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The Candidate

by Synaptic Suffering

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Ooh sey can't you see In the dark of the night What so proudly we heil At the orange man seething Whose broad stripes and bright stars, stand for violence and blight O'er the TV we watched, our great nation careening And the gun muzzles flare, drone strikes deemed to be fair Gave proof through the night, that our votes can't repair Oh say does that blood-spangled banner still crave So called land of the free And the Home of corporate slaves
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Unparalleled incompetence Combined with blind confidence Stumbling your way into "divine power" Trapped in media paradigms Shut down those who won't fall in line Behind fake user names, you cower Who needs votes when you have suppression? Who needs elections when nobody wins? Who needs districts when you can move the lines? Who needs polls when you have propaganda? Implicated in conspiracies so grand, constituents gather from across the land Go to the polls, though you have no control. You might as well stay home because your votes Don’t matter anymore Relying on arguments of semantics No exoneration yet you still carry the biggest stick Russian oligarchs celebrating as our conflict swells Chinese overlords give our industries financial hell Russia if you're listening, please don't forget the emails Quid pro quo impeachment is only destined to fail Landfills of your tax returns, suing just for sport There will be no justice when you control the highest court As we view the morning news Or listen in from the Sunday pews To decide to which truth to we subscribe Casting judgments based on headlines The grand collusion transcribed Your campaign has been compromised
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I am your god, provider of your energy I own the land and your politicians We have become a cynical monopoly We will produce to perpetuate this aristocracy CEOs and governments legislating protection Not for habitats or living creatures, but for inconvenience Tearing up the dirt of ancient and historic properties Filling up your wallets just to satisfy your endless greed With no regard for human life Wont someone think of the profits Wont someone think of the share holders With no regard for human life Why cant we all come together Why wont you all just give up Surrender to the hopeless fate of planet earth Leave nothing left for them, consume and destroy Concede yourself to an empty lifeless future There will be nothing left, consume and destroy Drill, drill, baby drill, drill, baby Feeding on the resources necessary to sustain the biomes of the world fossil fuels and oil are my weapon of choice CO2 emissions blanket skies in smog and devastate the air we breathe And oceans bleed because of mining Monstrosities We will choke on your agenda, all life on earth will end You will blame it on foreign nations while ignoring our demands Habitats in critical condition, our forests turned to ash We will never see the light of day again Surrender to the hopeless fate of planet earth Leave nothing left for them, consume and destroy Concede yourself to an empty lifeless future There will be nothing left, consume and destroy
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My journey comes to an end Acrimonious situations have forced my hand Incarcerated for Political quagmires Now a foreign judge decides my fate Narcissistic projections belittling minorities Triggering Delusions to manipulate your campaign Minimizing necessary survival conditions for financial gains Capitalizing on suffering of aliens with no claim Ripped away and discarded like the filth you're made to be Children trapped in cages fills my darkened heart with glee Build a wall to protect us from the fear of your disease No law here will save you from the sovereign decree Bring your rapists Bring your killers Fill the pockets our corporations Amalgamation of discrimination spanning centuries Permanent detention is the sentence for those not born like me Obstruction of due process, adjournment of justice Perpetuating sectarian policies Enforcing prejudiced ideals, funding private companies Intransigent we remain You are not welcome There is no opportunity
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You say come and take them, its such an empty threat It's your fear that drives you to irrational connection with instruments of devastation You say it's freedom, creating a nationwide police state Afraid of unlikely outcomes that you only perpetuate Based on racial segregation and the greed of corporations Violence is the only solution, we don’t need a resolution Bullets in their heads, lungs filled with lead My god given freedom to end your life Killing classmates and murdering wives No one will ever take away my second amendment rights Stand your ground Empty your clips and fill up the caskets Storm the capital while wearing masks Don’t tread on me A good guy with a gun stops a bad guy with a gun But if you're the killer, what have you really won? Does it make you feel safe? Does it make you feel free? 20,000 yearly suicides, is that your self defense? How many bullets will it take How many lives have to go to waste So many statistics to back your faith So many excuses at every wake Wave your flag and send thoughts and prayers Bullets in their heads, lungs filled with lead My god given freedom to end your life Killing classmates and murdering wives No one will ever take away my second amendment rights Stand your ground Your thoughts and prayers mean nothing when spoken to empty congregations Filled with bodies of the victims of your so called freedom
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Flashing lights Pulling up behind Cross my fingers, hoping that I don’t die If im white, it was just a tail light But If im brown, ill probably end up face down Condemned to a malicious fate Filling up the streets with hate 'Preserve the peace' a message that the news cant corroborate Dealers and theives deserve to die? Call it a warzone to justify Getting away, getting away with murder Body cams malfunctioning without hesitation I start firing I feared for my life don’t you see? Just listen to my testimony Short suspension with paid leave, theres no consequences for me Conditioned through discrimination Killing without hesitation Self-defensive murder is a reasonable expectation Fill your prisons for petty crimes No lives matter inside your mind Fill up the morgue, with the youth of minorities then Beating my wife due to trauma from my job duties A badge that protects you from scrutiny A full body armor of immunity Investigating your own employees, Surprised to find that your own are always clean (hold) Red and blue lights should signify protection But instead they represent government infection A national purge disguised in blue But You won't care until the next victim is you Body cams malfunctioning without hesitation I start firing I feared for my life don’t you see? Just listen to my testimony Short suspension with paid leave, theres no consequences for me Conditioned through discrimination Killing without hesitation Self-defensive murder is a reasonable expectation Fill your prisons for petty crimes No lives matter inside your mind
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Bay of Pigs 01:12
