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Less Cash, More Thrash
05:34
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Metal shows are just like going to the record store, so many different kinds of people moving on the floor.
Moshing, dancing, and surfing from the stage. All of us are weirdos trying to let free our rage.
Muninn's in Kelowna, just like the old Funky's. Each good city needs good venues to hold up to scene.
Shout out the Astoria and to the Rickshaw too, for always repping local music and hosting the crew!
Grab a friend and spin them round, throw them to the pit. Wall of death; bloody nose. How could I ever quit?
Hungry for the mosh as if I'm locked up in a cage. All of us are weirdos trying to let free our rage.
And hatred of society in a way that's safe. Each and everyone deserves to feel they have a space.
A space for fucking unity, community and love. To all have fun and not go mad. The scene that we dreamed of!
Transparent anti-star
What we are is all we are
True scene and true community
Now Jim Heath (fucking idiot) is here to spout and tweet the truth!
Pudgy thumbs on a touch screen is 2020's news.
Sicko central psycho nervous system in a box.
Now the world's heads are turned and tuning into Fox.
I won't fall as the hurdles call me.
We'll pay your shitty visa fees to get into the States to play obnoxious thrash metal that everybody hates!
Time to fly! Pro stage dive!
Mess of living carcasses will catch me as I fall. Knowing that my metal family will give their all.
We're so tough and full of love.
Transparent anti-star
What we are is all we are
True scene and true community
Now I look around. See what this really is. A place for outcast family full of understanding.
We are the arbiters of animosity.
Grab a shirt, or say hello. It always means so much to meet all of the people round the world who give a fuck.
Transparent anti-star
What we are is all we are
True scene and true community
Used to play the Cobalt now they've gentrified our lives. We had to move our metal shows to hide them from the spies.
Poseurs, scummers, and people who are fake.
Please refund your tickets this will not be Expain's wake.
So go to shows at SBC and also 333 (RIP).
Grab a beer for buddy there and maybe one for me.
I'm feeling fucking grateful to exist in such a scene where I can hang out with good friends (escape insanity)!
What we are is all we are.
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2. |
In Protest
03:43
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I deliver images of stark reality
Reflections of the human race and our hypocrisy
Questioning the reasons why our video was banned
Severed from the airwaves in our home and native land
Censored! Bastards!
Mention sex or violence and the censors get concerned
Insulting our intelligence. I guess we haven't learned
Why do goofs with hang-ups have control of what we think?
This so-called free society's a ship about to sink!
Censored!
Look and then you'll see
Decisions being made for you and me
That's why we're here. Because we care.
We tell it like it is and we aren't going anywhere
Don't let us down if you're the same.
Get your point of view across and beat them at their game
We've got to fight to stay alive!
Exposing all the hypocrites until they can't survive!
I've heard empty promises from those I used to trust
So called friends who lie to you because they feel they must
Tell you whet you wanna hear then take you for a ride
It's not my job to scam and rob your wallets with a lie
In protest raise your voices 'cause it's time to take a stand
Challenge their authority. we'll take the upper hand
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In Defiance
04:08
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In defiance to you
Your nightmares are coming true
Gain at the expense of me
Nothing in your life will ever come free
Parasite who is full of praise
Fuck your deceptive ways
The beliefs that you hold
Help you to accomplish useless, futile goals
You cannot be trusted
I watch your plans unfold
How long will it be before you sell away my soul
In defiance we will take you away
To a place where you never
See the light of the day
Victims of your senseless greed
We must all take heed
We are not slaves to your words
Your ideas of life are nothing but absurd
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My father told me, "Son it's futile to resist. You can topple the ideology but not the armies they enlist."
I questioned the intentions of the boy scouts chanting "WAR!"
"Well, that's the sound of freedom, son", he said (free to say no more).
But wait a minute "dad", did you actually say freedom? Well, if you're dumb enough to vote, you're fucking dumb enough to believe them. Because if this country is so goddamned free, then I can burn your fucking flag wherever I damn well please.
I carried their anthem convinced it was mine.
Rhymeless, unreasoned conjecture kept me in line.
But then I stood back and wondered what the fuck they had done to me. Made accomplice to all that I promised I would never fucking be.
Never be.
You carry their anthem convinced that it's yours.
Invitation to honour. Invitation to war.
Bette Midler now assumes sainthood.
Romanticize murder for morale.
Tie a yellow ribbon 'round the oak tree my friend and "Gee, Wally. That's swell!"
(Insert your own corny, yet relevantly poignant catch phrase here).
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Expain Vancouver, British Columbia
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