Profiteers, by Yawning Earth

Profiteers

by Yawning Earth

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1.	Profiteer 03:36	lyrics	buy track
Subsist A tick on the ear of mankind Foul harvester Turn the blades of the combine Shredded husks Of lives/bodies/souls Eject from the blades And float to earth Their blood is my nectar My sacks engorged Larger than nations Older than sin Open the floodgates Let the plague descend In the name of endless Exponential growth All is profit Every man a target
2.	Rise To The Fight 04:13	lyrics	buy track
How much more heartbreak Can a nation stand? How many more bodies have to drop Before you can't tune out the violence anymore? How many executions Constitute a genocide? Become more than blissfully ignorant. Make your stand. The world turns, the nation burns Break the weight of state control Oligarchs keep you content Overcome the tide of hate How much more heartbreak Can a nation stand? Deprived of life By the private army of the state. Slave catchers, riot shields No difference after all these years Block to block, street to street Voice your disgust Cannot close my eyes Cannot drown out those voices Struggle against the example That was set for you Break your looping circles Of toxic empty thought Use your social standing As a weapon Cannot turn away
3.	Lungs Of The Earth 04:15	lyrics	buy track
Sulfur and salt Sublimate the ecosystem Roaring pyre The high art of capitalism Sweep away the ashes To leave me with nothing Seize the cinder-covered plots Accelerate the engine Never deny The march of progress Never deny The first and spear of man Glut the stomach Titillate the hedonist urge Damn the expense Damn the sacrifice The world and all Of its occupants Are mine to plunder To shuck, rape, and devour Feed the division Reap the unsustainable crop Because I am And because I dare to take
4.	Lyceum 05:51	lyrics	buy track
Closer than blood can tie us Bound by the yoke of control Arm in arm against their advance Our fate in the crucible Shall some giant step the earth To crush us at a blow? No force born in hatred Armed to detain and suppress Shall ever hold high power Not while we draw breath If destruction be our lot We must be its author Too many children born into the world Shall never breathe free A system engineered for dominance Presses them into slavery And those who escape the iron cell Can never truly be released Inside the national panopticon We live in fear of the police Live free
5.	Life Inside The Biosphere 03:00	lyrics	buy track
Endless empty rooms The panic setting in Water in my lungs Behind the beat again Exist outside of time Outside society Exist beyond the reach Of gravity Every city street A monument Every shopping mall A tomb Born for no grand scheme No great works to save Namelessly interred In the mass grave The carpenter's hands In concert with the craft Drapes sack cloth atop The cenotaph Every grand design A mockery Each portrait A cartoon All these years slaving away Till the earth, reap no reward Born to serve and kiss the ring Die nameless and forgotten Keep us bleeding, keep us numb Keep us dependent, forgetful Keep us intoxicated That we may never overcome So helplessly I watch Hands tied to the wheel My fate submerging Underneath the master’s heel Deprive us of our lives And mutilate our wings A caged canary Forgetting how to sing Every scourging brand A masterstroke Every human life Exsanguinate.
6.	Abscondis 04:57	lyrics	buy track
A legacy of blasphemy Shrinking window for the age of man Watch him slide into the primordial sea No hand to aid, the afflicted and the afraid Shrouded god in the blind citadel averts its gaze No master plan, no grand design No fate but what we deign to make No watchful eye to track our deeds Hide not your head, turn not your eyes Be here right now to witness your works in flames Hide not thyself in clouds Hide not from our searching eyes As every monument To your misdeeds Shall be returned to the sea And every construct Of your control Excised from history So we reclaim Our lives and fates And those of your despised Your ivory tower A sarcophagus In which we bury your lies When all is done When the heavens weep When our blood nourishes the Earth Will you lay down Your false wisdom That disguised your apathy?
7.	Passing Yekaterina Bridge 04:32	lyrics	buy track
I saw the gallows and I walked Put my head inside the lion’s jaws I put the sickness in my heart And I laughed as it ate me alive With my blood a pact was signed And the world burned all around me But it was safe here in this womb From the darkness I carry with me My organs decompose My eyes roll over white My consciousness compromised Days to weeks to years Pass fleeting, ephemeral My agony enthroned Inside the veil of fog A voiceless passenger Forced to play voyeur To watch the train derail And the darkness rise To consume my battered soul
8.	Thralldom 04:16	lyrics	buy track
Pounded into place, molded to this disgrace Unshielded from all of the horror Daughter of the concrete, son of the strip mall Grist for the poverty mill Shackled by circumstance, The odds were never on your side Pray at the altar but your admission denied Give shelter to the snake that envenoms your heel A thrall to the oligarch From the day you crawl To the day your soul escapes Remember your are dust A husk to harvest Bow to the gods of your false deliverance There’s a party on the hill that you can never attend

about

Tracks 3,5,7 remixed, remastered, and altered from the Yawning Earth demo.

credits

released November 15, 2020

IPMH - vocals, guitar, bass, programming, electronics

Recorded, mixed, and mastered by IPMH at Mayheaven Earworks in Troy, NY

Layout by IPMH

Sample in "Profiteer" from "Examining Federal Administration of the Safe Drinking Water Act in Flint, Michigan"

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