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[CW: Child Abuse]
Created for Week 3 of the Fourth Strike Song Jam.
Bertie and I teamed up to make a track of the style of Hacktivist, which really required me to stretch my vocal performance skills. He was an absolute blast to collaborate with, and with very little discussion we both set out to make the heaviest fucking shit we could manage, with me focusing on vocals and lyrics and Bertie focusing on song structure and instrumentals.
The lyrics are informed by my personal experiences with abuse as a child, and also what I've seen parents do to their children now that I'm an adult. I am so fucking tired of seeing the same assholes who accuse queer people of being pedophiles turn around and treat their own kids with contempt, violence, and cruelty.
We become the boogeymen, a made-up danger, a distraction from the fact that nearly all child abuse is committed by adults close to said children. Trans people aren't the ones hurting your kids, you ignorant fucks; you are, and we're not gonna let you get away with it.
It's ever thus to tyrants.
lyrics
### Lyrics
Strapped for battle, but we didn't start the culture war
hexed, oppresssed, our very sex begets a life of gore
effeminate lurkers, degenerate perverts, we're crashing your servers,
we're teaching your daughter to fight for herself 'cause you never deserved her
we're the resistance
don't need your permission, you don't get to miss this
war of attrition
if you keep talking shit, put your face where my fist is
YOUR TIME HAS COME AND GONE
sitting high on a throne,
for as long as she's known
you've treated her body a thing you own
your creed guarantees that her needs are heedless,
she'll eat what you feed or starve alone
for atonement,
lips sealed shut and sewn up,
choking down pain to assuage a grown-up,
the King of All Things, a man who still brings
the love to his kids with a hand of stone
This coward
demands that she cower
in awe of his power, and
scour herself of the notion
that she could be powerful, too
what would you do?
Climb up the tower and leap from the roof?
pocket a dagger and wait 'til he staggers
to wrestle your truth from the brute?
I think you'd choose what a child would do
and assume that you've earned the abuse
YOU
DON'T
DESERVE
THE
ABUSE
Strapped for battle, but we didn't start the culture war
hexed, opresssed, our very sex begets a life of gore
effeminate lurkers, degenerate perverts, we're crashing your servers,
we're teaching your daughter to fight for herself 'cause you never deserved her
we're the resistance
don't need your permission, you don't get to miss this
war of attrition
if you keep talking shit, put your face where my fist is
YOUR TIME HAS COME AND GONE
you're the ones who led your young astray
we're the wolves you fuckers failed to raise
you resent us for attempting
to survive without guile or repentance
we're out here swinging for the fences
a revenge so sweet, it's offensive
let our voices be the wrenches
chucked in the clockwork heart of your pension
your offenses are defenseless,
and we sentence you to the endless void
where your own kids have the good sense
to pretend that you never existed.
WE WILL NOT SIT IN SILENCE
YOU CAN'T CONTAIN THIS VIRUS
WE WILL MEET FORCE WITH VIOLENCE
IT'S EVER THUS TO TYRANTS
credits
released December 3, 2023
Aran P. Ink
Bertie Mononym (@heyitsbertie)
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