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Lotus Eater

by Down With Rent

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1.
Wasted dogmatic devotion Destroying the line you've towed Rebranding atrophic delusions The chorus rings out while the line goes flat. *ding Feckless submission Perverts conviction Ego fellation Fold in the wind like the flag on your porch Thrashing in place Do you feel like a hostage? Or have you made your peace In the web in your conscience? Amoral entropy long to disperse Self flagellated from cradle to dirt In your ears, then out your mouth Animal at war with its nature In your ears, then out your mouth Then Regurgitate Unending seas of perceptual distortion Complicit behind the twisted reflections Crushed underneath what we blindly accept Systemic corrosion, the hivemind is cracked Wasting the last resorts Bandaging botched solutions The center keeps convulsing Keep force feeding bullshit right til you choke You dont spit your own venom You just Read Smile and wave And then repeat You won't spit your own venom You get paid To rate mistakes And craft the bait Bite your tongue It bleeds deceit
2.
I want you to know That I was the one who drowned both of your neighbors and Now you have to go Down to the shore which is outside your window ‘Cause I don’t believe in scientific assessments, opinions, or facts of any kind And we sold off the earth Cause it just wasn’t worth Cutting into our bottom line Investing in surfboards Whole new coastline Third world genocide Whole new coastline This could be your life This can't be my life So, a free lesson on apocalypse investment strategies When the flooding comes you might as well float on exponential equity Ohio’s underwater, the bees are dead, but that doesn't have to be you! If you can’t stop the wave then You might as well embrace it And make a dollar or two So what will you do? What do you do with a whole new coastline? You get drunk at the beach with a brand new surfboard.
3.
Undertrained, and overdressed Insulated from consequence Fragile Egos with shaky hands Patrol the streets with hands on their holsters At the traffic stop, he reached for his license You feared for your life You broke in while she sat in her apartment You feared for your life A twelve year old motioned towards his waistband You feared for your life Careful, or you might get a vacation Weave your tales, parade your dead All your valor is counterfeit Skittish sailors spreading fear of sharks But just off frame, you dump waste in the water
4.
Dead Dogs 02:22
Thin blue Gestapo Come and Take me But don't take my dog Take my neighbors Trash Their houses Just don't take my dog I'll stop at checkpoints Obey your curfews I'll be in bed with my dog When you roll down my street In armored humvees Please just keep and eye out for my dog Save a dog, kill a pig. Kill my neighbors Stomp their teeth in Just don't take my dog If you wanted white liberals to care that you died you were fucked from the very moment you weren't born a dog.
5.
Paper Tiger 03:18
Jingoism as a sedative, as a sedative Philistine and repetitive, and repetitive Needed my bones so you broke my legs Then told me I forgot how to walk Hate me, take me, break me Die stomping on the head of the Earth Break over your own head Beneath your own bottom line Controlled opposition, you're all rhetoric Demagogue, you're so repetitive Social climbing, social fascist You just love hearing yourself talk Die yankee. Go and die your arrogant death To you and your paper tiger
6.
Miserable And self obsessed And everything is overrated Pacified But unimpressed Consume it even though you hate it And now you’re Surrounded By corpses that used to be artists Restless Stagnant Ambition hijacked for profit Lizard brain reduction Brain cell destruction Reading your mind Making you want Advertising is mind control Fever dreams Of despondent hypnotic imagery Straight to the brainstem Spiraling One purchase away from some normalcy But never sated You vote for And worship These billionaires who fuck up your children Hand crafted Apologists Reduced to megaphones for empire Stare at the screen, it stares at you back Plotting your moves, knowing you'll make them Hearing your thoughts, molding subconscious Mind in a prison, a prison of conscience And I want my name back I want my fucking name back Deprogram Refocus Shoot back And live to see them choke on their own shit
7.
