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The Great Leap Forward

from Collapses by [perversion:]

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original working title: "Sterile".

"This song started out as an angry assault on an ex-girlfriend. Vulgar and definitely not poetic. The chorus was basically just 'fuck you'. When I started recording it for Collapses, I knew it had to be something different. Enough time had passed, the initial inspiration wasn't still attached to the music, so I tried instead to articulate my frustration with how flawed and self-destructive a species we are."

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Glacier ice melts on a lake of fire
Chemicals rain across the land
All manner of life at our disposal
Deprived wherever we stand
Went from an ape to a great leap forward
So to gather the stones
And the bones of dead martyrs
Keeping women at home
While we roam out to secure a smarter way to rule
Over everything we see

We think we have it all
The key to open Babylon
We fail to stand as one
A division of our own

Lost sight of the great leap forward
Signs all around
And all around are ignored
How are we gonna make things better?
We oughta know
But do we ever?

Wealth increases with every season
Resources consumed day by day
No gods to justify our reasons
Never listened to what They had to say
Afraid to believe we cannot achieve the glory
Of the crushing of man
The raping of land
The story of how once we got taste
We took haste in making ourselves a divine fucking waste
Of our pathetic lives

We think we have it all
The key to open Babylon
We fail to stand as one
A division of our own

Lost sight of the great leap forward
Signs all around
And all around are ignored
How are we gonna make things better?
We oughta know
But do we ever?

credits

from Collapses, released October 31, 2006
vox, instruments & production: Brad J Bakelmun
additional gtrs: Alex Brulé
additional drums: Chad Cassell

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