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Put the Devil to Bed
02:57
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From the depths of the ocean I’ve traveled home
Now I hardly know where I’m from
The walls are all torn, ravaged by flames
There’s nowhere to hide from the blinding shame
From the rocks at the bottom I’ve risen here
Although I’m nowhere close to the clear
I’ve grit my teeth through the same old shit
If I can’t go around it I’ll plow through it
Burn it down
Burn it down
Burn it down, it’s my only way out
Burn it down
Burn it down
Burn it down, there’s no other way out
If I can’t go around it, I’ll go through
This is the only way to get over you
I’ll light you afire, dance on your ashes
Feed you to the wolves, laugh at disaster
I’ll watch you burn with your blood on my teeth
And breathe the biggest sigh of relief
I’ll bury you deep, your blood on my fist
Be gone, motherfucker, rest in fucking piss
Burn it down ...
I’ll hang you in my dreams, you’ll be dead in my water
I’ll kill you slowly and consume you at slaughter
If I can’t go around it, then you I’ll go through
Blood-bathed, smiling, in blood you first drew
And if I can’t fight through I’ll go over instead
Nail your skin to my face, wear your head as my head
And with the part that you took, I’ll paint me a crown
Feast on your flesh, burn you the fuck down
Burn it down ...
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Goodbye, Old Friend
01:43
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Watched my life fall apart
Built it back to the top
Cut the rope that held me at the bottom of the sea
It’s like drinking poison but expecting you to die
I don’t believe you
I have a reason to think you’re a liar
But I killed the tree and I ate the seed
Cracked through the core of my wooden teeth
I’m in a tunnel
My past is shrieking
My gums are bloody
My ears are ringing
Everything I ever loved has been taken from me
I don’t believe you
I have a reason to think you’re a liar
But I killed the tree and I ate the seed
Cracked through the core of my wooden teeth
The storm shattered me
And maybe it shattered us both
The storm shattered me
And maybe it shattered us both
The storm shattered me
And maybe it shattered us both
Goodbye, old friend
It’s been great
Goodbye, old friend
It’s been great
Goodbye, old friend
It’s been great
I know you’re gone
I know you’re gone
I know I’m not coming home …
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3. |
Time's Up
02:51
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We know your names, we know your faces
We know your friends and your workplaces
No more predators in our spaces!
Time’s up!
Time’s up, motherfuckers!
Time’s up!
It’s not on women to avoid
The violence of rape culture
It’s up to men to tell their friends
That we deserve better than this
No no, not our responsibility
Allow me to explain how boys
Are raised to think this shit’s OK
They’re not allowed to show emotion
Think their power’s in aggression
Gagging women with your cocks
You think that they are getting hot
But it’s just jocks like Brock who are
The only assholes getting off
Time’s up ...
There’s nothing normal in the way
You treat us like we’re yours to take
Virginity, humanity
Something you’re made to dominate
Not yours, it’s mine to do with as I please
That’s how we got men in our scene
Who violate our dignity
And business owners with money
To defend their atrocities
Time’s up ...
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Fauxminism
02:04
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How do you explain why nobody ever wants to be around you
But somehow they’re the ones who don’t understand like you do?
Take a hard look in the mirror at your passive-aggressive behavior
You pick and choose what’s convenient to believe in
And criticize everyone who dares to think for themselves
(How dare you think for yourself?)
How can you ignore all the warriors who paved the way through bullshit
So you could have a voice that you’re wasting on the internet?
No, we didn’t invent feminism
We’re just fighting for inclusion
Do you really think you’ve got the edge on this?
Your mind’s as closed as a Christian fundamentalist’s
You pick and choose what’s convenient to believe in
And criticize everyone who dares to think for themselves
(How dare you think for yourself?)
Who the fuck are you to call shots on behalf of survivors
When you don’t even know or could bear the weight that I do?
Take a long look in the mirror
You’re complicit in this behavior
I’m not a pawn in your militant politics
I’m not a step in your rehabilitation process
How is it so hard to understand that sex and gender are different?
Do the work yourself, look it up on the internet
We’re not buying TERF delusions
We’ll keep fighting for inclusion
Do you really think you’ve got the edge on this?
Your mind’s as closed as a faux feminist’s
You pick and choose what’s convenient to believe in
And criticize everyone who dares to think for themselves
(How dare you think for yourself?)
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Our fear has made us gullible
A bully rose to take control
And now they’re yelling “off with their heads!”
We’ve been through this, we ended it
Or so we thought it had been fought
It’s like an army back from the dead
The racists got a PR firm
Hired men in fancy shirts
But have the same ideology
We’ve had to say a lot of stuff
We thought was fucking obvious
Like, “Yes, it’s okay to punch Nazis!”
Never thought it’d happen
But now look where we are
We’d rather have a racist
Than a woman in power
When we got complacent
In defending our rights
The Nazis changed their name
Now they’re called the alt-right
Death to white supremacists
Like Milo Yiannopoulos
Homophobes and hatred they spread
Let’s get intersectional
Basic human rights for all
We won’t stop till fascism’s dead
Terrorize the Red Pill plague
Poison all the KKK
Piss on your ideology
We’ve had to say a lot of stuff
We thought was fucking obvious
Like, “Yes, it’s okay to punch Nazis!”
Never thought it’d happen
But now look where we are
We’d rather have a racist
Than a woman in power
When we got complacent
In defending our rights
The Nazis changed their name
Now they’re called the alt-right
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Bad Reputation
01:49
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I don’t give a fuck about my reputation
You’re living in the past, it’s a new generation
A girl can do what she wants to do
And that’s what I’m gonna do
And I don’t give a fuck about my bad reputation
Oh no, not me
Oh no, not me
I don’t give a fuck about my reputation
Never said I wanted to improve my station
And I’m only doing good when I’m having fun
And I don’t have to please no one
And I don’t give a fuck about my bad reputation ...
I don’t give a fuck about my reputation
Never been afraid of any deviation
And I don’t really care if you think I’m strange
I ain’t gonna change
And I don’t have a fuck about my bad reputation ...
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7. |
Relapse
02:09
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I tried to be content with an ordinary life
But I feel like anything could happen tonight
It might have something to do with the bottle of booze
That I just KO’d at a quarter to noon
Relapse, relapse with me
Whiskey is my boyfriend, never cheated on me
Relapse, relapse with me
The bottle is my best friend and my worst enemy
Relapse
Tried to break it off with Jimmy Beam
But my life became a terrible dream
Got really bored and put on a movie
Cried ‘cause I’ll never marry Adrien Brody
Relapse, relapse with me ...
Car ran out of gas
Stubbed my big toe
Got a cat scratch
Fell asleep mid-blow
Slave to the system
Scarred by sexism
Gender pay gap
Fuck it, let’s relapse
Relapse, relapse with me ...
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8. |
Only One of Us Leaves
04:25
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Thought I’d put the devil to bed
Fuck it, fuck it, let’s wake him instead
Want you to hear the wolves in my heart
Tell 'em where I live so I can tear them apart
Tell the wolves I’m home
Tell the wolves I’m home
We all become ghosts someday
While I’m alive I won’t be afraid
May the bridges I’ve burned light the way
For the person I’ll become
Tell the wolves I’m home
Tell the wolves I’m home
Tell the wolves I’m home
Buried what’s behind
I’ve burned down, I’ve moved on
Tell the wolves I’m home
In the dark of the night
In the thick of the trees
Both of us are there
Only one of us leaves
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feminist punks
stephanie, jane no, hot dave, goffo
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