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Brace Yourself

by Seized Up

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Seized up, beaten down It's what your born into Existence buries you - spitting teeth The fighters instinct in the face of attack Guttural intuition keeps the knife out of your back Manic decompression Will you fight or die? Psychotic disposition Flip that switch Or you won't get out alive Rabid dog, back to the wall Rabid dog, beckoning the call I've got a notion you'll survive Don't seize up - let it ride Otherwise your new home Is a shallow grave of your very own Manic decompression Violence never pays Live by the sword die by the sword Got one foot in the grave Shallow grave
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Comes a time, a living cycle dies When humans playing God Never, ever turns out right Evil pricks In the gene pool Modify the sacred Human locusts devour the living Earth So little to sustain This swarm of dead humanity Evil pricks In the gene pool Modify the sacred Taste the proverbial moment As you embrace the collapse of time! It's the nature of a species To exceed beyond it's means Down that road of intuition Somehow it always ends the same Extinction
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1964 - the year I was sentenced to be born Set loose upon the earth Disasteroid mutation Human wrecking ball Swinging like a chandelier Back and forth To and fro Can't grasp millennial math Fuck the universe, life's insane It's just a figment of Some God's deranged imagination 3......2......1....fire! Live and learn Learn or burn Burn fire...burn! Torch the universe Cleansing flames This ant like colony has gone insane Our god damned human race Can't we shed our parasitic ways? No need to rape the earth For everything it's worth It'd be cool to keep in mind What provides us life And keep that source alive
4.
All methed out, lurking hard Sharpened spork Stolen girls ten speed bike Won't support my mammoth form So I threw it at you Smell of gas as the levee quafes Tweaking out by myself With my imaginary bros Split personality party Leaves me so alone Campfires burn... burning plastic and tires Dirty needles hide in piles of human shit Tent City Exodus... Who's left to deal with it? Tent City Exodus... fucking deal with it! Tweaking out by myself With my imaginary bros Come and help the lonely..... Sorry, invite only Intermittent fits of dialogue Between the walking dead Screaming to ourselves and to each other Fuck you brother....
5.
Tiny minutes disappear Another day, another God damned year And as you look back Your memory retracts Into a blur of pleasant dreams ... or so it seems Like the sun that lights the day Or that life giving rain As tiny minutes disappear You might find, so does the fear Older and wiser, that ain't just a phrase Live and prosper, enjoy your earthly daze Your earthly time is all you own Everything else is mere material distraction.....tiny minutes disappear
6.
Bleeding fingers grasp the barbwire fence Past becomes a swamp of infinite regret Dying embers, extinguished fire Captive bubble of runaway desire A toxic cloud emits From a pile of wasted days.... And nights The anguish, another day Forced to interact, can't find a thing to say Is silence golden in every way? Or is it molten with hideous decay? The bubble never bursts As you find yourself immersed In everything you hate The pieces of the puzzle Fall gently into place Your mind will never let you out Of this cauldron of disgrace Your bubble never bursts And you live your life immersed In everything you hate
7.
Terminal strife awaits A permanent state of disarray The Joy of standing in line Will occupy the bulk of your life What about the past? I'm not sure... Put down your phone Try to remember Vision's blurred and your world is slurred A word Dumb such luck... you braindead fuck Time left you behind What gaped out your virgin mind? Technology tore you a new one And left your brain askew What about the past? Did it even happen? Stare at your phone and never remember Vision's blurred and your world is slurred A world Dumb such luck... you braindead fuck "Felchbook" and  "Instagram" The ultimate new age scam Graciously providing free personal information To various corporate entities That were sick and tired of having To pay for it
8.
I engage in beer, often way too much Perhaps a different hobby Might bring me better luck   Dear God... sobriety hurts Getting drunk makes it worse The catch 22, so plain to see Feeling fine when I get that sauce in me It's true a better hobby Might bring me different luck Wherelse can I find a pastime That lets me fuck shit up? Dear God.. sobriety hurts Getting drunk makes it worse The paradox, so plain to see Yet, I feel so fine when I get that sauce in me The party goes on Until you pass out And then you wake up... As the truth slithers out.. Panic and depression Infantile state of child-like regression Back to the womb in a fetal position
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Gentrification is strange Almost invisible as it invades Then she's evicted and he's addicted Once normal people out on the streets Now she's addicted We're all evicted Broken community Out on the streets Trust fund hippies living off their dads Jesus beards and Mercedes vans No consequences for anything they do Entitled yuppie fucks got nothing to lose Meanwhile The whole West coast has gone to hell No graveyard plot they wouldn't sell No sacred stone goes left unturned No God damned bridge they haven't burned Better put us locals in cages Our outrage reached contagion bloodshed unfolds as it should Taking back the neighborhood Taking back the neighborhood Taking back the neighborhood Local culture disappears That sacred past we all hold dear There's a silver tongued wolf Breaking the news to you That you have to leave that place that you've called home for 20 fucking years This Means War
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Dead, gone and bleached away again Earth's cultural exchange Brainwashed white bread sheep Collective blob of mediocrity Eclipse of history They've manicured the sands of time Paving their way with human lives It leaves a taste so sick and bland Shape shifting villains in disguise Re-manifest before our jaded eyes... To rob us blind! Eclipse of history As they whitewash the sands of time Paving their way with human lives Words unspoken never save the herd This common burden Slowly kills the world And as we wait, my stomach turns Like some nauseated hourglass of time Time - ripens the fruit on the vine.. Rotting the fruit off the vine
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Violent left Violent right Impaled together by the same dull knife Butting heads through eternity In a raging battle of stupidity Whirlwind of ungodly blight Religion fueled scissor fight! You're a slippery little bastard ain't cha Hey, aren't you that faceless entity? Are you that shapeless form?.... Or are you just the invisible structural basis For every violent religion in history?... Wow!! Big fucking secret... Shrouded in mystery Whirlwind of ungodly blight Religion fueled scissor fight! Hit the deck, brace yourself! Untimely wave of shadows overwhelms Kingdoms fold, dreams deflate The math stacks up but it won't equate Kingdoms burn, dreams decay These figures don't lie yet they won't equate Whirlwind of atomic blight Religion fueled fire fight Hit the deck, brace yourself! Untimely wave of shadows overwhelms

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released October 9, 2020

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