1. |
[welcome to]
00:29
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What do you do with what you do
If what you do is who you are
What do you do with what you do
If what you do is who you are
And how it’s done to everyone
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XS PARADISE
03:09
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We all live in dead dog paradise
Ignorant others
Laughing as we exist
We all live in dead dog paradise
Ignorant others
Laughing as we exist
Laughing at the poverty
In university
I found you in the excess
What a privilege to exist
Laughing at the poverty
In university
I found you in the excess
What a privilege to exist
We all live in dead dog paradise
Ignorant others
Laughing as we exist
We all live in dead dog paradise
(Laughing at the poverty)
(In university)
Ignorant others
(I found you in the excess)
Laughing as we exist
But what if it’s in everyone?
What if we’re not the same?
What if it’s warfare?
Dead dog paradise
But what if it’s in everyone?
Oh, what if we’re not the same?
What hatred-
It’s a shame you grew up this way
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3. |
PRO-LIFE CLUB
03:26
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Life on Long Island ain't that bad
Dad hits you
Hide your bruises
Mom talks to you about it
Hear her out about it
You hang out behind high school
Smoking pot
Taking drugs with your friends
Dad brings lawyers to school
Threatens to sue if principal expels you
Your boyfriend doesn't say it back
When you tell him you love him
Go fake your hollow feelings
Behind the bleachers and
Tell him to talk dirty to you
He says you are so, so stupid
He says you were a failed abortion
In the middle of the act
Just stop
Just laugh
Go,
Ha ha,
Ha ha
Ha ha,
Ha ha
Life ain't so bad
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4. |
[excess]
01:08
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Laughing at the poverty
In university
I found you in the excess
What a privilege to exist
Laughing at the poverty
In university
I found you in the excess
What a privilege to exist
What if it’s in everyone?
What if we’re not the same?
What if it’s warfare?
Dead dog paradise
Or life like parasites?
In excess
Cops are killers
It’s a shame you grew up this way
Born of hatred
What class of violence is this?
This is warfare
You should not exist
What class of violence is this?
Cops are killers
And they should not exist
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5. |
ESTRELLA
01:51
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Jaime didn't wake up
His parents find the body
On a Monday morning
The counselors at school
They were scrambling
On how to tell the other children
Without sounding apathetic
Without using the name she chose for herself
Weeks before on a Monday morning
Just like the one where Estrella takes her life
Find my body next to Estrella
Or find my body in the East River
Or find my body where you'd least expect it
Living out a life in Nevada with Jaime
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6. |
WE ARE NOT THE SAME
02:29
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What do you do with what you do
If what you do is how it’s done
(It’s what you do with how it’s done
If what you do is how it’s done)
What do you do with what you do
If what you do is how it’s done
(It’s what you do with how it’s done
If what you do is how it’s done)
What do you do with what you do
If what you do is how it’s done
(It’s what you do with how it’s done
If what you do is how it’s done)
What do you do with what you do
If what you do is how it’s done
What do you do with what you do
If what you do is how it’s done
(It’s what you do with how it’s done
If what you do is how it’s done)
What do you do with what you do
If what you do is how it’s done
Laughing as we exist
In class warfare
Cops are killers
It’s a shame you grew up this way
Laughing as we exist
In class warfare
Cops are killers
It’s a shame you grew up this way
What if it’s in everyone?
(Laughing as we exist)
What if we’re not the same?
(In class warfare)
What if it’s warfare?
(Cops are killers)
Dead dog paradise
(It’s a shame you grew up this way)
What if it’s in everyone?
(Laughing as we exist)
What if we’re not the same?
(In class warfare)
What if it’s warfare?
(Cops are killers)
Dead dog paradise
(It’s a shame you grew up this way)
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What warfare is class violence?
I feel you brimming with excess
Who feels bad for the children?
No, no one should grow up like this
Gotta read more, gotta eat less
How privileged is your praxis?
Gotta read more, gotta eat less
Do you believe in the strength of the government?
