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The Fine Line Between Faith And Apathy

by Knifey Spoony

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1.
No there’s nothing wrong with me no imbalanced brain chemistry, you’re just an arsehole you’re selfish and an inconsiderate hypocrite. You’ll kill anything in the way to feel happy for a day, never bother with tomorrow when sleep it will cleanse your sorrow. I always thought that things would be different I’d be throwing molotov’s for some random cause. Instead I’m a slave and I don’t want to go to work today but I should not complain cause I know I’m going to go anyway. Beaten and confused mentally abused, bosses lawyers cops are the weapons that they use. This city’s their front line and I don’t want to go to war, trapped inside I’m fine but insanity seeps through these walls. And like a mind the cracks begin to show sometimes and like a mind lost in illusion I’m getting left behind. I don’t believe in bosses I’ve had a few I’ve got one now. I don’t believe in wages but I’ve gotta pay the rent somehow. I don’t believe in working five days straight or for eight hours at a time. We must be deluded if we think this is alright. I always thought that things would be different I’d be throwing molotov’s for some random cause. Instead I’m a slave and I don’t want to go to work today but I should not complain cause I know I’m going to go anyway.
2.
Thanks for waking me up off the bathroom floor I don’t remember getting there or going to bed. I guess I like the look of tiles when I need a place to rest my head. At least this time I wasn’t covered in piss, if that’s an achievement I guess. I shouldn’t have to try to hard to better myself maybe next time instead of passing out, I’ll burn down parliament house. Maybe I’ll close detention centers, I’ll save the reef. I’ll live out of bin cause supermarkets give me grief. I’ll stop global warming close down the port. Fill in the coalmines stop the fracking of the dirt. Now I’m not passed out in my own urine these are the things I could be doing. If you stay off the pipes tonight you might have enough sleep to stand up and fight. Sure passing out is fun and pissing your pants is great but I think I’d rather punch a cop in the face I’d rather burn down the courthouse, kill me boss, smash the prisons slowly dismantle capitalism. Then we’ll grow our own food, set up a co-op, write our own zines and watch them rot in bookshops. Now I’m not passed out in my own urine these are the things I could be doing. I used to hate the world and I wanted it to end but that sounds like capitalism and I ain’t joining in with them. Some days I still get anxious and some day I hate myself. Some days I hate everyone else. Some days I want to be left alone and I wont answer my phone, some days this city no longer feels like home. They’re gentrifying they are lying cheating stealing and denying, removing culture for yuppie cunts. And they can go get fucked cause I’m not giving up. If you really hate the world and you want it to end then maybe you should go work in a coalmine.
3.
Squalor 02:52
I’m at friends place and there isn’t an empty beer can anywhere. I woke up yesterday and I have not woken up since then. I spent last night in a dumpster saving an outta date cucumber. Their conquest for breads at work that seems insane to me. She took one look at me and she said you live in squalor I said no I am squalor I embody filth and it embodies me. As I’m getting older and some friends are getting cleaner I just tell myself being cleans for the bourgeoisie. My revolution’s covered in dust and as I look around so are all of us. All my shits free shit I got off gumtree, all my other shits free shit taken from my friends and family. Why would I buy something new when there’s plenty of shit that is old? We don’t need to fit into consumerism mold. Supporting sweat shops, cutting trees, supporting corporations greed, poisoning rivers draining streams to make more shit that we don’t need. She took one look at me and he said you live in squalor I said no I am squalor I embody filth and it embodies me. As I’m getting older and some friends are getting cleaner I just tell myself being cleans for the bourgeoisie. I’d rather live in squalor than spend my dollars funding the rich to kill our countries. My revolution’s covered in dust and as I look around so are all of us.
4.
In The Dirt 01:33
In The Dirt – They’ll take everything and give nothing back so please don’t break your back and think back to the days before you worked a nine to five for better or worse your days are numbered on this earth. So I’ma spend mine in the dirt. Regenerating what we’re taking and in my spare time creating a life I want to live in a world I want to live in. So you’ve got plans to go travelling but what about the time between now and when. And then you get back and the process it starts it starts all over again. I don’t understand the lives we lead or how they make us happy.
