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Vessels / Vassals

from Sedentary by American Heritage

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Lyrics by: Adamn Norden

All we’ve got to sell is our backs and our fingers
For a roof and a fire, ceded our humanity
There’s no one to blame
Your god’s will is man’s reign anyway
Praise be to him from whom all blessings flow
The key to the gates of the silo be sanctified
The myth is repeated, our will is defeated
We become vessels
No designs
Our actions are stoking the furnace
Are denied
When ashes and smoke will replace us
This tragic austerity under your aegis
Below where one’s seed can find no purchase
Spitting on beggars won’t free you from privation
Mining the harbors don’t make you a patriot
Spitting on beggars won’t keep you from being one
Mining the harbors
This tragic austerity under your aegis
Below where one’s seed can find no purchase
The blood from our hands makes no assurance
Collective fury not scratching the surface
Collaboration is stoking the furnace
Where ashes and smoke will replace us
What’s civilized about fucking enslavement?
What’s so enlightened about making us buy what we already own?

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from Sedentary, released March 1, 2011
Written by: Scott Shellhamer, Adamn Norden, Mike Duffy
Bass by: Sanford Parker

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