Name: State of Oppression
Duration: P00H04M18S
Description: I wrote this track in September of '04 following my first deployment to Iraq. Clearly I'd had some pretty strong feelings about the last 8 months of my life.

State of Oppression

from Cantonment by [U-D-R]

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I wrote this track in September of '04 following my first deployment to Iraq. Clearly I'd had some pretty strong feelings about the last 8 months of my life.

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• Verse 1
I'm waking up but I can't tell is it's just a dream. They sought to control me, to silence me. But these things wont just disappear.

• Pre-Chorus
This darkened sky is what we've made for ourselves to believe in.
Our false sense of security, is crumbling under the weight of reality.

• Chorus
I will not submit to this state of oppression. Their voice will not pass through me. These may be the ways of sedition. This is what they call the price of freedom.

This war is just a distraction. They want you to fear what they have created. Now is the time to build their empire. This is what they call the price of freedom.

• Verse 2
It all sounded so good to me. Ending a threat to democracy. Though it didn't quite happen that way. Now we're learning this all the hard way.

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from Cantonment, released June 9, 2011
A. Finfrock

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[U-D-R] Tucson, Arizona

A mesh of in-your-face electro industrial and solemn synthpop, featuring themes of war, relationships and society.

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