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War Economy
03:24
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There is a war that blazes
Against human relief
For profit rates of few
Apocalypse soon made true
A century of overproduction
Life, nature as an object of consumption
Goodbye to a disaster lifestyle
This is a war economy
A factory-society
This is a war economy
Total collapse sold as peace
Every city, every day
in the rhythm of the machinery
Every city, every day
north, south, victory & casualty
Every minute, every day
poison land, water & sea
Down we fall as profits rise
until they've erased the last life
Start to break free from this order
or we'll all break down to the ground
...we're falling down
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2. |
Days of November
02:38
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A red flag under this cities' sky
In 1918, as workers rise
For a war to end, spreading revolutionary demands
"Freedom, bread, autonomy"
A society of solidarity
& we still believe this system can fall
Turn around: wars blaze, kids starve
Back then, today, tomorrow
Until we change the system
Justice remains unwritten
As an image from the future we're calling:
An empire is falling
Overturn the system or justice remains unwritten
"The masses of soldiers, who for years were driven to slaughter for the sake of capitalistic profits; the masses of workers, who for years were exploited, crushed and starved, have revolted" *
Bourgeois tradition:
Blood, profit, patriotism
Left millions of victims
So fuck their wars & lies
An oppressed class can't compromise
For every lost human life
This revolt will survive
There is no end of history
* Rosa Luxemburg "A Call For The Workers Of The World",
in "Die Rote Fahne", November 25th 1918
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3. |
Total Liberation
02:40
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What makes this so fucking hard to understand?
They're dying for profits, so called 'needs'
A cultural disease
We keep on fighting for the liberation of a l l
Destroy - set free - let go
Against a society built on bloody corpses
Empathy is all we're asking for
There is no excuse
for this systematic abuse
Cruelty starts where individuals lose
Slaughtered, caught in cages, cut to pieces
Fuck excuses - why don't you start?!
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4. |
Heartbeat Revolt
02:48
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We don't need your ideologies
Our needs & our love
We won't ever put on chains
Monogamy, heterosexuality
& all our fckn gender roles
Let's tear them all to the ground
- together we'll break out
We'll break free, deconstruct sexism
& their complete homophobe society
Your rules we will never follow
Socialised through lies our whole lives
- no more, break out -
We got to bring it to an e n d
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ALERT Kiel, Germany
Active between 2007 - 2011. Shows played from Flensburg to Berlin and Lübeck to Sevastopol.
Members went on to The Detectors, Mood Change, Leoniden and more.
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