Silence Equals Death

by Species Traitor

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Recorded 23rd and mixed 30th March 2011. Tracks online on April Fool's Day, self-copied cassette tape (25 copies on red, 25 on blue, and 50 on white polystyrene) released on May Day Eve. Tapes sold out by August 2011.

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released 30 April 2011

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Track Name: Hierarchy of Liberation
the inner self / the truth that lies within / the unchanging core so many choose to believe in. / are we really that distant, separated and pure / making sense of a world outside, always making sure? / no, we are not alone, but always in the world / wanting to be seen, wanting to be heard. / what we are is not born / what we are, we become. / in relation with others, we are many instead of one. // cross the line, and you are shown your place / in defense of gender, sexuality, race... / the list of oppressions goes on, but can't you see / it's all connected, not a hierarchy. / private is public, you can't take that away / but it means us all, the politics of the everyday. / it all comes down to power, the situations we occupy. / grrrls, bois, dykes, fags, trannies; listen, look, learn, and together we can / take it to the streets, take it between the sheets / you are not alone / never were, never will be. / but while there's always someone above, there's always someone below / privilege remains unrecognized, when we hear nothing see nothing say nothing / yet believe we are all alike.
Track Name: Pro-Life, Anti-Human
life-fucking-this and life-fucking-that / the total resolution you strive to reach out at / down to the dirt, high up in the skies / eternity the answer backed with truths that once were lies. / but what you call life is not the life we are living / the life that's about taking, the life that's about giving / the life that means movement, ever-seeking, ever-breathing / our everyday understanding of our everyday being. // keep talking about rights / keep talking about wrongs / keep us on our toes, writing these combative songs / but what else could we do, this world is no one's to claim / can't you fucking understand it; this world is no one's to claim! // treason to humanity is loyalty to being / this life as we know it, so far from its true meaning / but what are truths anyway, just fiction for the weak / I need something closer to the skin, it can't be all that bleak. / shared imageries of bloodshed, and iconic abominations / the belief in seeing fulfilled in public demonstrations / on the way to truth and life and ruin the deaf walk hand in hand / how much we have in common is so hard to understand. // looking for our answers / fighting for our destinies / we work our own grand narratives, just call them private histories / a purpose in life, or the purpose of life / there's always a reason in this new age of reason / maybe the answers lie within ourselves / or maybe the lies answer to our need of a self... // demands for rights - but who grants these rights? demands for life - but what's this idea of life? from where and why, what does it justify? in the end, our means become the end, no matter how hard we think the opposite. and if we don't even stop to think, we are already in danger of being co-opted by movements and ideas we never could have imagined of enforcing. whatever the name it's all the same; system, religion, movement, power... // what is respect for life, if not for lives that are lived? / what means fighting for life, if not for lives that are lived? / what is respect for life? / what means fighting for life? / this world is no one's to claim.