You're so full of shit That's what you said last week It's been over three weeks It's becoming routine Just promise me next week you'll be here on time Now this shit again What the fuck happened this time? Did you run out of gas? Did your girlfriend get pissed? If you're not gonna try, don't even show up Three chord abortions that rip off The Clash, These drink token anthems are watered down trash With nothing to say, so don't waste our time This shit isn't college, you do have to try But now the mic cable's broken And we keep breaking strings Our amp blew a speaker And it still hurts to sing Hey, I know it's tonight, but I can't make the gig! I hurt my arm moving I got stuck in traffic My aunt has a party And my dog needs a haircut I'd do anything to get out of playing that show Anything to get the fuck away from this band Why ever be anything more than cliche? You don't give a shit so fuck it, let it die What the fuck ever
8.
Copfucker 02:39
Baby that brown shirt looks so good on you If you forget it on my floor then I think that I might keep it After all we both know we’re just school kids playing dress up and I’d just rather keep our club a secret But are we both not Americans? Where politics are what we do for fun Are we both not Americans? Two sides of the jaws eating the world Don’t fight it you know we Both love bombing hospitals and profit from dependence Contrived outrage fantasies and gawking at elections The way that they all look at me as I clapped sarcastically Baby that brown shirt looks so good on you Moderate fascist Clandestine accomplice Copfucker You’re one of them to me Baby that brown shirt looks so good on you Cancel the election, it’s better than pretending Baby that brown shirt looks so good on you
9.
Nazi Incel Lynch mobs Hedonistic, Proto-Facist Tik tok Kpop Death Squads That think stanning Pinochet is the new punk rock All those years of anger Without substance Have returned Holding torches Now watch as they drag families from their beds Don't think we don't know it. Spineless Saxon Pissants Use your mouth to help cops clean their boots off Yapping Lap dogs That think vomiting on everything is Wisdom I wouldn't waste my spit on you.
10.
Pacemaker 02:36
"No!" "The thing that matters most," he said "More than the hat, the badge, even the gun, Is the look you give before the shot There ain't no trigger fast enough No gambler that ever called his bluff So when the sun goes down Get fucking out Because the only thing worse Than a man who overstates his worth Is the man who thinks he writes the script I haven’t forgot Just where the law stands On the side of the hands That rifled through our pockets With a boot on our backs Here comes the sunset Let’s make this quick Crime has had its day he said As he put that old hat on his head That lets criminals play an act of god He took that long walk to the tracks It was there the lawman met his match In a man who knew how not to blink About face With One in the chamber I promised him 12 steps But I shot him at five
11.
What kind of freedom wrought this? Free to choose the way we self medicate the nausea Choose between the groceries and rent, or all of these addictions that cycle through our lives dressed like solutions Which drill would you like jammed through your head? Take deep breaths and fantasize that you’re someone important Checking out or Lashing out at everyone around you is The closest you can get to rattling your cage How can I How can I How do they sleep in hell? How can I How can I How do they sleep in hell? Can we act like you’re what I’m in love with Here where friends are strangers we do drugs with Holy fucking Son of white supremacist god Piss on my head tell me that its culture Now that I’m Addicted to a constant stream of hollow stimulation I swear to fight you only in name How can I How can I How do they sleep in hell? How can I How can I How do they sleep in hell? Can we act like you’re what I’m in love with Friends are just strangers we do drugs with And those lyrics you chant, you know they aren't true, you know they aren’t true, you know they aren’t true Everything you've built is boring, self serving and performative If your heroes could see you, they'd look down on you, they’d look down on you, they’d fucking hate you You could have been something beautiful and dangerous Were you always this dishonest with yourself?

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Down With Rent's second album.

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released October 31, 2021

Down With Rent is:

Trevor - Vocals
Glenden - Bass
Crow - Guitar
Tristan - Drums


Recorded by Trevor Reitano in the basement of their house.
Mastered by Will Killingsworth at Dead Air Studios.
Art by Jason Karimov. @jason_karimov
All songs written and performed by Down With Rent.

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Hardcore Punk from Central CT. Killing landlords since 2013.

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