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You’re an epic success or a fucking failure
and there’s no in between.
You can rise above or you can sink like a stone
and it’s nobody’s fault but your own.
Nevermind generational poverty,
nevermind the fucking patriarchy,
and forget about those deeply held racist beliefs
that’s a first amendment thing.

They focus on the individual
to obscure the systems that affect us all.
They focus on the individual
to obscure the systems that affect us all.

Did you ever notice how our Overton Window
Is well and truly broken?
There’s a sliver of daylight on the left
and on the right it’s wide fucking open.
They’ll have you committed if you say with a straight face
“you know, we don’t need capitalism”
but jail a couple thousand non-white kids for no reason.
And the world just keeps on turning,
and the geo group turns a profit,
and their Christian base fucking loves it.

They focus on the individual
to obscure the systems that affect us all.
They focus on the individual
to obscure the systems that affect us all.

Make no mistake, we’ve all been poisoned.
Whether it’s the lead in our pipes or the propaganda on our airwaves.
And a whole world of institutions
designed to fails us
while they function
dor somebody else.

They focus on the individual to obscure the fact that
this is hell.

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from The System Works​.​.​., track released April 9, 2019

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“Total Massacre have a directness and simplicity that is kind of a lost art these days; it was a
hallmark of the punk scene back in the 1980’s and is what gave the music of that era the
immediacy that inspired young people to engage in acts of resistance to fascism. We need more
of that.”
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