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Shut it Down: Benefit for the Movement for Black Lives

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Fighting over all this trivial shit Arguments over who's done this and that Shunning people without discourse But your spineless when something real happens You say you care But your actions speak louder And you wonder why some people don't bother We're supposed to be fighting for the same things But you're too concerned with punk politics Dont lie and say you care Only invested in punk hierarchy Dont lie and say you care Cuz deep down you don't give a shit You can fake it for everyone else But I don't buy your bullshit
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“Pride and greed on your side Oppression and shells of teargas on mine” Birod, bidroha mero haak ko kuro ho Prasna uthauna narok Ma sanga taxi ko tyre cha taile faleko teargas cha ta sanga shot gun byet ko lathie biscuit diet ma vako sasastra Saaaley!
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Everywhere I look I see exclusive huddled uninviting. Shelter is a privilege of the sane and competent. Kerosene keeps me warm. I'm alone to watch it burn. Kerosene. Exposure is a pitiful and pointless way of dying. Before it gets me I'll build a funeral pyre. Kerosene keeps me warm. Feels so good to watch it burn. Kerosene. I'm a man and my dignity won't waive. Tonight buildings rage!
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I have been blissed. I have been kissed by fate I have been made mad right where I stand See me. I am drenched in the echoes of war With no future to sacrifice I declare my time is mine I am standing at the root of my truth In the crossfire of love with no time to compromise Feels like end times Some will submit. Some will be taken by force Cowards & Weakhearts: Time is tracking you down Find another working class apologist I am not your shill God wrath on rich hypocrites A prophecy fulfilled No time for compromise Feels like end times Clairvoyant fatal vision; a prophecy fulfilled Walls scrawled with blood. I've got trouble in mind Another sunrise. Another morning to thrive Another victim. Another crime Another narrow escape from death on the vine I have been blissed. I have been kissed by fate
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Seven scars of sacrelige Seven sins of passion Seven circles of sacrement Seven lies carved into stone Seven laws to seal it Seven cracks to break it Seven years i've taken it That's several years too long You will not be forgiven With an easy confession You will not be forgiven You must be taught your lesson Seven tries to see the light Seven times i saw the worst part Seven words i can never forget When 7 stitches line my heart You will not be forgiven With an easy confession You will not be forgiven You must be taught your fucking lesson You, you will be taught your lesson There is no truth in truth When god has laid his plan before us There are no lies within his eyes When god inflicts his wrath upon us Cause theres only pleasure in pain NOW When 7 stitches line my heart
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Tin foil badge and the compassion that you lack Down for the boys in blue, you’ll always have their backs Everything you do is not what you say You play the hero, yet committing crimes everyday We live in a police state Shackled by cuffs We have played by your rules for long enough We submit and still end up dead, You held us down, now we’re coming for your fucking head We’ve taken all that we can take Protect and serve? Instead you spread hate. This bullshit will come to an end, here us now we got a message to send. Time to take back what is ours. Cop drop. You’re not a hero just a pig on a power trip, And when the tables turn you’re gonna taste the nightstick Fuck your badge, fuck your oath, fuck everything All bets were off when the bullets started to fucking sing You’re not a hero just a pig on a power trip And when the tables turn you’re gonna get your wig split Fuck your badge fuck your oath fuck everything The butcher’s here so sing, piggy sing.
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America, die for green and greed, at least that’s the way they make it seem. With my friends they must have broke the mold, but my friends are just like yours. Bicker fight hug it out. That said. Our love is a mountain. America, land of the obscene. Cradle to life in all of its extremes. Why then, do some suppose that everyone’s mind is so closed. Just look into each other’s eyes, what you see, I see. Stare back at your humanity. The mirror doesn’t lie. I’m your reflection, regardless of your complexion. My accent’s inflection, doesn’t define my intention. I’m your reflexion of my complexion. My accent’s inflection doesn’t define my intention.
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The weak and disillusioned weaponized Armed with canine steel Smother the wolves and their rotting breath We stand against the tide We stand against Myths to obscure your deepest failure Projecting death to be a man Alone by design Seven firmaments of heaven to hell*
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When you use the word pragmatic Who will be lumbered with the sacrifice? Who are your unlucky few? It is a fairly cheap form of optimism When you set the bar so low. Taken out of context Of every previous conflict, The arrogance of thinking this is like never before. Do you want things to be better, Or just slightly easier for you? This isn't going to come easy, We're not going to vote this away, We'll have to firebomb their palaces, Let's bury the hatchet... Deep in their skulls! Because a government won't grant us all freedom, The rich won't give back the land, The only true freedom is freedom for all, Each life guided by its own hand. A government won't grant us all freedom, The rich won't give back the land!
