When you wait for consent
Not for me to fight you off
When you disregard her dress
And hold account for your own thoughts
When those she knows the most
Give her the least to fear
When the only cause is rapists
And victim blaming disappears
When we start intervening
And you check your privilege
Then I’ll stop screaming
When she can speak her mind
Without an acid burn
When the rules on my body and life
Are only my concern
When the honour’s in her courage
Not being killed as property
When it’s not just “the way it is”
So we can live strong and free
Is it too much trouble for you to change?
Is it too much trouble to challenge others?
Your inconvenience aside,
This defines our lives.
We’re troubled.
So we’ll be troublesome.
To live free and safe
Rule our own lives and satiate
Our potential, our will
Our right to fight (to grow, to be)
So we fight still. Go!
Be troublesome
Until we’re intervening
And you check your privilege
Then I’ll stop screaming
Aggressive, intense, extreme music (punk, hardcore, metal) should be raw and bullshit free, stripped of self-indulgent "mood setting" riffs and arrangements to produce its effect. PUNCH and "They Don't Have to Believe" is a paradigm of this ethos 'par excellence' as they say. _teeth
The Minneapolis band add a horn section, a running surrealist allegory about walls, and an occasional nod to the elegiac to their electroshocked post-punk. Bandcamp Album of the Day Mar 4, 2024