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AUS​-​ROTTEN "The System Works For Them" LP

by PROFANE EXISTENCE

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The System Works For Them... You know the system kills So you try to take a stance Boycott You speak up for the people who will never get their own chance Boycott But are your views sincere? Do you practice that what you preach? Boycott Or are you just fooling yourself The truth just out of your reach? Boycott You're helping to enhance the rich while fucking over the poor Boycott You've heard it all before and you know just what I'm saying Boycott You hate these corporate killers but you fucking keep on paying For the products you don't need You share with them their fucking greed And responsibility for those who died Their exploitation and genocide All the shit you fucking hate Too blink to see that you helped create You're the living proof that the system works: That the system works for them You spend your hard earned money And help support their death Boycott big business because death in the going rate Boycott You control who you support so why support what you hate Boycott Multi-national companies are hiding under false names Boycott To protect themselves from people who are unaware of their games Boycott So fuck their games and fuck their lies instead just stop and Think Boycott Is all of their suffering worth your burgers and your Soft drinks? Boycott When you buy their products you ignore the blood their spilling Boycott Reject this capitalist system and support the ones their killing Boycott Fuck convenience in their store If it's important it's worth fighting for Don't you see you hold the key Throw out your fucking apathy Then start to spread the worth around And help to bring the companies down You're the living proof that the system works: That the system works for them You spend your hard earned money And help support their death Our individual effort is where the struggle begins To stand up and fight for those oppressed by politicians The companies condition the public thought media bullshit All of this suffering is inflicted just to turn a fucking profit They stifle criticism with a cost of living raise Selling out the working class a million different ways The power that you give them is how they keep control Don't support them anymore, it's time to take back what they Stole fuck The system, fuck it's views, it's the people they abuse Abuse of power and authority is the downfall of society But people never seem to listen, they're all brainwashed by the System You're the living proof that the system works: That the system works for them You spend your hard earned money And help support their death
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"The Battlefield's Still Read" Wednesday, May 18th 1994 Does anyone remember what all of this fighting's for? All this senseless blood shed, all this fucking death You oly know statistics who now take their dying breath Can anyone see an end to this putrid fucking war? Does it now seem any closer than it did the year before? A year has now gone by and the battlefield's still red The only thing that's changed is the number of the dead All of the children born in bloodshed will be lucky to survive Will they be just more than memories when it's 1995? The battlefield's still red They call it "ethnic cleansing" But it's just like before This is racial murder It's not a fucking war The battlefield's still red Little girls are stripped and they're beaten to the floor Systematically raped by soldiers and they fucking call this war Their mothers are sent through minefields, all humanity's been lost How many lives will this year claim in this modern day holocaust? The battlefield's still red They call it 'ethnic cleansing' But it's just like before This is racial murder It's not a fucking war The battlefield's still red
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"When You Support Those Fucking Bastards" Don't listen to their politics or employ their bullshit laws You never ask why Don't get caught up in the civil war which your rulers hope to cause Don't listen to these bastards, don't listen to their lies Take your fucking race war and shove it up your ass It's fucking propaganda dispensed by the ruling class Don't listen to these bastards, don't listen to their lies In spite of everything you know, You're still playing their game When you support these fucking bastards the results remain the same The starving are still hungry The suffering in pain The poor still have no money While the rich drink their champagne
4.
"American Ethic" I work all day in a factory Making parts for bombs I'll never see I have to support a family American ethic will set me free I work in a forest cutting trees I work in a lab creating disease Dressed in blue I do what I please American ethic will will set be free Don't care for homeless lazy slobs Get off your ass and get a job A shining example, look at me American ethic will set me free I don't care about suffering in foreign lands I've got a clear conscience, no blood on my hands I don't care about pollution or poverty American ethic will set me free Get up in the morning, get to bed at night I don't know my wife, so we don't fight I've got some kids just like me American ethic will set them free I've lived my life without any thought Except for my job and what I've bought Seems like someone has lied to me Now I need death to set me free I don't care about suffering in foreign lands I've got a clear conscience, no blood on my hands I don't care about pollution or poverty American ethic will set me free
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"No Justice, No Peace" Freedom for all political prisoners in the United States Be aware of cointelpro and the falsehoods it creates We must stop the racist atrocities committed by police Demand that every last freedom fighter be released These people lost their freedom because of their knowledge of the facts And their commitment to expose it warrants FBI attacks If they survive thery're harled away, the system now aborts Their rights and any justice in political uppet courts Another imprisioned year goes by Another parole will be denied Another prisioned is victimized The government and the FBI Make sure parole will be denied Our judical system's a fucking lie They'll keep them there until they die They're wictims of the corrupt legal system we ignore Like Leonard Peltier, Geronimo Pratt, The Move9, and Ricahard Moore (Dhoruebim Wahad) only crime committed is their mere existence Or their noble sacrifice of uncompromising resistance Persistence of resistance stems from independent thought So these "dangerous" revolutionaries are left in jail to rot This country reeks of prejucice from sea to shining sea They fucking lock the people up and throw away the key Another imprisioned year goes by Another parole will be denied Another prisioned is victimized The government and the FBI Make sure parole will be denied Our judical system's a fucking lie They'll keep them there until they die Our freedom of speech in this country is limited To having the sage obedient views the government want us to have Those with dissenting views are harassed, beaten imprisoned or killed Your freedom of assembly is also a lie If you protest against the government the chances are You've already been filmed by police and are now on file There's hundreds of political prisoners being held all over the United States They have to endure some of the harshest conditions of the American prison system As long as our government continues to subject us to their cowardly oppression We're no longer obligated to them as peaceful citizens The time's extrememly overdue to take back what's rightfully ours We're no longer here for their selfish exploitaion It's our lives, our minds, our beliefs Fuck their threats and intimidation They have nothing left to hold over our heads Freedom and equality some people will never know Like Mumia Abu-Jamal who is waiting on death row His rights were stripped away by cops under Rizzo's reign Then he was dragged into court where Judge Sabo did the same He exposed their fascist tactics and their feeble racist fears So he was framed and put in prison where he's now spent fourteen years He fights for the rights of people who fall victim togovernment violence They want him dead because the voice of the voiceless won't be silent Another imprisioned year goes by Another parole will be denied Another prisioned is victimized The government and the FBI Make sure parole will be denied Our judical system's a fucking lie They'll keep them there until they die
