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Dystopia Now

by Selfist

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1.
Iron Grip 02:09
The iron grip of capital The stench of extinction Paleolithic minds The progress contradiction Hyperevolved, selective traits We learn to kill each other In such fantastic ways We cannot walk as brothers This spiritual poverty This cancerous morality An empathy deficiency A deified economy I feel like Atlas is losing grip We're plague rats on a sinking ship We lack a basic outrage at a complex tyranny We have not changed We stay the same Repeating history The Iron grip of capital The stench of extinction Paleolithic minds The progress contradiction Avert our eyes From imperial enterprise The common condition of culture we call civilized
2.
A hand picked senate Our choices are finite Like the fate of the planet Running low on our debit Disaster imminent Our actions permanent A failed model in full effect Waves of history wash us away Rid this place of our foul reign Deposit our species from where we came Solace and peace in our watery graves An offering to the ignorant And the slobbering sycophant The chorus a diaspora Of meltdown salvationists Singing our doom Talented and gracious An eschatology that excuses Binging on dirty resources Our ecocidal abuses Justified through archaic sources Your scripture is obsolete Your prophecy will not be made complete Entranced by the system's complexity Ignore alternate possibilities Waves of history wash us away Rid this place of our foul reign Deposit our species from where we came Solace and peace in our watery graves
3.
Borders 01:19
I won't subscribe to this construct of nationality This ethnocentric hate fuelled mythology It won't rule me And it's so fucking plain to see Collective indifference Consent from complacency Not me I will not recognize these dividing lines That restrict our potential These borders are lies Unnecessary and contrived An unwillingness To challenge or dismiss The doctrines that drag us down Conventions that tie our hands as we drown We're going down We're fucking doomed And its so fucking plain to see Collective indifference Consent from complacency Not me
4.
Tranquility 02:25
Sometimes, an inability to speak I found a peace among the trees No war, no famine or disease The sunlight puts a pleasant curse on me Through needles green Tranquility Balance it seems Sometimes the world just crowds me in I need a place to call my own I play the record and begin To deconstruct the universe alone Untouched by the poison of progress I mediate in silent congress I won't let you in Sometimes, an inability to speak I found a peace among the trees No war, no famine or disease The sunlight puts a pleasant curse on me Through needles green Tranquility Balance it seems I breathe cement Offer myself to the pavement My payment's permanent Enthused in my enslavement These streets swallow me whole No one to follow, alone I roll
5.
Been writing the same song for years This expulsion onto paper can't make my feelings disappear My anger ingrained only deeper My angst much stronger than it was Adulthood answers zero questions Only exposes greater flaws I can't breathe in this pressure chamber Still can't offer sympathy For choosing paths of least resistance Eager to appease So malignant with myth Such obvious transparencies That no one actually believes Internal fetter of our introspective tendencies My anger ingrained only deeper My angst much stronger than it was Adulthood answers zero questions Only exposes greater flaws These devices kill time (fading away) This compulsion is mine (repeating each day) A means to an end (again and again) A strike of the pen
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Our beating hearts A ticking counterpart To their corrupted dreams Their murderous machine We hold the choice To not participate Determine our own voice And turn away from hate From loathing and despair Their blood economy Commodified humanity We are a barrier Determined and aware Our outrage and our hope Binds us, reminds us that we never stand alone United minds Resistant we intensify the power struggle Rip kings from their thrones Connect the dots They build you up to watch you rot Resist the pull To demonize the individual The power's in our hearts Its in our minds See through the lies We're powerful inside They built this from the ground But we can fucking tear it down We can fucking tear it down The power's in our hearts

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Engineered, produced, and mixed by Matt Roach. Mastered by Stu McKillop.

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released November 28, 2015

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Selfist is a hardcore punk band residing on unceded Coast Salish territory.

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