Please Don't Feed the Animals, by The Animal Warfare Act

Please Don't Feed the Animals

by The Animal Warfare Act

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1.	<tAWa.vii_{p/d/f/t/a}.010x> 01:18	info	buy track
2.	No Country for Dead Men 05:16	lyrics	buy track
Gather round my children Listen now to what I say Do not ever lend your trust to them Or succumb to their vile ways Heed my deathly warning Or you will know their wrath You must kit wander, deviate Or stray into their path Gather round ye faithful Hear my wretched tale of woe Beware the serpent’s evil tongue The doom they reap, the seeds they sew Whispers gone, forgotten The wicked winds, they screech Only when we’re left destitute Will they rest, I fear to preach For they are demons And they deserve no praise And they are scoundrels And evil renegades For they are sinners Stuck in their savage ways Lost in their ways For they are liars No honour in their throngs And they are cheaters All of their actions wrong And they are dead men And dead men sing no songs Dead men sing no songs Gather round my children Shall your innocence remain Pay attention to the signs you’re shown Grow stronger through your pain Heed my deathly warning Lest you know not what you do To wander is to die by the hand of a fiend Do not let them cloud your lucid view Gather round ye faithful As our time draws to a close Remember the lessons j have taught to you As the watcher in shadows knows The monsters show no sympathy As they year away your life Into the vast, empty pits of despair A bitter loss in your final strife
3.	Further Down the Line 03:48	lyrics	buy track
We think we’re making progress but we’re only wasting time The problems will continue much further down the line If nobody will listen what’s the point to even try They’ll all ignore the signs and gladly watch the world die They never move beyond the hindrances that now exist Only adding more when fucking nothing has been fixed Warnings fail because the consequences aren’t immediate And they only budge a muscle when their duty is expedient They abdicate responsibility and refuse to do their part Leaving only wreckage in their wake when they depart We think we’re making progress but we’re only wasting time The problems will continue much further down the line Ahead now lies the imminent destruction of the earth And the resources they’ve been taught to abuse right from their birth The planet that they’re sure will always be at their disposal In death will offer a long-awaited counterproposal The fallout comes more quickly than they want to think and act Prospects of change look grimmer and they still dismiss the facts There will be no redemption for the ones who sewed the seeds No saviour in the endgame to reverse their evil deeds
4.	Ignorance Endemic 04:34	lyrics	buy track
It was prognosticated in the times of old The final plague has already begun to unfold Stupidity washes over a world gone bleak If knowledge is strength then humanity has become weak In our thoughts and in or words Our mindless actions have misled the herd Rampant idiocy decides the ultimate fate Pray for us sinners, I fear it’s far too late The sickness spreads The infection is systemic There is no cure for the ignorance endemic Discoveries, advancements all will be reduced to shit For if a blind man leads a blind man both will fall into a pit Cognitive corruption yields a fucked up paradigm History repeats itself but it gets worse each time The intellect of these species has been overestimated Our incapacity for lessons remains vastly understated Hope is on the decline as ineptitude expands It’s obvious the future has been placed in the wrong hands
5.	Guilty Pleasure, Innocent Pain (with Princess Melia) 05:24	lyrics	buy track
He raises his voice And he raises a hand You’d better not ask ‘Cause you just wouldn’t understand She’s walking on eggshells But she swears she’s alright Her fear keeps her silent Still she suffers, night after night She’s bent and twisted to her breaking point For another hour of agony He ignores her whimpers and plunges deeper For a moment of ecstasy She feels punished but she doesn’t know why “What have I done” she whispers to the sky She pleads for mercy but her loss is his gain Guilty pleasure, innocent pain There’s something he craves That he sees in her eyes His hunger is fed By her tears when she quietly cries She’s trapped in his nightmare That he’s built like a cage She dreams of a breakout But if she tries she’ll awaken his rage GIVE IN GIVE IN Give in to temptation and sin
6.	Animal Warfare 03:19	lyrics	buy track
Has humanity gone too far Will technology leave an everlasting scar How their attempts to play god are catastrophically flawed Has society made then forget what they really are The most vicious killers on the planet’s face Engineered to be a combat race We must embrace our primal roots for one final assault The humans’ reign over and it’s their own fault Animal Warfare WARFARE A love of death, an obsession with violence They swore their fealty to the cruelest of tyrants With their gift of free will they choose to butcher and kill But they’re still convinced of their sacred guidance They must accept that their culmination has passed A primitive species that would never last The only destruction they have not yet seen Is the impending end of the anthropocene
7.	Vows Made in Wine 04:01	lyrics	buy track
You surrender your freedom For what you’re promised but you never receive You just can’t seem to Think on your own terms and decide what to believe You let them dictate The social contract by which you are bound The unspoken agreement by which you must abide The two-way street that leads straight into the ground The rules you look to as your light and guide Outdated Processes unchanging Ideals falser than vows made in wine Archaic Values now defunct Ideals falser than vows made in wine You sacrifice your self-sufficiency For false advantage that will come at a price You renounce your independence Let them manipulate without thinking twice You accept their crooked terms And unknowingly give up your own liberty Growing accustomed to constant confinement Choosing to live in political captivity Having rights stripped away and remaining compliant
8.	Final Judgement 10:09	lyrics	buy track
They waste billions of dollars and millions of souls Just to say they own locations full of fucking bullet holes Show the world how they do it, any differences are flaws There’s such great honour in dying for some politician’s cause The instigators see no bloodshed, no dirt under their nails The rich preserve their lifestyle while their system fucking fails One day they’ll get what’s coming, get it right between the eyes And then they’ll know that everybody’s sick of all their lies Stand and fight Die tonight Open your eyes but you’re still blind You’ve no ability to use your mind Who will be slaughtered and left behind The final judgement of humankind Their war goes on around them, lives pushed up to the brink Say they’re righteous and invincible and that’s what they really think They’ll send young men to see their squabbles through ‘cause they’re too fucking scared And praise their sacrifices like they ever fucking cared A death devoid of meaning is a pity and a waste But they’re not at all bothered by the lingering bitter taste Hands that reap devastation, responsible for so much loss Don’t bear burdens of their own or carry their own cross Eradicate the disease The human race on its knees Armageddon is nigh All men must die The lands they’ve won are desolate The gods they’ve fought for don’t exist Who will be left to rule the termites with a cruel iron fist The streets will crawl with vermin Gutter scum and fucking slime Yet no true life forms walk this place until the end of time The process never changes The outcome is the same The attitudes are backwards where there’s pride instead of shame Yes death may be the answer To violence they’re prone But why can’t they fucking deal with their problems on their own

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released October 7, 2022

Manus “Hopskotch” Hopkins: Vocals, Guitars, Keys, Bass
Cormac “Corndog” Hopkins: Drums
Princess Melia: Vocals on track 5
keen: Electronics and FX on tracks 1 and 6

Track 1 mixed by keen
Tracks 2, 3, 5, 6 and 8 mixed and mastered by Kieran Douglas
Tracks 4 and 7 mixed and mastered by Ryot L

Cover art by Lizzy Hajla