teach, the unspoken truth
We're past the tipping point we're killing our food
Everything comes with a hidden cost
Our comfort at another's loss
Everything comes at a cost
When we run out of air to breath
When there's no water left to drink
When hell swallows us whole
There's not enough money to buy a soul
Run from fires that continue to burn
Homelessness dependent on what I earn
There's a value placed on your life
We're worth the same dead or alive
if you stop you're expendable
This endless loop never stops
As we consume, we seal our doom - something more than this
The ethics of putting us above - something more than this
We need a change, what we became - something more than this
Just light the match, then we start from scratch - something more than this
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3. |
One Less
01:21
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You don't fucking know me, I don't know you
You keep it straight I abuse
Celebrate what makes us different
There's room for coexistence
We don't see this world the same, though we may agree
Free to make the same mistakes, free to live unseen
Every moment we're alive we're conditioned to hate
Anything that doesn't fit, anything unsafe
Walk to your own beat, kill yourself however you please
No one knows what's best for you
Fuck the noise from the loudest few
To each their fucking own
No one should live under anyone's control
But first you have to dig
yourself out of this hole
We will not ever be a monolith, but we share the desire to resist
We know we need to burn this to the ground
Instead the firing squad circles around
One less person for the cause
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Fell for another way, for a different life
One that doesn't take a piece of me
Every minute lost, every moment gone
More reminders there's no going back
There's no turning back
Life down at rock bottom, every day long
Every night cold down to the bone
Can't get much worse, living for now
Tomorrow comes with no guarantee
A celebration of mediocrity
A song for all of us so ordinary
We're kept in cages, unable to move
Held down in entry level purgatory
They say we bring our own fires with us to hell
but the blaze was burning long before we fell
We reward the average every day
Nothing real comes without pain
Anyone can be anything, with the right family
Giving you everything, exceptional pedigree
Fell down hard once again, always on the ground
Nothing's easy that's worth fighting for
Every minute lost, every moment gone
More reminders there's no going back
There's no turning back
Life down at rock bottom, tedium prevails
Repetition, every day's the same
Put on a show, perform the routine
Tomorrow comes with no guarantee
A celebration of mediocrity
A song for all of us so ordinary
Held to the ground, pinned down by a boot
Pull yourself up by bootstraps that were never given to you
They say we bring our own fires with us to hell
but the blaze was burning long before we fell
We reward the average every day
Nothing real comes without pain
There's nothing wrong with being nothing
There's nothing wrong with having nothing
Sometimes we fly, sometimes we crash
The freedom of coming in dead fucking last
Starving to death, next to a high rise
Take a last breath, while they continue to thrive
We're out here dying in the street
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5. |
Sewer Socialism
03:25
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Break from our abuser, fuse the fractured ego
What's it like outside, is your world designed to fall apart with time
Are the schools behind, the roads in decline, your bills on the rise
Corporations grow as they overthrow, another business closed
The banks steal your home, growing numbers roam, suffering alone
First they come for me, silence anyone who tries to speak out
They they come for you, no one's left when they take you down
They left us with nothing
The crumbs after they feast
Nothing left for us
What the fuck is wrong with wanting more than a dead end job
Work every day so someone else gets rich
Catching up every minute we exist
What the fuck is wrong with wanting more than a death prolonged
Address the problem don't just fight against the symptoms
Something more than making money off misfortune
Withholding basic needs required to survive
We all want to drink clean water, tired of choking on poison air
We all want a future not a fire, we need more than thoughts and prayers
Break from our abuser, reject the fractured ego
What's it like today in a world of pain on a slow decay
Where imprisonment fuels and industry, reliving history
A rewritten past never goes away, it survives through change
Made up enemies, false supremacy, free from liberty
First they come for me, silence anyone who tries to speak out
They they come for you, no one's left when they take you down
They left us with nothing
The crumbs after they feast
Nothing left for us
What the fuck is wrong with wanting more than a dead end job
Work every day so someone else gets rich
Catching up every minute we exist
What the fuck is wrong with wanting more than a death prolonged
Address the problem don't just fight against the symptoms
Something more than making money off misfortune
Withholding basic needs required to survive
We all want to drink clean water, tired of choking on poison air
We all want a future not a fire, we need more than thoughts and prayers
No more killing ourselves to just barely get by
No more living our lives in a panic deaf and blind
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6. |
Whatever It Takes
02:38
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Violence, under martial law so rich people feel safe
Built a culture, reward the violent
Taking, stealing, whatever it takes
Down from Wall Street to your monthly rent
Villains pillage, whatever it takes
It's not broken this is how it's supposed to work
In the name of safety another night another life lost
In the name of safety communities burned at the cross
Looters don't riot in the street
Killers with a different technique
Were born with a price on our heads
Bloodlet and leave us all for dead
What's the breaking point, when they've pushed us all too far
We're already against the wall, squeezed tight so it's harder to breath
Where's the fucking line
It's not broken this is how it's supposed to work
In the name of safety another night another ending in loss
In the name of safety terrorized at what cost
Looters don't riot in the street
Killers with a different technique
Were born with a price on our heads
Bloodlet and leave us all for dead
Suffocation through rising debt
Take what they can leave us for dead
It's our fucking time, take back what our labor has built
The capital robbed from this land, the wealth taken out of our hands
Built by flawed men, this can be undone
Break the cycle, whatever it takes
There's no fixing, burn this system down
Starting over, whatever it takes
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