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It​’​s a meritocracy, kid

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1.
All Glories 02:24
When you ask how the devil comes In robes of smoke and flame? In tailored suit? In uniform, With bayonet and club to tame All glories Hosannas, once and future kings When you ask how it all goes down Trails of tears to internment camps? Black helicopters collecting long guns? Protests against wheelchair ramps Work for the people Service to the stake Status and ritual The progress of the rake When you ask how they’ll own us Walk us down the primrose path? Indoctrination of the children? Privilege metastasizes into wrath
2.
Trigger/ed 02:37
I’ve heard it before, or maybe i misheard it once again The Stories missed and innuendoes Print edition for the dyslexic Audio books for the deaf Braille for the paralyzed titles for the taking pages for forgetting Do you remember the day before When we hugged and kissed at the door Do you remember the day before The day before the lore When they kicked you to the floor Do you remember the day before the lore When it's all written down It's designed to be religion (revision) After the photos are taken It’s already been rewritten From nightmares to tall tales From fear to saint Empty lands/hands full of empty religion Gutenberg spreads the virus In the toner, there is pollution In the eraser, there’s absolution
3.
Barricades 02:50
Never enough second acts Too many consequences Skate on by, skate on by Forest of mended fences They make good neighbors Be around for a long time Rewarded with punishment Nooses made of lifelines Gather chips, head for the cashier Cut your losses, head to the door Leave your yesterdays behind, history locked inside Press reset and try it once more. I will live forever The past will never catch me Found the escape hatch Hands full as I break free Human hermit crab A new life in a new shell Eternal redemptions Resonate in every cell Yet we all end up where it began Arm by arm Yet we all end up where we belong Street by street
4.
Left Behind 01:49
So you’ve got bullets in each lung; just keep on breathing So you’re locked in prison for a crime you didn’t commit, well, just stand up and get to leaving So you walked off a cliff, big deal, just tell gravity to leave you be So you got your life torn down; you wouldn’t need secrets if you were free It’s a meritocracy, kid; start running if you don’t want to be left behind So your electricity’s cut off, so simply will yourself to see in the dark So the doors are closed, so what; simply walk through them to make your mark Pull yourself up by the bootstraps Physics be damned If you can’t perform daily miracles Are you even human?
5.
Robot Dance 02:02
Ned Ludd rides again Soft and clumsy; to arms, to arms An unsustainable life created Robot combines harvesting farms There’s more than enough for all If we want there to be The means of production Were never yours or mine Right to work, the right to lose fingers Straight to the graveyard from the mine

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Songs written and recorded between June 2020 and August 2020. Collaborated on 100% remotely during the pandemic of 2020 and rapid decline of the American empire.

All proceeds will go to DC / MD black lives matter www.blacklivesmatterdmv.org/fund-the-movement/

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released October 17, 2020

All music & Lyrics by
Dan Goldberg - Guitar, Drum Robots, Vocals
Mike Wolf - Bass, Vocals, Mixing

Introduction beat on All Glories by Jumbled : jumbled.bandcamp.com

Mastering & Mix support by Atoms Apart: atomsapart.bandcamp.com

Cover Design by Julie Meredith

soursop records for distribution: soursoprecordsbaltimore.bandcamp.com/releases

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forgotten favorite Washington, D.C.

Former members of Pressgang from Pittsburgh, now make music remotely between Ellicott City MD and Washington D.C.

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