What warfare lies in welfare?
Eat the rich yet claw your way to live like them
Tax the wealthy, idle bureaucracy
Laugh at poverty in government progress
Gotta read more, gotta eat less
How worthless is my protest?
Gotta read more, gotta eat less
How useless is the government?
Government funded songwriter,
Could you make a little change with your artwork?
Do you think anyone is out there listening?
Are you?
Government funded songwriter
Do you think anyone is out there
Brought to tears by your form of action?
How could you know that?
Do you believe in the strength of empathy?
Listening to the words of AOC,
Does your heart soar for politicians?
Or does it sink at the sight of a helpless doctrine?
Gotta self care, gotta log off
Gotta few things I should work on
I gotta self care? Man, you gotta fuck off
Engage with difficult dialogues
Government funded songwriter
Make change with stupid, stupid artwork
Do you think anyone is out there listening?
Are you?
Government funded songwriter
Do you think anyone is out there
Brought to tears by your form of action?
How could you know that?
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8. |
RIVERBED SISTERS
02:18
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In moments of bliss,
Between ignorance and excess
Hear Estrella scream,
Oh my god
Oh my god
It’s happening again
This must be the end
I’m drowning,
Drowning
Drowning
Drowning
Taste the salience of water
The redness of our blood
Laughing as we exist
Until drowning with
Excess
Laughing as we exist
Until drowning with excess
We are children in symbiotic death
Sisters drowning in the riverbed
So who's gonna find my body if we both choose to drown?
Who's gonna find my body if we both choose to drown?
No one found Marsha
The cops let her die
But I won’t let you die
No I won’t let you die
I won’t let you
Silence is an oppressive sound
Built on bodies never found
Silence is an oppressive sound
Built on bodies never
Bodies that are
Bodies that are
There are bodies that are never found
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What paradise breeds parasites?
Were you born like that?
Did you grow up like me?
Dream of genocide, your family tree
Were you born like that?
Did you grow up like me?
Think of nothing else, oh vengeful apathy
Were you born like that?
Did you grow up like me?
Dream of genocide, the death of everything
Were you born like that?
Did you grow up like me?
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SPOILED BRAT
03:38
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Spit into my mouth
You spoiled little brat
No one beat you around
When you were a kid
They shouldn’t have
But I wish that I could have
Wish that I could hurt you real bad
Like one dream I had
Threw you across the room
Felt good about it
What if we’re one in the same?
One?
What if we’re one in the same?
Parasites
What if we’re one in the same?
One?
What if we’re one in the same?
Parasites
Oh spoiled brat,
In my dreams, we are not the same
Oh spoiled brat,
In my dreams, we are not all one
One
One
One
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MENTAL HEALTH CLUB
02:26
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She is a teacher now
She lives on Long Island
She hates my guts
Said she lacks a heart
For the lower middle class of Queens
Said she lacks the empathy
She is a spoiled brat
I am a mental health club
While claiming woke
Watch as privilege shows
By working in those schools
Turning your back on kids of color
Looked in the mirror, thought about her
Just making a living
She is a teacher now
She lives on Long Island
She is a teacher now
She lives on Long Island
She is a teacher now
She lives on Long Island
She is a teacher now
She lives on Long Island
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12. |
CLASS OF VIOLENCE
05:42
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In the excess of everything,
What do you want, what do you want?
What do you want, what do you want?
In the onset of anything,
What do you got, what do you got?
What do you got, what do you got?
What do you do with what you do
If what you do is who you are?
What do you do with what you do
If what you do is how it’s done?
What do you do with what you do
If what you do is not enough?
What do you do?
Who taught you all this class of violence?
Who taught you all this class of violence?
As inflation looms and families struggle to pay their rents,
There is a violence we all share
As Estrella struggles to love a body I know is beautiful,
There is a violence we all share
As debt halts my dreams of starting a family,
There is a violence we all share
Who taught you all this class of violence?
Who taught you all this class of violence?
