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Callousness
02:39
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Consistent-The struggle for existence
Exasperated-By the outcome of life
We burn out!
Disabled-Disarmed by the petty differences that divide us!
Divergence, left powerless, divided against ourselves
Only we can hinder this callousness
That permeates our hearts and kills what's left
Underneath this mask of cynicism that we wear
And kills what's left-kills what's left-of this bleeding heart
Of this shattered dream-of this shattered dream
And kills what's left-of this bleeding heart
And kills what's left-of this shattered dream-of this shattered dream
And kills what's left-of this bleeding heart
And kills what's left-of this shattered dream-of this shattered dream
Only we can hinder this callousness within...
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Who Prospers?
03:21
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It's this sort of entertainment that makes me feel like throwing up
Like a chronic disease in it's final stage this crap is turning from bad to worse
Extremes are normal when normality's so extreme
But could it be it's not quite what it seems?
Tell me who prospers...
When we televise to stupify and supersize our ignorance
Can we as viewers not see that we're being kept indulgent and inept??
By strangling the intellect they tighten the leash and quench the thirst for knowledge
Like a cancer eating away on our collective consciousness
A chronic disease in its final stage this crap is turning from bad to worse
Extremes are normal when normality's so extreme
But could it be it's not quite what it seems?
Tell me who prospers...
When we televise to stupify and supersize our ignorance
Can we as viewers not see that we're being kept indulgent and inept??
By strangling the intellect they tighten the leash and quench the thirst for knowledge
In a glow of enthusiasm the public at large keeps warm by the radiance of the television
A blank stare...filling life with purpose...
Numbing entertainment, mass hypnosis, to comfort and sedate and pacify the masses
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Weight on my Shoulders
02:48
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I know you worked hard all your life
To give me everything I needed
But how much longer must I apologize
'cause you feel cheated and defeated
I never asked you to sacrifice
All your dreams and your entire life
I never questioned your ability
To be a provider for us, your family
So please don't throw your bitterness in my face
Don't make me carry this weight on my shoulders
All I needed was a little attention
And all I wanted from you was your affection
Please don't keep pushing me...away
I never criticized the decisions you made the way you criticized mine
Those words hurt more than you will ever know
But the wounds will heal in time
I never asked of you to sacrifice all your dreams and your entire life
I never questioned your ability to be a provider for us, your family
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False Ambitions
02:21
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Stranglehold
02:01
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To be nobody but yourself in a world which does its best
Night and day to make everybody else
Means to fight the hardest battle
Any human being can fight...
Resisting with every breath to conform
Refusing to play along
Breaking free from this
Stranglehold
...and never stop fighting
To allow ourselves to feel real feeling
Not media created, manipulated, stimulated feelings is a political act in itself
Cutting off the puppet string
This umbilical cord that feeds us shit
And never stop, never stop, never stop, never
Stop fighting!
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Blood on the Sidewalk
02:44
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This refusal to grow up, running around in circles
Going to sleep, waking up with this constant doubt
"Am I making the right choice or am I just accepting what others say life is all about?"
So there he stands in front of a broken window with bleeding knuckles, at his own reflection
He looks at himself in disbelief
Looking back on his life, was it worth it?
With his eyes staring down into the ground instead of looking forward
He clenches his fist, picks up another bottle to kill the questions and soothe the pain
All he leaves behind is this stain...of blood on the sidewalk
With a broken spirit and sold out dreams
He wakes up and washes the dried tears from his face
"I know now that I made the wrong choice
But the choice was never mine to make in the first place"
So there he stands in front of a broken mirror with bleeding knuckles
Gazing at his own reflection
He looks at himself in disbelief
Looking back on his life, was it worth it?
With his eyes staring down into the ground instead of looking forward
He clenches his fist, swallows another pill to kill the questions and soothe the pain...
