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Prisoner
02:21
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PRISONER
shallow graves
created or not, a virus broke out. global panic, there’s nowhere to hide. ask no questions, hear no lies. empty factories, sinking jobs. the death rate is fine, most will survive but another great depression is on the rise. stockpilers unite. don’t care about the others, just yourself. don’t need it? doesn’t matter. keep buying till nothing’s left, feel the drowning man’s hand. no matter how big is your house our graves will be the same size. shallow as fuck with a broken cross. ask no questions, hear no lies. keep doing things that make god cry. dig the graves, make ‘em shallow. deep rooted hate inside this prison. the gravity of crisis keeps us locked. the greed of humanity keeps us locked. the lack of common sense keeps us locked. thanks to the dropping temperature of our blood as the entire species we are fucked.
“the chinese use two brush strokes to write the word ‘crisis’. one brush stroke stands for danger; the other for opportunity. in a crisis, be aware of the danger but recognize the opportunity.”
- john f. kennedy
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Peacekeeper
03:02
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PEACEKEEPER
this is dominance
ooh, baby, do you know what that's worth? ooh, heaven is a place on earth. they say in heaven love comes first. we'll make heaven a place on earth. ooh, heaven is a place on earth. sustained hope in an unjust world in the black hands of the redeemer. he’s the shepherd of the mindless flock in the orange country with barb wire walls. the evil you pay, the monster you make is directing this hell and all of you who dwell upon his rage. peacekeeper, kneel them all. by his stripes we are healed, cover our wounds with his sins. he is the scale of justice, our heads under his command. this is dominance. ooh, heaven is a place on earth or at least that’s what he says to keep the peace. this is dominance.
“peace cannot be kept by force, it can only be achieved by understanding.”
- albert einstein
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Deceiver
03:15
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DECEIVER
mass control
fruitless decades of total dominion created a generation incapable of living these digital natives. we need to get out of this ‘net-fueled drug-trip or we should live-stream from our death beds till the batteries are dead. direct predation, mass control. deceiver, lead them all. it’s a free country in a free world, right? but they’re watching us, for god’s sake. truth is what those in power wish it to be. sometimes we fall prey to fear. direct predation, mass control. this pandemic brought closer the crisis horizon. weakening the artificial structure. can this man-made engine revive? or in the meantime the people will realise the unnecessity of this consumer society as the terror becomes real. deadweight hanging off of our shoulders. where humanity is broken who will restore what the locusts have eaten? the hopper, the destroyer and the cutter? i got bit by the fire when i was on my knees. it’s sharper than a serpent’s teeth. i felt a cold finger touch my heart. through the eyes of a beaten dog i tried to see where did it come from. hide your horses, hold your gun.
“the basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. if you can control the meaning of words, you control the people who must use the words.”
- philip k. dick
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CROWDPLEASER
forge another crown
i’d rather die with your judgement than live with your sympathy. i’m fed up with this misery and i’m prepared to lose everything. the gallows are standing so tighten the noose. the goat’s not gonna scape itself so bend the truth. dig through the vault of heaven, melt down everything that’s golden. forge him a brand new crown. crowdpleaser, cheer them up then knock them down. he owns the ropes, who’s gonna hang him now. one nation under god. if wishes were horses beggars would ride. desperate hearts bleed loud. saying the truth feels like committing a crime but i’ve learned that silence is deafening. the plague head keeps singing it. i reckon how loyal a hungry dog really is. but these are just gutter rats fighting the pigs’ war for sand castles in a mortal empire. this whole concept is misbegotten. he gets to keep his crown as he keeps pleasing the crowd. they even forge him a new one. crowdpleaser, cheer them up. bloody noses and broken bones. black gun and a perfect knife. endless mindfucks at sleepless nights. here comes the raging tide of war, let he who’s without sin cast the first stone.
“speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far”
- theodore roosevelt
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Stringpuller
02:14
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STRINGPULLER
propagate anger
born a snake in the year of the rat. lost among the lies in the tall grass. you adolescents can get the fuck off my chest. i’ll never stand on your side because you represent everything that I’m not. you see a window, you want to throw a rock. “hate this, hate that” it’s so easy to talk about. that’s your point of attention. propagate anger, pulling strings and expect us to dance like marionettes. tyrants are welcomed because they’re celebrated. our biggest problem is knowledge, we don’t know shit. we need to weed out the circle. we don’t need no more of these mouthbreathers but we need to keep our eyes open. keep the devils in sight, they keep me sharp. power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. i like to hear the banshees they won’t let me sleep too much. i want to stay awake and witness the change when serpents grew feet so they can be chased by the rabid rats they made. this is the year two thousand and tears, a century immersed in suffering and fear. we have to turn the shadow of death to the light of a new day from a bottomless black to the whiteness of a clean slate.
“the greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. it's the people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages.”
- banksy
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Hopecrusher
03:20
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HOPECRUSHER
last line of defence
the hardest part is acknowledging and saying out loud that what is happening right now is maybe not the end but possibly the dawn of a better world. in the light of these horrible events the change has been accelerated. great blues are showing without harmful emissions. it’s written in blood and the papers are soaked. they can keep it a secret but it doesn’t make it any less true. these so called high class positions aren’t that important. moreover these working models are the reason that our planet slowly suffocates us. globalisation made this unprecedented vulnerability. we need an organic healing, natural order. this morally corrupt paradigm of life cannot keep up. humanity is the ultimate victim. to praise the day a price has to be payed to the merchant of death. mend it all, end it all. hopecrusher, kill them all.
“real success can only come if there is a change in our societies and in our economics and in our politics.”
- david attenborough
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Worldeater
02:22
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WORLDEATER
backseat arsonist
when misery reigns it pours. what you reap is what you sow. this is the story of the fire itself. this match had been made in hell. light it up, burn it down. we’re just tenants, it’s not our house. we are loosing the sea and sky. everyone in charge has lost their minds. hearts turned to the blackest opal. son of a gun got lost in the fog of war. our last breath are ticking clocks. those who live in glass castles shouldn’t throw stones. branches and bones crushing under our feet. trampling on the roots of family trees. trespassing through wildlife, this is a wildfire burning down our backyards. we are just tenants, it’s not our house. light it up, burn it down. the night must fall and when the dead walk the living will eat this world in flames. this is the story of the fire itself. this match had been made in hell. worldeater, light it up, burn it down. this is a wildfire.
“even if the world is going to hell in a hand-basket, i won’t loose a penny”
- donald j. trump
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Heatseeker
02:12
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HEATSEEKER
backstreet abortionist
“the battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. the winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.”
- napoleon bonaparte
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