1. |
Selective Slavery
02:08
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They'll fuck you they'll fool you
They'll play games with your mind
They'll taunt you They'll trick you
They'll get you from behind
They'll push you They'll pull you
till you do just what you're told
They'll twist you They'll turn you
till you fit into their mold
Don't do what they want
No matter how bad it gets
cuz that's exactly their plan
The poor fighting for the rich
It's all more of the same, we just pawns in their game
It's so hard to resist when your poor -- to enlist
Unless we stop and see we'll repeat history
and do like we did before
The poor will die in rich man's war
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2. |
White Flight
02:28
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Take your money take your wealth take your Cadillac
Run away you chickenshit don't ever look back
We can do without you and your pearl-mink wife
It won't be long till we come along
You'll be running all your life.
Bloomfield, Birmingham, Farmington, Grosse Pointe
8 Mile road won't hold us back, wont keep us in Detroit
So if you think you're safe out in fortress affluence
we'll be coming out in hordes as soon as we get the chance
White Flight
Get out of town leave the city to decay
White Flight
This world's too small to run far enough away
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3. |
Jeffery's Mind
00:45
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Jeffery, let's play cops and robbers
You be cops and I'll be me
Something snapped in Jeffery's mind
Slipped into insanity
At eighteen he was taken away
to the State Hospital by the bay
"Don't worry, Mommy. I'm OK"
No more cruising around in his squad car
No more playing with his stolen .38
No more badge
No more working late
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4. |
Old Fart Drivers
01:06
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Doing 10 on a 45 street
To you two blocks look like two feet
You're ready to die your 95
I can't believe they let you drive
down the center line straight to the bank
using your Cadillac like a tank
You could take corners if you could see
The deaf and blind driving dangerously
Old fart drivers no how to drive a roadblock
barely alivers teach the school of hard knocks
They say alcohol has killed more people than this and that combined
but every time I see a wreck some granny ignored a sign
They should be taken from behind the wheels and put where they belong
Or else they will smash into you and you will sing this song
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5. |
Peter Principle
01:35
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All my life I towed the line
got good grades and kissed behind
I was raised to always win
If I didn't I wasn't "in"
All I want's a big success
I don't care about the rest
I wanna be famous
I wanna be rich
I don't care if others bitch
I'm climbing to the level of my incompetence
But I got fooled and I got cheated
all my dreams have since receded
I went to school, got a degree
What's that really done for me?
Now I'm stuck on the middle rung
All my climbing is now done
I hate my work and I'm not free
I'm only here for the salary
I'm falling
I'm a greedy motherfucker
I'm practically deranged
I have assets in the millions
but no spare change
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6. |
Wish You Away
02:06
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I see you standing there
Posture stiff, arm outstretch
like the rigor mortis in your head
Shiny white on top shiny black below
hard outside soft upstairs
parasites with hate to spread
Statuesque in all your glory
Zombie soldier's perfected pose
Staunch neurotic militant romance
You've taken upon yourselves
to be sheep in wolves' disguise
and condemn the race you plagiarize
What can we do about you
Wish you away?
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7. |
Same Time Next Year
01:40
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8. |
Lady Lie
02:30
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To hell with lady liberty and all that she stands for
Take her torch and blow it out
It means nothing anymore
The lady got a facelift and when the cage was took away
we saw the stains of the tears she cried
for a nation in decay
Forget the broken promises scrawled upon her base
forget the lie she stands for
just another pretty face
A closer look will show the wrinkles, pock-marks and the sores
and the tracks of tears cuz no one cares about Liberty anymore
See her crying
Tears on Ellis Island
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9. |
Dry Mother
01:23
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Go forth and multiply
bear the world another cancer
Will you teach your foal to sow the fields they'll overgraze?
The herd grows, poison flows
mouths are too full to answer
Send the young to war in the quest for more
for Gluttons' will be praised
Lets work together
Suck the mother dry
When everything is gone the cancer will die
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10. |
Master's Words
01:31
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In shining armor a soldier's class
born and bread to take it up the ass
for chivalry and loyalty
slaughtered each other for Royalty
They conquered the heathen in a mighty crusade
Spread disease word and way
The conquers taught as tyrants should
the heathen to speak their master's words
Legions of loyal underlings
They their empire's anthems sing
and carry on the ways of old
finding lessers to be controlled
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11. |
The Grind
03:01
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Be on your own do your best to survive
waiting for payday to arrive
It's already spent before you get it
You want a fun weekend you'd better forget it
You can't make ends meet and your wanting more
You're beginning to feel like a fucking whore
You never get back as much as you give
You spend a lot of time surviving but there's no time to live
Curse repetition with every breath
Discontent with life forget about death
There's an alternative
HA! Surrender your fate
Increase your dependency on the State
We say we look out for number one
and live two-thirds of our lives under the gun
It doesn't take long till you start to wonder
who'll you fuck over before you go under
who's camp you'll join to kill and plunder
Killing others like you will be your biggest blunder
Change will come but it won't come fast
this economic incest just won't last
Is the effort to survive worth the price of being alive?
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12. |
Vultures
01:19
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"the decline" you whine
malign one more time
resurrect your once dead sensation
Adopt co-opt it's about time your vultures stopped
You're just cashing in on my frustration
The pictures you paint for all to see
pawning off my identity
I'm sick of all the garbage you spew
I'm tired of explaining myself to you
So hard you tried but we haven't died
Don't tell me you just want to understand
Dilute our form twist our ends
We'll smash your cameras break your pens
We won't be quoted second hand
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13. |
Forced Anger
01:56
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14. |
Homage
01:48
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We live in Detroit and we all think it's fun
We go out and buy our dope it comes here by the ton
When we're bored with nothing to do we go out and kill
For rest and relaxation we burn a house or two
Yeah we live in Detroit and we love this city
Detroit town cannot be beat
There's no place quite this shitty
We live in Detroit and we all think it's great
Every day a neighbor of mine goes out and gets raped
The downtown is all slick and smooth but not here in the slums
We live in boarded up houses. We're better off than the bums
We drop bricks on passing cars and we slash school bus tires
paint graffiti on everything set dumpsters and stuff on fire
The cops chase us around, if they catch us man we're dead
We'll get them back and burn their cars
Make the pigs see red
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15. |
Colored Rectangles
01:23
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They're pieces of cloth with dye in them
They're pieces of fabric millions die for them
What colors do like and pledge allegiance to
What cloth to you salute
What colors own you
Some have yellow, orange or green
Shows what lines you live between
Some have red, white or blue
Shows what borders surround you
The only border we really have
is the atmosphere around us
and now they're filling that with flags
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16. |
Star Spangled Wipeout
00:38
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heheheheh wipeout
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Forced Anger Detroit, Michigan
Detroit hardcore punk legends Forced Anger have gained a large audience even among their critics since their disbanding in
1991 even though they never released anything other than obscure cassettes.
This collection demonstrates the potent combination of fury and savvy that characterized this controversial band that until now has languished in obscurity.
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