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Protect and Serve

by Kill the Con Man

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1.
I'm fucking broke Working so someone else gets paid My loss is your raise Killing myself over each day Killing myself to end this pain The only way out is death Slowly bleed me, of everything of all my dreams, in this nightmare One more day, closer to the end Counting down, the final descent Bound to the mast, of a sinking ship The water's rising, into the abyss Take advantage of me, in desperation accept anything You just take for yourself, leaving nothing for anyone else When it's time you will see that your life of thievery made you think you could take, fucking us was a mistake Right up front, no defense, you got rich at our expense Here we come, the attack, burn it down and take it back To the streets to set ablaze Justice for a life enslaved We won't stop until there's an end To the chains we're living in
2.
We don't need you to tear down these fucking walls We don't need you to help facilitate the fall We don't need you, mindless agent of the state We don't need you, derail and try to obfuscate Breaking free from the chains that remain from our past starts with knowing nothing has changed Violence written out of our history just repeats This unending cycle of pain No one gives a fuck about protecting corporate property Fuck the people that take everything from your community Fuck you- running us out of our town Fuck you- who questions why it should burn down We don't need you to tear down these fucking walls We don't need you to help facilitate the fall We don't need you, mindless agent of the state We don't need you, derail and try to obfuscate No one gives a fuck about protecting bank owned property Fuck the instruments of state repressing pushing slavery Like throwing matches in a blaze An inconvenience in the way Another lie to demonize They try to hide the changing tide They just conceive ways to deceive Protect and serve the wealthy elite
3.
Sand & Death 01:10
When I look at the carnage we make When I look at the wealth and means that we take I don't know how I can support a flag that justifies wiping cultures off the map Sand and death Why does everyone have opinions but no one wants to go fight An endless storm The butchers swarm We suffocate through force in uniforms Death falls from above Machines blowing up Directed from a thousand miles to decimate Myopic threats without the knowledge that these are real people Posture for voters in spite of experience Your ignorance is lethal Your life of luxury came through a killing spree A slaughtered population Displacement's ruination Sand and death- all the blood that drops is on your hands Sand and death- every person has blood on their hands
4.
There's no future, not for me That isn't check to check A life of wage slavery Lock me in a room with no chance to climb or escape I won't comply- casual violence to survive An eternal entry level life of servitude I'd rather die Every day violence we've contrived An ivory tower climbed long ago Pulled up the ladder, ebb with no flow Below the line is where you keep me, rotting in poverty Prices keep on rising, but I make the same thing Another raise to my rent, more bills with no more time Tomorrow I'm on the street, no option left but do crime There's no future, not for me That won't take everything, unless I break free
5.
I think I'm losing my mind I'm watching myself unwind When I think about everything important to me Everything I wanted to see Nothing but another waste of energy Losing who I wanted to be Shut your fucking mouth and fucking listen I don't give a fuck about anything you think you have to say No one gives a fuck about everything you regurgitate Over your head so you conflate Nothing new for you to create There's no room for you in this place The party's over time to go home It's dead and gone you should have known Lose it for security or the path that slowly bleeds Ether way you always lose soulless or dead on the street Wake the fuck up wasting your time This is pointless so do crime Do whatever it takes to make it another day If you need to fucking eat nothing stands in your way You versus me, every man for himself You and me, every man for himself Everyone for themselves
6.
This is the rest of your life All day and every night Hey! Your rotting corpse lives on Eternal damnation Repeat without reason Fighting to stay afloat just to break even Another day in the way Every moment is the same Hey! Your rotting corpse lives on Eternal damnation Repeat without reason Hanging on to your life just to break even Get a mask and a gun Theft built this nation Take what you didn't earn Following tradition Left with no other choice Life or death or prison There is no way out of this hell There is no way out of this nightmare The living dead waiting for death
7.
Pick a day any way and it's nothing but pain, nothing but misery It's burning down while we drown, a rising body count, in the name of liberty Crypt Keeper! Starve to death, get sick and die Poisoned so a landlord can re-rent your life Crypt Keeper! Kill yourself, and say good bye Suffocated by a world of endless lies The gates of hell open each day along with your eyes The underworld hides behind a disguise Demons tear at our rotting flesh Ripped apart daily to oppress Take a gun, take a knife Anybody can take a life to survive another day Pitting us, face to face We don't just win we decimate All the hate, that we make Kill they fucking neighbor Wealth worshipped like a savior When the vultures circle overhead the leeches come in for the kill Take everything There's no safeguards in place when it's your fucking time There won't be remorse for survival labeled crime On your death bed you fall to flames Free of this life held down by chains When it all starts to dissolve and go away You won't give a fuck about all the pain
