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I'm Shooting Back

from The Sky Was Choked with Stars by HXTXD

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I'm shooting back
I'm fucking sick of this shit
Only so much, until it's time to resist
I'm punching back at everyone that comes at me
Open your eyes

Waking up to a world of suffering
Gun shots and a bird circles overhead
To a job in a life of servitude
It doesn't matter if I'm alive or dead

It's never ending, stuck in a loop
Killing yourself to live check to check
It's never ending, a constant fall
Feeling the bottom coming knowing that you're next

Take the best parts of me
Kill the drive that gave me any strength
Beat me down so I won't fight back
Misery is a way to distract

The fucking end to this day, looking for a quick escape
Looking for any fucking way to fight endless pain

Take your pick, up or fucking down
Not what you want, what you fucking need
Take your pick, left or fucking right
To each their own, whatever brings you peace

It's not you, it's not me
It is everyone that wants to see you bleed
It's not you, it's not me
Pin us against each other is how they mislead

Everyone that wants to see you bleed

Back us all into a corner slowly take the weakest
Pinning us against each other set the scales unequal
Everything keeps closing in with no sign of it stopping
Back us all into a corner

They want everything to themselves
They own everything we do
Everything we make and everything we know
I can't take another minute in this fucking place
I will never work again for someone else's wage

Ready set go! fucking burn it all to the ground
There is no fix we start from new

Burn down every prison, take down the state
Dismantle the oppressive systems of hate
There is no I, only a we
When they attack this time I'm shooting back
Burn your local bank, the police station
Anything standing in the way of liberation
There is no I, only a we
When they attack this time I'm shooting back

Not this time

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from The Sky Was Choked with Stars, released April 28, 2020

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