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Division Complex
04:03
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Silence is violence is silence is this is not alright fight for what's right
This isn't what I signed up for, a war against the poor
Seems we've all been here before, this ain't worth the score
You tighten round our neck, think we ever could forget, this classist punishment
They're handing us the check, getting rich off our debt, capitalist government
It's all hands on deck, the masses are the threat, to your division complex
We're not going through life alone
You think we're just taking turns playing the fool, as your making up the rules
It's indoctrination apathetic nation
We're fed up and we're pissed, about the armies you enlist
If we come together equal to resist your division complex
Cut our safety nets, it's survival of the best, set the precedent
Unfrozen your assets, while we're pleading no contest, we know who benefits
No longer numb, we found meaning in this song, and it won't last long
We'll never make it on our own
We are 99.9 percent identical, but you're old and you're tired
You make my skin crawl, not gonna play you're division game
You cannot divide us only try and hide us
Treat us like scum claim to be righteous
Smite us your highness follow where we land
Unified incited I invite you to understand
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Bad Decisions
03:12
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The taller we build them the harder they fall
If they keep us divided they'll conquer us all
First I was taught the golden rule, to shut up and stand in line back at school
Learning to be the systems tool
If you study hard you'll get a job, a wife 2 kids a house with a garage
Individual sabotage
The more that we feed them the fatter they are
The starved and the downtrodden sacrifice all
Go to college don't be a fool, a lifetime of debt to repeat their spew
Understand you'll always lose
Work 50 years at a job you hate, slave until your expiration date
We must destroy so we can create
Don't pray to a god about your bad decisions
Made it through life without learning a lesson
Keep you chasing that invisible vision
Empty worried about what you're missing
A tranquil life in a subdivision
Don't ever question what you're possessing
We all belong hold on to what you believe
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Shinigami
04:03
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Nobody thought I'd turn out like this
I've had a lifetime to learn my lesson, but I never quite got the message
So I drive all night it's alright if I just make it out of here alive
So when I fall down I pick myself up
I beat the dust off my shirt and I try not to trip myself up
Every time that I die on the stage trying to beak out my cage
Pretending that I am still half my age
Move slowly shinigami will I make it through another day
These stories of past glories is it ever gonna be okay
Dead feelings false reasons why'd you have to go away
Move slowly shinigami you'll follow me to the grave
When I happen to drown choke myself up
Pull the air from my lungs yet I'll never give it all up
Every day I am chased by the years trying to conquer my fears
But it all ends up with me spilling my beer
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Corpocracy
02:32
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They can cure your cancer they can cure your aids
But they'll never fucking do it cuz they profit from your pain
united states of corpocracy you don't have no shame, you take the house we take the blame
Corpocracy hypocrisy
They reap the profits we put in the time
Another sixty something hour grind
United states of corpocracy this is the finish line the populations their design
We've been gone for too long in the shadows they don't hear our fighting song
United states of corpocracy united states a hypocrisy
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I Hate It
03:28
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No control we sold our souls for their gold
Consumer is instinctual feed indulge we are never full
Forced into debt now corporate tools
I won't participate in a world so cruel
Spit on me and I say fuck you
We grew up with bombs cloaked in peace bathed in blood
I hate when we choose to judge not understand
I hate how some feast while most others have none
I hate how we're slaves to the banks demands
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We're Not Free
03:30
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I pledge allegiance to the flag of no one
We're losing the war between the rich and the poor
Time to even the score smash the state and their tanks
Funded by the evil banks mr president no thanks
I'm not impressed by your fancy clothes and you never come out to our shows
It's time to pay all that you owe and jump right out the window
The business is greed please take all that you need
And then patent the seeds you must take what you can
And then rape all the land exploit your fellow man
I'm screaming at whats in front of me a capitalist society crumbling debris
We've all fallen victim to corporate deceit enslaved debter nation the modern disease
We're not free you don't know what's inside of me
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Bought and Sold
03:25
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We are riddled with disease it sweats out through our pores
Yeah there's no guarantee for the dirt and the poor
Giving up our rights and our essential liberties,
reaping all the profits turn it up two degrees
Yeah you bought what you sold this is it this is war
Why's it have to be a constant fight to be free
Yeah while you're distracted we were all subtracted
Picking up the table scraps we still remain ignored,
it's a fucked up situation rich are robbing from the poor
you bought what you sold this is it this is war
You're depressing me it's all about greed, you're infecting me with corporate disease
This is why we bleed
Tell you what we're gonna do, what you took from us we're gonna take from you
Look around cuz now it's though
We will not be ignored this is it this is war
Got rich off our backs yet you always want more
Privilege of the ruling class infallibility,
Keeping up the image this is a democracy
you bought what you sold this is it this is war
We won't be bought we won't be sold
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Great Mistake
03:14
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From the day I was born from another world torn
From the suits we have worn to the flag I was sworn
To the fake gods we pray to the bankers we pay
One things for sure fuck the U.S.A.