8.
Promises of draining the swamp would destroy his habitat So the loneliest swamp monster finds himself walking it back Isolated, all alone in a house that represents a gravestone He enacts his revenge Ripping the flesh from people he resents Getting picked on for demeanor the swamp monster goes back home It keeps getting harder every day to fight with no backbone Cornered again- like a rat he will do anything to chew through Tooth and nail- fighting to impose an outdated point of view Against the wall- do any say anything to lie and to cheat The last drop- go at it with every thing 'till it's time to eat He Will Never Die In a frenzied state his fears begin to take control again so he cowers and begins to plot against less fortunate Isolate, all alone in an office underneath a gravestone He enacts his revenge Feeding on people forced to the margins When he's gone he lives on Ripples left from his wake are never gone
9.
White Jesus 00:47
No more lies! We are violent people, half good and half evil The truth staring us face to face Fabricating a world of inclusion Hide behind the collective delusion Our history's missing so we keep reliving No more lies! We circle like vultures, we paint over cultures The legacy no one will face No more lies! The cause not the symptom, we burned down a kingdom The past that we tried to erase
10.
Why do you always leave when I need you the most Abandon ship in the only boat I never learned just how to be Anything to get away from me Pick your poison, up down or side to side I've been involved with all of you I let you ruin my life Another faceless casualty A self imposed tragedy Living outside in the margins A pariah tortured within Criminalized deviation from a norm never agreed upon An outcast pushed to spiral out of their control Pick your poison, up down or side to side I've been involved with all of you I let you ruin my life You fucking left me, left all alone Was once a king, but now dethroned Back to the empty, joyless nothing That's engulfed and taken everything A black embrace, a lifelong chase Hide it behind a manufactured face A black embrace, a lifelong chase
11.
I don't want to but I'll let you down I've been stabbed, beaten and drowned The past still lingers and tightens its grip Constant reminders, followed by fingerprints No second chance for convicts Half of a man, broken in two Not always true, the pain I've hidden from you Even though I don't know if tomorrow will come I would try not to die, this blackness undone Every day every way it has never stopped Every breath, every death, I've only known loss You don't want to know a fucking thing about me The illusion's meant to distort reality As it falls down around me Closing in to surround me Burning it all behind me, running from tragedy Solace in solitude, living in atrophy
12.
Cancer 01:02
Waiting for my time, waiting for my crimes, catching up to me Slowly chips away, every single day, no apologies Leave me alone and I finally catch my breath Back in force to remind me of my death Its own pace despite everything I try Devour pieces of me until I die It doesn't seem to ever stop Daily deluge of a violent onslaught Every direction brings a threat Looking for weakness and distress Relentlessly always feeding on wonton loss and regret Filling a void left by this fucking place A hollow abscess of afflicted grace Of suffering and of an endless pain There is an end but it means everything The only choice, go it alone when it all comes to a close Sinking away, a falling stone Suffocate under shadows No need for hope, the end is known There never was a final show
13.
Taking a Hit 01:28
It's your fucking fault I don't understand how you made it this far without ever being challenged on your bull shit We can't all hide from the truth, tried as adults in our youth When the machine works for you, the influence is hard to remove What you don't know, frightens you Fear of the unknown, keeps you on this loop Create a new disaster, hide behind problems you make Smoke screens cover your agenda, under chaos you fabricate Catered to like a child, tip toe around your fragility Placated with a smile, free from the violence of reality I don't give a fuck, your success is luck Everything you think you've accomplished was given to you And here we go, another victim Falling in the trap you set Blame someone else, for your sickness Games until we have nothing left We all see through, what you're trying to do Pity for a fire you stoked Running afraid, feeling betrayed When you start to see the smoke Not even a slap on the wrist Privilege that never had to take a hit Consequences do not apply A shallow hollow life
14.
Whose streets these are I think I know his house is in the city though He won't see me stopping here to watch his streets fill up with snow My beat up truck must think it's weird to stop without anything near Between the streets and worn out brakes The darkest evening of the year The engine stalls and begins to shake To ask if there is some mistake The only other sound's the sweep of freezing people with no escape The streets are lovely, dark and deep but I have promises to keep and miles to go before I sleep

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Anarcho-deathgrind band from Los Angeles, CA

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released May 7, 2019

Kill the Con Man is
June Belford- Bass
Wesley Richards- Guitar/Vocals
Nate Williams- Drums

All songs written and recorded by Wesley Richards at Riot Ready Records in Inglewood, CA
Mixed and mastered by Benedikt Hain at Outback Recordings

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"Coming with an offensively chaotic wall of noise, LA based Kill the Con Man's blend of grind and death put the brew in brewtality"

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