Sin Signalling from Bandit Practice by Lazybone Bandit
Tracklist
| 4. | Sin Signalling | 3:34 |
Lyrics
Clouds are forming, mourning tonight,
The city cast in black and white.
You gotta keep tight-lipped, better not shine too bright.
Play too nice, get a snipe from the right.
They wanna fight with people who believe in decency,
And recently they've taken to making claims that we're faking
When we take an interest in the best interests of others,
Like it's insincere to be invested in the rights of our brothers.
They say "You're just doing it for the karma,
Or you're after a girl and just fronting to charm her.
You're smarmy and self-righteous, a social esteem farmer.
White knights are worse than Jeffrey Dahmer!"
Alright. Disregard the exaggeration,
But it's hard to wrap my head around their aggravation.
They're complacent to the plights plaguing worldwide nations,
But compassion causes irritation? I'm losing my patience.
It's a dark world, and some people wanna make it darker.
Don't let their remarks do away with your spark.
They're creeps who use devious means, they're thieves,
Stealing lexemes and making them mean whatever they need
To achieve their most grievious of dreams. (Good grief.)
I don't believe this is freedom of speech.
And that's the cause that they claim to defend.
More important than compassion is their right to offend.
Free speech is fair game including fascist contempt,
But any criticism of THEM is exempt?
And man, it's such a transparent tactic.
Attacking anyone attempting to be empathetic,
In a pathetic attempt just to discredit leftists.
When it comes to verbal finesse, well you're hardly the deftest.
You've lifted your vocab even from the church, who
Would be horrified, given a chance of peeking within.
If you say we're just verbalising our virtues,
Then you're leading me to assume that you're speaking your sin.
In fact... Why do you take so much pride
In protecting hate and propagating divides?
When causing offence is fiercely glorified,
You're doing a favour for those who call for genocide.
It's a dark world, and some people wanna make it darker.
Don't let their remarks do away with your spark.
They're creeps who use devious means, they're thieves,
Stealing lexemes and making them mean whatever they need
To achieve their most grievious of dreams. (Good grief.)
I don't believe this is freedom of speech.
I recognise more than two genders,
So you say I must have an agenda.
I embrace more than two genders,
So you say I'm a pretender.
I recognise more than two genders,
So you say I must have an agenda,
Beyond, y'know, being a reasonably decent person and having a baseline level of respect for other people. Like, it's not even virtue signalling because I don't think I'm a good person. I just do the bare minimum to not be an asshole... Which is more than a lot of people can manage apparently? Still, it's worth giving it a try. You might make some friends who aren't neo nazis, so there's that.
