Burn the Leeches

by Heavy NFLD

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No cause, no care, no crap, it means nothing to me No sides, no rules, just another shitshow to see If left to me I'd say no lives matter at all So long as it's not me I'll let you take the fall Riot gear seems like much for people walking the streets Makes me nervous but they're supposed to keep the peace But batons hit the shields while sneakers hit the ground Tear gas flies and fuck, they're loading another round I've got something in my eye I've got something in my eye
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Home with family and friends In the Midst of midwinter nights Had too much to drink Inside So went home to my bed But along the way Back home I was stopped on the road By uniformed Miscreants Who meant to do me harm Starlight, star bright Lighted path Starlight, star bright Guide their wrath Starlight, star bright Metal shell Starlight, star bright Freezing Hell Starlight, star bright Left to die Starlight, star bright Graven sky Starlight, star bright Obscured lore Starlight, star bright Murder tour Driven to my grave Of ice Here is where I'll stay By these agents of The state Paid for my downfall Agh! Government misdeeds Covered Up by famous lies Still we carry on In spite Of rights they took away Starlight, star bright Lighted path Starlight, star bright Guide their wrath Starlight, star bright Metal shell Starlight, star bright Freezing Hell Starlight, star bright Left to die Starlight, star bright Graven sky Starlight, star bright Obscured lore Starlight, star bright Murder tour
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Even the seed of the universe Gave way to the pressure Here I am beyond critical mass Seething at the true night sky Such a dense, finite speck Further crumpling inward From the torment and weight of the chaos Revealed before my eyes The Pull, so severe and so immense The collapse itself was evident - Pushed past the edge with no escape From the shadows of reality The fractals of thought were expanding The patterns recursed, rearranging the structure of logic, distorting the tenets while moonfraught and sinking in the face of this failure All silence was breaking Like a wave, the noise washed over me Baptized in sound and synergy A single drop became a howling, hostile sea I was purified by the great... eternal... Screaming twilight's tongues of fire lashed and grew without measure Where I was in this mystical mess my senses couldn't tell the expanse was fathomless the frenzy bellowed forever with endless cries so elemental in nature it shook my every cell The pull so fierce and merciless The collapse itself was evident - Pushed passed the edge of sanity And the shadows of reality The pressure was building and peaking the voices, a chorus incessantly speaking in rambling patterns that flowed with an inherent meaning and how that deafening noise poured from my fucking being Like a wave, the roar washed over me A single drop became a howling, hostile sea/a single drop possessed by a howling hostile sea A tidal force in sound and savagery Purified by the great... eternal scream
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so as a member of the bastard generation taken under waxwings made in the shade when all the other bodies rot in the wasteland what else can we do but lay in our graves careful out there you must look behind you dont stare too long at the lights theyll blind you youre almost brain dead man need i remind you of the cross above your head? and all that precious blood that you shed so when you lay your tombstone into the quicksand the evidence sinks but the memories stain how much can you afford to lose? what choice is there left to choose? stay down in the fuckin wasteland get out, get out of the race man
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Oh yeah! Fuck whatever the cops got to say I'm gonna live life my own way But if you try to fuck with me The time will come for you to see That we ain't gonna take this shit The RCMP is full of it Rubber bullets and pepper spray Can't be the order of the day Police force, police force trauma Police force, police force Protect and disservice Why do we deserve this? Police force, police force trauma Police force, police force They must be defunded Prevent any more dead Riot shields and tear gas They can both kiss my ass Protests are our weapons of choice We'll force them to hear our voice Stop killing the marginalized Police must be demilitarized No more black folks shot to death No more choke holds stealing breath Breonna Taylor, Tamir Rice Eric Garner, George Floyd They'll kill and kill and kill again 'Cause violence is a part of their heads They're trained to do this by the state From Wet'suwet'en to the States Canada's got our problems too To the SPVM it's nothing new Allan Adam, Chantel Moore Regis Paquet and many more Police force, police force trauma Police force, police force Protect and disservice Why do we deserve this? Police force, police force trauma Police force, police force They must be defunded Prevent any more dead Riot shields and tear gas They can both kiss my ass
