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America First

by Bryan Lothian

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1.
Freedom From 03:52
FREEDOM FROM greedy freaks speaking in tongues breeding legions of leeches to suck all our fuckin blood give me my freedom from religion right these wrongs I need my freedom from religion i’ve been robbed give me my freedom from your god creepy freaks preach to the young a worldwide pedophile ring raping children for centuries +they’re still not done give us our freedom from religion it’s your job we need our freedom from religion to carry on give us our freedom from religion right these wrongs we need our freedom from religion we’ve been robbed give us our freedom from your god
2.
A BULLET WITH NO NAME don’t take this arms race any further it’s a precursor to more suicides +murders sadistic fetishes of sociopathic perverts subvert the purpose of public service nra gun lobby fantasy armed to the teeth a bullet with no name will go where it was aimed will take a life away don’t take this arms race any further it’s a precursor to militaristic fervor just put the guns down, do us all a service no one’s impervious +nobody deserves this nra gun lobby fantasy armed to the teeth a bullet with no name will go where it was aimed, or astray will take a life away
3.
NO MORE MUSIC boring, toxic tourists give off a noxious smell pseudo purists will act as jurors sentence you to hell their only honest care in life is for themselves soon rolling in their grave where no one hears them shout there’s no more music now the crowds will always drown us out the mouths with the least to say are way too fuckin loud that dumb, repeating bullshit’s for somebody else I can already tell, no doubt, this won’t end well if there’s no more music now then we’re going down so sing it proud it shouldn’t be that hard for you to figure out be smart, take this to heart, start doing it yourself or there’s no more music now
4.
FEAR DETAIN DEPORT think our problems aren’t our fault think that we’d be better off with immigration at a halt place the blame on someone else simple, xenophobic thoughts you bought a hateful, racist plot fought a ghost +all for naught, you knob it’s guys in ties that rob +a robot took your job +we systematically deplete these countries people flee authoritarian assaults no justice for the weak or small build a wall +kill em all fear detain deport they want us all to live apart or die in a new holocaust agree because you think you’re smart but you’re not they’re criminalizing people deriding dehumanized illegals lethal cretins breeding unspeakable evil eagles soar, hunting the tired +poor fighting your race war no remorse meet huddled masses with lethal force just admit it’s wrong before we’re too far gone they played you all along a politician’s pawn
5.
AMERICA FIRST we barely see the war and destruction so focused on our own dysfunction blind proceeds to lead the blind keep on feeding these fat capitalist swine america first first to serve the dollar’s worth the credit we deserve first to lay blame, first to invade brutal commercial crusades all american made america first first to serve the dollar’s worth what change do we deserve we will fill the graves we dig do you even give a shit we’ll die by the sword if that’s how we live we’ll die stealing more for these fat capitalist pigs america first
6.
Die Again 03:36
DIE AGAIN turn distant cities into battlefields shred the flesh of every human shield kill millions of civilians, the spoils of oil are ours to steal waging wars for profit, we’re not fighting for ideals contracts fill the coffers of a contemptible, connected few the rest would rather die than stop it, that’s been proven true peace isn’t what we do +that isn’t fake news, we’ll nuke you but everything in the world is all we have to lose every empire eventually ends not a matter of if, but when we can pretend we kill in self defense but we were born to die again and again and again world’s biggest fat cats run the pound with 3 million employees to boss around there’s so much money, +so much fun in starting wars +running guns
7.
