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Tell me why
After all these years
I still can't stand to
Look in the mirror
With the mask of regret
Clinging to my face
A fabricated smile
My walls defaced
Stunted
Calling out for a hand to pull me out
But not screaming loud enough
To help myself
Devastated by
The lack of my
Own permanence
In everyone's lives
Sleep never comes
I just wait to daydream
Tip toe across the glass
To imaginary safety
Whispers
Growing ever louder
Telling me I'm just a downer
But I can't block them out
Without closing my mouth
Whiskey
Used to be my best friend
But I drowned the world
Now I face the end
With a pocket full of letters
That I'll forget to send
Wishing that
All the times I spent
Waiting by the phone
Wishing anyone at all
Would simply fucking call
Just to ask if I'm OK
Just so I could practice lying
Were better spent
Doing anything but dying
Wishing that
All the times I spent
Waiting by the phone
Wishing anyone at all
Would just fucking call
Just to ask if I'm OK
So I could practice lying
Were better spent
Doing anything but lying
Don't look down
I'm too high
Take my hand
People cannot fly
Don't look down
I'm too high
Take my hand
People cannot die
A long way down
Down to the pavement
Six feet below
Six feet below
Six feet below
But I still hear the priest say
Someone could've saved me
No.
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Living
Our lives
Should have never been this hard
I've had
Enough
I won't live my life always on guard
I've watched
Too much
Violence against us with no regard
If you're
Silent
Look in the mirror and ask yourself why
Why are you so willing
Why are you so willing
To let us die
No more
Will we
Stand by as you cut us down
We're done
Asking
For our safety to be something that is guaranteed
We'll save
Ourselves
Again and again cuz we got us!
Allies
Your lies
About keeping us safe have us all asking why
Why are you so willing
Why are you so willing
To let us die!
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D.O.T.S.
05:09
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They spread fear about catgirls in classrooms
To distract from the fact there's a shooting every week
The police departments hide in the backrooms
Body cam footage that they don't want to leak
They blame welfare for the economy that corporate greed inflates
They divide the poor against the poor
In their game of ruling with hate
(Dogs of the state)
Regulating reproduction
(Dogs of the state)
Normalize the corruption
(Dogs of the state)
We will bury the means of destruction
(Dogs of the state)
To eliminate is the proletariat function
In impoverished neighborhoods their gestapo overreach
Black communities are over-policed
They enforce poverty and execute it's victims
Destroy the private property so precious to their system
They're passing bills daily that create more tension
To destroy your fucking life living your gender expression
Genocidal authoritarians running their regime
Should all put their heads together
Under the guillotine
(Dogs of the state)
Regulating reproduction
(Dogs of the state)
Normalize the corruption
(Dogs of the state)
We must bury the means of destruction
(Dogs of the state)
To eliminate is the proletariat function
Outlaw teaching history and build a casket to fit us in
They want to fill their armies with uneducated citizens
They want a dumb distracted population apathetic and complacent
That's why if you remain neutral you are fascist adjacent
They perpetuate a class war to destroy them is the answer
They perpetuate a class war to destroy them is the answer
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You say you want a debate, a discussion with facts
But the minute you're wrong, you start with the attacks
You threaten us physically and try to intimidate
So tell me what it is we're supposed to tolerate
Every chance you get you're spouting fascist shit
Then you cry on twitter when dog whistles get you hit
You say "so much for the tolerant left"
When we call you racist, you beg to be oppressed
You say we can still be friends and disagree on things
But your ideology is pulling genocide's strings
Our safety is in question anytime you are near
I don't fucking trust you next to anybody queer
Every chance you get you're spouting fascist shit
Then you cry on twitter when dog whistles get you hit
You say "so much for the tolerant left"
When we call you racist, you beg to be oppressed
Who's the snowflake now?
You're having a meltdown
Over candy you fucking clown
Every chance you get you're spouting fascist shit
Then you cry on twitter when dog whistles get you hit
You say "so much for the tolerant left"
Try saying fag again with no fucking teeth left!
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I held all in so well
My whole life in a silent hell
Afraid to stand
On the fact I'm trans
To satisfy a tradition of don't ask don't tell
Every day I wake
And struggle to make
Peace with the fact that I'll never pass
But I'd rather be
Visibly trans
Than hide myself behind a mirror of painted glass
My only regret
Is that it took so long
To feel safe enough
To be myself
But it's not my fault
I didn't have help
The moment
I realized
The girl
I dreamed of
Was not
Someone
I wanted to be with
But rather
She was
Myself
I cried
All night
In my
Own arms
And told her that she's safe from harm
I will always be there
I will never leave her
I will always be there
I will always save her
I wake every day and smile at the girl I dreamt of who
Let's me know she'll protect me too
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6. |
A Generation Unsilenced
04:39
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I just live rent free in your fucking head
You can't touch me so you want me dead
Standing at a pulpit just preaching hate
Panicking cuz your side piece is two weeks late, ha!
