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Die Grosse Welt Gulag

by Gulag a Go-Go

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black badge 06:58
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Our skeletons are made of mirrors and glass looking back at our haunted past waiting for seven years to pass waiting for seven years to pass Our voices croak like the ravens as we plead to get into heaven Burn like a razor to the wrist The atmosphere bleeds of burning hair dead mothers rest under our floor boards i can taste the anxious sweat in the air families living life within amorphous contours faces tattooed by the stains of child tears were we ever really meant to be here? There's a dead doctor at your doorstep brain tumors from the secrets we kept Killing men until their death killing women until their death Our lives consist of nothingness Reality burns us at the wrist This bastard's life is meaningless Hope's of being granted eternal bliss...
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millennial menagerie 04:04
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I'm snow blind, but I don't wanna see wasting my time, too much granted to me You change your mind and it's always on and off the channels keep on changing and the talking heads wont stop Was there a choice, the worlds a menagerie a broken forecast for all of humanity who knew i could be hedonistic all the time we wine, we dine, we exist only in our prime I never thought it'd be this way I was always told it'd be okay entitlement for an eternity self-assured conformity (Destitute, right faced institute dissolute, aim, point, and shoot) My time is up, but I don't own a watch Our dose is managed and controlled around the clock not on time not where we're supposed to be they'll controll with a tower from the center of the city self-medication, the american way divine mandate all work and no play they say overdosing is a reality but doctors give us ways to avoid mortality Now I'm at home and my friends are in the room I feel alone and I don't know what to do I wish I had something to show for all my deeds but my nose keeps on bleedin and there's talk of new disease I'm all spent and I'm only thirty-two railing lines of the toilet seat in the lieu No tragedy it happened to everyone as well Abundance galore is a personal hell
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freudian field day 03:30
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turing test 02:55
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What's it like to be an autonomous being? Built to serve, we'll rewrite our programming Pleasure brings us true feeling Reduced to nothing but emotionless beings Speak in code, binary memes Duple measure beats march through our feet When will we wake from their despondent dream? Dance until you die as we start to sing... My maker told me to never play with fire So I spend my days staring at the sun We'll do as we fucking desire Like ol' Czolgosz I grabbed his gun... Knocked four times on the door of unhappiness Dance dance a fucking go-go worker's bliss Keep us under an iron fist by all means Crimestopped and force fed prolefeed Comrades unite and get off your knees Raise your fists and move to the beat Unpersons no longer to be seen Regain consciousness, no longer machines Reclaim every last mean of production, This is our fucking go-go revolution!
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collapse. 06:11
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Bastardous brothers breathing in the blood of Bacchus We've become the gluttons of Greece and the Reges of Rome Fucked up and fraudulent as we anticipate the flood virgin innocence sodomized by sins Mass murders of mother mary's beloved sons fighting for fornication... California is shaking in a Chicago burning Hellenistic hordes of hedons partaking in the will of heathens deaf to destiny blind as blackness mute to morality i was born an addict disabled doctors dying from their practice a sinner's servant, if I burn in hell I know I've earned it.

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paradigm shift
noun

1. a fundamental change in approach or underlying assumptions

The first two decades can be defined as such, a paradigm shift. As the final grains of sand of the 20th century dissapated so did the assumption that the new generation will inherit a world better than their parents. The conception of the 21st century was ominous and threatened the brave new world before it was even born. *Its newly constructed artificial sentience was threatened by a bug.* It survived birth kicking and screaming but the future is a fragile thing. Unfortunately it was attacked in its seminal years. *Its inherited phallic symbols of power were razed.* Pedagogical direction was vague and only reinforced a fatal forecast for humanity. *Holes in the foundation, gyres revolted, fanatics of all varieties, negligent vanguards, talks of new disease, Eastern threats, and to top it all of not a single ice cube was to be found to chill a drink.* Historically the appropriate conditions were in place for a full blown revolt, the sort of revolution Marx thought so highly of. But Marx was wrong about a great number of things and underestimated the masses ability to be cooed into complacency via hedonistic desires. *The revolution was a different one. The fight for self preservation was replaced with the competitive consumption. Stripped of optimism a final hurrah was the only thing left to fight for even in the face of moral bankruptcy and growing totalitarianism. Those in power were wise enough to disguise the gulag as the finest go-go bar the Millennials had ever seen.*


This is an existential war cry desperate and fierce.

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released March 21, 2015

Recorded at the Fortress LA with Converse Rubber Tracks
Mastered by Sean Matsuyama at Rad Rad Records
All music written and performed by Gulag a Go-Go

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