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built for brutality
02:16
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aestheticize violence
revel in helplessness
abstract brutality
erase your complicity
trapped in your boring dystopia
waste your breath complaining
about the sanctity of your precious scene
cry for solidarity
a peace between brothers
visions of unity seem so nice
but everyone looks just like you
enforce arbitrary boundaries
carve up the map and plant your flag
stake your claim to the words
and wear your disdain like a badge
everyone else is a cancer
in your ideal body politic
everyone else is a sellout
pretenders to your throne
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borderline
02:04
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what am i on the border of
what am i supposed to feel about
imaginary lines
imaginary lines
borders you use
to carve up people too
an imaginary line in a book
of imaginary lines
in the chapter reserved for the worst ones
treatment-resistant
manipulative
danger to myself and others
something to be survived
not something to survive
emotional burn victim
walking on eggshells
time bomb counting down
to my own annihilation
try to make it til you're 35
and maybe then you'll have some peace
you probably won't make it but
if you make it
if you make it
if you make it
sanity is a moving goalpost and that's intentional
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3. |
villain
01:18
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who calls me villain
the only way for you to feel righteous
is to invent a monster worse than you
an other to prove that you are normal
a scapegoat to soak up all your sins
a perversion, some kind of monster
aberration, a threat
a portent
of calamity
a divine omen
of your doom
difference made flesh
and if you are the norm from which I deviate
then let my transgression be your end
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anéantir le néant
01:13
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the tower is falling
assimilation is death
dissolution is the only way
total liberation or death
"pure negativity not
a reconfiguration of misery"
gender as a refusal
gender as a negation
gender as a death-drive
the tower must burn
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new colossus
03:14
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“Have you ever watched it coming in, — the sea? When the wind comes roaring out of the mist and a great bellowing thunders up from the water? Have you watched the white lions chasing each other towards the walls, and leaping up with foaming anger, as they strike, and turn and chase each other along the black bars of their cage in rage to devour each other? And tear back? And leap in again? Have you ever wondered in the midst of it all, which particular drops of water would strike the wall? If one could know all the facts one might calculate even that. But who can know them all? Of one thing only we are sure; some must strike it.
They are the criminals, those drops of water pitching against that silly wall and broken. Just why it was those particular ones we cannot know; but some had to go. Do not curse them; you have cursed them enough”
crime and punishment
tangled cause and effect
give me your tired
give me your poor
give me your huddled masses
a broken promise
of a perfect world
disappear anyone
who gives the lie
give me all those who yearn to breathe free
acres of skin to fuel the machine
exploitation
desperation
persecution
obfuscation
another body to feed the machine
just one more body to feed the machine
send up a prayer to the mother of exiles
blessed are the persecuted
a sacrifice
at the altar
of cruelty and greed
in the name
of the powerful and ignorant
guilt or innocence
a convenient fiction
to maintain the lie
that we are free
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Jetsam Montreal, Québec
three-piece powerviolence band from so-called montreal.
anarchiste, antifasciste, queer. trio
punk de montréal. pas de guit'. pas de compromis.
email us at jetsammtl@proton.me if you have questions
if you cannot afford our music, email us and we will send you a download code.
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