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Futile Efforts

by Raw Nerves

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1.
Intro 00:23
2.
THE JURY’S IN AND THE GAVEL FALLS ON FETTERED HUSKS OF FORMER LIVES BOUND BY DEBT, THIS FADED GREEN TWINE ADORNED WITH STOIC BUST WITH CONDESCENDING STARES LIKE CONSTRICTING SNAKES THEY TIGHTEN AS WE STRUGGLE TO BREAK FREE THESE CHAINS ARE THEY’RE ILLUSIONS ENSHRINED IN IVORY TOWERS WITH CRUMBLING FOUNDATIONS OF ERODING WRIT THEY CAN’T SEE WHAT’S BEEN STIRRING OR ALL THEY MISSING BRICKS THESE CHAINS ARE THEY’RE ILLUSIONS THIS NEO-LIBERAL NIGHTMARE A TACIT FANTASY THE CRACKING FRAMEWORK OBSCURED BY BLOOD-STAINED GLASS A RULING CLASS DISMISSED BY AN UNSUPPORTED CAST THESE CHAINS ARE THEY’RE ILLUSIONS THIS NEO-LIBERAL NIGHTMARE THEY’RE FEUDALISTIC DREAM A TACIT FANTASY AS THEY WIELD BATONS OF APATHY AND DINE ON LAZY FAIRE THE TEARGAS STARTS TO DISSIPATE THEY’RE FEUDAL DREAMS LAID BARE
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Reproduced 01:46
THIS IS NOT A DEBATE, IT’S A FUCKING ASSAULT SENSELESS “MORALITY” AS LOOSELY VEILED PATRIARCHY YOUR RESPECT FOR LIFE CONDEMNATION TO DEATH IT’S NOT ABOUT CHILDREN BUT ONLY TO FULFILL YOUR SICK DESIRE FOR MISOGYNISTIC CONTROL REGRESSIVE PURITAN VALUES BRING US BACK TWO HUNDRED YEARS TO DAYS DRIVEN BY GUILT AND BY FEAR QUAKING AT THE THOUGHT OF SELF DETERMINATION AND THE EMPOWERMENT OF A SEX THAT YOUR SCRIPTURES ALWAYS DEMONIZE AND MARGINALIZE CENTURIES OF STRUGGLING FOR ACKNOWLEDGEMENT, EQUALITY AND THE RIGHT TO DECIDE WHETHER SHE WANTS A CHILD IN THIS MAD MEN’S WORLD IS STILL UNDER ATTACK REPRODUCTION’S A CHOICE NOT A FUCKING LAW REPRODUCTION’S A CHOICE NOT A HUMAN FLAW REPRODUCTION’S A CHOICE AN INHERENT RIGHT THAT THEY ONCE DEPRIVED FOR THEIR SELF ESTEEM AS THE OLD BLOOD DRIES NEW CELLS RISE TO THE CHALLENGE OF ENSURING DOMINANCE RELEGATING THE “MILDER SEX” TO THE BASTILLES OF HIS STORY DENYING WHAT HAS BEEN FOUGHT FOR AND WON BY ALL UPPITY WIMMIN KNOWN AND UNSUNG
4.
NOT GETTING BETTER AS MASS MOVEMENTS GROW AGAINST THE INCREASINGLY ENTRENCHED CORPORATE/POLITICAL STATE AS GLOBAL TEMPERATURES RISE AND EXTREME WEATHER PHENOMENON BECOME THE NORM AS SEVEN BILLION HUMANS NOW OCCUPY THE PLANET AMIDST DEEPENING POVERTY AND STARVATION THE BIOSPHERE COLLAPSES AND PROFIT SHARES SOAR IT ISN’T GETTING BETTER HOW CAN WE ROUSE A POPULACE THAT JUST SITS IDLY BY CONSUMED BY MINDLESS DRIVEL FED ONLY ON LIES HOW CAN WE OPEN DIALOGUE WHEN DISCUSSION’S ALREADY BROKEN DOWN TO PARAPHRASED SLOGANS OF THE CHIEF FINANCIERS HOW CAN WE PROTEST AND SURVIVE AS DISSENT BECOMES CO-OPTED BY REFORMIST OCCUPATIONS WITH FRUSTRATIONS MISDIRECTED