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Czar Spangled Banner
01:39
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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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Campaign:Compromised
03:11
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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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3. |
Subterranean Brain Drill
03:58
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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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4. |
Sovereign Decree
03:22
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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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5. |
Stand Your Ground
04:19
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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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6. |
Thoughts and Prayers
03:13
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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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8. |
Bay of Pigs
01:12
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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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9. |
Revenge of the Rapist
03:32
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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
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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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11. |
Hyperbolic Echo Chamber
04:34
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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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12. |
Systematic Isolation
08:38
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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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13. |
Wall of Death
02:14
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Build the fucking wall
Build the wall to divide us all
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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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