Understand that I know all your fucking tricks
Publicly you hate us, but in private suck our dicks
Your words spell genocide but what's written on your face
Is that if you let your wrist limp the world would be a better place
You're far too concerned with stopping drag queens
When you should be looking at your own fucking priests
Cis het men are a predatory group
The fact no one feels safe near them should be your fucking proof
White supremacist patriarchy
Should die today on a bended fucking knee
Too many of us died but never again
If we don't see no justice, you won't see no peace friend!
*tucker carlson sample*
I am
Every
Trans girl
That has
Ever
Been killed
I am
Every
Gay kid
That has
Been beat
I am
Every
Person
Standing
With me
Fuck tucker carlson
Fuck Richard Spencer
Fuck Donald Trump AND Joe Biden
Fuck Andrew Tate
Fuck the police from Memphis all the fucking way to Palestine
And fuck every last fucking nazi bootlicking motherfucker that tries to stamp us out...
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I will not fall
On my knees to beg you for my life
I will not crawl
Head down to escape from your sight
To pacify your discomfort with my existence
I will
Show up at your doorstep a million bodies strong
And tear down your life piece by piece showing you every single thing that you've done wrong
Death
Before
Detransition
We will not
Accept annihilation
Death
Before
Detransition
Save your breath, bitch
We're here for trans liberation!
Brick by brick
And stone by stone
The only ones to save us
Will be our own
Break your chains and take to the streets
Shut this shit down, oppressors are weak
Bury the city in sounds of rebellion
Show up to their homes and fucking tell them
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Millions in Cages
01:56
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There's a war waged by the state
To keep it's own people under foot
There's a war, a war, a war on drugs
But the drugs are winning
Just a way for Nixon wannabes
To gain free labor on the backs of
Incarcerated poor people
Millions in cages
America number one
Millions in cages
End prison slavery
Millions in cages
Prisons are for burning
To freedom we are turning
Resistance leaders returning
Take back who they stole from Black communities
Bring them back and give them fresh opportunities
Free Mumia Abu Jamal and all political prisoners
Smash every wall that confines any fucking dissidents
Millions in cages
America has the most
Millions in cages
No more endless suffering
Millions in cages
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The darkness of my still bleeding heart
Crying in silence,
in the eve of oppression that lusts painfully and lasts eternally
A soul ripe with life so latched to sorrow and anger,
I can't see through this fog
Grasping at nothing to pull me up
Alone, but not on my own
I don't recognize myself anymore
Crestfallen tears of angels sear
Fragile flesh in still animation
Elegy for the days in the light
Withdrawn into imagination
I'm sorry I left you to suffer
The redead past now haunts me
Is this victory hollow?
Will the life-leached potential infused with shadow follow?
I can't see through this fog
Grasping at nothing to pull me up
Alone, but not on my own
I don't recognize myself anymore
You taught me to grieve
Before I knew what I was grieving for
I never realized by satiating the appetite of internal violence that I was the one hiding behind a mask
A princess locked in a tower by my own hand
I made myself stronger in those moments of vulnerability
After every age of calamity, I learned what it felt like to gather tears and nurture a godless realm
Until fear was a familiar old friend
Rather than a captor
Cut through
The fog
I can see my reflection in the sun
No more will the past haunt me
I will not turn and run
I am so much stronger
I won't hide from myself any longer
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Black storms shake the air
Dark clouds prevent our stare
And though pain and death await us
Against the enemy duty calls us
The most precious good is freedom
Let's fight for it with faith and courage!
Raise the revolutionary flag
That will lead the people to emancipation!
Raise the revolutionary flag
That will lead the people to their freedom!
Stand up working people to the battle
We must overthrow the reaction!
To the barricades!
To the barricades!
For the victory of the working class!
To the barricades!
To the barricades!
For the victory of the working class!
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Girls Against Hetero Tyranny Rochester, New York
We are a couple of 'radicals' from Elmira, and Rochester, NY. We make music to encourage those who are taught by society to
hide to rise up and create a happier world. Our art is our weapon.
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