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False Tongues

by Niffin

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1.
One Chance 04:30
Move forward, don’t look back Be yourself, stay on track Fight oppression, and fight their rules Don’t eat the lies, of greedy fools You’ve got ONE CHANCE, ONE LIFE A short time alive You’ve got ONE CHANCE, ONE LIFE The struggle to survive We’ve got ONE CHANCE, ONE LIFE A short time alive We’ve got ONE CHANCE, ONE LIFE The struggle to survive Don’t dwell on things, you cannot change Own your pain, and own your rage Share your love, reject their hate Be the change, and demonstrate You’ve got ONE CHANCE, ONE LIFE A short time alive You’ve got ONE CHANCE, ONE LIFE The struggle to survive We’ve got ONE CHANCE, ONE LIFE A short time alive We’ve got ONE CHANCE, ONE LIFE The struggle to survive
2.
Empathy 04:15
Is it so hard to have empathy for someone else? Is it so hard to reach out your hand if someone falls? Why is it so hard to admit you are wrong sometimes? Treating others with the respect that you want is not so hard! Showing compassion is not so hard! Think about your actions and how they effect the world. Think about your actions and how they effect others. Think about your actions and how they effect the future. And I, will do the same. We all make mistakes, we’re all wrong sometimes. It’s easy to blame others, and sometimes it is their fault. But sometimes, it is your fault instead. Are the words “I’m sorry” really that hard to say?
3.
Convulsing on the floor, speaking in tongues Actually speaking nonsense Eating up that bag of lies Shoved down your throat since you were a child You are what you eat You are what you eat Poisoning the minds of so many The popular cult devours all logic and reason Guilt, Shame, Hypocrisy, Lies Violence and oppression in the name of false righteousness Crucifying your god over and over again Crucifying the world over and over again Nailing yourself to that cross Your false humility makes me vomit Please, just leave us alone
4.
Baby baby baby baby Whispers to me in binary Crush my bones and spit me In an information refinery Baby baby baby baby Store me in a library Light me up and send me To the planet’s great diary Baby baby baby baby Whispers to me in binary And now I’m swallowed whole, finally And swept up entirely Baby baby baby baby Store me in a library I’m a life reporter You’re the data importer I’m a zero zero one Zero zero zero one I’m a zero zero one Zero zero zero one Melt me down. Split me up. Baby baby baby baby Whispers to me in binary Crush my bones and spit me In an information refinery Baby baby baby baby Store me in a library Light me up and send me To the planet’s great diary Baby baby baby baby Whispers to me in binary And now I’m swallowed whole, finally And swept up entirely Baby baby baby baby Store me in a library I’m a life reporter You’re the data importer Melt me down. Split me up. I’m a zero zero one Zero zero zero one I’m a zero zero one Zero zero zero one Melt me down. Split me up.
5.
Your birth will expose you To those who hate and oppose you The hope you seek in life Will be burned away in strife The future you have chosen In a secret prison will be frozen They will come for our children with fire and ice Shall we give them up for a blood sacrifice? We want our innocence safe But even this refuge is strafed You claim this evil as a right And hide your true face from sight Do you hold your tools of annihilation dearer than any civilization?
6.
Baby Cages 03:18
Make my body into a prison Put me in another jail Take this baby from one cage to another Is this what I’m living for? Is this what I’m dying for? Make me make you another These baby cages won’t fill themselves Whatever I may have done Whatever I may one day be Whatever’s going on inside me The only choice I get Is to have that baby or die
7.
He’s an authoritarian He create his own reality And purges dissent from society No votes, no laws He is his own cause His henchman are all lined up One by one they fall By design he outlasts them all In a system rigged To keep us in thrall He’s an authoritarian He alone will rule this world No checks, no balances His desire for power is cancerous His cult of personality requires complete conformity No truth, no fact, No room for you or me He’s an authoritarian He creates his own reality And purges dissent from society No votes, no laws No room for you or me
8.
A towering obstacle sickened by greed, not needing anything to proceed. A towering obstacle sickened by gods, not helping anyone to to proceed. Irrational meanings given to ancient mono-myth ideas One nation absolutely divided by screen worshippers indefinitely regurgitating headlines A fractal web of the upper hand drained interest, six figures, your dream war on the seventh day we sleep. A towering obstacle sickened by greed, not needing anything to proceed. A towering obstacle sickened by gods, not helping anyone to proceed.
9.
Bridled 02:42
I sit here alone, no food and no money. My frustration, overwhelms me. Why can’t I do, the things that I want? Why can’t I get, the things that I need? Money, Fucking Money Money, Fucking Money We work and work, we work to pay those bills. But somewhere, somehow we lose ourselves along the way. People think they’re better than you, because they’re higher paid. The amount of money that they make is how their worth is weighed. The rich keep getting richer, and the poor keep getting poorer. They’ll keep stepping on us, until we’re all dead and rotting. But it’s time to unite and stand, stand up together and FIGHT! Fight the broken system, and against the fucking patriarchy! Money, Fucking Money Money, Fucking Money
10.
When I leave this body, Bury me, under a tree Let the animals eat my flesh, Since it will no longer belong to me. Back into the Earth, We all must go. I’ll become, something else I’ll become, I’ll become I’ll become, I’ll become Broken down into the dirt Turning bone, into dust As you lay me down to rest Heading deep into the void Heading deep into the void
11.
Time will take us all.

credits

released January 9, 2020

Clover Nahabedian (she/her) - keyboard, vocals
Aaron Jay Myers (he/him) - lead guitar, vocals
Stefanie Lubkowski (she/her) - guitar, vocals
Brian Church (he/him) - bass, vocals
Steven Moreno (he/him) - drums, vocals

with special guests
Peridot Duo (sopranos Stephanie Lamprea & Rose Hegele) on tracks 2, 5, 6, 7, & 11
Nicole Parks - “baby” on track 6

Recorded in part by Dan Thorn at Pink Noise Studio, Somerville, MA, August, 2019 and in part by Niffin in various living rooms, September-October, 2019
Edited & mixed by Greg Nahabedian & Aaron Jay Myers
Mastered by Tyler Bisson, Produced by Niffin
Niffin logo, art, and layout by Aaron Jay Myers

Media clips - opening clip is Rachel Maddow from a June 19, 2018 broadcast, ending clips are Alabama State Senator Vivian David Figures & Linda Coleman Madison in a debate on an abortion bill before the AL state senate in May, 2019.

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