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Hostile Array

by Hostile Array

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They care more about their flag than what they claim it represents. They care more about their anthems than their homeless, poor, and sick. Where’s the outrage when it’s used for greed? Where’s the outrage when it trumps our liberty? Who are you to question authority? Bow your head and worship your kings. Do not question blasphemer. All hail the fascist regimes. I can see right through you. We will not be deceived. Blind allegiance is the lifeblood of tyranny. Ignorance is the reason the innocent bleed. Shut your mouth, don’t you dare protest. They’ll call it hostile or civil unrest. We pledge allegiance to the corruption, and to the tyrants for which it stands. All nations enslaved by the work of our hands.
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Bastardized 02:48
They asked for our faith, and we bought into fear, selling their salvation story year after year. Violence is not tyranny's only form. Manipulate to legislate the perfect storm. Sell your rights, sell your freedom. Question it and they’ll call it treason. Become a slave, become the victim. Sell your soul to the bastard system. There are those that would seek to control your thoughts, and every step you take. Puppet master, idol worship. Puppet master, I will cut your strings. If you're the man behind the curtain I will tear it down. They asked for our faith, and we bought into fear, selling their salvation story year after year. If you're the god that I'm supposed to believe in, then I'll make sure that god is truly dead.
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Wiretap 03:19
Call them dissident, call them treasonous, when all they wanted was to warn us. There is corruption that lies within, when a desperate nation tries to cover its sins. Brave souls risk it all to expose the depravity. A nation's invasiveness still met with apathy. If the truth sets you free, then we’re all slaves to the tyrants that take secrets to their graves. This isn't liberty, this is injustice. Demanding access to all we see and do, don’t let their intentions become misconstrued. Silencing those who dare expose the lies. Privacy exchanged for security in disguise, but it's tough to hide. Rather dangerous freedom, than peaceful slavery. Rather perilous autonomy, than loss of liberty.
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Devoid 03:18
Father forgive them, they know not what they've done. They've slain and buried Your innocent ones. Following blindly in the name of faith, disregarding Your beloved's fate. Why do Your people use Your name to absolve hate? So many lives ignorance can desecrate. All the violence and all the pain, all the nations with ground blood stained. You pray for war, I pray for peace. The lust for hatred will never cease. Mothers and daughters, faces that will never be known. Innocent lives taken by government drones. Prejudice inspired by their own fears. Interventionism for the gain of profiteers. Where is the grief for the innocent tombs? Or is life only sacred inside of the womb? Out of sight, out of mind, all the bodies left behind. Out of touch, out of time, justify all your crimes.
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Migrant Myth 02:24
Jobs, culture, security, these things mean nothing if we're not really free. War, violence, and poverty, turn them away with your fear mongering. The tired, the poor, the yearning to breathe, have we forgotten our history? As the homeless and wretched arrive at your shore, don’t forget that we were the same before. Build up your walls, forget your past, ignore reform. Draw up your lines, blame it on crime, close all doors. Fill us with lies, say that we're free, turn them away, dig their graves, no empathy. How stupid are we? Creating black markets and ask why they leave. Why can’t you see? How the bombs you drop displace families. What was once the land of opportunity, is now the land of the oppressed. What was once the land of opportunity, has locked its doors and thrown out the key.
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Newspeak 03:47
There were those that told stories, ones with dignity. They were supposed heralds for the truth, but they changed their tune. These things were made to consume, I only heard what they wanted me to. Told a lie enough times that it became truth. We were tricked into thinking there were monsters outside, but it was under the bed where they did reside. When we finally found them it was far too late, cause the damage was done and my head it was never the same. Selective hearing of the worst kind, I don't have power over my own mind. Pawns in place to play the game and rewrite history. These things were taking place to save face, and push a gruesome agenda. Telling half-truths and using you, locked in a cage and told when to sing. It's the ones that you trust, you let in the door, inside of your home, that change you, they change you. They get in your head and fill it with doubt, but you can try and twist words, mockingbird, my eyes are open now.
