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This is real life
They want a fight
Build up your arms
Weapons of might
Death from above
Death from below
Nuclear bombs
Keep us in row
Leaders are weak
When they decay
Kill to survive
So they can stay
Start with a state
Place to defend
Now it’s real life
They are bombing my friends
Turn on TV
Watch a man die
Go back online
Man was a lie
Keep the price cheap
Cheaper than life
You turn away
When they fight to survive
I am the one who is watching and waiting as strangers who need us will beg for their fragile lives
They are the ones who must pay with their blood so a fascist machine can shift further and further right
I am the one who is watching and waiting as strangers who need us will beg for their lives
They are the ones who must pay with their blood so a fascist machine can take more of a bite
What they want
Territorial conquest 2022
Territorial conquest 2023
Territorial conquest 2024
They’re still going
Territorial conquest when looking out the door
Territorial conquest and more
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When I am looking at the ocean
I am waiting on a plane to crash
I am watching every plane waiting for one to crash
I am waiting for the plane to crash right into my house
How could any group of anyone get anything so wrong?
Welcome to our new reality
A spy is always watching over me
Welcome to, this has been reality
I will not play my part in this system
Why god, why a great power conflict?
I will not be apart of this business
Please no, not a new great power conflict
When I am looking across the ocean
I am scared, we are all scared, I am growing scared of oceans
I am scared of people too
I’m scared of people just like me and you
Someone has to die
Buy a gun
For your house
Teach a kid
How to shoot
Take a risk
Blow it up
Do it now
Do it now
Wait some more
If you wait
You’ll be dead
Kill them now
Don’t be scared
Kill them now
Justice now
Justice now
I don’t want want to be a spy
Sell a gun to everyone today
Children here are born to kill as play
Normalize the death and poverty
Call the land that’s taken usa
Children here will see the violence there
Children there will see the violence here
Raised in violence raises violence yeah
Now we’re ready for another war
Territory that belongs to no one no one no one
Territory that belongs to no one will get you killed for what?
Great power conflict is never your fault
It’s always freaks with a different revolt
Lose all your hope and obey those who lead
Systemic failure is built in too deep
Great power conflict
These contradictions will drive us apart
It never changes, we’ll never get smart
New technological ways to consume
Deadly concoction, we all know we’re doomed
The British and Chinese and Russians and Arabs, and right wing imperial dumbass Americans
We just want to die, yeah
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Reign of Terror
03:24
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Have you seen what’s going on in the city of Bakhmut?
They’re playing politics, they’re playing with their own troops
It’s politics by other means they say
It’s such a simple message while they fill a mass grave
You’re in denial
Manipulation
This is extortion
This war is real
Another falling in line,
Watch them as they go
I won’t shed a tear for men expanding nations
All here, follow along
Nothing else they know
I won’t play along with any annexation
A prison guard prepares the meat that you must grind
A daily bloodbath for the body and the mind
They’re taking turns destroying homes and families
And then they turn around and show the death to their king
This is employment, it’s a bureaucratic game
We give promotions to the cronies who take all blame
Dropping a bomb
Watching it go
Taking a note
Sending it back home
One goal
One extra vote
Keeping control
Annexation
Dropping a bomb
Watching it go
They take a zone
No more pretending
To die
Better than life
Under a lie
Annexation
Men expanding nations
All will follow, follow along
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Hamburger Hill
08:40
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Yeah
1969
Have you heard the story?
Hill 937
We’ll play in jungles
We’ll take a hill in north Vietnam
Let’s take a trip back in time, yeah
Penetration, get your fill tonight
To the top, now take what’s really mine
Get right on top and strategize
Not just a story
Hill 937
We bombed their children
And left that hill in Vietnam
It’s my country
And your country
Fuck this planet
We can’t help it
What we do to dominate
Putting humans in a cage
Take a hill for just five days
Leaving thousands in a grave
Have you ever seen a teen?
In a hamburger machine?
Microcosm genocide
Nineteen years and deep inside
This might be a lie
Heroes gave their lives
Reaching way up high
Thinking how they died
Those on every side
Those who gave their life
System genocide
This hill
Thinking how they died
Those on every side
Those who gave their life
Killing for a lie
Yes this is a lie
System working fine
Reaching way up high
This hill
Thanking those who died
Those on every side
Those who gave their life
For a fascist lie
This is not a lie
Children gave their lives
Reaching way up high
This hill
Yes this is a lie
The system works fine
Think of those who died
kids on every side
Those who gave their life
Killing for a lie
System genocide
Show up and kill
Just taking hills
I hope you are happy with your fucking hill
Let it rain tonight
Mud and blood in sight
Wash away our sin
Hidden deep within
1969
Summer of our lives
Tales of genocide
Hidden in plain site
Vietnam will live
We deserve to die
Tell those what we did
1969
Someone put us here
Doing what we’re told
Finding ways to kill
Never getting old
Many should’ve died
Not the ones who did
They were grown adults
Sending all their kids
We will never let them forget Hamburger Hill
They must die before we let them put us there again
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World Peace, Eventually
02:22
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When all is said and done
Will you be breathing out the dust
made from all our bodies
The time for war is now,
Yeah, we are being watched right now
in books we make the story
No time to question why
Yeah, I look out and question why
We bomb ourselves for glory
We live in fear of words,
We choose a death cult made of words
and suffocate the peace
What side will you be fighting?
If you’re not here, where are you?
It’s time to stand for justice
World peace, eventually
We know what’s coming next
Yeah, we all know we’re coming next
They love the taste of weakness
Will you allow the feast?
Or will you spill blood for the meek?
Defending who is weakest?
It’s time for sacrifice
Will you give up a tiny slice
To show that we mean business
I’ll give my life for this
Yeah I would give my life for this
For justice, then for peace
What side will you be fighting?
If you’re not here, where are you?
When will you stand for justice
World peace, eventually
World peace is coming next
Someday
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