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Drug Related Causes​/​Servant Class Citizen

from Poison Planet​/​Government Flu split EP by Poison Planet

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    This is a split 7" between POISON PLANET and Europe's GOVERNMENT FLU on Refuse Records out of Berlin, Germany. It was released in 2013.

    This EP contains the full lyrics and essays you expect from POISON PLANET

    Side: Government
    Intro/They Know Best
    Random Acts
    New Barbarians

    Side: Poison
    Death of Ideas
    Retaliate
    Drug Related Causes
    Servant Class Citizen

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Drug Related Causes

Recreational drugs create a huge number of social problems. Common opponents focus on addiction and damage to the drug user as the primary issue and then their friends, families, and anyone they directly hurt, such as through driving a vehicle, as a close second. But the whole chain of production, importation/exportation, distribution, purchase, usage, and consequences, combined with the cartels, street gangs, for profit prison industry, border protection, and institutionalized racism can all be tied together in one immensely damaging problem – the war on drugs. Drugs are a problem in and of themselves but the black market is completely unrestrained free market capitalism in its truest form and those capitalists will violently defend their product and their territory to the last because of the huge profits to be made. In a misguided effort to “combat” the problem, governments like the US government pump millions of dollars into military solutions and prisons because these are the solutions that will make their cronies the most money. It makes much more sense to pursue a for profit solution that is going to make you and your friends rich than it is to funnel government funding into social programs that provide support and care for people. But as we sit in the middle of this broken system, what do we fight for and who do we blame? Its easy to blame the system and pin it solely on the war on drugs but we have to take responsibility for how we contribute to that system. When you buy illegal narcotics you are buying product that has passed through multiple murderous hands. The innocents killed in poor neighborhoods shot in gang crossfire, the farmers gassed through government funded defoliation, the beheadings by the cartels in Mexico, and the young kids raised into gang culture and killed because it is the only way out of poverty that they know – all of that blood is on your hands. Those people died in order to provide you with your product and your high. With such a bloody cost you would wonder why many otherwise anti-capitalist, anti-corporate, anti-fascist types would fervently defend their drug use when they feed into one of the most unrestrained capitalist industries and the cycle of violence that perpetuates around it. People always like to take themselves out of the equation. But as we're fighting for an end to the war on drugs, and as we're fighting to end industrialized racism and for profit prisons, we have to remember that what perpetuates this whole fucked up broken system is demand, and that responsibility falls on those individuals consuming drugs. You are the market they are fighting to protect, and that blame falls on you.


Servant Class Citizen

In the United States we herald the entrepreneur as the pinnacle of the “American Dream” and we assert that anyone who works hard early in life will find success. In truth the path to success often involves who you know, how you can work them, whether you were already born into money, and what you educational and social advantages were during your upbringing. We're fed a line that no matter where we came from if we can just go to college or learn a trade we will be set, but few people tell you that the competition for the jobs you went to school for will be as fierce as it is. Often because of supply and demand the pay rate diminishes because there is someone willing to be paid much less than what they are worth for your area of expertise, or your skilled trade has been made obsolete by technology and foreign competition. We complete our educations only to be saddled with student loans we will be paying off for most of our remaining lives for a degree that is doing little to nothing for us. Most of us still end up within the ranks of the service class handing latte's to our peers, and wiping the asses of their children. We struggle to pay our bills and we scrounge for any additional income we can bring in.

lyrics

Drug Related Causes

Global supply of
Narcotics sold
No protections
And no controls
Global supply of
Narcotics sold
No protections
And no controls

Drugs flow to feed your addiction
Poison coursing through your veins
The “source” is of no consequence
As long as you're free from pain

Drug - Related
Drug related causes
Drug – Related
Drug related causes

Gunned down cold on broken pavement
Territorial pissing leaves pooled blood
Black market capitalism is just the same
With violent retention of markets claimed

Drug - Related
Drug related causes
Drug – related
Drug related causes


Servant Class Citizen

We strive and push but we're held in place
We serve and accommodate by their grace
Our jobs overseas our educations loaned
But we lift them higher on their thrones
Thrones!

We are the working class - servant class citizen
We are the servant poor - servant class citizen
We are the working class - servant class citizen
We are the servant poor - servant class citizen

Earn a degree that doesn't mean shit
Bite down hard at the corporate bit
Hope for a break to rise from the pack
Knowing full well the deck is stacked
Stacked!

We are the working class - servant class citizen
We are the servant poor - servant class citizen
We are the working class - servant class citizen
We are the servant poor - servant class citizen

We are the servant class
We are the servant class
We are the servant class

credits

from Poison Planet​/​Government Flu split EP, released April 1, 2013
Drug Related Causes/Servant Class Citizen (Music: 9Volt & Poison Planet/Lyrics: 9Volt)

Recording: Zaglaras June 2012
Mastering: Smok February 2013

9Volt – vocals
Bearclaw – guitar
Meltdown – drums
Sex Talk – bass

Essays: 9Volt

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Poison Planet Chicago, Illinois

What separates punk from other genres of music is its visceral menacing sounds make it the perfect soundtrack for anger & protest. The direct result of this combination of elements is that it became a vehicle for socio-political ideas.

PxP firmly embrace that vehicle in the hope of advocating the idea of personal growth & change; personal is political.

Straight Edge.
Veganism.
Human Rights.
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