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When I open AP Magazine, I don’t get the comfort of seeing someone who looks like me. I keep another consciousness where I hide all of my secrets like “are my hands in my pockets?” when I walk in the store. And that’s just one example, I got a few more like when you lock your car doors, I can’t take it anymore. It eats me to the core. And thank you Mani for letting me sing this song. I think it’s funny, I feel this every day, you smile in my face, then drop that hard r, then type a paragraph about how it’s my fault, its not my fucking fault you hate me. Keeping up with the race race, there’s always a nigga that they wanna chase, for your body, your life, your hair, your style. Fuck it. I’m the black kid that you said talks white. I’m the black kid who minimizes just for you. You will never understand what it’s like, in every gas station, in everyone’s eyes.
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when we are dead and elsewhere without us time moves on when we are dead and elsewhere without us nothings withdrawn banish the light, welcome the shadows when we are dead and elsewhere a place between lust and lore i am home among the worms all we care for withers plant me deep within the darkness with grace and mercy i shall bloom all that we care for withers the drought hath pierced the root the holy blissful martyr sleeps, in sickness he will weep when we are dead and elsewhere when we are dead…
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A reenactment of what we all know Jaw dislocates to swallow whole While a gold plated inquisition Baits the public on blue blood fiction to burn Predatory blood lust You give the rabid animals your trust The decision is final Survival of the fittest and the prosper of the most vicious Swill honey coated venom Submit as collateral damage While the hungry dogs lap up the poison they're fed We are not their feathers to pluck one by one Predatory blood lust You give the rabid animals your trust The decision is final Survival of the fittest and the prosper of the most vicious
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Three names in place of all the ones that weren’t allowed to speak Thirty times they faced the wall while men practiced their new techniques It’s not black and white, but it is, because the only records are his We can’t drown in his ink. Don’t forget these stories are linked I wish these monuments were built with these important men inside them Cast in bronze and stone while they still breathe At least when we see all these smug looks on their frozen faces we’d know they were rotting underneath Not doomed to repeat Three years of exploitation, “that’s just how it was those days” Three statues celebrating all the bodies, all their pain Forced to hold each other down. Drugged to muffle screaming sounds Not knowing who’d be next. Progress but at whose expense? I wish these monuments were built with these important men inside them Cast in bronze and stone while they still breathe At least when we see all these smug looks on their frozen faces we’d know they were rotting underneath Please, it can’t repeat How long must we wait before these pillars of men crumble and fall? Yeah, we rope them up to drag them down, to desecrate their public graves Yeah, we lifted you up instead of your mothers and your daughters, these women, your wives, your maids, your servants, and your slaves We’re tired of waiting The bigger the guilt, the harder they fall
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Fucking usurper, possession by default. Spend another night sleeping beside my ghost. Proprietary sin, no longer of this earth: a poltergeist inside my former home. No sun will set for me. Forced to find shelter in the shadows or inside a blackened heart. I cling to useless arteries but they can’t withstand the weight of worldly burden and neither can I. This body is not yours. No sanctuary underneath familiar skin. You are nothing but a surrogate. Persecution of the soul will lead to false imprisonment. Unrelenting isolation breeds eternal suffering. Usurper, this body isn’t yours.
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the gold i'm gonna cut it out of a magazine the thermodynamics of life traces the heat in your heart with a quantum arrow plastered plastic data on the screen a life for the laser cut kids in flux with machine a fresh batch of black bodies cutting out their dreams from a magazine we're trying to synthesize gold in a back alley in a burdened reality through "crack wars" and other strange alchemy i know they lied (told me it would come true) if i cut it out did i lie? when i told them to cut it out? what i know, my final hypothesis free the soul of the body apocalyse
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Send in the rats to guard the cheese Protect the necks of sanctioned thieves Another death another coward Who’s on the clock but off the record Rough ride slave Alibis fast as you can dig the graves If the fires have to burn all your festering cities halfway to the ground For every one every dead mother’s son Then I guess it’s all coming down Because nothing’s left to dignify To dignify this excessive farce For another business quarter or election year Born on the downside of an invisible cage Death in custody broken neck of a world in chains Like it’s an incident and not a system Of the deputized and their accusers You are collateral It was acceptable No lives matter now Cut you down