In mental health clubs, in pro-life clubs
In riverbeds where we all fail Estrella
We watch her drown like spoiled brats,
Failing everyone
Like the government,
Failing everyone
Like paradise,
Failing everyone
More like parasites feed off everyone
Feed off everyone
Is that what we’ll build our lives from,
class warfare and violence?
Is that what we’ll build our lives from,
student loan debt, pure praxis?
Is that what we’ll build our lives from,
class warfare and violence?
Is that what we’ll build our lives from,
student loan debt, pure praxis?
In warfare, in welfare
(Is debt where our bodies go to dream?)
(Is death where our bodies finally sleep?)
This praxis is pure violence
(Is debt where our bodies go to dream?)
(Is death where our bodies finally sleep?)
In warfare, in welfare
(Is debt where our bodies go to dream?)
(Is death where our bodies finally sleep?)
This praxis is pure violence
(Is debt where our bodies go to dream?)
(Is death where our bodies finally sleep?)
I dream of riverbeds where Estrella will sleep
With all the missing ones who will never rest in peace
Could you really leave it all behind?
Well if you take yours, then I’ll take mine
I dream of riverbeds where Estrella will sleep
(Find my body next to Estrella)
With all the missing ones who will never rest in peace
(Or find my body in the East River)
Could you really leave it all behind?
(Or find my body where you’d least expect it)
Well if you take yours, then I’ll take mine
(Living out a life in Nevada with Jaime)
We could leave it all behind, we could leave it all behind
(Find my body next to Estrella)
Your life is no crime
(Or find my body in the East River)
Your life is no crime
(Or find my body where you’d least expect it)
But if you take yours, then I’ll take mine
(Living out a life in Nevada with Jaime)
What you do is what I’ll do
(Find my body next to Estrella)
What you do is what I’ll do
(Or find my body in the East River)
We could leave it all behind, we could leave it all behind
(Or find my body where you’d least expect it)
Your life is no crime
(Living out a life in Nevada with Jaime)
What violence to survive
(Find my body next to Estrella)
What violence to survive
(Or find my body in the East River)
In class conflict where excess thrives
(Or find my body where you’d least expect it)
What violence to survive
(Living out a life in Nevada with Jaime)
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13. |
MUTUAL AID
05:57
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Are you afraid to die in debt one day?
Your parents’ shame
Drag their name
Through the mud
For your dreams
Were you born like that?
Did you grow up like me?
Dream of genocide
Your family tree
Were you born like that?
Did you grow up like me?
It’s a shame, it’s a shame
You grew up this way
Or are you afraid of climate change?
Too late to change,
Or save the human race
From the floods
Or the winter heat
Were you born like that,
Vengeful apathy?
Dream of genocide
The death of everything!
Were you born like that?
Did you grow up like me?
I’m afraid of the world I grew up in
I’m afraid it’s the world where we’ll raise children
I’m afraid that the planet cannot sustain our damage
I’m afraid of the next pandemic, oh.
What if it’s in everyone?
What if we’re not the same?
What if it’s warfare?
Dead dog paradise
Or life like parasites?
In excess,
Cops are killers
It’s a shame you grew up this way
It’s a shame, it’s a shame
You grew up this way
I’m afraid, I’m afraid
Things will never change
I’m afraid, I’m afraid
We are not the same
How could you fear a virus?
When there are evil, hateful parasites
That lie, cheat, steal and kill inside us
How do you commit to the strength in your hands?
The sound of your voice, the fear in your laugh
At poverty, in university
Committing yourself the only way you can
(Community builds empathy)
(Commit yourself to mutual aid)
But what if it’s stupid?
How could you believe in the capacity for change?
(What if it’s in everyone?)
(What if we’re not the same?)
Commit yourself to mutual aid
(What if it’s in everyone?)
(What if we’re not the same?)
Commit yourself with the time that you have left
As if there is a choice
As if there is a chance
Commit yourself
It’s a shame, it’s a shame
You grew up this way
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