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"Too Little, Too Late" Many fled to Zaire for the fear of being killed in the vicious, Bloody civil war that took half a million lives Over two milion refugees pile into neighboring countries towns Hoping to escape their deaths but this is what they found Bodies stacked in massive piles and mass graves overflowing As the cholera camps are waiting for the aid to finally come The Rwandan refugees are dying by the thousands every day While clean water needed to preserve life is supposedly on it's way Too little, too late We are all responsible for the third world we create Now we try to help these people but we're too fucking late Too little, too late We control the third world's fate Our high standard of living contributes to their deaths And the truth behind the bloodshed is what our government protects But the fault is also ours because we're killing with our greed For our material possessions we confuse our wants with need The companies and the media promote these capitalist views, Praising the American way of life, never asking at whose expense So if you think we're helping then you're really fucking blind Because we're after special interests and the rest we leave behind Too little, too late We are all responsible for the third world we create Now we try to help these people but we're too fucking late Too little, too late We control the third world's fate Haitian and Cuban refugees try to find a better life only to be denied Entry to the United States because our government doesn't deem it necessary To help our fellow man, so if they can't make us money They don't want them in our land Panama and Nicaragua were some to receive our "aid", So what kind of difference did we make beside the loss of lives? And how is life in BOSNIA? Did the problems disapear? And what about Rwanda is their water now crystal clear? Too little, too late We are all responsible for the third world we create Now we try to help these people but we're too fucking late Too little, too late We control the third world's fate
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"Poison Corporations" Greedy fucking bastards killing off the land Watch our fucking planet burn soil turns to sand Acid rain is falling from the skies It's only getting worse contrary to the politicians lies Agent Orange, Seven Chlordate, and DDT Made by corporate bastards like the DuPont company Nuclear waste, helps destroy our earth Once they pass it on to us what will it all be worth Poison corporations They've sealed the planets doom Thinking they could pay for whatever they consume What good is all their money when there's no one left to buy? You can either try to stop them or you can watch our planet die Americans, convinced that they’re the best They look out for their own kind, the hell with all the rest Cash crops, made by genocide and exploitation The starving people pay to benefit the corporation Modern day, manifest destiny The fucks will steal the land just to make their fucking money Capitalist pigs, live to suit their needs They take the money making path no matter where it leads Poison corporations They've sealed the planets doom Thinking they could pay for whatever they consume What good is all their money when there's no one left to buy? You can either try to stop them or you can watch our planet die Coke and Pepsi, made by popular demands Exploit the third world workers on what used to be their lands McDonalds, with their sick McWORLD in sight You help them to achieve their goal every time you take a bite World conquest, through murder and starvations Imperialist dictators live to oppress the weaker nations Ruling class, fucking beat the people down again Their profit margins more important than their fellow man Poison corporations They've sealed the planets doom Thinking they could pay for whatever they consume What good is all their money when there's no one left to buy? You can either try to stop them or you can watch our planet die
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Tedium 01:24
"Tedium" I fear that I'm losing what little was mine I gave you control and you're robbing me blind I showed you my soul and you took all I had Blind, mained, disfigured you left me for dead I look out my window down on the street/ See all the people crushed out by defeat See all the suffering it shines in their eyes Pushed to the limits humanity dies We go on slaving day after day Just to survive collecting our pay And to the rich go all the spoils And to the poor degradation and toil You stole all my time corrupted my mind Made all your profits and left me behind Treated me like nothing,a line on a chart It's your mindless Tedium that tore me apart
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"B.A.T.F." ATF, ATF, we don't need the ATF There's an organization with dangerous views so the fighting soon erupts We could've asked what they believed if they hadn't been blown up But were their views dangerous to the people or the state Did they know the truth about the government based on hate ATF, ATF, we don't need the ATF Their twisted reign of terror is the cause of many deaths It's their twisted reign of terror that you willingly accept Appointments made by Janet Reno help the blood-soaked ATF Like Mark Richard who's made his life's career by covering up what's left They claim it's national security so the publice never see That this secret service bullshit's at the expence of you and me ATF, ATF, we don't need the ATF Their twisted reign of terror is the cause of many deaths It's their twisted reign of terror that you willingly accept If you cross our government then you may just disappear And become another statistic for the rest of us to hear If you keep on looking closer you may just find your death Compliments of our government and bastard ATF, ATF, we don't need the ATF BATF (Bureau OF Assasins, Torturers, and Facsists)
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"The Crucifix And The Flag" The crucifix and the flag are both the fucking same They both represent dominance and control Arrogant symbols displayed high about our heads A constant reminder that you are being controlled If the government is to be stopped the church must also be abolished Religion and government are both the fucking same They both are dominance and control Arrogant dictators that keep your fears fed A cnstant reminder that you are being controlled If the government is to be stopped the church also must be abolished The crucifix and the flag Are both to fucking blame For the streets stained red Arrogant symbols displayed high above our head A constant reminder that you are dead
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"The Flag Will Cover Coffins" Burn your countries flags Fuck your patriotic pride Fuck the politicians and the shit they try to hide They make you pay their taxes and they make you fight their wars But they won't feed the hungry and they don't care about the poor Instead they try and take you for all your fucking worth And they separate with flags all the people of the earth They exploit our different cultures and enhance our sickening greed And they get the hatred rising which is exactly what they need But what about the people's needs Will they be unfulfilled Ane what of those who speak out? Will those "traitors" then be killed? The only traitors that exist are the traitors to mankind The ones who put the money first and the people's need behind They say is we don't love our country then get the hell out Should we be thankful to die in battle for what our flag's about? Well fuck off Fuck you Fucking hear this Your ignorant petty support doesn't mean piss Don't support, no matter what the cause Your fucking flags and damn religion just feed corporate claws I renounce my citizenship from the U.S.A. and I'd suggest the same for any country Because countries kill the people's will with their patriotic lie And every fucking day you're killing who they say and you never even wonder why Why do we blindly follow what our leaders have to say? Instead let's make them answer to the people they betray We don't owe our leaders anything so fuck what they demand Then disregard their fucking lies and bury them where they stand The flags will cover coffins where these fuckiers will now lie And we'll give a flag to their families when these poor bastards die Natonalistic pride is fucking shit why can't the people see As long as flags fly up above us no one's really free Free?

