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ASSüCK LYRICS
"Anticapital" (1992)
1. Socialized Crucifixion
2. The Thousand Mile Stare
3. Population Index
4. Dogmatic
5. Spiritual Manipulation
6. Feasts Of War
7. October Revolution
8. Procession
9. State To State
10. The Perpetual Cycle
11. World Of Confusion
12. Civilization Comes, Civilization Goes
13. Page By Page
14. Sterility
15. Body Politic Equation
16. Anticapital
17. Epilogue
1. Socialized Crucifixion
Your lifesblood has been systematically drained away by those who rule over you. Shouts and screams of freedom fall on deaf ears as our intellect is discredited and displayed on the gallows of our lives. Lifeless we swing as dictators continue to propagate, to legitimate lies which pave roads for the children. The loopholes of the system have been filled with your decorum.
2. The Thousand Mile Stare
The shattered mirror holds the only truth, the sole reflection of our existence which is broken into fragments. Each frail piece holds a distorted view of double standards and hidden agendas. Each sliver captures a cracked glimpse of scenarios of our exploitation. Each culture scrapes its identity attempting to squeeze through the cracks. But perhaps the most frightening image of all is the bleak expression on the face of our society. How can we look at this anymore?
3. Population Index
All that is artificial maintains us. That which exists is inadequate. The hypocrisies of technology betray our senses. Simulated emotions, fooled again. We're labels on files in cabinets. Payroll accounts and calculations. We're gears that run the machine that dictates life as we know it (and we don't). We're gears that run the machine that dictates our lives. We're the rung of our humanity on which technology thrives. We're expendable figures, we're liquidation. We're character strings and data statements. We learn, live and die a number.
4. Dogmatic
Icons of a cruel and ficticious god impregnating minds with a lustful theology of blind obedience. Enslaved by fairy tales, tribulation and dead end hallucinations. Seeded in the hierarchy of salvation. Kneel before the altar of inequality. Bow your head, close your eyes.
5. Spiritual Manipulation
Hiding behind the thin veil of religious insecurity. Searching for answers where questions have no meaning. Petrified by seclusion, fear of uncertainty, graciously accepting euthanasia.
6. Feasts Of War
We starve our children before the banquet of knowledge while politicians indulge in the feasts of war.
7. October Revolution
The process of revolution has already littered the streets of Leningrad. The indivisible masses have been victimized by the pages of their own history. What they hold in their hands slipped through their fingers and into the grip of the common threat. The wall they allow to be built around them segregates by hope and nullifies their dream. Inseverable by principal, consolidated under common banner, the failure of emancipation, torn apart by their creation. A people who's self determination was the kingpin to their so called liberation stand blindsided by misconception. Nullified revolution. Emancipation, deception.
8. Procession
Military livestock bred to expand state control. The underclass, suppressed, underprivileged and lured by incentive. Church and state, hand in hand, lead them through the trenches of war. A nation born blind should have been terminated in its infancy. There is no purity in the glory of commercialized patriotism, it's drenched in the filth of their deceit.
9. State To State
A nation's tear reflects its tear and separation. Ambiguous relations between republics breed hatred. A country's cry for solidarity goes disregarded, while ruling nationalist chauvinism turns state against state. Soured by arrogance, once brothers with brothers, turned statesman vs. statesman in an authoritarian race for expansion. Tears reflect tears and separation. Soured by arrogance, once brothers turned state to state to state. State to hate to...
10. The Perpetual Cycle
The perpetual cycle rotates on the axis of despair. The unbroken link stands untouched by question. So uninterested we merely turn our heads. Uneducated, unrealistic, unsensible, so unrealistic, we sit and watch the cycle feed. If people had the power to snap their fingers to change the face value of life, many would withhold the energy, much rather watch in false pity. Around, the cycle rotates on the axis of despair. Untouched by question, we merely sit and stare. Such a blatant disregard for the fundamentals of existence, dwelling in a state of apathy, so obedient we follow. So uninterested we merely turn our heads, rather watch in self pity. No profit, no personal gain. Concentration, evolution, extinction. Whispering, speaking, screaming lies.
11. World Of Confusion
I want to do everything, yet I sit and do nothing. All that say, says nothing at all. Does mere existence truly justify itself? Optional in your world of confusion, powerless in my world of frustration. You seem to laugh, I sit and cry. In this world we all lose to the politics of lies.
12. Civilization Comes, Civilization Goes
The clowns are now the ringmasters backed with the arsenal of the economy. Our ears are plugged when we speak the tongue of reality. Failure to accept the truths, we speak of peace, but push civilization to the edge. We can't build harmony on apathy and we can't live on dreams alone. I pledge allegiance to the symbol of power and greed. It stands for a false republic under the guidance of a question mark god. Raping some, stealing from others. Fighting to scale the class ladder that splinters so many hands. Uncivilized. I'd rather close my eyes.
13. Page By Page
Along with the art of conquest and domination, we have developed the absolute science of ignorance and bound it in text for generations of the unthinking. Between the lines of a one sided history, reads the bitter truth of exploitation. The echoes of dehumanization can still be heard in the hills of Wounded Knee or the streets of Bensonhurst.
14. Sterility
The delicate strings of fear wrap around another statistic's throat. The home viewer gets another animated victim to pity. The horrors of antigender violence are rooted in traditionally force fed superiority for which there is no one to blame but ourselves.
15. Body Politic Equation
The pigment of imagination has been woven into the fabric of constitution. (Article I, Section II) Our framework has been dictated in black and white. Compromised to fraction, reduced to body politic equation. It's time to burn the white robes of american history along with the flags and symbols of our concentration camp land.
16. Anticapital
Productivity has become the modern embodiment of slavery. Efficiency traps laborer in the circles of exploit. Chained by the human costs of prostitution and the misery it incorporates. A prison of measured time.
17. Epilogue
Disaffection falls like rain soaking the tempers of a distended kinship. Common culture gains momentum as common enemy. You stare antagonies in the eyes, but at a closer look you're face to face with coexistence. How far will opinions shove? To the edge of hatred or the end of...
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