Lyrics to the songs:
Selfish Ideals
A freedom for which there is no need to fight
Do as they want and they'll tell you it's right.
They can forcefeed the lies but you don't have to swallow
Only you possess the right to not follow
Selfish ideals let you always win
I support - I'm the "subject", I object - I'm a "victim"
So you've found an outlet that makes you feel strong?
This form of sexism has gone on too long.
Dancing before you - no mind and no name
Posed on the pages - playing your game
You say you support this self liberation
As you're gaining your strength out of pure degradation.
Everyday men, women and children are victimized as a direct result of the images forcefed into our heads from birth.
Images that depict people as sexual objects and not as individual beings with our own hearts and minds.
Our culture has separated sex and love and put power in love's place.
And it is this patriarchal sexuality, an inherantly oppressive sexuality, that is based on power rather than love.
True sexual liberation is about realizing our natural sexual desrires,
not using objectification as a means to an end.
It is a mistake to see pornography as a valid and accurate representation of our natural sexual desires,
for playing into sexual stereotypes and acting out roles of dominance and submission that the system has forced upon us is not defining our own sexuality.
What we have been doing for centuries cannot be changed in one night.
But we must begin to work for true sexual liberation, both at the political and individual levels.
And we must begin now.

Our Biggest Mistake
When the trees are all cut down
And roads are all paved
All the rivers dammed up
And the people enslaved
The forest is cleared
And the animals caged
Only then will we realize
Our biggest mistake
We can't eat money
How can you complain about a future that's been destroyed by the ones that you support?
Open your eyes to ecocide
It's time to act and time to start
Desolation? Annihilation?
Headed down a path of destruction
No hope left for creation
Termination as a means of production.

Inhumane Cage
With ignorance in power and tax dollars in his trust
Pretending he's a scientist, doing what he must
Now he's on a mission and he won't give up the fight
After 150 million deaths will he still claim to be right?
It's all been said and done before, but never the less he wages war
To win the approval of a nation, ignoring all the implications
What the fuck is it he sees that this will bring humanity?
Archaic tests with results that lie, this modern day Hitler needs to die!
If you think you're so superior to the animals that you've decided their lives are yours to take,
Then why do you apply test results to us, and put human lives at stake?
Ignoring the alternatives, ignoring the facts
Ignoring that it's been done before and the accuracy it lacks.
Has he even given a second thought to what ChemRTK means?
Or is it the EPA and vivisectors pulling Al Gore's strings?

A World With No Future
In a world with no future
And in a time that made no sense
Existence had stopped and stood still
Factories pumping the weapons of wartime
Made with intention to kill
Now, we're a nuclear wasteland
A world full of hatred
We sat and watched it all go by
News breaking coverage of the people all dying
And no one ever asked why
What will we tell the children?
Will there be any left to hear?
Will the children be able to listen?
Or will they all be hiding in fear?
There's a man on the TV, talking away
Telling the death toll for today
But no one is watching
Nobody is listening
Cause they've all been taken away
Stuck in the camps or handed machine guns
They were told to fight for a cause
Now they're killing their brothers and they're killing their mothers
To keep their own lives from being lost.
Over time, the numbers had increased
The flesh piles stacked up high
Nothing will change, unless we are to change it
And the dying will continue to die
What will we tell the children?
Will there be any left to hear?
Will the children be able to listen?
Or will they all be hiding in fear?
What happened to all of the children?
What stories will we have left to be said?
How will the children hear them?
Once all the children are dead……..

Insecurity
So you've paid your dues and stood your ground much longer than most have been around
You think they all owe you respect and should praise your superior intellect.
I'm sick of all the token lines, "Stupid kid has no mind"
"He's only 14 he has no clue"
"He won't stick around cause he's way too new"
So you've paid your dues but what for? Sticking around to uphold the score
Maybe you'll give them a chance to "succeed"
maybe you'll talk to them and do a "good" deed.
"She's just here to pick up guys"
"I saw his parents drop him off tonight"
"I've never seen them at a show before - I wonder what they came here for?"
Your arrogance is out of control
You think you'll decide who can stay and who'll go
Who can join the club is up to you
After all you've paid your dues - after all
But until they too have paid their dues
until they' re no longer children, and they're no longer new
until they all agree with your views....
Nobody owes you!

Another Bullet, Another Dead
It's your favorite target, just part of the game
You're holding the barrel so preciously aimed
Can't wait to feel the blast of the gun
Another life taken for your idea of fun
Another bullet - Another dead
Another victory in your head
Say you're keeping numbers in check
Another excuse for a mental wreck
A lover of nature, much more when it's dead
But how natural is that rifle loaded with lead?
Be closer to nature - leave your rifle behind
Then we'll see, how advanced is your mind?
Another bullet - Another dead
Another victory in your head
Say you're keeping numbers in check
Another excuse for a mental wreck.

