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Robert Inhuman, about "Neutralizing Opiate"
The words to "Neutralizing Opiate" are fairly self-explanatory and not especially poetic. It's the argument that music doesn't have to be another recreational drug; that it can have other functions and is not completely un-utilitarian. The "silence" mentioned in the song can often be in a place that is actually very loud, if you know what I mean. This song is about the frustration we feel in environments designed solely to let people forget the world they're living in, to forget themselves as responsible beings, while in an asylum of substance-fueled flashy sexy games. It always amazes me when people think it will work out to book Realicide at a dance party: Given the direction of our content, more and more each year, somehow it's as if I was heard to say "yeah dude, totally, we would really like to play in a place most able to completely DE-FANG what we are trying to say to people." This is a guaranteed way to let me know you haven't considered the best interests or intentions of this music for even a moment. "Thanks for wasting what could've been a night to really remember", to learn from eachother in some substantial way, or at least spark something that could blossom in the days to come, a celebration of a show's potential for this, somewhere else, a refuge not from reality but from pacification and imposing vacations... Basically, entertainment IS a weapon, that we've chosen in many instances for our purposes, but it's the same weapon I've been burnt by many times to say the least...
lyrics
you say music has no power to inspire social action,
but isn't it true it's got the power to pacify and prevent social action?
I'd rather try to make a mark on this society (whose society?)
than ensure it remains on its current course
(You're right. I hate dance parties.)
entertainment is a tool as dangerous as a machine gun
who you gonna point it at and will you kill them when you do?
entertainment is a tool as dangerous as a machine gun
who you gonna point it at and will you kill them when you do?
and I believe music is a historically potent catalyst for social change
though it's not the change itself
and hardcore isn't necessarily about music as much as a vital spark
do you ever wish you were in a place where people might listen?
cos they won't here - I promise you they are drunk one way or another;
I promise you they don't give a fuck;
I promise that the only reason this matters is because it doesn't matter...
NO! RIGHT NOW! RIGHT NOW!
my entire life is not a vacation - NO!
and I'm NOT ALIVE TO BE PACIFIED - I'm not alive to wish I had died!
will you be on my end of this gun - RIGHT NOW
with a trigger that can break the silence - RIGHT NOW
my entire life is not a vacation - NO!
and I'm NOT ALIVE TO BE PACIFIED - I'm not alive to wish I had died!
will you be on my cide of this gun - RIGHT NOW
with a trigger that can break the silence - RIGHT NOW
(Right now I'm in France at another braindead dance party.
I wish I was in Saint Louis, I wish this mattered.)
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