Something Hostile and Alien

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What would you do for a paycheck?
And tell me now, do you feel proud?
I know the questions are leading,
but there's no point in deceiving ourselves:
there's nothing that we wouldn't sell.
Give up the best of our days;
go without anything to save, as if we could buy them back.
Pushed through my life by invisible hands,
because the only choice I see is an iron fist.
Too scared to take it on the chin, don't dare to struggle dare to win;
won't risk my skin to save my soul.
Causes and symptoms blur like the weeks,
my pessimism carries me through.
My miseries come to define me, feels like there's nothing I can do.

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from S/T, released February 3, 2014

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Fail Better Montreal, Québec

anti-imperialist blink 182
anarchist pop punk

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