Madam Gecko's Tree

from Dying Breath by Social Death Squad

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There's one way to do this; a media fight, don't think about new tactics, we know what we're doing. Need a cask-wine lock on if we're gonna do it right. Need an endless supply of booze and a place above the women. Sounds weird from someone in a band full of dudes, but I never really got along all that well with guys. Looking back even the penis wielding friends (if we invoke gender binaries) were women in a surface level disguise.
This alpha-male club, this testosterone club, it puts me immediately on guard. I feel intimidated and unwelcome and I just can't relate, and hence haven't put in the hard yards.
Gotta break this chain of environmental destruction
Can't call it a forest if you only save one tree
But we got no time for the heroes and the action men
can't save the world if a forest's all you see
Man bravado, you're the leader of the pack
if a fight's worth having its worth having properly
But they still rape the earth while you pat yourself on the back
don't build your tree sit pedestal just to look down on me
'cause this liberation's at the expense of liberation. You've climbed the rigging so high your mind's vacant. I can't not care about the ancients getting taken but you blow back out of town leaving mouths full of bad tastes, and failing to see that your failure is a failure to support so many who'd be you allies, if just once you stopped and thought that in "us against them," "them isn't every unfamiliar face. I'd be way more familiar if your self-centredness wasn't so disgraceful.

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from Dying Breath, released April 29, 2014

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