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Not the First
02:24
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Check your brights
Lose your faith
Find your strength
Make your escape
Discover what’s real in the big city night
Is it a dream
Is it what it seems (x2)
Wake up to the heckles of a kidnapper
Behind his screen
Lifelong delusions
He doesn’t even know what they mean (x2)
Back and forth he goes
screaming undertow
All he lost
Summer’s selfish dreams
Bursting at the seams
Not the first (x2)
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2. |
The Sound
02:49
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Who’s next on the playlist?
With the clicks that make it the hottest
Influenced and ad infused
It’s buried then exhumed
It’s not fate when they close the gates
Consolidate and choose our tastes
Don’t call it innovation
It’s happened before
It’s how radio was born (x2)
Who’s next on the playlist
With the clicks that make it the hottest
Influenced and ad infused
It’s buried then exhumed
It’s not fate when they close the gates
Consolidate and chose our tastes
Who needs the airwaves perched in a cloud?
Don’t call it innovation
It’s happened before
It’s how radio was born (x2)
Who needs the airwaves perched in a cloud?
Who plays for it?
Who pays for it?
Who manufactures the sound?
It’s how radio was born (x4)
Who plays for it?
Who pays for it?
Who manufactures the sound?
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3. |
The Time Past
02:51
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Ad hominin attacks
Cuts minds to thin stacks
Repetition and response
Ends spiritual détentes
The white fear
Speaks tribulation (x2)
Decline the good for numbers
Leave gardens unencumbered
Far fewer than two by two
But there’s still no room for you (x2)
The white fear
Speaks tribulation (x2)
Particle rise
Sea advance
Generations’ view askance
Ice melt
Desert expanse
Generations’ view askance
The solution unfinanced
Generations’ view askance
More than an excise circumstance
Know the time has passed (x2)
It’s already past (x2)
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4. |
Thought Machine
01:07
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Instrumental
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5. |
Liberation
04:12
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Every night the desert shakes
Fire keeps me awake
Every morning Omar slides on
His worn down sandless
He goes to meet the soldiers guarding
Rubble along the highway
Along the highway
He waits for liberation
Along the highway
Liberation
At dusk I pack up
Omar writes his name in my hand
He makes it home that night
Family waiting for the food and water he’s brought back
And tonight I’ll hear the thunder rolling over fire (x2)
I lay in the sand waiting for my liberation (x2)
But I know
It’s painted in your heart (x4)
I lay in the sand waiting for my liberation
My liberation
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6. |
Tragically Optimistic
03:11
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Tragically Optimistic
Refugee of the theistic
Too soon dead and gone
Forgotten, a statistic
Nothing’s going to change if you don’t get real
De-hood the authority killing in the field
When democracy dies
There’s nothing left to steal
Light the match to un-conceal
Embrace the fall
In the process
Triumphant through it all
Avoidance is neurotoxic
The world needs your energy
Endlessly
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7. |
Return of the Guillotine
02:58
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Built on exclusions
His counter-revolution
It crashes the gates
And the hour is late (x2)
Light a flame to guide you
The only way out is through (x2)
He lets his cronies dance
They say your life is joke
They speak nothing but falsehoods
From a top-down view
Light a flame to guide you
The only way out is through (x2)
Return of the Guillotine
Servants of abuse
When the monsters rule
It lies within you
When the monsters rule (x3)
The long night approaches
Over capitol steps
Feel your pulse quicken
It’s your truth
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8. |
Freed Market
03:03
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Expenditures lag
Coefficients of drag
Up in high towers
Cuts to wages and hours
Trends assigned
In decline
Trends assigned (x2)
Expenditures lag
Coefficients of drag
Up in high towers
Labor sours
Expenditures lag
Coefficients of drag
Up in high towers
Managers devour
Trends assigned
In decline
Trends assigned (x2)
Laffer curves eternally
Supply-side hierarchy
Laffer curves eternally
Supply-side bourgeoise
Laffer curves eternally
Supply-side oligarchy
Laffer curves eternally
Supply-side patriarchy
A coterie paints the targets
All authority in a freed market
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9. |
The Cusp
03:32
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Sat up in bed
Soaked in dread
And numb from
What we’ve done
Brought forth the day
Celebrate
Opulence
That numbs you
Shaking the grief
From belief
The status
Won’t save you
All that we’ve won
Was undone
By values
That were bought
Outside of time
Second hand
The peace that
It brings you
The time it takes
To relay
The message
Energy
Sat up in bed
Soaked in dread
And numb from
What we’ve done (x2)
Time smolders then ignites
A new direction to write
The chorus of choices
Clashes in discordant voice
At the cusp of the unknown
Is where we throw our stones
Time smolders then ignites
A new direction to write
At the cusp of the unknown
Is where we throw our stones
Untethered
Until we come together
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10. |
All You Fascists
01:52
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I'm gonna tell you fascists
You may be surprised
People in this world are getting organized
You're bound to lose
You fascists bound to lose
All you fascists bound to lose (x3)
You're bound to lose
You fascists bound to lose
People of every nation
Marching side by side
Marching ‘cross these fields
Where a million fascist died
You're bound to lose
You fascists bound to lose
All you fascists bound to lose (x3)
You're bound to lose
You fascists bound to lose
All you fascists bound to lose (x3)
You're bound to lose
You fascists bound to lose
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Hàn Gắn Washington, D.C.
Hàn Gắn (Heal in Viet.) are a.duo from Washington, D.C. The group incorporates elements of post-punk, post-hardcore and psychedelia.
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