Repression Out of Uniform
Unmasking Authority: Napalm Death's Rebellion Anthem
Lyrics
Phobic, eggshell, walking on a brink.
Feeling fearful and fragile, teetering on the edge.
Camera sensor eyes pierce.
Eyes with the sensitivity of a camera sensor penetrating the surroundings.
We excuse stone-set normality.
Accepting conventional norms made of rigid stone.
Yet send tremors through morality.
Challenging established moral standards and causing disturbances.
Frozen optics,
Immobile vision, unable to see beyond a fixed perspective.
Traction for outspoken heads.
Support for those who express their opinions boldly.
Fuck your badgeless, rankless dirge
Disregarding authority symbols and traditional mourning rituals.
And bizarre take on community concern.
Rejecting a peculiar interpretation of community care.
Division is your vision.
Having a divisive perspective as your guiding principle.
Cajoled - jostled into position
Forced and pushed into a specific position.
Where we can't ascend or defend.
Trapped where one cannot rise or defend oneself.
Funny how you're molded by perfection;
Ironically shaped by an unrealistic standard of perfection.
Which visionary told you so?
Questioning the authority or vision that dictated such standards.
Curse our influence,
Cursing the impact or influence one has on others.
Traction for outspoken heads.
Endorsing support for those who boldly express their opinions.
Your true colors make us reel, scab
Revealing one's true, unpleasant nature.
Garish hue with bilious sheen, scab
Unpleasant appearance with a sickening shine.
No dressing up to the nines, scab
Not pretending to be something better; flaws are ingrained.
It's permanent under the skin.
Permanent flaws beneath the surface.
Policing the detritus, unclean!
Controlling and regulating the waste and filth of society.
Policing the benign
Regulating even the harmless elements of society.
Fuck your badgeless, rankless dirge
Rejecting symbols of authority and assumptions of inferiority.
And fuck assumptions that we're dirt
Rejecting assumptions that degrade and label as worthless.
This derision builds a prison... for you!
The contempt and ridicule create a figurative prison for the ones expressing it.
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