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Wake Up & Choke
02:27
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Open your eyes, if you can see through the smoky haze of the burning trees. From east to west, from town to town. Nature nurturing profits is a karmic joke. Wake up and choke. 200 years was all it took to upset any balance there had been in a landscape soon to be burned beyond recognition. We have set the course.
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It's Never Their Fault
01:31
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Make a bid. Start the trucks. Rev the saws. Count the cash. Raze the land. Burn the slash. Plant the crop. Rinse and repeat. The sky’s on fire.
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Wild
02:20
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What is left after the land is cleared, when the balance is gone? Old-growth groves as museums. Bears hunted down as trophies. Coyotes shot for coats. Nothing is wild anymore. Devastated landscapes. Tinderbox tree plantations. Fire suppression, clearcuts. No clean water to drink. Habitat lost. Forest health matters to the wild more than profits matter to the child.
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Liquidated assets. Circumvented rules. Devastated hillsides. They let the country burn. Populations grow. Watersheds shrink. A recipe for disaster, and we let it happen. Is it too late?
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Cougars & Bears
01:29
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Look over there, up on the ridge. Do you see what I see? Is it a bear? Is it a cat? Doesn’t it see where we’re at? Not safe here. No, they’re not safe here. Scare them away, before it’s too late. Before the hunter becomes the hunted.
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Interesting To Me
02:12
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Ever since I was a young boy, I’ve played in the woods. It was escape from any stressors brought forth by childhood. But as I approached my teen years, I realized it was a manufactured land. The forest had long been cut over, time and time again. Only a shadow of what it once was (the timber barons had decided that). It’s interesting to me that so few people realize this, so few people seem to care. I guess it just makes me sad.
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I Choose Nature
01:36
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In these dark times I strain to see the light, but then the flames come and everything is bright. Like a cleanse of the soul. Human nature or the arboreal? If I was forced to choose who will win this fight I can’t help but choose the sunny side. I choose the light.
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No Foresight
02:07
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Let it go. Stop pretending. You don’t give two fucking shits about the health of this land. You just fire up those saws. Rev up those trucks. Blow that black smoke, in the name of darkness. We crave the coolness of a stream. The damp, green moss on a hot August day. But you just wanna expose/cut/haul/slash/burn it all away. We’re tired of being nice. You have no foresight. You’re the one whose time has come. You’re the eco-terrorist.
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Cut & Run
01:26
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Socialism, in the name of corporate greed, has always been integral to this country. Cut and run. Rent the public lands on the cheap. Raze them over and over and over and over again. We subsidize our own demise.
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Bad Mentality
02:53
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Can’t really blame them. Enculturated. Force-fed lies. It’s a bad mentality, but it’s all they have. It’s all they know, can’t let it go. Can’t really blame us. Enculturated. Force-fed lies. The key to our own demise. This will all be dead, long after we’ve said that we’d take the time … but just kept plowing ahead.
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You grew up wide-eyed under whitewashed lies … went to school, got a job like a fool … because what else could you do? The system’s set up to propagate tools. Fuel the fire of greed, choosing want over need. Do we have a clue or just do what they tell us to? Stand up, get the lash. We’re left behind holding the trash. If you end up seeing the lies through the smoke of a world on fire, they label you a threat. You suddenly matter, but better off dead. It’s a fucked-up time to be alive. Some of us have had it so good, but now fear thrives. Is it time for a re-set, in the name of justice? In opposition of greed? Left behind, holding the trash.
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Dead Earth
02:36
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Our legacy, what will it be? Humanity in harmony, or reduced to tribes? Spreading fire to combat lies? A tinder box in a sunbaked field. Dead earth. But the sun will shine long after any purge. The birds will sing (what’s left of them anyway). How many times have we been up against it? Feels exhausting. Feels doomed. Just remember, we’ll be remembered. Are we gonna fight back, or just let it burn?
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DZTN 1980 Oregon
diy punk/post-punk/synthwave/whatever
*formerly of ABOLITIONIST*
abolitionist.bandcamp.com
DZTN 1980 recommends:
"LIVE AT BLACK WATER" DDL (2020)
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