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Sucked Back into the Sun

by The Ableist

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All proceeds from this release will go to Chicago's Rodgers Park Food Not Bombs to benefit the coronavirus response effort, so please donate what you can!

This track features our good friend Alice Kraynak, formerly of Thee Casual Hex, on vocals and violin.

Album art by Kit Snicket
Produced by Dave Hansen

lyrics

Sucked back into the sun
Is this all we can become?
Sucked back into the sun
Displaced beneath the stars

If human nature’s built on greed the commodity of the air we breathe won’t come cheap when the day comes for us to all asphyxiate. The culture that we cultivate, the colonial narrative that states “accept a wage, you’re not a slave, but conditions are too late to change”

Is there such a thing as solace in disassociated worlds?
Have we simply reached the solstice and descended on return?
This struggle is systemic, corrosive at its core
These solipsistic visions to expropriate the earth
Serve some cosmic calling to enslave us from our birth
While the planet is imploding to accommodate its growth
They’re doubling up the bodies in the prisons and the morgues
But you retain your privilege when you advocate reform

Sucked back into the sun
Look at what we’ve become
Sucked back into the sun
Deny the looming shadow

Human nature fluctuates based on circumstance and change. While we create, will we embrace their inherent right to subjugate? Our culture we can cultivate this instinctive narrative that states “reject their ways, you’re not a slave, the conditions are ours to claim.”

There’s no such thing as solace in a genocidal world
We’ll confront the cataclysmic while the constellations burn
This fight against oppression must drive us at our cores
Dismantling every vision to commodify our worth
To serve the cosmic calling to preserve our planet earth
We can liberate the species while the nebulae disperse
Not reducing human beings to cells and freezer drawers
Cause the pursuit of abolition is to actualize reform

It’s the turning point in history where we die or we evolve
Earn our place among the planets or fall extinct among the stars
We can embrace emancipation or have hell eclipse us all
But the truth of human nature lies in the abandonment of the law

credits

released March 17, 2020
All music by The Ableist
All lyrics by Paul Scanty

Stephan Piven – Guitar and gang vocals
Barry Cabrera – Guitar and gang vocals
Johnny Chacon – Drums
Jairus Paulus – Bass
Paul Scanty – Lead vocals
Dez Kraynak – Lead vocals and violin

Additional gang vocals by Sean Jones and Maddie Bomher

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