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Recorded at James McKenty Recording Studio, Peterborough, ON
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Silent Violence
Tight lip tight grip
Make him do a backflip
Cold eyed cold shoulder
Man he's looking so much older
Tiptoeing around you so he don't have to talk to you
'Cause every time he talks to you it seems to him he bothers you
Stands at the door
Stares at the floor
He better sit down, shut up
Let you do your makeup
Don't talk, don't speak
Only makes you sound weak
Hands up in exasperation only adds to your frustration
Cannot meet your expectation don't deserve an explanation
Can't speak to him
Could hear a pin
Silent violence, silent violence, silent violence, silent violence
Insults, ridicule
Always made to feel the fool
Consumed, dread and doom
Little Joe sits in his room
Pointed at, laughed at, perpetually outcast
Push him 'til his brain so twisted finds a way he knows they'll listen
Nothin' to lose
Got his face on the news
And here's the white hat diplomat
Tells you where the problem's at
His fault, your fault
Laid out like the gospel fact
Half his listeners tip their hats the other half start waving bats
His commentary's falling flat on ears eager to fire back
Open your eyes
Storm on the rise
They said it's bullshit untrue
Convoluted point of view
Take the bait, feel the hate
Sprouting up inside of you
Type fast, verbal blast, you got to get the word in last
Raise your hand to make a fist your daughter's tugging at your wrist
Youth's fragile mind
Absorbs all the time
Silent violence, silent violence, silent violence, silent violence
This way that way
Everything in disarray
Watch your mouth, what you say
Who's side are you on anyway
Narrow minded short sight pigheaded parasitic critics
Neurotic psychotic products of prolific hypocritics
Smiling so sweet
Blood at their feet
They put their post up, comment
Splash it on the internet
Concrete cement
Step out of line look what you get
Blood let rivulet, setting up the parapet
Foiled from the outset cause everyday is judgement
Laid down on you
Since you were two
But on the news feed, need to bleed
Suffering and heartless greed
Back and forth, page to page
Petrol on your inner rage
Fear this, doubt that, stand clear, stay back
From everywhere they've got you snookered, hotter than a pressure cooker
See the divide
Burning inside
Silent violence, silent violence, silent violence, silent violence
Meanwhile on the street
Hotter than the summer heat
Tension ninety-eight degrees
Tired of being on their knees
Held down kept down, shown that they don't have a voice
Know your place cold case you don't have any other choice
Passive abuse
Shortens the fuse
And it's so tense, so dense
Anything could set it off
Payback from way back
It's ready for the take off
Blackjack dealer deal the cards it's retribution swift and hard
Call the mayor, call the bard, put a call into the national guard
Prime to ignite
Who's got a light?
Gun blast whistle blown
Streets look like a war zone
Stay home, close your eyes
Why you lookin' so surprised?
Clingin' to your four leaf clover now that shit is boiling over
Best to run and take some cover, let you know when this blows over
What is all this?
All of this started with
Silent violence, silent violence, silent violence, silent violence
SILENCE
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released April 11, 2016
Recorded at James McKenty Recording Studio, Peterborough, ON
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