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On The Eastside EP

by Rats Rest

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Caught in the current in the center of the flood in the hole in the sky mountains and molehills have no bearing on the mud I could see into the eye Implications visceral twisting in the mess I thought my heart would burst with each successive wave just deepening the curse dredging up debris from the bottom of the worst And I lost my way The cold wind whistling through gaps in our shitty room sang the doom song of time laughter no longer penetrated through the gloom with no rhyme or reason why Desperate and powerless I let myself slip down into a deeper pit lifelong weakness in control couldn't deal with it listing in the blue and desolate And I lost my way Self indulgent rantings of an aging Hedonite maudlin poesy aside I had to put the little maniac to bed up til now I never tried It'd be quite easy to remain insane rabid sad and tiresome old shit talking fool tackling the strawmen using strictly broken tools it's been long enough floating here just listing in the blue So I find my way
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So everything falls apart and you fall a long way down everybody sees what you're going through ignoring helping hands you spread your sickness all around She never belonged to you no matter how you look at things and that's a fact God damn it man why shit on all your friends when you know damn well she's never coming back Something's been trained into your brain You're feeling true despair nobody knows what it's all about but something sinister lurks inside of you we tried to lift you up and now we gotta put you out There's a little thing that conspires to keep us all on our knees God damn it man the putrid fallacy where everything else is shit and men are kings It's been trained into your brain It's the same thing as insane It ain't right you just gotta let it go I can see it in you and I know you know It ain't right you just gotta let it go we gotta have open hearts if our blood is gonna flow While we're on the subject of putrid fallacy I'd like to take this opportunity to point out another reason why liberation don't succeed There's a nasty thing that spoiled humans never wanna see God damn it man living the conditioning where everything else is shit and you are king It's been trained into your brain it's the same thing as insane it's complicit with the dudes' shitty entitled attitudes It ain't right you just gotta let it go I can see it in you and I know you know It ain't right you just gotta let it go we gotta have open hearts if our blood is gonna flow
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Creeping doom official decree ratcheting up control death or captivity they'll see it through to it's logical end watching it happening over and over again Until it's you put your hands behind your head and get down on your knees Try to lay low try to watch your back they're on a coward's mission to keep their cages packed And then it's you it ain't no mystery the economy is the ruthless enemy enforced by nazis fully armed to the teeth they'll stop at nothing to maintain supremacy On the eastside Oh no you say it's not that extreme? ignorant indifference becomes complicity occupying army for the prison state snatching people off the street but you're content to wait Until it's you apparent yet subconscious enervation through continuous abuse trusted to assist them typing up your noose eradication of the ones who see the truth On the eastside Fuck every city still run by pigs they take the life away from everything that lives irrational bullshit so common place kidnappings and killings right in front of your smiling face time to decide which side do you belong? You can't suspend your disbelief until it's gone no longer possible to deny what's going on On the eastside
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There's a shiver in the air and a sliver in the sky sometimes a weakness crawls up my spine there's a ribbon of road that bears a heavy load upon this which I will not fold You know that hammer the one above our skulls you know that hammer really knows death is an adviser an arms' length away the percussive tick tock stops I been working like a dog moon's been working like a dog we been working like doggy dogs there's no screen door to slam, it fell off hanger boards and shifting rock foundations moon licks her wounds by leaving water and whiskey pastels turn in cloudy nights color of the smoke bellowing out of the barges You know that hammer the one above our skulls you know that hammer really knows death is an adviser an arms' length away the percussive tick tock stops

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American pressing by DEAD BROKE REKERDS out of Long Island, New York. European pressing by PETER OUT RECORDS out of Gothenburg, Sweden. Both versions to be available June 2016 (in time for "RATS REST WEST COAST ATTACK JULY '16").

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released June 1, 2016

Recorded August 2015 in Minneapolis by David Rupel at Blank Wall Recordings.

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