Swamp Things 03:01
SWAMP THINGS deep in fens since all of time heaped beneath the swarms of flies creatures sleep covered in slime seeping lies disguise their crimes the muck raked up is gonna stink the corruption is worse than you think a ring of kleptocratic finks, swamp things tricky rhetoric is hissed by hungry snakes no smiling reptile will ever have it drained rock the boat +you’re gonna sink all these creatures share a link led by the king of slithering swamp things
8.
Maverick 03:22
MAVERICK war hawk taught to bomb Viet Cong held a grudge cause he got shot down +caught hated Ruskies +gooks since back when it was cool hailed as human rights champion when regime changes are claims to fame destabilize and realign or just plain invade laid long term plans in Afghanistan war on terror anthrax salesman backed occupying +destroying Iraq lied to make it happen in fact successfully brought chaos to Libya armed islamists in Syria aligned with Nazis in Ukraine a legacy of war and pain that’s all you’ve gotta say
9.
AUDIENCE OF ONE for a man of my stature work’s never done awaiting a rapture that’ll never come sit back +manufacture artificial fun it’s all a distraction for an audience of one don’t know why but i do know how I’ll verify that i’m drunk right now dissatisfaction guaranteed and proud +you can’t pick me out of a crowd but they don’t understand that there’s a disconnect there’s a whole lot of us the hand of god neglects you think I need a shrink for everything +back I know I’m gonna toast +drink to life so sad to things we never had to finding good in bad tell me what’s wrong with that
10.
AMPLIFY HERESY amplify heresy let them know our will is free +we don’t need their broken moral codes or holy wars we want peace and freedom the only way to speak to these absurd decrees now is to shout it from our knees amplify heresy teach them well and let em see we don’t need god we don’t need misery, pain + grief or anything else they’ve got they’ve never listened to reason so much for subtlety the clergy needs to feel our blasphemy jesus fuckin christ, please believe me, these preachers are creeps thieving, vulturous demons who prey on the weak tune to another frequency if it’s salvation you seek
11.
Party Pooper 03:56
PARTY POOPER go team you were getting bored frame the debate you’ve got a new favorite sport live for the day your horse wins the race playing games in the usa wear the jersey, paint your face raise your foam finger high so many sins have been committed the least of which is pride decry the other guy across the aisle hide behind your chosen tribe bent on politicide go team you never wanted it more til somebody takes a knee +you’re misinformed on what it stands for or aware you share the blame for this systematically racist campaign or you’re just a sucker for paid advertising displays claim to want some kind of change but toe the party line terrified +paralyzed by polarizing lies labels +logos define your divide if civil war’s in store again i shouldn’t be surprised go team fanatical sycophants mascots selling hats stadiums of homers chant ready to feed the weapons industry may be your idea of being all that you can be always cheering for your side yet never question why it spends so much in the name of defense and sends generations to die accept the lies, ignore the war crimes propagandized fibs convince us each and every time go team rooting for a rout winning isn’t everything you never figured that much out like-minded sheep are all you need new american pastime cherrypick what you believe this is life, it’s not a game stop cheering for a side save some face, embrace each other let both of these parties die we might get it right with time but we’ll never see democracy if we just flee left or right
12.
Neon Dawn 01:42
NEON DAWN spy the horizon from your dry, brown, dying lawn by enterprising eyes the lines of our lives are drawn lies aren’t surprising they’re what the hill’s built on suicide’s the only option gotta die to live on the future’s written the future’s wrong but we can erase it we can abscond days of innocence are gone rise + feast your eyes upon a neon dawn
13.