The problem for anyone paying attention is that there is a disconnect between local police forces and their citizens For this next song, I'm gonna try to speak a language that law enforcement might just understand Oink Oink
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You can’t buy love but you can buy court decisions You can’t buy people but you can buy their fate The jury’s out but you can still get it in Just blame it on the victim and their life of sin Getting off on degredation , complain about my reputation, relying on exploitation, pedophilic annihilation I will show you untold suffering I will take away your worth, I will make you feel my hate You cant rectify the life you took away You will never understand, you are unforgiven How dare you accuse me of my own crime How dare you attempt to ruin my whole life How dare you How dare you destroy my perverse empire You may not know be but I cant ignore you, ive wanted this so long how could you reject me I deserve this from you you owe it to me, it wont be so bad but please don’t call the police If you report this no one will believe you, they will just blame you and I can't have someone Going around making These false accusations So shut up you whore and just take what I give you, it will be over soon, please just give up, No one can hear you Youre just making this harder Kicking and screaming I slide deep inside, I must admit that this feelings sublime I am not a stranger, I don't lurk in the shadows, I'm not a hooded figure in a darkened alley I am familiar you know me well, if you don’t you wont forget me I am your friend, and your father, your brother, and your boss, your acquaintance, and your Pastor we've already Met I am your rapist, you know me well I am your rapist you won’t forget
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Coathanger 03:35
Obsessing over pregnancies, protecting what's inside My lord has convinced me that I'm Preventing foetal genocide Women thinking for themselves by this I am appalled One day you will realize even god won’t save them all Billboards of aborted babies on the interstate Jesus saves and god is real, scared of eternal fate Uninformed protestors holding posters spreading fear Misguiding women to give up the lives they hold dear Pictures show disfigured sacks of flesh and blood You think the only solution is to take away the funds I was just a teenager that acted on my urge Now I will take this coathanger to execute the purge And still, you blame it on me Blame it on me Politicians use your faith to push the narrative Save the unborn children is your top imperative You claim that they are human, but wheres your empathy For foster homes and orphanages filled by your policies And still, you blame it on them How can you blame it on them? There is no excuse for the lives you could have saved Every single mother would rather have the choice to make Who will have to answer when kids are on the street? Who will help the families that struggle just to make ends meet? I was just a teenager that acted on my urge Now I will take this coathanger to execute the purge No one would have wanted this, to me its plain to see But I was left no choice and still you blame it all on me
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Scrolling endlessly down my news feed Sensationalist stories is all that I read Editorials outnumber the truth Contorting all the minds of our impressionable youth Eagerly exploited we devour the pages Of hypocrites and conflicts of interests for the ages Stuck inside this hyperbolic echo chamber History would tell us we are all in danger Ensnared by my own following, I cant betray sources I have known History repeating online and in reality Fill the pixels on every screen Opinion columns masquerading as reporting Enforcing pre-existing biases within me Filling up my mind with cacophony Of dishonesty just for hit of dopamine What should I believe When every outlet is out to deceive me There is no wrong or right Only this media landscape made of blight Scrolling endlessly down my news feed Sensationalist stories is all that I read Editorials outnumber the truth Contorting all the minds of our impressionable youth Eagerly exploited we devour the pages Of hypocrites and conflicts of interests for the ages Stuck inside a hyperbolic echo chamber History would tell us we are all in danger I refuse to be a willing witness With these breakdowns we can fight this sickness Let them hear our voices and scream with me Drown out the lies with Synaptic Suffering Drown this cacophony How can we find a solution that has no answer How can we prove what is true through all of the slander How can we ever escape from this echo chamber?
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Images of suffering, glowing on my screen But I am just one man, I do all that I can Though I lived a life of privilege and safety The guilt it lingers still, festering inside me I know I can't save them all But I thought I could save just one What am I fighting for? When there's no justice anymore? We all die alone We don't want the truth We don’t want to be set free I'd rather take my chance with him, and focus on my greed We don't want a tyrant We won't surrender democracy But it's hard to have faith when everything is crashing down around me Now find myself considering How to escape from this doom impending Human rights are now a national debate Some say the cost is too great, it's not our sacrifice to make Midwestern farmers fearing immigrants Believe in an invasion without evidence Evangelicals protest abortion While churches use their people for extortion Hereditary machinations Spanning countless generations Feasting on the ignorance of disenfranchised populations Radicalize our elders, turn them against their children Sowing conflict from within Worldwide protests against regimes While we post on social media political memes Exhausting conversations, and semantic tribulation Geopolitical situations, systematic isolation Even those I used to respect Have had their minds twisted and wrecked It's not just me you leave behind It's everything A swan song for a broken man This is your legacy of nothing I'd rather die than face myself The truth has always been my personal hell All I have left is this pathetic sack of flesh And with this rope, my mind I now thresh Images of suffering, glowing on my screen But I am just one man, I did all that I can Though I lived a life of privilege and safety The guilt it lingers still, festering inside me I know I can't save them all But I thought I could save just one What are we fighting for? When there's no justice anymore? There is only one way to escape I'll take the easy way out, better now than wait Don't lament my loss, this is my fate This was my decision to make As The air escapes from my lungs Vision blackens, limbs go numb Hanging lifeless in my home Now I finally won't have to feel alone We all die alone
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Build the fucking wall Build the wall to divide us all

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released July 10, 2020

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Synaptic Suffering Indianapolis, Indiana

Basement-made one-man-band project based out of Indianapolis. Breakdowns and brees with melodic tremolo riffs.

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