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Listen close to me The message falls between What i said and what i mean These are the words i speak Can you feel it now Can you be unwound Can you breathe a sound Watch as I scream this now Yeah Burn this fucker down Voiceless Heart for the heartless Mind for the mindless Revolution starts with you In the depths of a mind I can see the fear inside Braced for the pain you hide Deep within light cannot find You always have a choice Kill what kills you, fill the void Embrace your gift of life And martyr the past you left behind
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You said you need me But then reneged I said I’d be there But I’m always running late So throw me over Leave me to die The view is hazy Through my mind’s glass eye Yeah my mind’s glass eye Won’t help me to decide Regurgitate my pride What should I do? Yeah my glass third eye Reflect on what’s inside Prioritize the mind What will I do? I'm facin' forward I'm fallin' in I'm huntin' crystal But my dogs are in the wind Don't try to lead me Cuz I'm crawlin' blind Along the fragments Of my mind's glass eye Yeah my mind’s glass eye Won’t help me to decide Regurgitate my pride What should I do? Yeah my glass third eye Reflect on what’s inside Prioritize the mind What will I do? My mind's glass eye My mind's glass eye My mind's glass eye It's my mind's glass eye
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Feed into the voices of your mind A scene shot under black lights, your device A fiend fed by the fury won't suffice So derailed by the journey, shine a light And dream, conceal your life in tragedy It's the same old story So break this disease One injection of faith so you can say This to me That you want and we'll walk right through the flames Gasoline We'll ignite it and light the sky to make History Unabated we'll break these chains you see Push The dark places reviving overnight So bent jaded and thriving on the fight So kneel down in a hurry once your life Was real now it's so blurry, shine a light And dream, conceal your life in tragedy It's the same old story This disease And dream, conceal your life in tragedy It's the way we're forming believe You'll dream a night too black to see And it's all what you make it Push
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Freedom Freedom Freedom Freedom Freedom Freedom Freedom Freedom Sometimes I feel Like a motherless child Sometimes I feel Like a motherless child Sometimes I feel Like a motherless child A long Way From my home, yeah Yeah Sing Freedom Freedom Freedom Freedom Freedom Freedom Freedom Freedom Freedom Freedom Sometimes I feel Like I'm almost gone Sometimes I feel Like I'm almost gone Sometimes I feel Like I'm almost gone, yeah A long, long, long Way Way from my home, yeah Yeah Clap your hands Clap your hands Clap your hands Clap your hands Clap your hands Clap your hands Clap your hands, yeah Clap your hands Hey, hey, hey, hey Hey, yeah yeah yeah yeah Hey, yeah, yeah, yeah Hey, yeah yeah yeah yeah I got a telephone in my bosom And I can call him up from heart I got a telephone in my bosom And I can call him up from heart When I need my brother / (Brother) Brother / (Brother) When I need my father / (Father) Father, hey / (Father) Mother / (Mother) Mother, hey / (Mother) Sister / (Sister) Yeah / (Yeah) When I need my brother / (Brother) Brother, hey / (Brother) Mother / (Father) Mother / (Mother) Mother / (Mother) Hey, yeah, yeah, yeah Yeah-yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah Hey, yeah, yeah, yeah Hey, yeah, yeah, yeah Hey, yeah, yeah, yeah Hey, yeah, yeah, yeah

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'Burn the Leeches' is the first official compilation album organized by Heavy NFLD. All proceeds from the sales of this album will be donated to the Anti-Racism Coalition of Newfoundland and Labrador, a group that is dedicated to fighting racism and discrimination in Newfoundland and Labrador.

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released August 21, 2020

Album organized by Greg Ravengrave

Artwork by Maya Taylor-Barnett

All songs belong to their original creators with the exception of:

I Wanna Be a Cop [Originally by Wild in the Streets]
I Feel Ugly [Originally by Giver]
Freedom [Originally by Richie Havens]

Special thanks to Ritchie Perez and Jenne Nolan for their help in orchestrating where to direct the funds for this project and to James Moss of Ultimata for coming up with the idea.

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