1. |
Red Sky Ash
03:22
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Did you get it in, get it in
Before the end, my friend
Did you make amends, make amends
Or just more dividends
Did you square away, square away
All the things you had to say
Was it love and only love
Or just more vitriol
Red sky ash is falling down
Upon the hollow poisoned ground
Black water rising breaking through
The bill it comes due
Did you work it out, work it out
What it's all about, about
Or are you still buying in
To the hate they push and spin
Did you stay the course
Of no remorse, no remorse
Or did you make a change
Attempt to heal the pain
Red sky ash is falling down
Upon the hollow poisoned ground
Black water rising breaking through
The bill it comes due
Did you bump up the margins
As the world darkened
Did you hear the cries and the hurt
Of those we sacrificed for comfort
Did you help make this bed
That we're laying in, dying in
Or did you kick the sheets, kick, kick
Fight for what could've been, should've been
Red sky ash is falling down
Upon the hollow poisoned ground
Black water rising breaking through
The bill it comes due
The bill it comes due
The bill it comes due
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2. |
Privilege
03:32
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Look at us with all of this privilege
What we do to earn this privilege
Not a damn thing, born with this privilege
Lucky us, lucky, lucky privilege
What we gonna do with this privilege
Sit it out on the side with our privilege
Defend, deny our privilege
Or do the right thing with our privilege
This is a call
For one and all
The fight for equality
Starts with you and me
Don't you think it's time
Don't you think it's right
We level this
Dismantle it
First thing we do with our privilege
Is acknowledge our privilege
Listen and learn about our privilege
And then yield our privilege
Take to the streets with our privilege
March for those without the same privilege
Cast a vote against our privilege
Do what we can to end this privilege
This is a call
For one and all
The fight for equality
Starts with you and me
Don't you think it's time
Don't you think it's right
We level this
Dismantle it
Amplify marginalized voices
Support them with economic choices
Stand up for the rights of the exploited
And rid ourselves of this systemic poison
This is a call
For one and all
The fight for equality
Starts with you and me
Don't you think it's time
Don't you think it's right
We level this
Dismantle it
This is a call
For one and all
Now is the time
You know it's right
This is a call
For one and all
Dismantle it
Let's level this
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3. |
Take Care
03:01
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Ayn Rand was a hypocrite
She took money from the government
Don't believe me google it
Ayn Rand was a hypocrite
Her followers are idiots
Idiots and hypocrites
Who only seek to profit
Off the aforementioned idiots
Take care
Take care
Take care
Of each other
Sisters
Brothers
Lift up those
That have fallen
Ayn Rand was a hypocrite
But that's just the start of it
In 2020 the Ayn Rand Foundation
Took a bailout without hesitation
What more proof do you need
That even they do not believe
In the garbage that they preach
The heights of disassociation reached
Take care
Take care
Take care
Of each other
Sisters
Brothers
Lift up those
That have fallen
Your libertarian ideals
Only reveal
Your cowardice and greed
And your lack of humanity
Joh Galt was a little bitch
Not strong enough to handle it
The responsibility of us all
To answer humanity's call
The fountainhead is filled
With kool-aid for the weakest willed
Those who can only fight
For their own privileged rights
Take care
Take care
Take care
Of each other
Sisters
Brothers
Lift up those
That have fallen
Take care of each other
Your sisters and your brothers
Take care of each other
Take care
Take care
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4. |
Cairril's Gone
02:52
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When the money dries up
The panic attacks
See all she built
Slowly collapse
No safety net
Makes capitalism a trap
Cairril said she's not coming back
She's not coming back
Cairril's gone
To the people's garden
To lay her
Heavy head down
When the panic attacks
Everything stops
Caught in a loop
Of destructive thought
No support for the mentally ill
Just pills, pills and more pills
Cairril's another
Indifferent system's kill
Cairril's gone
To the people's garden
To lay her
Heavy head down
Cairril's gone
To the people's garden
That's where
She will be found
Got good grades but it wasn't enough
No mercy for the working class
Worked hard but it wasn't enough
No mercy for the working class
Played by their rules but it wasn't enough
No mercy for the working class
A little bad luck is all it took
No mercy
Cairril's gone
To the people's garden
To lay her
Heavy head down
Cairril's gone
To the people's garden
That's where
She will be found
Cairril's gone
Cairril's gone
Cairril's gone
Cairril's gone
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5. |
One by One
03:39
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The system isn't broken
The system is doing just fine
The system is working
Exactly as designed
To keep profits up
You gotta keep people down
Oppression is a market tool
Found the whole world round
The revolution is over
It was lost before you were born
So don't get it twisted
This is not a war
This is occupied resistance
This is the will to defy
This is the subversive action
Of a free mind baby, a free mind.
Opting out is the only way out
The only way out is within
Opting out is the only way out
The only way out is within
Stepping down is the only way up
The only way up is within
The only way up, the only out
The only way through is within
The system isn't broken
The system is doing just fine
The system runs on
Human sacrifice
The revolution is over baby
The revolutions is long gone
Now all it is is resistance
One by one
One by one
Let's get it done
Let's get it done
The only way out
The only way out
The only way out
Is within
The only way out
The only way out
The only way out
Is within
The only way out
The only way out
The only way out
Is within
The only way out
The only way out
The only way out
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6. |
A Red Circle
02:54
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This is the slow decay
Rust growing on the blade
The faltering charade
Goddamn the slow decay
Eyes fading to gray
The hero as she's unmade
Oxygen concentrate
The focus dissipates
A decade spent tethered to machines
Morphine and ice chips
Game shows exotic trips
To places that she will never see
She drew a red circle
Upon her left arm
To challenge the devil
One on one
Take, take, take me sweet Jesus
That is what she cried
But sweet, sweet old Jesus
Took his sweet ass time
What's a few more months of suffering
What's a few more months of suffocation
What's a few more months of dying
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7. |
In a Field, Far
02:32
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There is a deep trembling,
at the foot of this year's throne.
The bruises pale,
the pressed teeth of their wounding
forgotten.
A sea of grass
is wound like ribbons through her hair,
has grown around her shape
until any fool
could see she grew out of this same soil
that is taking her back.
The birds claim
strands of her to soften the nests
of their children.
Her body becomes
a piece of gold stuck
in the throat of a sparrow.
Which is worth more,
the coin clutched in a bloody hand
or the voice around it, singing?
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8. |
All Lovers
05:21
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All lovers live forever
All lovers will never die
All lovers live forever
In the other lovers mind
It's true, yes, it's true
It's true for me, was it true for you
It's true, I swear it's true
It's true for me, was it true for you
All lovers are recalled
In the quiet, quiet night
All lovers are returned
To a beauty beyond sight
It's true, oh, it's true
It's true for me, is it true for you
It's true, yes, it's true
It's true for me, was it true for you
Who we are is who we know
And who we love is how we grow
Who we are is who we know
And how we're loved that's what shows
All lovers live forever
All lovers shall remain
All lovers live forever
As the spirits to whom we pray
It's true, yes, it's true
It's true for me, is it true for you
It's true, I swear it's true
It's true for me, was it true for you
Please, please stay
Please, please stay
Don't go away
Please don't fade
Please don't fade
Please don't go away
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Beltalowda Bloomington, Indiana
Beltalowda is a socio-political punk / post-punk band.
We swear it's more fun than that
sentence makes it sound.
Beltalowda is Mat on guitar & vocals, JD on bass, Dagan on drums.
50% of all album sales donated to social justice causes.
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