And in time the rain will wash away the memories that remain of a man who came and left
Leaving nothing but a stain...of blood on the sidewalk
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Lead Us to the Gallows
02:25
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With a shrug of the shoulders and a grudging admission
We sell ourselves short
Left them pave the path to downfall
Lead us to the gallows
If there is no struggle there is no progress
If we stand for nothing-we fall for anything
The world is on a path of total destruction
We can stand by watching or do something about it
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U+I R 1
03:25
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Restless Anger
03:07
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The restless anger of youth still shakes this foundation now...
On which they've built up their empires of oppression
Struggling for justice, the true people's court is in session out there on the streets
See it fall, come crumbling down
Wow oh wow...watch it all come crumbling down
Wow oh wow...the times they are a changing
Wow oh wow...there is no turning back
Let's go now...the time has come...
For the young...to assess the damage and reverse it!
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Down in Fire
02:19
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We're all victims of corporate robbery
A capitalist conspiracy disguised as democracy
We've got to stand up together, strike as one
To steal back our dreams and our dignity
Our failure to agree only feeds the enemy
Weakened by the lack of confidence in each other
Competing not conversing, not advancing but reversing
If we can't learn to get along this world is going down in fire
Trapped in a world of our own creation
The one that we forged and built for ourselves
We're encouraged to become our own jailers
Building up walls, our own prison cells
Our failure to agree only feeds the enemy
Weakened by the lack of confidence in each other
Competing not conversing, not advancing but reversing
If we can't learn to get along this world is going down in fire
The future is ours, so why are we waiting?
Reach out with both hands, reach out and take it!
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One By One
02:27
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If one voice, disembodied hidden in a surging crowd of thousands
Start screaming soon others will follow
We'll follow
Though I cannot foresee a better tomorrow I will not give up trying
I will not give up!
I will not bow down to the powers of control
I'm taking back what they stole from me
My life, my dignity
Won't settle for this false sense of security
We've had enough!
Staying in line has long been the norm
But we will not be scared into silence
We've had enough!People are rising...
One by one we will rise, reclaiming control of our lives
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Malice & Spite
02:31
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You like to unnecessarily polarize issues into an all or nothing dichotomy
That gives you a place to exercise your deep seated lust for power over and
Hatred for people you don't know, people you don't understand
This lingering resentment has killed al compassion
Left you unsusceptible of pity
Something has gone awry!
Malice and spite
Poisons your life
In oh so many ways this misanthropy trend has become not only a way to dodge the real tenets
Of an issue but to enact horrendous acts of hate
Hatred for people you don't know, people you don't understand
This lingering resentment has killed al compassion
Left you unsusceptible of pity
Something has gone awry!
Malice and spite
Poisons your life
And everything you touch dies...
Like the dreams that faded in time
Like the memories you left behind
Like the love that you had that can't be traced
'cause by now it has all been replaced by...
Hatred for people you don't know, people you don't understand
This lingering resentment has killed al compassion
Left you unsusceptible of pity
Something has gone awry!
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Rise
03:26
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Don't let them break down your sense of identity
Don't let your life be controlled by the bullshit they feed you to make you doubt your ability
Like a well trained puppet-let them indoctrinate
This self-censoring fear-into your heart and mind
How much longer can you keep on pretending?
Everything will be fine but life unlike movies don't always have a happy ending
So let loose your inner Don Quixote
Take your chances-sort of like I do
On those high notes
'cause in the hardest times we find our strength
In our darkest hour-on our bleeding knees
And if we fall we must rise again
I know sometimes it seems as if we're living in a time of fading dreams
When all hope is lost in the process of life
In our ever failing search for happiness...
But we know...
If we fall we must rise again
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La Agonía de Vivir Madrid, Spain
DIY - ANIMAL FRIENDLY - GAY POSITIVE (LGTBIQ+) - PRO FEMINIST - ANTI FASCIST record label / distro since
2005.
Madrid / Spanish state.
La Agonía de Vivir funciona como distribuidora desde el 2005 y como sello desde el 2007.
No responde a ninguna etiqueta musical, solo a lo que dictan mis principios y gustos personales (sí, la Agonía de Vivir es una sola persona).
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