Organize
We must come together and work as one
forever in struggle if we are to live in peace
We must organize and unify if we want to even budge
the forces that we're up against won't easily give up.
We must come together and work as one
forever in struggle
if we're to make a difference then we haven't yet begun.
Organize, organize - we must create an order to counteract the shit they talk with all their propaganda
Organize, organize - we must realize that we must work together to make our world better
Organize, organize - we must organize if we're to make a difference then we have to realize
that the system is still murder and we're still fucking pawns
and if we're to make a difference- we must work as one!
Another year passes and the system still maintains
raking in the profits while shitting out our brains
tv, billboards, media all manipulate the words and actions of our world to teach us to hate
and violence grows on the streets and in our fucking minds
the time has come to make a change through truth we must find
that the system is still murder and we're still fucking pawns
in a game that they created from which greed and hatred spawn.

Stand Up & Resist
The voice of the victim stays silent, unoticed in order to turn over a profit.
The power structure doesn't just change from a wish.
It takes action - persistance.
So how many more times will I hear "it's not my fight"?
Stand up & resist
Before we start to open up our eyes?
Stand up & resist
We must realize that it's one fucking struggle - it's one fucking fight.
Everything is connected - one world, one struggle, one power, one people.
How many more times will we forcefeed generations the lies?
Stand up & resist
Lies of freedom while teaching them the ways of oppression
Stand up and resist
Why do we forcefeed generations lies of freedom, while teaching them the ways of oppression?
That they have a voice, but they shouldn't raise it
That they have a choice, but don't know how to make it
That they have freedom but shouldn't question what that means
That they are merely another cog, in the machine.

Man Made Borders, Man Made Lies
Another racist law, another restriction
The explinations that they cling to are purely contradiction
If you've something to offer they may let you in
Especially if they approve of the color of your skin.
We have to fight back against this racist jurisdiction
We have to fight back and show our opposition
The number of laws are growing everyday
The borders they recognize shouldn't be there anyway.
They say immigration's causing the US to overpopulate
Causing us to become unemployed at an alarming rate
But the bastards don't think twice about the lower rate of pay
They're dishing out to some poor child in a 3rd world country.
So they'll build another wall up to keep "those people" out
And hire more armed guards to ensure that there's no doubt
Of the people ever gaining power and taking back their lives
Or of tearing down these man-made borders that perpetuate their lies.
We have to fight back and oppose their hate
We have to fight back before it's too late
We can't sit back and let them win
We have to fight back against this racist system.
And it's our legislation with another law to pass
That only serves the interest of the fucking ruling class
The same legislation that gives INS the right
To rape, murder and torture anyone who isn't white.

The Gift of Life?
Currently over 6 billion people inhabit the planet earth
and with every hour, more than 10,000 people will be born
A gift that should be so precious is instead a perverted game of deception & control
Manipulative parents hellbent on success they could not achieve
Greedy corporations to bring them to their knees
A system based on murder to teach them how to kill
A false prophet to suppress their thoughts to teach them to deny free will
Text books filled with lies to distort their perceptions of reality
Television to rot their brains and fill them with banality
Consumer society to teach that money is success
Date rape fucking culture to teach them the roles of sex
Daddy beats on mommy, thats the way it is
when he gets tired of that, he beats his fucking kids
The gift of life, a precious act indeed, when a child is but a barcoded number in a system based on greed
They need bodies to fill the prison cells
They need bodies to fill the factories
They need bodies to fight in their fucking wars
They need bodies to satisfy their greed
In their eyes a child represents a profit, not a life
A potential customer, a consumer to be used and thrown aside
We live in a world where people would rather close their eyes than ever admit that we're anything but civilized
A cycle of oppression based on rules that they define
Hatred, greed, destruction: will we ever see it die?
Is it really our nature to accept being blindly led?
And if that is our future, then the human race is dead.
There is no basis of life in our current state of living.

Conviction (or lack thereof)
We talk about autonomy and respect, but all I see is a lack of responsibility
Sometimes the difference between what's wrong or right, is not just a matter of personal insight.
We shouldn't have to worry about punks driving while intoxicated
We shouldn't have the stupid fights when people are annihilated
We shouldn't have to hear the many statements based on bigotry
With negative references to gender, race and others sexuality.
An honest mistake or an act of convenience?
An honest mistake or a pure lack of common sense?
Do we have no conviction for the words we like to say?
Riding down this path of stagnancy, surly there's a better way..
If we refuse to start to care then this is how things will stay.
Think before you consume, think before you act
If we don't, nothing will change - It's a proven fact.
If we're gonna sit back and complain about the laws we shouldn't need,
Then go and committ the very crimes on which law makers feed
Don't try to play "make-believe" in this false reality
Where you steal from friends and don't give a fuck while screaming "anarchy".
We talk about respect
and autonomy
but all that I see, is a lack of responibility
Sometimes the difference, between what's wrong or right,
is not a matter of opinion, or personal insight..

