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Living Proof

The tree remembers what the axe forgets
A culture tried to hitch-hike to Funky Town
but ended up on Rikers Isle
Yeah we can laugh about it
laugh about it
laugh about it now

A sick fixation on migration
of the traumatized from
countries with death squads
that you funded, now you act surprised
It's only natural somebody's gonna have to try to sanctify by TV dy-no-mite

Cuz violence is as American as cherry pie
as syphilis and burning crosses
in the night
as ouija boards and waterboards
and dollar signs
the ones in your eyes...

Living proof the system works
the system works for them
spend your hard-earned money
to help support their death machine
I can't believe the apathy
the Nazi sympathies
enough analogies, I miss it back when
all the punks were singing:

"Living proof the system works
the system works for them
spend your hard-earned money
to help support their death machine"
I can't believe we're still beneath
this corporatocracy
almost embarrassing to listen
now that all you hypocrites are singing...

Give me your zealots, opportunists
and their kidnap victims
Give me your cruelest
your most ruthlessly religious visions
your biggest suckers, motherfuckers
we've got land to pillage
your treaty-breakers,
oh, those natives?
simply burn the village
And now today, you wanna murder?
well we'll pay for college
You get impunity
We get whatever we can salvage
Can almost hear those white supremacist
founding fathers laughing bout it now

Cuz violence is as American as cherry pie
as syphilis and burning crosses
in the night
as ouija boards and waterboards
and dollar signs
the ones in your eyes...

Living proof the system works
the system works for them
spend your hard-earned money
to help support their death machine
I can't believe the apathy
the Nazi sympathies
enough analogies, I miss it back when
all the punks were singing:

"Living proof the system works
the system works for them
spend your hard-earned money
to help support their death machine"
I can't believe we're still beneath
this corporatocracy
almost embarrassing to listen
now that all you hypocrites are singing...

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from DO YOU WANT TO BE PART OF THE CRIME OR PART OF THE PUNISHMENT?, released June 10, 2023
Written and performed by Christopher Kline with:
Backing vocals: Lisa Klinkhammer, Aude Levère
Bass: Marvin Masok
Drums: Itunu Joe
Congas & bongos: Alejandro Pérez Morales

Produced by Early Labyrinth & ET
Mixed by ET
Mastered by Josh Bonati

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Early Labyrinth Berlin, Germany

Necropolitical Dis-Organization 💀 Anarcho-Soul Godless Gospel
Yacht-Sinking Rock
Crust Funk
Smooth Crass
Protest Muzak
Existentialist R&B
MUSIC AGAINST END TIMES

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