Get up stand up for our rights
They know that we're dangerous
Stand up for change not just against what you hate
Decide your fate before it's too late
Why sacrifice all to bow down to the state
Embracing these constructs is our great mistake
Well I'm losing my mind just to find all the rhymes
To express my disgust of a world so unkind
We've all fallen victim to corporate design
A world run by profits we're all left behind
This is our great mistake
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Prison Food
02:41
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Control the supply and create the demand
No cause for concern we'll let the whole world burn
Linked to cancer in humans yet not listed on labels a known carcinogen
Artificial saves dollars lobby till it's passed
Banned in most countries yet deemed safe by the FDA
Feed us poison if it must be chewed
We're all being force fed prison food
Keep it cheap and addictive side effects are predictive
Snake oil salesman linger rip the skin from our fingers
Swelling of liver and kidneys inflamed body tissues
These tumors are hungry let's feed them with goo
All modern food dyes are derived from petroleum
Causes cancer but it's cheap nitrates in processed meat
Tell me how can you sleep making money from the soon to be deceased
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Eraser
03:25
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We storm the gates of the last bank in town
Light up a smoke throw a brick through the window
All stand together take back whats ours
Erase the debt feed our children tomorrow
Come take my hand as we roam through these lands
Ain't got a dollar my guitar can save me
Fire in our hearts whiskey on our breath
Erase the debt there will be no more sorrow
This could be reality no nations no borders we won't learn to crawl
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Darwin
03:04
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I met you when we're young when all we knew was fun
Punk rock was our savior
Now all we've got is wars they've hooked us all on drugs
becoming the machines
We won't survive
We got stuck in routines forgotten all our dreams
Life has worn us down
We're waiting to get old continue doing what you're told
Dead before we're born
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Where's the Freedom
01:56
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What to believe in what we should be consuming every fucking day
Keep us distracted while our rights are extracted they just take it away
I don't understand
No one is right when we're all wrong split at the seams can't get along
But we believe we all belong it's in our hearts it's in our songs
We must unite as they divide we must unite just to survive
This separation must subside we must agree they've always lied
Where's the freedom
Illusion of choice when we never had a voice quick to shut us down
Few can't have so much without the rest on a crutch heavy is your crown
I don't understand
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Wrong Turn
02:04
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I took the wrong turn straight out of chicago realized I'm heading straight to hell
We might not all have been born here but it's our home we'll fight till the end
I don't want to be a martyr jesus ain't no christ
We're just waiting on a revolution to define freedom again
So when you say to me this is not my family
We all want food and water and shelter and love it's all the same we just have to believe
I took a left when I should of gone right always did wrong when I should of done life
Regardless of what you think I don't wanna die
We're all in this fight together one love one life
They don't want your name cuz they got your number
We give them everything they need to make our bank accounts bleed
So when you feel you have no choice remember together we have a voice
Maybe the best thing that we'll ever have wasn't under a nations flag
I took the long way home for no reason I stuck it out through all the shitty seasons
All of this cuz I believe in something that makes us all the same
If we all join hands celebrating we will never be alone
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Voice Of Addiction Chicago, Illinois
Voice Of Addiction are politically charged and socially conscious Chicago based punk-rockers. V.o.A. has been around since 2004 doing over 1,500 shows across North America. A feature length documentary on V.o.A. entitled "Punk Band" is out on all major outlets. The new full-length “Divided States” was released 8/5/22. The Video for Shinigami was just released & WON Chicago Indie Music Awards. ... more
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