Desperation
There are women on the billboards and in commercials on TV
There are women selling products with their own bodies
Women selling beer, cigarettes and gum
Women looking shallow-minded and inherently dumb
Women selling cars, cosmetics and attire
Telling us to look good, this is what's required
There are women on the corners selling themselves upon the streets
Why are women so expected to sell their own sexuality?
There are women in magazines to tell us how to act
Manipulating us as children, telling us it's fact
There are women who have figured out to make a decent wage,
It's worth the humiliation of dancing on a stage.
Greedy eyes fixed on her, she has to hold a smile
cause she's single with two children and the pay makes it worth while...
They pay women for their sexuality, they know that it will sell
And some women see the money as an escape from their own hell
Both the sex industry and advertisors feed on desparation
preying on inequality, the accepted male/female relation
The more insecure the better, that's when we believe their lies
It's time to rethink and relearn, and open up our eyes.

In Darkness
The sun rises once again
Swallow the night has come to end
Lay down your weapons, lie down my friends
For the night will soon be here again.
And the bright light screams across the sky
And I am forced to face what I despise
A land torn apart by greed
Their lust for money, their power, we feed
And millions search the ground for scraps
In this system we fall between the cracks
Rise up together, rise up as one
Dismantle their system
We've only begun
And as the night falls
The darkness is setting in
Lay down your weapons, lie down my friends
In the darkness is when we make our choice
In the darkness is when we raise our voice
Cause we can live like slaves in this capitalist society
Or raise our voice and let our actions show just what we can be
A real functioning community with a real fucking purpose
Without all the greed
We can make this shit happen but its going to take more than just you & me.
We have to reach out and establish a real resistance
And the words alone are not enough
Our actions have to be persistent
We can't ever let up or even show a weakness
Because if we do they're surely going to beat us
Rise up, raise up your voice
We have to work together and we have to make a choice
Another 500 years of oppression and hate
Or start to rebuild before its too late
Raise up your voice
Don't take their shit
Solidarity is a weapon
Let's start using it
Raise up your weapons, stand up and fight
Join the resistance for all that is right
Raise up your weapons, rise up my friends
See hate and injustice come to an end.

Blue by Day, White by Night
From its earliest beginnings the idea of justice, within our system, has been nothing more than a blatant lie
The idea of unbiased law and order distributed by the very ones that wish we would die
From the very start the cops sole purpose was to protect white interest
U.S. Marshals were established to suppress indigenous resistance.
But it's not just the cops, there's more at stake than that
It's the prison guards, the FBI, and all they say "protects"
The Army, the Navy, the Air Force, the Marines
All support this racist shit where you're 3/5 a human being.
Don't feed me this "white rights" shit like no one understands you
You're not oppressed you're a fucking killer and the cops stand behind you
Time and time again, we see it on the streets
Cops support the KKK and the values that they teach
And when people in communities try to fight back
Racists use their right to free speech to justify their attack
And we all feel the backlash when we voice our opposition
Because the cops will stop at nothing to defend the Klan's position
So we're the ones that feel the long arm of "justice"
Tighten around our throats to ensure our silence
Because the cops are the KKK
And the opposite is true
That the same racist fucker that burns the cross at night
Hides behind a badge in daylight
And is said to be protecting you.
Blue by day, white by night
Killer cops on the streets taking away our rights
Blue by day, white by night
Just sit back, don't make a fuss, or they'll snuff out your life
Blue by day, white by night
Killer cops on our streets issuing our "rights"
Blue by day, white by night
Just sit back, don't make a fuss, or they'll snuff out your fucking life.

Traditions
Traditions ring hollow, traditions ring true
Billions still following but they haven't got a clue
Turn a blind eye to the origins
Another time and place
Where meanings changed with religious trends and fucked up social ways
Indoctrination
Your path has been chosen
Indoctrination
Don't just blindly accept it
The need for power and the privilege to own another human being
A lifetime of holy matrimony
Symbolized by a ring
Prearranged and re-arranged
Prepare for life in these chains
Do you take this man to be your master?
"I don't" is not the answer
Reproductive slave machine is all this ritual was meant to mean
Do you take this woman to be your wife?
"I do", now sentence her to fucking life
Tradition hides lies, traditions hold truth
Do we really need this paper to show us the proof?
Do we really want to continue to give our daughters away?
In a stupid game that used to mean rape, torture and slavery
Rituals created for us in a day and a time
When we had no choice what we did with our bodies or lives
Bought and sold, they robbed us of all our pride
From birth they owned us until we died.

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Contravene "A Call to Action" LP/CD (7 songs)
Contravene s/t CD (11 songs)
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Contravene "Forever in struggle" demo (8 songs)

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