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Useless Against EP

by Useless Against

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1.
Westworld 03:44
Hi! Did you bring me back to life Did you give em your voice Did you let em make up your mind Did you let the con-man inside Or sit by Will you believe any word as long as it's just not mine Did you bring me back online Did the heartbeat stop or did they just set back the time Do you sit awake in bed at night Did you hide Did you tell everyone that you never made up your mind Did you choose the dark over light Did you look the other way so you never had to deny Did you exercise your right just to exercise Did you convict a man before you read the motherfucker his rights Did somebody try to tell you but they couldn't get through the rind Did you feel the wind blow when you never took a step outside "I don't care what they're saying cause I can't say no"
2.
"Shut up! Hollywood Too bad We're not trying to be good!" You told em what they wanted to know They promised now aren't letting you go You handed em the gun in your face They're gonna pull anyway so get the fuck off of your knees This isn't the time to give em an inch They're gonna grab it And now you wanna get points for saying "Hey! We let you have it!' You let em take over the world tonight because the rules that they burned say you must It's only polite! Pussies Curse it! Burn it! You're stopping at red lights while they're burning the road Til we're goddamned You're getting us all rolled. Jesus. They only reach across the isle for one reason; to slap you in the face "Put your head in the guillotine Don't try to fight. Be a team. A civilized death"
3.
HIgh tide The age of information White light illuminating your face Outside an enterprising nation sees a prize and knows who's taking the bait They'd like to make them some money And here's the mother load They have no horse to run in the race It's like we're in a separate movie and the bad guy got away Ahhhhhhhhhhh! It's a fucking Macedonian surprise There's no money in the truth so sell em lies Choose the market by the one who's fucking dumb enough to buy Click click They give the angry people what they wanna hear "That's right." They know it cause it says it right here Headlines that only serve to reinforce their narrative Untied, untethered to regard beyond these ends
4.
Houdini 03:36
I wait at the table, And hold hands with weeping strangers Wait for you to join the group The tambourine jingle-jangles The medium roams and rambles Not taken in, I break the circle I want this man To go away now With a kiss I'd pass the key And feel your tongue Teasing and receiving. With your spit Still on my lip You hit the water Him and I in the room To prove you are with us too He's using code that only you and I know This is no trick of his This is your magic I'd catch the cues Watching you Hoping you'd do something wrong Everybody thinks you'll never make it But every time you escape 'Rosabel believe, Not even eternity Can hold Houdini!' "Rosabel, believe!" Through the glass I'd watch you breathe ("Not even eternity") Bound and drowned And paler than you've ever been ("will hold Houdini!") With your life The only thing in my mind We pull you from the water
5.
You had a bone to pick You had a hair to split Because it bored you sick Without a devil to fight, your friends seemed deserving foes Now there's a boogie man We think-pieced him in You slept and let him win And fascism isn't a microaggression Watch em march Still hot from the road right back Lock step like they never bailed Like "Hey boss I had your back!" Because all they wanted was The votes and the funds in tact Their values are goods to be sold To fundraise the SuperPAC Now in a state of shock How did it come to this? Turns out your ad hoc, lame persistent refrain of "They're all the same" was off just a bit Now watch em go! The wind right behind their back No one left to tell them no No need now to check their facts It seems like you wanted more But then that was so abstract A game that you chose to throw Now means lives and years turned back Now are they all just the same Who sat with you Who's to blame You said a low tide won't sink us Well let me tell you what will When you don't bail when the rains of self righteous sanctimony have flooded your own ship When service of progress fails to service of lips Weaponize your own intellect and you turn it on itself And you couldn't build a paradise because you fired all the help Did you feel so above it? as you drug us all to Hell? Now you're gonna love it This is real "Hey don't blame me" Good wasn't good enough So evil it will be.. Bust

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Owing to acts like Iron Maiden, Thin Lizzy, Rainbow, and The Cult, Useless Against kicks out classic-metal-style riffs delivered with a punk rock immediacy, a decidedly Leftist political bent, and a no-frills approach to production to delineate a rawness and immediacy distinct from many modern acts on the metal spectrum. Their debut single “Westworld” serves as a thesis statement: A political metaphor and paean to big riffs that stomps along at a fist-pumping tempo and inspires more headbanging than windmill kicks. The song made its debut on the site Immersive Atlanta in late April 2017, announcing the release of the cassette EP and the concurrent launch of the website www.thehouseisonfire.com, which doubles both as the bands' website and a blog where they also post essays, activist organizing resources, as well as a lathe cut 45 record pressing service available to DIY artists and labels.

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released March 30, 2017

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