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1312
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Hour of Reprisal
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Failed State
03:04
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Death to your king. No religion could offer saviour in this nation’s image. No peacemaker could justify this kingdom’s cruelty. No politician’s idea could stitch these wounds. Where are the peacemakers? I can’t continue to accept the path of this failed state. A declaration of battered hope to set your kingdom aflame. When the people freeze, as the profits rise. The pain you feel is by design. If normal is thousands dead, is this the savagery of man? Fuck king and country. Fuck your nations pride. When injustice is enshrined, reprisal is justified. And soon the fires will burn, and the people will sing; as they dance in the ashes of burning flags. Death to your king. Death to all kings.
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The Illusion of Choice
03:41
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No opposition, no push to ever change. All politicians on a quest for power. All content to let the people drown. Under either side: protesters prison-bound. When you reach the top we know you’ll turn. For every cage they build; a bridge will burn. When the end begins you’ll play your part: a spineless traitor to the working class. Two parties, two faces of the same coin; all the same, just the illusion of choice. When the safety net fails, who will fight for us? Two faces of the same coin; just the illusion of choice. When the safety net fails, you stand in silence. Thinking we fail you, you fail us. Who sits behind your throne? Who pulls your levers? If it’s all the same in the end why should we play these games? Two parties, two faces of the same coin; all the same, just the illusion of choice. When the safety net fails, who will fight for us? Two faces of the same coin; just the illusion of choice. When the safety net fails, you stand in silence. England weeps, the vultures feed. No will to stem the bleed. Fuck dreams, England’s bleeding. When they turn on us, we’ll be ready.
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Rat Nest
03:09
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Justice lays bleeding, unconscious in a cell. Every blue bastard never turns on their own. Their rapists and racists never protect us. Condemned to suffer under these cowards. Institutional oppressor - who do you represent? Policing by consent; is that a promise or a threat? You’ll never change your ways, you’re not powerless. Your refusal’s a reflection of cowardice. We’re not born to serve, not born to suffer. Where the light goes, rats take cover. Do you feel safe? Do you feel safe now? Fuck your myth of security, when have you ever kept us safe? We know our enemy. We know our enemy. Fuck your myth of security, when have you ever kept us safe? We know who you are. We know our enemy. Between every protest and justice. Between every strike and fairness. Between poverty and safety. You stand in our way. You stand in our way.
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The Supremacy Delusion
03:18
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What are you so afraid of? Hatred offered as a voice for the weak. A hail of thrown stones and straight arm salutes. March to fight under the banner of “peace”. Your supremacy is a fucking lie, a cowards crutch. Cowards crutch. Tradition is a noose you wield to crush. What are you so afraid of? Scared to death, hate filled wretch. Tradition is a noose that you wear to choke progress. Your world engineered to keep you in fear. The threats and the debts, your dominance ends here. With police collusion in the supremacy delusion. What are you so afraid of? Tradition one is a noose that you wear to choke all progress.
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To spark revolution from tragedy. Crush all traditions of supremacy and systems that seek to oppress. No safe future for the kingdom of shit. No love for a rotten world that seeks to worship at the feet of the cruel. No man to stand above me, none crushed below. Oppressors will be erased. Lambs will slaughter the lions. Oppressor execution. Lambs will slaughter their lions. We have dug new homes for the rich. Kings will be shaken from their slumber and dragged into the streets with our hands at their wretched throats and our flames at their children’s feet. Oppressors will be erased. Lambs will slaughter the lions. Oppressor execution. Lambs will slaughter their lions. No one leaves unscarred. No one fucking leaves. No one.
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Walk Among the Wreckage
05:36
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The final war begins, battle lines are drawn. Warriors at the gates of Eden. For all mankind, a vow to oppose; to claim the head of every king they impose. Walk among the wreckage of their broken world. They’d hang us all from the poverty line. To strike a blow at the heart of the gilded lands. Liberation. To empty every cage, resow every forest, until the last lock breaks. Liberation. In the face of disaster profiteers; car bombs at the gates of their eden. Never knew a war, like a life in peace. Never felt a wrath like the love of god. Obeying those who claim history’s end. Doomed to repeat the sins of the past…and you call this “civilisation”?
A system that relies on fear of poverty, of homelessness, of starvation, of freezing to death in a home you can’t afford. A system whose police rape, steal, and kill with impunity; is no civilisation at all. If it takes a lifetime, I would accept every kettle, every baton charge, every volley of tear gas, and wear their scars with pride. If I could strike only one blow; may I be the spark, that lights the match, that lights the rag, that lights the fuel, that lights the bottle, that starts the fire to burn that world as it is. If I could trade these horrors I know, for a future I don’t… to build a new world from the ashes of the old. If it takes a lifetime… if this is your kingdom come. Answer me this; Do you feel safe yet? Do you feel safe?
At the gates of Eden.
A new world, from the ashes of the old
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Hour of Reprisal Norwich, UK
Norwich's only ever Straight Edge Band. Breakdowns/Squeaky Riffs/Nasty Vocals. Est. 2021.
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