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Warmonger 03:29
Waging war based on false pretense, justified with self-defense, manipulating our populace, by pandering to our ignorance. To hell with reason, to hell with facts. Feed us lies just to make us react. To hell with progress, to hell with tact. Boots on the ground to rape and ransack. Another disaster, another to blame. Point the finger, show me where to dig their graves. Another tragedy, tell me what was it for? Just one more excuse to ship our sons off to war. Black ops tied to running guns for foreign enemies. They arm all sides to "keep us free". Deceive, deceive, deceive, spin the story around until it's what they want you to see. Tell me what was it for? Democracy exploited as a nation building whore. The towers fell and you can tell, they used it as excuse to go and dig their wells. Systematic terror, pretext for action, false-flag plans just to cause a reaction. Ruling from shadows, governing factions, propaganda used to cause a distraction. Follow the paper trail and see what it hides, federal dollars found on both sides. Cut checks, disrespect, tell all your lies. Black gold bought with innocent lives. Deceive, deceive, deceive.
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Calloused 03:17
Wear the badge with honor while you serve and protect, while enforcing laws that from the start were made to oppress. White collar criminals getting less and less time, while minor drug offenders rot in cells for most of their lives. It's okay to crash the market, turn it around, and do it again, but sell a dime of pot on the corner and say goodbye to family and friends. They're putting cuffs on the wrong guy, but that's okay when you can cash the check for every cot you fill. No victim, no crime, innocents sent to do hard time. No justice, no peace, minimum sentence with no release. No victim, no crime, private prisons on public dime. No justice, no peace, do these lives mean nothing? Senseless executions all for nothing. Stop and frisk, don’t resist, just do what you're told. Stop and frisk, don’t resist, just do what you're told. Freedom’s exchanged for corporate gain, substituting justice for a set of chains. Incarcerated from the day they were born, insurrection until there is reform. They're putting cuffs on the wrong guy, keep up the school to prison pipeline. They're putting cuffs on the wrong guy, to keep their filthy pockets lined.
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Bluebird 03:01
They made my mind like a cage with no way to escape. Doing pseudo-science and changing my brain. Total psychedelic exposure, drip acid in my drink see if I can keep my composure. Somebody’s coming for me. Something’s coming for me. Rewrite the mind, change the self, turn into someone else. Mind control takes its toll, leaves you less than whole. I had no choice in this, my mind was made up for me. I’ve forgotten my own name, but the voices in my head can make one up for me. Somebody’s coming for me, I can’t tune it out. Somebody’s coming for me, they won’t let me out. Call me delusional, but I know what they did. They forced poison in my veins, and told me I was insane. I'm just paranoid, that's what the doctor said, but I hear footsteps at my door, maybe they'll believe me when I fall from the teeth floor.
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Is seeing believing? Cause there's more than meets the eye. I’ve lost my sense of certainty while sifting through the lies. Call me a skeptic, but these things just don’t make sense. I question their intentions and where the fiction ends. Indoctrinated, they got inside my head, rewriting history just to cover what they did. Disoriented, I can’t see the forest for the trees, mass deception tailored to their needs. Awaken me, cause I'm tired of seeing the world as it is and not how it should be. Awaken me, expose all the secrets once hidden from view, what's hidden from you? Tell another story to garner our support. I can’t believe I fell for them so many times before. Damned melody, stuck inside my head, I fell for the seductive tune they taught their birds to sing. We all sang along, but it’s time for this to end. I’ll make sure that they never have a chance to sing their song again. The emperor has no clothes, and once you see it's hard to be the way you were, so grab your pitchfork and make them burn for every single word. Burn, burn, burn, the unforgivable. Burn, burn, burn, forget their names and just burn, burn, burn.

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released June 1, 2018

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Brendan Frey: Composer, Group Member
Garrison Frey: Composer, Group Member
Hector Fernandez: Composer, Group Member
Fredy Menjivar: Composer, Group Member
Caleb Rodriguez: Composer
Alec Hank: Artwork
Chris Galvez: Mixing, Mastering, Engineer, Producer, Composer

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