about

RECORDED 8.18
IN THE CAVE SOMERVILLE, MA
The following parties plead guilty as
charged on all counts detailed;
Mike Kadomiya - back vox on 1-3 +5
Bryan Lothian - the rest
Voices sampled without permission -
a small angry man, Christopher Hitchins,
various fanatics and sycophants of the
45th potus, Noam Chomsky, Aron Ra,
unknown catatonic schizophrenic,
patient named Vera 1951, Nic Smith,
Phillip Hernandez
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-FINE PRINT-
*The Cave is a 10‘ x 26‘ subterranean
concrete enclosure with a steel ceiling,
deemed legally uninhabitable
*Engineered on Xxxxx x software using
unidirectional cardioid microphones and
mid to low-end instruments including but
not limited to;
Drums- 3 piece with 16” Xxxxx by Xxxx
floor tom as kick, Xxxx Xxx 7x13 vented snare,
12” Xxxx xxxxxxxx DX tom, 14” Xxxxxxxx Scimitar
hi-hat, and 21” Xxxxxxxx Sweet ride
Bass- 4 string Xxxxxxxxx with a tone knob
Guitar- Xxx Xxxx studio/2 string Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx
with a whammy bar
Clarinet- Xxxxxx Xxxxxx &Cie B12
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credits

released September 17, 2018

*No sponsorship or compensation of any form from any
private or governmental agency has been accepted
*Neither items of value, nor currency have been
exchanged in the process of disseminating this disc
*Only one person was harmed in it’s making
————————————————
-DISCLAIMER/TERMS OF USE-
Duplication without prior express written consent is encouraged.
Those possessing a physical copy of this release will thereby accept any adverse effects on mental health, as well as all ridicule and/or social stigmatization resulting from display of ownership or public broadcast of its contents.
The views and opinions expressed are those of the writer and do not necessarily reflect those of any established political party, recognized religion, traditional social class, accredited learning institution, orthodox ideology, documented subculture, or defined music genre.
LISTENER DISCRETION ADVISED
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FREEDOM FROM
greedy freaks
speaking in tongues
breeding legions of leeches
to suck all our fuckin blood
give me my freedom from religion
right these wrongs
I need my freedom from religion
i’ve been robbed
give me my freedom from your god
creepy freaks
preach to the young
a worldwide pedophile ring
raping children for centuries
+they’re still not done
give us our freedom from religion
it’s your job
we need our freedom from religion
to carry on
give us our freedom from religion
right these wrongs
we need our freedom from religion
we’ve been robbed
give us our freedom from your god

A BULLET WITH NO NAME
don’t take this arms race any further
it’s a precursor to more suicides +murders
sadistic fetishes of sociopathic perverts
subvert the purpose of public service
nra gun lobby fantasy
armed to the teeth
a bullet with no name
will go where it was aimed
will take a life away
don’t take this arms race any further
it’s a precursor to militaristic fervor
just put the guns down, do us all a service
no one’s impervious +nobody deserves this
nra gun lobby fantasy
armed to the teeth
a bullet with no name
will go where it was aimed, or astray
will take a life away

NO MORE MUSIC
boring, toxic tourists
give off a noxious smell
pseudo purists will act as jurors
sentence you to hell
their only honest care in life is for themselves
soon rolling in their grave
where no one hears them shout
there’s no more music now
the crowds will always drown us out
the mouths with the least to say
are way too fuckin loud
that dumb, repeating bullshit’s for somebody else
I can already tell, no doubt,
this won’t end well
if there’s no more music now
then we’re going down
so sing it proud
it shouldn’t be that hard
for you to figure out
be smart, take this to heart,
start doing it yourself
or there’s no more music now

FEAR DETAIN DEPORT
think our problems aren’t our fault
think that we’d be better off
with immigration at a halt
place the blame on someone else
simple, xenophobic thoughts
you bought a hateful, racist plot
fought a ghost +all for naught, you knob
it’s guys in ties that rob
+a robot took your job
+we systematically deplete
these countries people flee
authoritarian assaults
no justice for the weak or small
build a wall +kill em all
fear detain deport
they want us all to live apart
or die in a new holocaust
agree because you think you’re smart
but you’re not
they’re criminalizing people
deriding dehumanized illegals
lethal cretins breeding unspeakable evil
eagles soar, hunting the tired +poor
fighting your race war
no remorse
meet huddled masses with lethal force
just admit it’s wrong
before we’re too far gone
they played you all along
a politician’s pawn

AMERICA FIRST
we barely see the war and destruction
so focused on our own dysfunction
blind proceeds to lead the blind
keep on feeding these fat capitalist swine
america first
first to serve the dollar’s worth
the credit we deserve
first to lay blame, first to invade
brutal commercial crusades
all american made
america first
first to serve the dollar’s worth
what change do we deserve
we will fill the graves we dig
do you even give a shit
we’ll die by the sword if that’s how we live
we’ll die stealing more for these fat
capitalist pigs
america first

