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Convenient Killings
02:43
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Pushing our buttons
Burning oil, burning crops
Burning our bodies
Spread the ashes, fertilize the dead soil
Give way, move aside
Give way, there is progress to be made
Gross domestic product moves abroad
Let us be programmed
To praise convenience
At the altars consume
Global will be done
We choose to kill
We choose convenience
We burn all soil
The fault is all ours
Our conscience we drown
In the latest fads
Clothe our skins
With blood-soaked oil-spun cloth
With blood-soaked oil-spun cloth
We steal the land to clothe our skins
With blood-soaked oil-spun cloth
We are blood-soaked
Give way, move aside
Give way, there is progress to be made
And Friedman said:
Behold what my disciples create
Prosperity for all
Glorious greed grease the global gears
Look deep into these dead eyes
And my will shall be done unto you
Give way, move aside
Give way, there is progress to be made
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Beware The Fear Mongers
02:37
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I see through the veil that you have cast
Over the eyes of the populace
I see through the veil to where lies stain your lips
I will not let my mind
Be made a malleable form
I will not let you in
I will not stand and wait in line
To be fooled into your dream of docile domestication
Faux news enters the skull
Like a 20 pound sledge hammer
Invades your existence
And colonizes your mind
With false assumptions
Colonizes your mind
With false assumptions
Constructing a world view ready for consumption
Prepackaged fear available for easy purchase
I will not let you lead me astray
I see through the veil
I see through the fear mongering
Beware! Beware!
Beware the fear mongers!
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3. |
The Preacher Said
02:39
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You're spoon fed propaganda
With your daily bread
Your thoughts move ever slower
Like a rat in a pharmacy maze
Hands off those pills son!
Stand down and consider this
The profusion of state and capital
Has led your opinions astray
The free market theory is
Arguably full of holes
Hands off those bonds son!
Stop buying and sell, sell, sell
Measures are being taken right now
To see this order smashed
You have no evidence
We have precedent
These aren't empty claims
You have no evidence
We have precedent
So once again
I have been standing here, preaching:
Hand off my means of production
Take your models and go fuck yourself
This is people not resources
Your insistance on scrutinizing these mathematics
Prevents you from seeing that the big picture
Is more complex than your standardized models of trade
You have no evidence
We have precedent
And these are not empty claims
Where there is fear there is no love
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Have I ever laid claim to holding a knife to your neck?
Have I ever put pressure on your shoulders in any way?
I'll admit it now
I find you lacking
And I judge you by
The same standards that I try to meet
And thus far you've not impressed
The blame lies on you
The blame lies on you
Your viewpoint is inferior
Your viewpoint is inferior
I'm done trying to coax some sense from you
I'm giving up on you, I've lost faith in you
I'm done trying to see the sense in your words
I'm giving up on you
Fuck you, I no longer care to listen to your mewlings
I hereby withdraw my approval
The stakes are too high for acceptance
I'm done trying to coax some sense from you
I'm giving up on you, I've lost faith in you
I'm done trying to see the sense in your words
I'm giving up on you
Fuck you, I no longer care about you
Nor the noises that come from your face
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The reek of phosphorous hang heavy over these fields
Where life could bloom if you would just stable your steel horses
Your death machines
A tradition of salted earth
Overshadow your craft
Digging deeper, forgetting that the supply is running lower
Transitioning not into the new day
You are moving sideways towards the ledge
Not seeing the abyss of depletion
Moving sideways towards the ledge
Falling down there where you'll wither
The tradition of salted earth
Is now the full extent of your skills
It's overshadowed your craft
You pour poison into the soil
Oh, the irony!
