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Testimony
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Free download, LP or CD at http://www.antillectual.com/store • Lyrics: • Testimony • We are at the end of the vacuum • We are back at ideology and clash • Lead by a mentality of polarity • Even innocent bystanders plead against you • This is what you get • When priorities are misplaced • When yours is the only way • When you polarize our world • We are all the witnesses and we will testify against you • • But you have captured us in your wars, hoping the witnesses won't be heard • Suburban Europe in flames, a loss of trust in national policy • Outsourcing western torture, with a world of wars as the result • What is your next alibi? Is this business as usual? • This is for all of us on the losing end • We won't swallow this, any longer • We will testify, to your abuse • Commerce sponsoring our lives • Providing fire to immoral friends • Wasting food while we can feed ourselves with waste • We wave away our better halves • Blame it on the dog once more • Shaving off for fitting in • Because nobody can rebel on his own • So much hope can spring from just one letter • But we are forced to choose sides • Doubt is just a loss (of money and time) • • Liner notes: • September 11, 2001 closed off an era. It ended the so-called postmodern era that started with the dismantling of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1991. The proclaimed end of history was supposed to be the beginning of an era without ideologies, an ideological vacuum. Fascism and Communism had determined the 20th century but had disappeared and the free market and the non-ideological liberalism would shape our future. After the dismissal of religious predomination we now had settled the score with political straitjackets and could start living our own lives. • Boy, were we wrong. After 9/11 the whole world fell back on only two ideological options; you are with us, or against us . You are either part of the world that is led by the ideologies called freedom and capitalism, or you are a terrorist. There is no in between and everyone has to choose sides. If you don't, you are on the wrong side. • Guess what, for most people two options is not enough. If you force them to take sides, they won't take yours. So many people do not agree on the way the world is being shaped today. From those rioting in European suburbs to those who lost trust in (inter)national institutions. So many people who were innocent bystanders when the age of terror started are now opposing to those polarizing our world. So many witnesses will testify on all horrors happening around us. In our name, under false alibis. This is what you get ... • This is our Testimony of the things we see happening around us and we do not agree upon. Whether it is the economical factors that still and even more and more determine our society and its scenery, or the direct result of the terrorist attacks on 9/11 like the war in Iraq and Afghanistan (direct result?). Whether it is the waste that is being produced in stead of the environment that should be cultivated, or the position of women in our civilized society. Whether it is a mentality of excuses and broken promises, or a small hypocritical scene that does exactly what it despises. Whether it is the degradation of others with the same goal at heart because of their means, or the optimism that can arise from giving support to others who are being punished for taking part in the fight against any form of oppression.
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