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Erik Prince should have long been in The Last Jail
Rooming with the pardoned murderers of Nisour Square
Abolish every other corner of the prison system, but
We can sort the fair of Empire’s handmaids after Christ’s re-risen

Enjoy your new job at Raytheon!
We are all complicit, so let’s go, come on!
Aerial bombardment makes death’s attribution hard
So we can terrorize a lot of people

Northrop Grumman and Boeing, man
We can make Iran the new Afghanistan
Trillions of dollars pissed away to private hands
And a devastated, ailing population

Sanctions destabilize societies
They manufacture scarcity and misery
In pursuit of so-called ‘national security’
But tormenting the people is the policy

Banana workers couldn’t hear the 20s roar in Magdalena
(the banana zone in Columbia; reference to the 1928 massacre of United Fruit workers)
There’s a million Indonesians buried with the PKI
(Communist Party of Indonesia; reference to 1965-66 mass killings)
El Mozote’s ghosts are crammed into detention centers and
(reference to the 1981 El Mozote massacre in El Salvador, and the network of present-day incarceration facilities for detained migrants operated along the US-Mexico border)
The jury’s out on how many in Yemen still will die
(reference to the ongoing civil war in Yemen)

So enjoy your new job at Raytheon
Lockheed Martin, Draper, and the fucking robot dog (made by Boston Dynamics)
The machinery of empire hems close to market logics
So we’ll keep marching on, kid
Yeah, we’ll keep marching on

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from Totally, Totally., released December 9, 2022

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It's political music, whatever. Based in Boston, MA. Absolutely willing to drive very far to play for you and five of your vaguely alternative friends in your combination kitchen/laundry room. Hit me up. I'm fully serious.

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