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Some memories can’t be stripped away She’s got the gun in her mouth again No way to see the sun I still hear her shoot herself... again Talking to herself... again No way to see the sun. All I feel is shell shock. All my life... this shell shock. She’s talking to herself again Her tragedy lives inside me. No way to see the sun I’m talking to myself again No way to see the sun All you get is Shell shock, all my life this shell shock. Some memories can’t be stripped away. These memories can't be stripped away.
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No Surrender, No Retreat Shot Down, in Cold Blood No remorse, No Regrets Our Past is Your Future We Still Alive: You ain't scared Yet? Survive, We ain't Dead Yet Still Alive, You ain't scared Yet Survive, GET BACK No remorse, No regrets Shot Down, Cold Blood the Emperor's dead Dance in the streets Cut out the eyes, see the pain Still Alive, You ain't scared yet Survive we ain't dead yet Still alive you ain't scared yet Survive !! GET BACK running away from in love you don't know stockholm( Ahhhhh) LIving life remote control feel like walls closing (Ahhhh) death looking at your face.. but not nowww.. this isn't over this isn't over this isn't over this isn't over this is over this is over
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Fuck your claims of aberration, habitual not deviation Incident not isolated, but this time there's proof Melting pot has boiled over, angels have lost composure Burning and looting, the beatings and shootings raged for a week What we saw with our own eyes was not justice just a crime Up in flames all vision blurred, black clouds engulfed the earth Unraveling sanity on Florence and Normandie Citywide curfew declared from dusk till dawn What we saw with our own eyes was not justice just a crime War on the streets, cars overturned, we watched the city burn Up in flames all vision blurred, black clouds engulfed the earth Destruction of property took precedence over humanity the epitaph on the tombstone “This is America, This is a warzone” Oppression bares down with the weight of a ton so they send it back tenfold where it came from Throwing fireballs, the graffiti on the walls says “the systems broke” The guilty reign and they ignited the fuse, shortened by years of physical and verbal abuse Struck 56 times by a uniformed gang but they still walked free terrorizing the people No justice no peace, just conflict on the streets the anger was unleashed, aimed at a fucked up system the epitaph on the tombstone “This is America, This is a warzone” Not sure any of these liner notes need to be in there but if it fits the format other bands are presenting here's anything they could need
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The American Dream was never meant for me The American Dream was never meant for me This battle is not new to us We've endured centuries of cruelty The government never protects It only takes and destroys 60 million buffalo were slaughtered to drive out Indigenous nations We are not considered human Their lives driven to extinction Our lives driven to extinction Relationships destroyed Broken bonds to Earth Broken bonds with each other The American Dream Kill every buffalo you can Every buffalo dead is an Indian gone The Oglala Lakota burned down the slaughterhouses Used to trap cattle Used to trap them Animals are meant to be free We are meant to free Rewrite the future Rise up This is a fight we must win In defense of Turtle Island And all the living beings on it We need to be up in arms Burn this system to the ground Our ancestors showed us Another world is possible Rewrite the future Rise up This is a fight we must win In defense of Turtle Island And all the living beings on it We need to be up in arms Burn this system to the ground
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Defaulted to benefit from our enslavement Generation after generation Born at the top, held up by our backs And choosing, to turn the other cheek THAT’S PRIVILEGE To inhabit your skin without fear To inhabit your body without shame To love who you want, to walk at night alone, To be standing on the outside looking in THAT’S PRIVILEGE Chorus: Welfare, Welfare! They built an empire off your backs, off your backs! Taxing your labor to secure their fortune With no accountability Cough up that restitution Make you pay your debt to me To navigate the spaces we’re not allowed to roam Blind to exclusion you’ll never have to know Dismantle the whole thing or nothing will change Cuz the system was built to protect YOUR PRIVILEGE Repeat Chorus The Safety of your fragility Is priority In this war Against poor bodies and minorities In this war Against womxn and the not so binary In this war against all black bodies Fighting globally THERE’S NO PEACE Without Justice, Our kids are casualties From Favela to Palestine All our Mothers weep From Plantation To President Still the same story From the Classroom To prison cell Is the new chattel slavery Repeat chorus