DIE AGAIN
turn distant cities into battlefields
shred the flesh of every human shield
kill millions of civilians, the spoils of oil are ours to steal
waging wars for profit, we’re not fighting for ideals
contracts fill the coffers of a contemptible, connected few
the rest would rather die than stop it,
that’s been proven true
peace isn’t what we do
+that isn’t fake news, we’ll nuke you
but everything in the world is all we have to lose
every empire eventually ends
not a matter of if, but when
we can pretend we kill in self defense
but we were born to die again and again
and again
world’s biggest fat cats run the pound
with 3 million employees to boss around
there’s so much money, +so much fun
in starting wars +running guns

SWAMP THINGS
deep in fens since all of time
heaped beneath the swarms of flies
creatures sleep covered in slime
seeping lies disguise their crimes
the muck raked up is gonna stink
the corruption is worse than you think
a ring of kleptocratic finks, swamp things
tricky rhetoric is hissed by hungry snakes
no smiling reptile will ever have it drained
rock the boat +you’re gonna sink
all these creatures share a link
led by the king of slithering swamp things

MAVERICK
war hawk
taught to bomb Viet Cong
held a grudge
cause he got shot down +caught
hated Ruskies +gooks
since back when it was cool
hailed as human rights champion
when regime changes are his claims to fame
destabilize and realign or just plain invade
laid long term plans in Afghanistan
war on terror anthrax salesman
backed occupying +destroying Iraq
lied to make it happen in fact
successfully brought chaos to Libya
armed islamists in Syria
aligned with Nazis in Ukraine
a legacy of war and pain
that’s all you’ve gotta say

AUDIENCE OF ONE
for a man of my stature work’s never done
awaiting a rapture that’ll never come
sit back +manufacture artificial fun
it’s all a distraction for an audience of one
don’t know why but i do know how
I’ll verify that i’m drunk right now
dissatisfaction guaranteed and proud
+you can’t pick me out of a crowd
but they don’t understand
that there’s a disconnect
there’s a whole lot of us
the hand of god neglects
you think I need a shrink for everything +back
I know I’m gonna toast +drink to life so sad
to things we never had
to finding good in bad
tell me what’s wrong with that

AMPLIFY HERESY
amplify heresy
let them know our will is free
+we don’t need their broken moral codes
or holy wars
we want peace and freedom
the only way to speak
to these absurd decrees
now is to shout it from our knees
amplify heresy
teach them well and let em see
we don’t need god
we don’t need misery, pain + grief
or anything else they’ve got
they’ve never listened to reason
so much for subtlety
the clergy needs to feel our blasphemy
jesus fuckin christ, please
believe me, these preachers are creeps
thieving, vulturous demons
who prey on the weak
tune to another frequency
if it’s salvation you seek

PARTY POOPER
go team
you were getting bored
frame the debate
you’ve got a new favorite sport
live for the day your horse wins the race
playing games in the usa
wear the jersey, paint your face
raise your foam finger high
so many sins have been committed
the least of which is pride
decry the other guy across the aisle
hide behind your chosen tribe
bent on politicide
go team
you never wanted it more
til somebody takes a knee
+you’re misinformed on what it stands for
or aware you share the blame
for this systematically racist campaign
or you’re just a sucker for
paid advertising displays
claim to want some kind of change
but toe the party line
terrified +paralyzed by polarizing lies
labels +logos define your divide
if civil war’s in store again
i shouldn’t be surprised
go team
fanatical sycophants
mascots selling hats
stadiums of homers chant
ready to feed the weapons industry
may be your idea of
being all that you can be
always cheering for your side
yet never question why
it spends so much in the name of defense
and sends generations to die
accept the lies, ignore the war crimes
propagandized fibs convince us
each and every time
go team
rooting for a rout
winning isn’t everything
you never figured that much out
like-minded sheep are all you need
new american pastime
cherrypick what you believe
this is life, it’s not a game
stop cheering for a side
save some face, embrace each other
let both of these parties die
we might get it right with time
but we’ll never see democracy
if we just flee left or right

NEON DAWN
spy the horizon
from your dry, brown, dying lawn
by enterprising eyes
the lines of our lives are drawn
lies aren’t surprising
they’re what the hill’s built on
suicide’s the only option
gotta die to live on
the future’s written
the future’s wrong
but we can erase it
we can abscond
days of innocence are gone
rise + feast your eyes upon a neon dawn

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