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AUS-ROTTEN "The System Works For Them" LP

-FINALLY RE-ISSUED AFTER 20 YEARS!-

Originally pressed in 1996 PROFANE EXISTENCE is bringing this quintessential anarcho-punk masterpiece back in circulation.

In 1996 AUS-ROTTEN released their first LP “The System Works For Them” on an unsuspecting punk scene. It spread like wildfire in a pre internet era within a genre that mostly depended on tape trading. (at least is was pre internet for us penniless punks) “The System Works For Them” was the perfect mix of anger and intelligence that the scene needed at the time (and still does today). It was like a wake up call that opened the eyes and ears to many punks the world over. The messages where crystal clear and most us were hooked as soon as the beginning shouts of “Boycott” bellowed over the speakers. I don’t believe any of us ever expected their message to resonate so well within the scene, but even more surprising is how the songs are just as relevant today as on they the day they were written. Which is why PROFANE EXISTENCE has decided to repress this record. We feel that that messages that AUS-ROTTEN brought to the table are to powerful to ignore. We feel that this LP is important and therefore should be highly available and priced affordably. We feel that those that would charge over exorbitant prices on eBay or Discogs have forgotten the message.

PROFANE EXISTENCE has worked this out to ever last detail of this release with the members of AUS-ROTTEN whom have been involved from step one. All tracks have been re-masted by Jay Matherson at the Jamroom studios. To be 100% honest we didn’t want to do a complete re-master of what we already considered a good recording. However when we opened the tracks on protools we noticed a few balance issues that required fixing. These fixes resulted in a tremendous upgrade to the overall quality of the tracks. We painstakingly scanned, puzzled, and photoshopped the original artwork to make sure that it was as close to authentic as it could possible be. We then went for broke by pressing in three different vinyl color combinations! Overall to say that we are pumped to release this would be an understatement, we are absolutely ecstatic to bring you this LP on PROFANE EXISTENCE!

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released August 19, 2016

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Profane Existence is an international DIY punk label, zine and blog, sporadically active since 1989.

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