HOW CAN WE CHANGE A SYSTEM THAT ONLY SERVES THE BOTTOM LINE AS THE LOWEST RUNG DESCENDS INTO FURTHER DESTITUTION WE CAN TRY BUT IT ISN’T GETTING BETTER WE CAN FIGHT BUT IT ISN’T GETTING BETTER WE STILL TRY BUT IT NEVER GETS BETTER WE STILL FIGHT BUT IT NEVER GETS BETTER AS MASS MOVEMENTS GROW AGAINST THE INCREASINGLY ENTRENCHED CORPORATE/POLITICAL STATE AS GLOBAL TEMPERATURES RISE AND EXTREME WEATHER PHENOMENON BECOME THE NORM AS SEVEN BILLION HUMANS NOW OCCUPY THE PLANET AMIDST DEEPENING POVERTY AND STARVATION THE BIOSPHERE COLLAPSES AND PROFIT SHARES SOAR IT ISN’T GETTING BETTER WE STILL TRY BUT IT NEVER GETS BETTER WE STILL FIGHT BUT IT NEVER GETS BETTER
5.
THEY FUCKING INFILTRATE! THEY TRY TO DECEIVE US TO GAIN OUR TRUST MISLEAD WITH LIES AND PUNK DISGUISE THEY THINK WE CAN’T SEE THROUGH INFORMANTS FOR PIGS OUR SCENE’S ENEMIES WE MUST EXPOSE THEM AND DRIVE THEM OUT SO THEY SEE THE LINE THEY CAN’T CROSS FEDS AND POLICE WEAPONS OF THE STATE FINELY HONED BLADE TO EVISCERATE DISSENT THE SUBTLE MENACE TRYING TO UNDERMINE ANY PERCEIVED THREAT TO THEIR STATUS QUO THEY TRY TO ENTRAP US THESE AGENTS PROVOCATEURS IMPOSTERS AS COMRADES INFILTRATE OUR MOVEMENTS, INVADE OUR HOMES DECEITFUL PERSUASIONS DESIGNED TO IMPLODE KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN AND ROOT OUT THESE TRAITORS TO THE CLASS STRUGGLE FEDS AND POLICE WEAPONS OF STATE FINELY HONED BLADE TO EVISCERATE DISSENT THE SUBTLE MENACE TRYING TO UNDERMINE ANY PERCEIVED THREAT TO THEIR STATUS QUO NO SPACE IS SACRED NO ONE LIVES FREE WHEN THEY BATE OUR PEERS ATTEMPT TO DESTROY OUR COMMUNITY SOWING DISTRUST AND ANXIETY THE REAL TERRORISTS WEAR BADGES AND GUNS DEVIOUS BASTARDS SWORN PROTECTORS OF CAPITAL AND STATE FEDS ARE THEIR JACKALS WEAPONS OF THE STATE AND COPS ARE CLASS TRAITORS UPROOT THESE WEEDS SO DISSENT CAN GROW
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AN EPIDEMIC SOCIETY WIDE SELECTIVE MEMORY HISTORY BELIED THE CHOICES MADE ARE MISLED BY OUR OWN REJECTION OF PAST MISTAKES REPEAT OFFENSIVE AGAINST REALITY WE CAN’T MOVE FORWARD HISTORY DENIED THIS OBFUSCATION OF OUR OWN DESIGN HELPS RAISE THESE WALLS OF CONFINEMENT JUST STAY ASLEEP THAT’S WHAT THEY NEED BUT STILL REMEMBER ALWAYS FORGET
7.
Limitless 01:56
THEY CLEANSE THEIR SINS AS THEY WASH THEIR BLOODSTAINED HANDS THE SAME WAY THEY ERASE THE PAST AND WRITE IT AGAIN UNDER A DEFINING COURSE THAT ENSLAVED GENERATIONS A HEARTLESS PROGRESSION THAT HAS BURIED UNWANTED NATIONS UNDER A DEAFENING CHORUS OF DIVISIVE INTOLERANCE TAUGHT TO HATE OTHERS BASED ON ETHNICITY INVISIBLE BOUNDARIES PERPETUATE LAWS SO VILE PEOPLES MADE ILLEGAL WHEN THEY CROSS IMAGINARY LINES WE LIVE ON THE LAND OF THE CONQUERED WE CAN TASTE THE SCRAPS AND SMELL THE FEAST WE LIVE ON THE GRAVES OF THE CONQUERED WE WILL NEVER DINE WITH KINGS THESE BORDERS DIVIDE AND IMPRISON THE POOR THESE BORDERS DIVED THEY IMPRISON US ALL BUT TO THE RICH WHO RUN THIS WORLD THESE LINES DON’T MEAN A THING AND TO THE RICH WHO START THE WARS THEY MEAN NOTHING
