You’ve elected your progressives who promise minor changes // But who fills the private prisons and increases police spending? // Protecting fascists in the streets, tear gassing out poor tenants // Murder people for no reason, claiming uprisings are ‘violence’ // All these years and still I wonder— // Who you think that they’re protecting? // All this time and still I’m asking— // Why the fuck am I still asking? // History shows us what is done to opposition // Taking violent action when supremacy is threatened // Prey on class division, blaming victims of oppression // Exterminating all who advocate resistance // The realization that this systemic situation has caused massed incarceration, a contemporary plantation // But now we’re tired, so to this white man nation // It’s time we burn this shit down, this land is ours for the taking // Who herded who into slave ships and gas chambers? // How safe you must feel not to risk your comfort at all // Progress serves you but one day this all falls down // Claim what you want cause I know whose side you’re on // History shows us what is done to opposition // Taking violent action when supremacy is threatened // Prey on class division, blaming victims of oppression // Exterminating all who advocate resistance // They colonized and took all we had left, // I pledge allegiance with my knee on their necks // Probably prosper and take pride my forefathers had broke through those chains // No question I’ll do the same // I’d rather be hated and free at the sake of your comfort // I could really give a fuck if you think peace should really come first // Cause it wasn’t peace when my ancestors were hanging // So don’t ask for peace when my piece gets to banging // All these years and still I wonder— // Who you think that they’re protecting? // All this time and still I’m asking— // Why the fuck am I still asking? // Who herded who into slave ships and gas chambers? // How safe you must feel not to risk your comfort at all // Progress serves you but one day this all falls down // Claim what you want cause I know whose side you’re on // No longer holding interest in a call to opposition // Constructing social systems, from the ashes of oppression // No more class division at the hands of tyrant fascists // Demand your liberation through the mass emancipation
credits
from The Ableist,
released January 22, 2021
Barry Cabrera – Guitar
Stephan Piven – Guitar and Lead Vocals
Jairus Paulus – Bass
Johnny Chacon – Drums
Paul Scanty – Lead Vocals
Jordan Criss – Lead Vocals
supported by 4 fans who also own “Sore Subjects (feat. Twenty3 Criss)”
This is one of those albums where I have a different favourite track every week, and it's been like that since the release that is now a year ago. What a massive album, starting out with fist pumping chants and gradually getting more electro but always with that punk grit attitude. Top 3 of 2023. Gijs van Soest