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Paper Cage

by Rape Revenge

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1.
We have stacked the odds against hope. How many of my friends are in abusive relationships? How many men in bands I love are rapists? Everyone I know is a survivor. When does it end.
2.
Thirsty Crow 00:33
What makes us the chosen ones? We destroy our homes. I’m disgusted with myself So say we all.
3.
How can our family, born of native blood, have such colonialist views of our history? Who taught you these lessons, to feel this shame, to reject your own blood, to reject yourself? I am not ashamed. I refuse to hate myself. I refuse. Spoon fed lies since birth. The only culture I wish to understand.
4.
Do you have a boyfriend? Do you know how pretty you are? Come on baby, give me a smile. I’ll fuck you so hard you fucking cry. It’s her fault. She’s so pretty. It’s her fault.
5.
Stunted 00:23
I am a lion in a paper cage. I am choking to death on fear. All that has kept me here is made of air.
6.
Surrounded by selfish fucks. I’m done with giving myself to cause that doesn’t exist outside of books. Don’t you get it? Your inability to live equally doesn’t exist outside of your fight against inequality.
7.
Fuck this feel good bullshit. Ghandi was a puppet, peace is a cop out. I hope you choke on your reformist fucking bullshit. As I burn your pacifist empire to the ground.
8.
Fuck you.
9.
Unruly 01:18
Unruly boys who will not grow up must be taken in hand. Unruly girls who will not settle down they must be taken in hand. Beat the humanity out of them. Out-shadow all their light. The system has fucking failed you, don’t fail yourself.
10.
The virus works slow. At first a defense against the every day assault of senseless violence. Shielding your eyes slowly you out shadow your mind from your heart. Your veins fill up with concrete. The slow uprise of fear. You are paralyzed. We can’t take this dead fucking weight. Nothing changes, if nothing fucking changes.
11.
Waiting in endless lines for permission to resist. Egypt, Greece and Wall Street would fucking laugh at these permit seeking half-ass attempts at social unrest.
12.
All Grown Up 00:29
Broken homes, these kids have no where else to go. Love on the streets comes at a price. Young bodies like dollar bills. Don’t tell me she had a choice.
13.
Falling into on another. Slowly I abandon myself to become one with the illusion. Loosing sight of lines. Feasting on your wounds to sustain my self hatred. Tearing off pieces of my flesh, sacrifices to your insecurities. Our biggest mistake, thinking we could own each other.
14.
What am I fighting? A wall of words, a discourse of assumptions. In order to resist I must first believe that it exists. No one identifies as the enemy. Dominant culture is a myth.
15.
Donor's List 00:49
What is my life worth, when my blood is assumed to be contaminated? A bank of those assumed clean. I am cast aside, a stigma imposed. It’s in you to give, but only if you’re fucking straight.
16.
Herbivore 01:05
Tell me how you find nourishment in the horrors you can’t face. There’s reason why your stomach hurts when you think of them all cages. Your palate is built upon a lie you tell yourself. There’s no reason to base your survival on the torture of someone else. If it’s not in you to murder, if you can’t look them in the eye as you take their life. How can you ignore the instincts in yourself to find another way?

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released August 2, 2012

Recorded at Outhouse Studios.

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Rape Revenge was a feminist band from Calgary Alberta.

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