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Beast of Empire

from Violence Breeds Peace EP by Pink Butchers

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Gods and Popes and Queens and Kings
They know they’ve got us listening
The only way for us to live at all
Is to slave and toil for their reckoning
People laugh and people cry
People dream and fuck and sigh
After work and church and war
This is what’s left, a feeble life

And we still comply - Why don’t we ask why
They give us shit - All scams, all lies
But we still comply - We fall in line
We fear them so - We don’t want to die
The bosses are fat and lazy
The owners are all but crazy
“The conquered people are still fighting back,
Now isn’t that amazing?”

You colonized our bodies and minds
You’ve eaten our hearts and shat them out
Fragments of love we struggle to find
to piece together what we’re really about
As the church bells ring
Are you listening?
Do you know what they mean?
It’s time to do something.

A blanket of control over the land, of
surveillance screens, and church bell towers,
Dominates common people everywhere,
It is the conquest of our waking hours
At the glance of the priest, at the policeman’s arms,
we worry and wonder, we stoop and cower
The time and space of our minds and hearts
Is occupied with threats of power

The beast of empire wants to eat us up,
digest our worth, then shit us out
But we struggle inside, rip a new asshole
in its colon wall with a savage shout
It is colonizing you and me, but
we’ll break free and we’ll get out
We’ll break free and we’ll get out
we’ll break free and we’ll get out

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from Violence Breeds Peace EP, released January 8, 2019

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CT/NY-based peace punk featuring former members of grindpunk legends THE CANCER KIDS and "chaos Oi!" pioneers STATE ASSISTED SUICIDE

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