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"To them this government has no just powers derived from the consent of the governed. To them this government is not a democracy. It is not a republic. It is an odious aristocracy; a hateful oligarchy of sex; the most hateful aristocracy ever established on the face of the globe; an oligarchy of wealth, where the rich govern the poor." - Susan B. Anthony, 1873

The truths our fathers held dear are no longer self-evident
Clouded by the haze of a thousand false prophets
Citing songs of apocalypse and traditions forgotten
The people rise with the clamor, ignorant of the mouths so close to the prophets' ear
Whispering, teasing, tempting, trying these "holy" men
Subverting their understanding of the words THEY hold dear

Definition rendered connotation
The oil dripping from the teeth of the judges
Their robes soiled by the stains of two thousand years, made invisible behind the dais on which they sit
The innocent stand unmasked
Their irreproachability a valiant effort diminished by the power wielded by the state
Denied equality by a conflict of the meaning of a single word…

MARRIAGE.

Exegetics be damned
Lives are not meant to be at the mercy of academics
Cutting throats with every stroke of the quill
These quarrels of meaning end now

No longer will we stand in silence
No longer will we hold our tongues
This insurrection is decades past due
It ends tomorrow with OUR verdict chiseled in stone.

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from RAID!, released June 19, 2013

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Midwest punk. Influenced by hardcore, reggae, and pizza. Fueled by hardcore, reggae, and pizza. Thoughts from minds to pens to pages to instruments to laptops to laptops to ears. We are RAID.

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