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Coming out the mouth With your serpent’s tongue Serpent eyes and serpent lungs On the day you fell off the fence was the day of your banishment You watched it all fall apart Linear , end to start You were there right before the fall Fingers to lips fuckin Afterall In the end you’ll get what you deserve , you’ve been walking down the is dead end road You saw the body on the floor Looked at your buddy and you closed the door well no more There’s no home for this, in this sanctum that we have made No home for you a fake loyalty that you hold on to And now it’s coming together A piece of shit apologist, couldn’t handle the weather Victims haunt your dreams . Till the end of your days you will remember their names Hope reputation was a good excuse Snake eyes , I see right through you Nothing left to do. And my friends got hurt because of people like you More victims stay silent cause of people like you.
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Genocide Origins From slaves to Native Indians 
 The roots are rotten on this tree we all still swing, This bitter fruit More the same 
Leaf to root Ghosts in suits Smoke echoes Fill dark hall and rush to zion 
But buried in this dirt These mass graves of fortune tellers Scream “tomorrow’s bygone” All their land 
Their laws They're done We're all Dying to Burn (Burn) Burn their precincts Don't you say a word about some justice There’s none in this place, it just can't live here So tear these walls down, this foundation festered Burn (Burn) Burn their prairies Set fire to these plains, they're growing weary Their mountains lead no where but desolation Rip out these roots; this grain grows domination 
And how the fuck / Are you so calm? He kept his fucking job! Still these racist laws roam plantation blocks and terrorize all these Blood shot eyes Crying dust and fire Crying dust and fire Massacre Genocide Thin lines inside a history of lies Burn (Burn) Burn their prairies Set fire to these plains, they're growing weary Their mountains lead no where, but desolation Rip out these roots this grain grows domination from cradle to grave - sure some names have changed BUT THIS FLAG WILL ALWAYS ENSLAVE
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Just another bastard lost their way No respect for you nothing left to say Make another mark, take another life Feed the machine, increase the strife Another controversy waiting to happen Hold your gun a nervous habit Bringers of wholesale destruction A fabricated government production Just another bastard lost their way No respect for you nothing left to say Trampling us left and right Splinter society black and white Hit after hit, lead on lead Tilling the soil for the dead How many people have to die To fix it all, to fix your pride? Scratch the record, wipe it clean Destroy the order, make them bleed
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World of torment Enslaved existence Reign of terror Eternal tyranny Are you willing to die for Your cause Are you willing to die for Your gød Oppression Submission Suppression Through division Isolation Desolation Conviction Incarceration Abandoned Freedom Victims Of evil Are you willing to die for Your cause Are you willing to die for Your gød Facade of freedom Civil unrest Scorch the earth Eternal suffering Cycle of hate War fueld by greed Cycle of hate World built by slaves Cycle of hate Ruled by the elite Cycle of hate Wont rule over me
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TEN THOUSAND GRINNING BOOMERS OWNED THE LIBS TODAY CUT THE LOGOS FROM THEIR OWN SOCKS AND THEN COVERAGE OF THEIR HEALTHCARE THE SHOWMAN ON THE NEWS PULLS A RABBIT FROM HIS HAT TEN THOUSAND JOBS VANISH WITH THUNDEROUS APPLAUSE AS THE PLANET DIES MERCY GOES EXTINCT THE CULPRITS DRAGGED IN SHACKLES BEFORE A NEW NUREMBURG WHERE A MILLION PLASTIC STRAWS MELTED UNDER INCANDESCENT BULBS ARE POURED INTO THEIR SCREAMING MOUTHS
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Innocence is broken as you push your evil plans Money hungry, hate filled agenda Regardless of the man Red White and Blue faces Are the basis of existence Complacency in this land Only benefits the system Nation of greed Rooted from an evil seed Nation of greed From what you sow you will reap Pushed to obey By any means You wont see me On my fucking knees Spit in your face In the nations name I wont be a piece In your game With this fatal fury built up inside I will extinguish all who oppose With the power of millions Trample all of my foes I can not be stopped Forever doing unto those Come against me and you’ll see My fatal fury bring your life to a fucking close Fatal Fury Sleep with one eye open Fatal Fury

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Shut It Down is a compilation of 46 metal, hardcore, punk, and noise bands speaking out and raising money for black lives and an end to racist policing.

All proceeds will be donated to the organization Movement for Black Lives (m4bl.org). Shut it down is independently organized by the members of the music community and not affiliate with M4BL or any organization.

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released September 4, 2020

Artwork by Tyronne Gietzmann. Universal mastering by Brad Boatright as Audiosiege. Compilation name by Flora Lucini. Public Relations by Shannon Void.

Special assistance from Josh White at State of Mind Touring, Urian Hackney at The Box, Bezan Madon from Dog Years, Jesse Cannon at Found Soundation Recording Studios, Len Carmichael at Landmine Studios Andrea Black from Racetraitor, Gavin Van Vlack of Burn, Sunny Singh at Hate 5 Six, and Carl Severson and Rick Barnhart at Good Fight Music.

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