Lyrics

Some of my otherwise brilliant and productive friends
Like scoundrels and their flags, take final refuge
In character assassination
Ignore the issue and deny the relation
Between consumption and brutality
And you can roll your eyes and marginalize me
And play on insecurities and you can feign ignorance
But you're not stupid, you're just selfish
And you're a slave to impulse
And I kinda thought we all shared common threads
In that we gravitated here to challenge conventions we've been fed
By cultures that treat creatures like machines
And if you buy that shit, then how long till it's me
Who serves as your commodity
Through institutionalized violence and oppression
Of workers and women raped by sexism?
And do you still insist
On feigning indignance to reason, collective self-interest?
I'll call you on your shit, please call me on mine
Yeah, then we can grow together and make this shit-hole planet better in time
Consider someone else

Song details

Artist: Propagandhi

Writer(s): Jord Samolesky, Chris Hannah

Album: Less Talk, More Rock

Release information: album: "Less Talk, More Rock" (1996)