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Empty Hands

by Rat Storm

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1.
Monuments 01:41
Inhale rotten air with the taste of defeat from this system of competition where we’ve only gained anxiety and this feeling of never quite having enough. We shop more and think less as we cut ourselves off. Trapped in this fish bowl battling for each wasted breath, my lifestyle is a prison with no future left. So connected to everyone, but I’ve never felt so alone DESTROY WHAT YOU’VE BUILT; DESTROY WHAT YOU OWN. We’ve built MONUMENTS to our ENSLAVEMENTS and we glorify the loss of compassion We’ve built MONUMENTS to our ENSLAVEMENTS and we glorify the collapse of intellect I’ve witnessed what this creates and it makes me fucking sick to the core. I can’t break away from these chains; I’ve gained nothing but still want more. We are a culture of slaves cursing the sky; we worship our chains and never ask why. There exists no power except that which we give. RETHINK WHAT YOU VALUE; RECLAIM HOW YOU LIVE. Destroy this religion; destroy all this shit. Burn down the system and tear down monuments. Break through the walls that leave us all so alone. DESTROY WHAT YOU BUILD; DESTROY WHAT YOU OWN.
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With these two hands I can destroy your whole world. Desire to create; compelled to destroy. Destroy/create this bullshit privilege power structure. Destroy/create a place, home, purpose, meaning. With these two hands I will replant this seed, to grow a new world where the dead can speak. With these two hands I can build a new world. Desire to create, compelled to destroy. With these two hands I’ll replant this seed and a grow a world where the dead can speak.
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Are we quietly living or silently dying? I’d talk to the walls, but the walls are screaming at me. Blood fills their mouths and spills from the screen into unblinking eyes, watching, waiting. I’m suffocating on these toxic breaths; the smell of electricity and ionized air. Don’t open your eyes- don’t look too deep. If you remember your lines then they allow you to breathe. You’re drowning, we’re all dying but I’m going down in flames. Are we quietly living or silently dying? Entranced by walls of images and talking heads on TV. Blood fills their mouths and spills from the screen to fill the silence with sounds of no meaning You’re drowning, we’re all dying but I’m going down in flames
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Collapse 01:07
Breath short, vision blurred, sick inside, stomach turns. Distorted vision or a distorted world? Dead eyes in the image of a living girl. COLLAPSE Taught to feel self-hatred, isolation, and no escape. Superficial values are used to define success. Marked at birth to fit an image, play a part, or fill a mold. So we undervalue creativity and intellect. COLLAPSE Beauty scars beneath skin deep. Blood spilled for a lie that we are dying to keep and a system of false heroes to perpetuate a myth and a standard of beauty that I long to forget.
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Chemicals 00:37
Stagnate, apathetic, alone, paralyzed. No hope, no pain, no feeling, nothing. Blood pumps to the brain, chemicals drain down. Just electrical impulses; no control, no control. A startling contrast; grind white knuckles to bare bone. Just electrical impulses; no control, no control. PEEL OFF THIS SKIN, PEEL OFF THIS FACE. REVEAL THE MONSTER THAT HIDES UNDERNEATH.
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Empty Hands 02:55
We’ve been fed ideologies and corrupted from birth, so abandon this setup and erase these ideas of “deserved” and “earned” and of money and wealth. REDEFINE. REINTERPRET. UNLEARN, UNLEARN! It’s easy to just fall in line. Authority is comforting. But it weakens the heart and stifles your thoughts and cuts you apart from the Universe. We’re all gonna suffer, we’re all gonna bleed; it’s the human condition, our reality. But it brings us together and binds beyond choice. EMPTY HANDS, OWNING NOTHING BUT WHAT YOU GIVE We’re all gonna suffer; we’re all gonna bleed. It’s the human condition: shared misery. The system - UNLEARN! Unlearn the system that silences and teaches to build walls. Strip the uniform that cloaks the animals and darkens your heart. Break the chains that bind us to the things that we hate. Wounds the spirit and makes us forget to live, love, create.

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Released by Profane Existence, Reality is a Cult, and IFB Records.

#12 in the 2013 Profane Existence Limited Edition Single Series

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released November 22, 2013

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