What will you think of all you've wasted
When all we'll eat is the dust that's left
When the disruption of natural systems
Finally grants you what your ignorance deserves
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6. |
I Will Be Proven Right
01:43
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I can tell by the smirk on your face
That I've allready said too much
That does not fit in your minute world
I guess it's time to turn my back
Leave your life to continue its slow decay
After all, I'd be naive to think
That every mind can possess flexibility
The day will come
when I'll be proven right
I can tell by the frown on your face
That I've already said too much
And as you can't see the cash crops failing
I guess it's time to turn my back
I see you run in circles
Retrace your steps and start again
My day will come and I will be proven right
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7. |
Bliss
06:03
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The patching of your shelters were never enough
To stand even the slightest breeze
And as the wind is changing overhead
You cling to your ignorance
As the bliss it gives brings you comfort
In these the last times of abundance
I hear tragedy in the western wind
Yet I have hope
I expect that those that pull through finds a new way
A way that won't lead us back around
Back into the dead end that left us standing here
With no real shelter against the storm
And as the wind is changing overhead
You cling to your ignorance
As the bliss it gives brings you comfort
In these the last times of abundance
Your eyes follow my gaze
And yet you can't see the storm coming in
It will change everything
This state of affairs will have run its course
In time it will be clear even for you
As you survey the land swept clean
Of the taint of the ideas that formed
this growth pattern and you will see
The limits set on infinity
I hear tragedy in the western wind
Yet I have hope
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8. |
The Wage Paradigm
02:30
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This is not for us, it hollows us out
But as you sink and stick
I'm figuring out how to leave it behind
And not get trapped for too long
I'm getting closer to the line which once stepped over
There's no turning back, it's getting closer
We're getting closer to the point of no return
Where this hollow crumbles, and we are set free
And what would it be like
If you all could see this
From my vantage point
And realize that the hole in you calls
Not for more but for less
Not for more but for less
This is not for me for it hollows me out and I
Now see this lie for what it truly is
And what would it be like
If you all could see this
From my vantage point
Could you make it out
And what would it be like
If you all could see this
From my vantage point
Where the walls aren't so high
From this distance they seem easy to climb
From this distance they seem easy to tear down
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These suggestions and propositions must be run over and over again
By the same men that put them forth
Self proclaimed all knowing professionals
The ones that need us to not see their
Horrifying incompetence
I'll vote no to everything
Everything that springs from the mouths
Of these unqualified, self righteous swine
I've not laid these decisions on your table
Give me my word back
It's never been yours for the taking
Give me my will back
I've never given my consent to be representated
I'll vote no to everything
I will let you dance this dance of pointlessly discussing what route to take
As which ever one that you take will end up in leading you to your fall
Leading to your fall
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10. |
Versus Vultures
03:13
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You've put your mind into the box they sold to you
And lean on their rails for the support that you need
As their world push you down again and again and again
Oh, consumer!
Your power is but a figment of their imagination
You've put your mind into the box they sold to you
And lean on their rails for the support that you need
As their world push you down again and again and again
Lay your head to rest
On a pillow made of regret
Sleep soundly undisturbed
By the grinding of gears
And of vultures gnawing your bones bare
You have laid your head to rest
As your bones gleam in the sun
Vultures have gnawed them bare
Remember, you are not helpless
There is still time for you to wake up and see what I see
The truth must come to the fore
The lie must come to an end, blinding our eyes no more
There is still time left to course correct
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Eons old structure failing the test of time
It's caving in from the pressures within
You finally did it for me: tore down the issues between
Living under your heel, and me breaking your stride
You'll fall on your face
So let's all get back
To the drawing board
That we might redesign our very thought processes
And never return to the psychopaths' breeding grounds
You'll fall on your face
So let's all get back
To the drawing board
A hope lit my heart
That I might have the time
To build my own space
Inside what will be torn down
As its foundation crumble to dust
Eons old structure failing the test of time
It's caving in from the pressures within
Back to the drawing board!
Burn it all and start again
Back to the drawing board
Burn it all and start again
Back to square one
Tillbaka till ritbordet
Brann allt och borja om
Tillbaka till ritbordet
Tillbaka till ruta ett
Back to square one
Back to the drawing board and burn it all down
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12. |
Played As Fools
02:27
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You're all prostitutes to the lutheran ethic
He who does not work shalt have nothing to eat
But there is nothing honest about a day's work
Under the adage that holds property as natural law
Leave your place by the machine
Leave your place on the cotton field
The abolishment of slavery did never happen
It's but a construction to avoid responsibility
We're the perfect asset as we feed and house ourselves
And thus I maintain: property is theft
Give the tools and the commons back to us
Leave your place
I hope we'll hear
The sound of tools jamming gears
As the downtrodden rise to see
How they have been played as fools
Into sustaining this order
Until then the fact will always remain
That he who has the gold makes the rules
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Hearts Alive Sweden
5-piece Hardcore/metal band from Helsingborg, Sweden.
Our new album "He who has the gold makes all the rules" was released in April 2012.
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