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Revisionist History
02:10
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A revisionist history
Might make you feel proud
Like you never compromised
Stood apart from the crowd
You were never a liar
Never cowered and hid
Took responsibility
For the damage you did
Your revisionist history
Isn’t hollow at all
Never struggled or faltered
Always made the right call
Your actions were justified
Moral high ground was yours
Never dwelled in the gutter
Never grovelled or whored
Keep digging as fast as your can
We’ll never unravel your scam
You’re right at the top of your game
No need for decorum or shame
The writing’s nowhere on the wall
You never will fall
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2. |
Loss Leader
04:03
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Grief, time is a thief
Our existences tragic and brief
Consumed by the secrets we keep
Bringing suffering without relief
Holes left in our lives
And guilt of those who survive
Against a rising tide
Processions of ghosts trail behind
Rest in peace
May death be your release
Pain, hold back the pain
Fentanyl flows through your veins
Choirs of angels refrain
More voices we won't hear again
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3. |
Blood Red Blood
03:08
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Smash your fists into a concrete wall
Small and helpless no one cares at all
Apoplectic when you’re filled with rage
Using violence as a pressure gauge
Blood in blood out
I’ll give you something to cry about
Blood in blood out
I’ll give you something to cry about
Blood red blood red blood
It starts to boil and clouds your vision
Blood red blood red blood
Leaking out from the incision
In the mirror you see an awful lack
Cannot stand the face that’s staring back
Seething anger nowhere else to hide
Hatred fills the emptiness inside
IV bags are dripping blood red blood
Disinfectant and rubber gloves
Brought back screaming to a life of pain
Sanguine fluid circling the drain
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Regrets
03:44
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Lies that I believed
Giving in to jealousy and greed
To my loves I paid no heed
And turned my friends into enemies
Lives I couldn't save
Buried our hopes in shallow graves
Like photographs destroyed by age
Fading out now into grey
Pride got in the way
Held back words I couldn't say
And paths from which I strayed
I was wrong
I was afraid
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5. |
The Priest
05:30
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Sometimes a man
Is not what he appears
Sometimes behind those kindly eyes is the
Sum of all our fears
Sometimes a man
Opens his arms out wide
Lures his prey to spider webs and then he
Catches them inside.
Ralph Rowe
Wolves tending sheep
Ralph Rowe
Of whom we do not speak
Sometimes a beast
is hidden in plain sight
Burrows in beneath your skin and then he
Tucks you in at night
Sometimes the blood
is on our hands
We placate and venerate
These gods that walk as man
Ralph Rowe
Our lips are sealed
Virulent
All sins concealed
Destroyed
Our innocence
Men of god
No recompense
Rage burns
Behind this mask of tears
Held back
For countless years.
Broken trust
A broken vow
Broken hearts
Die without a sound
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6. |
The Less Dead
01:56
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Taken out on a starlight tour
Protect and serve except for the poor
The elite march the pigs off to war
Less dead in the eyes of the law.
Murdering with impunity
Less dead in the eyes of the law.
Those on the margins of society
Less dead in the eyes of the law
Violating your moral code
Hypocrisy is a heavy load
Humanity and compassion corrode
Less dead in the eyes of the law
Missing murdered and cast aside
Lingering memories of genocide
No one’s listening justice denied
Less dead in the eyes of the law
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7. |
Flat Earth Society
02:51
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Watching the death tolls rise
Won’t believe your lying eyes
Terror spreads across the land
Tuck your head down in the sand
Flat earth society
Deny reality
Post truth conspiracy
Flat earth society
Gaslit by narcissists
Peddling their influence
Confirmation bias reigns
Makes echo chambers in our brains
Flat earth society
Deny reality
Post truth conspiracy
Flat earth society
Now the din is getting louder
It’s ringing in my ears
Algorithms form a worldview
Play on our ignorance and fear
Bowing down before your masters
While bragging how you’re living free
We fight this war for information
To feed their avarice and greed
Moral compasses are misaligned
We’re cut adrift upon the sea
Swallowing their propaganda
We’re vectors spreading their disease
Let their truth absolve your sins
With snake oil sold by charlatans
Wrong of history of our history
We’ve weaponized stupidity
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8. |
Irreconcilable
02:59
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Stand tall and salute the flag
A country built on unmarked graves
Each day there’s more truth revealed
Picks at wounds never healed
Better for our mental health
To point the finger at someone else
White guilt is in vogue this year
What makes you think they should believe our tears?
