Lyrics to songs on this release:
Selfish Ideals
A freedom for which there is no need to fight
Do as they want and they'll tell you it's right.
They can forcefeed the lies but you don't have to swallow
Only you possess the right to not follow
Selfish ideals let you always win
I support - I'm the "subject", I object - I'm a "victim"
So you've found an outlet that makes you feel strong?
This form of sexism has gone on too long.
Dancing before you - no mind and no name
Posed on the pages - playing your game
You say you support this self liberation
As you're gaining your strength out of pure degradation.
Everyday men, women and children are victimized as a direct result
of the images forcefed into our heads from birth.
Images that depict people as sexual objects and not as individual beings
with our own hearts and minds.
Our culture has separated sex and love and put power in love's place.
And it is this patriarchal sexuality, an inherantly oppressive sexuality,
that is based on power rather than love.
True sexual liberation is about realizing our natural sexual desrires,
not using objectification as a means to an end.
It is a mistake to see pornography as a valid and accurate representation of our natural sexual desires,
for playing into sexual stereotypes and acting out roles of dominance and submission
that the system has forced upon us is not defining our own sexuality.
What we have been doing for centuries cannot be changed in one night.
But we must begin to work for true sexual liberation, both at the political and individual levels.
And we must begin now.
Our Biggest Mistake
When the trees are all cut down
And roads are all paved
All the rivers dammed up
And the people enslaved
The forest is cleared
And the animals caged
Only then will we realize
Our biggest mistake
We can't eat money
How can you complain about a future that's been destroyed by the ones that you support?
Open your eyes to ecocide
It's time to act and time to start
Desolation? Annihilation?
Headed down a path of destruction
No hope left for creation
Termination as a means of production.
Inhumane Cage
With ignorance in power and tax dollars in his trust
Pretending he's a scientist, doing what he must
Now he's on a mission and he won't give up the fight
After 150 million deaths will he still claim to be right?
It's all been said and done before, but never the less he wages war
To win the approval of a nation, ignoring all the implications
What the fuck is it he sees that this will bring humanity?
Archaic tests with results that lie, this modern day Hitler needs to die!
If you think you're so superior to the animals that you've decided their lives are yours to take,
Then why do you apply test results to us, and put human lives at stake?
Ignoring the alternatives, ignoring the facts
Ignoring that it's been done before and the accuracy it lacks.
Has he even given a second thought to what ChemRTK means?
Or is it the EPA and vivisectors pulling Al Gore's strings?
A World With No Future
In a world with no future
And in a time that made no sense
Existence had stopped and stood still
Factories pumping the weapons of wartime
Made with intention to kill
Now, we're a nuclear wasteland
A world full of hatred
We sat and watched it all go by
News breaking coverage of the people all dying
And no one ever asked why
What will we tell the children?
Will there be any left to hear?
Will the children be able to listen?
Or will they all be hiding in fear?
There's a man on the TV, talking away
Telling the death toll for today
But no one is watching
Nobody is listening
Cause they've all been taken away
Stuck in the camps or handed machine guns
They were told to fight for a cause
Now they're killing their brothers and they're killing their mothers
To keep their own lives from being lost.
Over time, the numbers had increased
The flesh piles stacked up high
Nothing will change, unless we are to change it
And the dying will continue to die
What will we tell the children?
Will there be any left to hear?
Will the children be able to listen?
Or will they all be hiding in fear?
What happened to all of the children?
What stories will we have left to be said?
How will the children hear them?
Once all the children are dead……..
Hiroshima (originally done by DIRT)
Insecurity
So you've paid your dues and stood your ground much longer than most have been around
You think they all owe you respect and should praise your superior intellect.
I'm sick of all the token lines, "Stupid kid has no mind"
"He's only 14 he has no clue"
"He won't stick around cause he's way too new"
So you've paid your dues but what for? Sticking around to uphold the score
Maybe you'll give them a chance to "succeed"
maybe you'll talk to them and do a "good" deed.
"She's just here to pick up guys"
"I saw his parents drop him off tonight"
"I've never seen them at a show before - I wonder what they came here for?"
Your arrogance is out of control
You think you'll decide who can stay and who'll go
Who can join the club is up to you
After all you've paid your dues - after all
But until they too have paid their dues
until they' re no longer children, and they're no longer new
until they all agree with your views....
Nobody owes you!
Organize
We must come together and work as one
forever in struggle if we are to live in peace
We must organize and unify if we want to even budge
the forces that we're up against won't easily give up.
We must come together and work as one
forever in struggle
if we're to make a difference then we haven't yet begun.
Organize, organize - we must create an order to counteract the shit they talk with all their propaganda
Organize, organize - we must realize that we must work together to make our world better
Organize, organize - we must organize if we're to make a difference then we have to realize
that the system is still murder and we're still fucking pawns
and if we're to make a difference- we must work as one!
Another year passes and the system still maintains
raking in the profits while shitting out our brains
tv, billboards, media all manipulate the words and actions of our world to teach us to hate
and violence grows on the streets and in our fucking minds
the time has come to make a change through truth we must find
that the system is still murder and we're still fucking pawns
in a game that they created from which greed and hatred spawn.
Another Bullet, Another Dead
It's your favorite target, just part of the game
You're holding the barrel so preciously aimed
Can't wait to feel the blast of the gun
Another life taken for your idea of fun
Another bullet - Another dead
Another victory in your head
Say you're keeping numbers in check
Another excuse for a mental wreck
A lover of nature, much more when it's dead
But how natural is that rifle loaded with lead?
Be closer to nature - leave your rifle behind
Then we'll see, how advanced is your mind?
Another bullet - Another dead
Another victory in your head
Say you're keeping numbers in check
Another excuse for a mental wreck.
follow the links below for lyrics to:
Contravene "A Call to Action" LP/CD (7 songs)
Contravene s/t CD (11 songs)
Contravene/Svart Aggression split 7" (1 song)
Contravene s/t 7" (3 songs)
Contravene "Forever in struggle" demo (8 songs)
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