5.
They’ve got atoms bombs all we’ve got’s a bong, they both blow minds but mine is better. They split the atom I just snip your garden hose, one rearranges one destroys matter. Destruction of the earth verse production of herb. Don’t drop bombs don’t drop bongs. Don’t drop bombs please don’t drop my bong.
6.
It’s a new year again and I have not achieved a thing, I drank and smoked away the days this drunken stupor’s not a phase but I think I want something more than blacking out on the kitchen floor and I think I selfishly deserve better when I buy a goon sac with my last tener. I ain’t struggling to get by that ain’t why I steal. When west farmers own the world we all deserve at least one free meal. As I try and justify my existence to my friends and myself I realize there’s no purpose to me or anyone else. The fine line between faith and apathy, when we save the world I guarantee it will still look shit to me and I think I selfishly deserve better as I buy a goon sac with my last tener. We’ve got no plans but we’ll be together soon, that’s ok cause I can afford the goon. I’ve got no petrol and my bikes still fucked so I’m walking to your place with my last ten bucks. Lets put on our wetsuit on and go to the beach, let’s sit right here and speak, speak, speak. It doesn’t matter cause we’re all best friends when there’s a goon sac that never seems to end.
7.
It was the day after election day, the polls where in and I exclaimed this bullshit will never change. So I bought a shotgun and some shells I thought I’d send ‘em all to hell but what good would that do anyway. Then I woke up, I was feeling blue. The polls where in and I exclaimed what am I now to do they gave us a choice with it we lost our voice if it changed a thing, it’d be illegal. Then I got out of bed the polls where in and I exclaimed fuck these thoughts within my head. This day will not define would it all just be all fine if the other cunts had won instead? We’re all fighting each other when we should be fighting them; we’re all fighting each other when we should be fighting them. I went out side and I was feeling better then I exclaimed there’s something strange about the weather. The world it’s still turning but goddam it’s burning so how can we make it better? Well maybe you could drive your car less or maybe stop eating meat. You could tie yourself to a coal train they may say that your insane but I think you’re right and thanks from me. With our actions we gain our voice our daily life is where we make our choice. They’re lying when they say there’s one day to make a change, don’t play into their into their power hungry games, don’t be a slave to this system there’s no wall to this prison you can just walk out the door. We’re all fighting each other when we should be fighting them; we’re all fighting each other when we should be fighting them.
8.
Are we the revolution or just alcoholics? I’ll talk anarchism lets abolish the pollies but I always have a beer in my hand. How can I fight when I can hardly stand? So let sing about drugs and changing the world. If only there was one that could do it. Acid in the sixties they kinda got close besides burnouts and flashbacks the rest is a ghost but it’s not my revolution if I can’t dance so I’ll eat drugs and party at every chance. Your utopia is not my own but if we work together we can build a home. Are we the revolution or just taking the piss? I can’t really hear over this shitty music but I think you’re making pretty good points you’re just hard to understand you smoke too many joints. Keep singing about changing the world if only there was a song that could do it. I’d say lets take down the state but by the end of the song we’d be too drunk to fight. If I wasn’t blackout drunk tomorrow I’d be at work and I’d rather be spewing in a toilet than sweating in a shed for minimum wage. So won’t you put your black on for me, smash some windows and a racists face. Keep locking yourself to machinery knowing what you do is right and we’re on your side but for now we fight with different tactics, stealing, growing food and getting better with practice. So when you’ve taken down the government I’ll have some food for us to eat and a beer to drink.

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These songs reflect on how we've felt/lived over the last few years. Some things have changed and some have stayed the same.

We acknowledge this album was made on the stolen land of the Awabakal and Worimi people. We pay respect to the traditional custodian past, present and future.
Sovereignty was never ceded.

With Love and Rage
Dom and Taz

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released August 6, 2020

Thank you Sam Reay for doing the album design and Dylan Clunes for playing harmonica on In The Dirt.

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