Church or state
We can’t decide
To pin abuse
We can’t abide
So detached
From what’s been done
Apologies
Won’t wash away this blood
Biases that we all deny
You’re looking yellow through a jaundiced eye
The system’s fixed for our benefit
Still don’t know why you can’t get it over it
Pushed it down kept it wrapped up tight
Our bigotry was always so polite
Turn the page and we turn the screws
Looks like our chickens coming home to roost
Taken down
By the hidden hand
Stolen lives
And stolen land
The silences
Are deafening
Just the virtues that
We feel like signaling
Gave an inch
We took a mile
This history
We cannot reconcile
Irreconcilable
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9. |
Your Funeral
03:20
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Splattered like an insect across the
windshield of life
Across the tracks a thousand backs
Just waiting for the knife
Good intentions shot to hell
Like pennies down a wishing well
Everything will work out fine
Get back on the assembly line
Breakfast of failures
Pour it in your cup
Still got a conscience
It’s just how you shut it up
Yesterday you cashed your pay
Now you’re already broke
Our system’s been designed to fail
for those who need it most.
We’ve learned to fake sincerity
To grovel for their charity
Just blend into the scenery
You’re part of the machinery
The nail that sticks up
Get hammered down
From the cradle
Til we’re six feet under ground
Thought we were special
Now we know the truth
Traded in our dignity
And gave away our youth
We’re fuel for the fire we’re meat for the stew
Keep looking forward whatever you do
Applying the blinders to keep us on task
Here’s to our future how long will it last
The dice were loaded
It’s useless to pretend
What used to feel like everything
was nothing in the end
Burning our candles
down to the nub
This’ll be your elegy
This’ll be your funeral
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10. |
Wounded Birds
04:10
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Wounded birds we fly so low
We feel no love from the earth below
Cast aside
Bitterness inside
We are the ones no one can know
Wounded birds we fly so low
We carry scars that do not show
Cast aside
Violence inside
The more we live the less we know
Wounded birds we fly so low
We feel no love from the earth below
Cast aside
garbage inside
We are the ones who can’t say…
Cast aside
Bitterness inside
We are the ones who can’t say no
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11. |
Dark Matters
04:09
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Lie still
relinquish control
Despair
Might swallow you whole
Night terrors haunting your sleep
Grasp at salvation that’s just out of reach
Visions of yesterday
Debts that you can’t repay
Crushed by anxiety
Can’t keep these dark thoughts at bay
Folding up your hands to pray
Depths of depravity coming undone
Greek tragedy
Misanthropy
Haunted by specters of what you’ve become
Deceit
Better keep yourself hid
Someone
Might know what you did
Night terrors haunting your sleep
Your feelings anesthetized
White knuckles, grinding your teeth
Life flashing before your eyes
Look at the state you’re in
Soft and undisciplined
You’re crawling inside your skin
Just pretend it’s not happening
Picturing faces of those you’ve betrayed
Cognitive dissonance keeps you awake
Ghosts of memories rattle their chains
These plans you’ve laid
Cave to the pressure or else you might break
Darkest matters
Silence shatters
Left in tatters
Stains and spatters
Snakes and ladders
Falling backward
Nothing matters
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Alienatör Thunder Bay, Ontario
Heavy music. Post-everything.
Brad King - vocals, guitar
Sean Skillen - bass, vocals
Simon Paquette - drums
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