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The State Lottery (Propagandhi Cover)

by Night Sweats

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This is a Propagandhi cover song called The State Lottery off their game-changing album Less Talk, More Rock (1996). The sound clip intro was updated from the original Noam Chomsky clip to a more recent Chris Hedges clip. This song and band greatly influenced us since the 90s. The theme of the presidential election is not only timely, it's still despicably relevant today. If only we all listened and acted upon calls to action like this then, maybe we wouldn't be so fucked today. "This system cannot be reformed," clearly. Fuck Trump, this entire regime, their corporate cronies, this plutocracy, this capitalist nightmare, fascists, bigots, and all those getting in the way of us getting free. Step aside or continue to get run over by progress while you whine and cry playing the victim like a good little bootlicking apologist.

Proceeds of Bandcamp sales will be donated to Down Home NC (www.downhomenc.org). They are a very active and effective organization doing great work on the ground to build power in poor and minority communities.
"All are welcome in Down Home North Carolina.
We unite to build the power and raise the voices of working people in small-town and rural North Carolina in order to take action on the issues that matter to us.
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lyrics

Does it seem strange to you?
The confetti, the balloons, the mile-wide grins?
The victory dance to welcome in the heir to a state of disrepair?
Because it sure seems strange to me
They're acting like they won the lottery

But shouldn't they feel terror at the task that lies ahead?
To feed and house the people that this system's left for dead
And could I have hit the nail much harder on the head?
It's profits before lives, they are motivated by greed

First they taught us to depend on their nation states to mend
Our tired minds, our broken bones, our bleeding limbs
But now they've sold off all the splints and contracted out the tourniquets
And if we jump through hoops, then we might just survive

Is this what we deserve
To scrub the palace floors
To fight amongst ourselves
As we scramble for the crumbs they spit out?

Frothing at the mouth about the scapegoats that they've chosen for us
With every racist pointed finger, I hear the goose steps getting closer
They no longer represent us, is it not our obligation
To confront this tyranny?

credits

released September 11, 2020
Original song and lyrics performed by Propagandhi. Written By Chris Hannah. Source of Chris Hedges sound clip: www.youtube.com/watch?v=jr4cXH3Fil8

Engineered and Mixed by Jacob Beeson in Greensboro, NC in Sunset Park in July/August 2020 wearing masks during the COVID-19 pandemic
jacbeeson@gmail.com

Self-released as a Dead In Debt production on September 11, 2020

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Night Sweats Greensboro, North Carolina

Hardcore punk band from Greensboro, NC founded by longtime friends in late 2014.

Michael Sileno - Vocals
Brian Lewis - Drums
Rodney Hicks - Guitar
Joseph Allan - Bass

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