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Rising Tide
01:50
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Aggregate living standards rise
While oceans rise to overtake us
Coasts flooded, seagull corpses
Choked in plastic, drowned in oil
Entire coasts on fire
As the elites fly away
Private planes
Private armies
Private walls
Private wealth
Laughing yet so grateful for their achievements
And all of the "networking" that helped them succeed
All the while being championed
By the lovers of liberty, who cheer
As the private men and women of all races, genders, and identities
Stomp the have-nots into the diseased ruins of humanity
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Clinging to Life
01:28
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Depressive disgust boiling over
Drowning in agony with no end in sight
Clinging to life
Day after day I have wasted
Alone and wasted with no end in sight
Clinging to life
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Blood Showers
01:28
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The PR show shows your true colors
The bloodstained money that flows upward is redistributed as blood showers:
Spurts of incentivized exploitation
Tax breaks for the winners
Token identity politics for the rest
Worthless thoughts and prayers
500 years of oppression
An empire built on plunder
A life of blood showers
Only to be overcome
By becoming one with the power
One with the machine
Are we doomed to complicity?
Are we doomed?
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No Filter
02:02
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Do you really think your curated image
Will set you free?
Algorithms, incentives
This mass illusion is the bait
Perfectly constructed
Voyeuristic façade
Schoolyard to the presidency
Billions grease the gears
The presentation game
Dopamine shackles on animal brains
Counting our preferences
Predicting our behavior
Meta-cognition is here
Complete, utter domination
We live in an illusion:
Our own personal reality show prison
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The Cave
01:53
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The fire burns and we sit, shackled
Watching our shadows and calling it life
Passengers idly queued in line
As global flashpoints guide our lives
Imprisoned by the absurd belief that if
We work hard enough
Have the "grit" our spiritual capitalists prescribe
That we'll transcend this living nightmare
That we'll truly feel alive
The time is now
The daylight’s shining in...
We have the key to our chains
We can grab it, unshackle ourselves,
Walk into the sun
And set fire to this world
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Rotting Hammer Cincinnati, Ohio
D-beat metalpunk for the diehard freaks! 🍺
Kevin: drums
Zach: guitar
Landis: bass
Eric: vocals
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