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I Carry My Awareness of Defeat like a Banner of Victory

by Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean

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1.
Something about the way you taste Makes me wanna clear my throat. There's a message to your movements That really gets my goat. I looked for sniffy linings But you're rotten to the core. I've had about all I can take You know I can't take it no more. I got a gut feeling Centered 'round long time ago On your ability to torment. Then you took your tongs of love And stripped away my garment. I looked for sniffy linings. Are we not men? We are Devo. I got a gut fucking feeling That you're rotten to the core I've had about all I can take You know I can't take it no more
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Send every god and king. Ten thousand soldiers bodies Buried underground. Watch as their castles bleed Watch their eyes fall out. Leave them all in the ditches, Fill the graves to the grasses Turn the sickness into doubt For reckoning. Leech upon their soils, we shall keep. When will we be freed? When will we be freed? Send every god and king. Loss of control and solidarity impeached, embrace eternal discipline. Tear away this obstruction Piece by piece.
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All the temples we shall rule, The devils cavern we shall burn. Impatience is our hallowed tomb. We finalize this annihilation. "Where to lay the waste; Across these tattered eaves?" Amongst these high roads There exists deception. Unholiness to every element of Staged election. I am crouched, gnawing at the crows feet. Dusted fingernails, bury the hatchet. Lithium nightmares, spinal infarction. Fear the valiant, the many. They will come in droves To spite our world.

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released December 14, 2018

Written by Chained to the Bottom of the Ocean
Recorded and produced by Chris Teti at Silver Bullet Studios
Mastered by Nick Z at New Alliance
Art by Blial Cabal

"Gut Feeling" originally by DEVO

“May I at least carry, to the boundless possibility contained in the abyss of everything, the glory of my disillusion like that of a great dream, and the splendor of not believing like a banner of defeat; a banner in feeble hands, but still and all a banner, dragged through mud and the blood of the weak but raised high for who knows what reason - whether in defiance, or as a challenge, or in mere desperation - as we vanish into quicksand. No one knows for what reason, because no one knows anything, and the sand swallows those with banners as it swallows those without. And the sand covers everything: my life, my prose, my eternity. I carry my awareness of defeat like a banner of victory.”

― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet


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