8.
Armageddon 02:41
ANOTHER CONFLAGRATION AND THREAT OF PERPETUAL WAR YOU THINK WE LIVE IN THE END TIMES LIKE SO MANY HAVE BEFORE THE WORLD DRIFTS INTO THE ABYSS AS WE LOOK TO THE SKY EVERYONE WAITING FOR RAPTURE AND ANOTHER CHRIST TO CRUCIFY ARMAGEDDON NEVER COMES ARMAGEDDON NEVER COMES YOU JUSTIFY WANTON SLAUGHTER THE GREAT REPRESSIONS THE ABHORANT SQUALOR THROUGH CRYPTIC MYTHS AND SCRIPTED LIES “THE END IS NIGH! THE END IS NIGH!” ARMAGEDDON NEVER COMES ARMAGEDDON NEVER COMES SELF-FULFILLING CHRIST FANTASY WITH FLAGELLATED NATIONS AND MARTYRS OF THE POOR AS IF IT WERE GOD’S HOLY WILL AND STILL THEY WAIT WITH BATED BREATH BUT ARMAGEDDON NEVER COMES IT NEVER COMES
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FAILING TO GET IT RIGHT I FALL AGAIN WAITING FOR SOMETHING MORE FOR WHAT STAGNATE IN MY OWN SHIT STARING AT WORTHLESS HANDS THAT MOLDED FLAWED EXISTENCE CRUMBLING INTO GRAY DUST DEPRESSION SETS IN AGAIN IT NEVER LEFT THESE FEELINGS OF POINTLESSNESS A WASTED LIFE STAGNATE IN MY OWN SHIT STARING AT WORTHLESS HANDS THAT MOLDED FLAWED EXISTENCE CRUMBLING INTO GRAY DUST TRYING TO RISE ABOVE AND SINKING IN COMPLACENCY A DEATH TRAP I STRIVE TO AVOID NOT READY TO GIVE UP, WILL THERE BE AN END? I HAVE TO KEEP MOVING AWAY FROM THIS VOID I MUST USE MY HEAD TO FIGURE THIS OUT KEEP THIS FIRE ALIGHT TIL IT FLICKERS OUT I MUST TAKE CONTROL WHILE I STILL HAVE BREATH TILL THIS FLESH SUCCUMBS, AND FADES TO GRAY DUST FAILING TO GET IT RIGHT I FUCKING FAILED WAITING FOR SOMETHING MORE WHAT A WASTE STAGNATE IN MY OWN SHIT STARING AT WORTHLESS HANDS THAT MOLDED FLAWED EXISTENCE CRUMBLING INTO GRAY DUST FEELING TRAPPED IN THIS CYCLE OF DESPAIR AND HOPELESSNESS I CAN’T GET OUT I’VE TRIED ALL I COULD THIS PRESSURE WILL NOT ABET I STILL TRY TO FIGHT BUT THEY’RE FUTILE EFFORTS
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Outro 02:33

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Man in Decline Records
July 2013

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released July 18, 2013

Vocals: Mike Dubose
Guitar/Vocals: Matt Noble
Guitar: Matt Burks
Bass: Jonathan Hughes
Drums: Erik Trexel

Recorded by Stan Wright
Mixed by Adam Pike
Mastered by Brad Boatwright
Lacquer cut by Adam Gonsalves
Cover by Pete Yahnke Railand

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