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C is for​.​.​. Cut Off Your Hands

by Blood City

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Robert Ham
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Robert Ham Singer of this group is one of the guitar players in the equally-brilliant band Bells≥. Here he spits and swaggers ove a bed of vintage-sounding street punk bruisers. Favorite track: Year Of The Clap.
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1.
Kick off, kick out & slap the new breed We’re the last survivors of complacency Break out the litmus test, bring on the power play If you dilute it enough it’ll go away Well they’re calling out chanting qu’est-ce que c’est But back in my day, “A” was for Anarchy We didn’t build this up so you could tear it down So put your hands together, yeah put your hands together Go on and hit us with the real deal A thousand pills for a million ways convenience kills Break out the pigtails, break out the botox Bring on the 12-step intervention detox Well they’re calling out chanting qu’est-ce que c’est But back in my day, “B” was for the Babies We didn’t build this up so you could tear it down So put your hands together, yeah put your hands together Reach out, reach out Shake, shake, shake, shake Go on, come on and fuck the consequence We’re all dying from shit that hasn’t happened yet Every one of us reaching for the precipice Every one of us a slave to convenience Well they’re calling out chanting qu’est-ce que c’est But back in my day, “A” was for Anarchy We didn’t build this up so you could tear it down So put your hands together, yeah put your hands together Reach out, reach out Shake, shake, shake, shake
2.
Fuck you and your culture Cuz you keep fucking with mine Write me off with your pre-fab agenda Make me stand behind party lines Stop talking and kill me Kill me with your truth Make me swallow whole-hog or half-baked Just give it to me straight You want to proselytize You want to save a soul Do us a favor And start with your own Stop short at discovery And chop it off at the wrist That severed hand and your severed logic Have more in common than you think Please your honor just hear me Yeah, if it pleases the court We were endowed with a head & heart And I pray to God that they work You want to proselytize You want to save a soul Do us a favor And start with your own Signing off for Mr. & Mrs. America, and all the ships at sea… You can kiss my black ass Yeah, fuck you and your culture Cuz you keep fucking with mine Write me off with your pre-fab agenda Make me stand behind party lines Stop talking and kill me Kill me with your truth Make me swallow whole-hog or half-baked Just give it to me straight Yeah, give it to me straight
3.
Dead Things 02:44
For the hearses and the curses For the roles that have reversed us For the leaders that pretend, their words stand end on end For the questions, that’s why For the exes on your eyes For all you thought you knew, and all the ways it came unglued Yeah, it’s classic Over-acting You worked so hard to Come off genuine For the plastic, for the paint For the meds that keep you sane For all your friends that passed on Their ghosts still sing along Our pessimism’s optimized and All of us are mobilized Here’s to the caustic, here’s to you Here’s to all we’re taught is true Yeah, it’s classic Over-acting You worked so hard to Come off genuine We’ve done more than you ever did before There’s no regrets, no remorse, no recompense So raise your hands, smash a glass and destroy They killed our faith, but they can’t kill our joy Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah In the distance I see dead things… But maybe… Maybe they’re alive
4.
Action Bills 04:06
Your eyes as wide As the pills you swallow Be they crass or coy Their effects are detrimental Called out to the cause – the rejects One at a time You’ve got your money & credit And I’ve got mine Well what could be better Yeah, what would be best We’re the handful of hollow baby Filling up your chest Called out to the cause – the rejects One at a time You’ve got your money & credit And I’ve got mine Your pulse declines In the pit of the world’s biggest stomach Cut off and tied To all the shit you hurl upon it Called out to the cause – the rejects One at a time You’ve got your money & credit And I’ve got mine And all the ones that you despise, they work their way into your life Cut ‘em out like cancer one at a time, but they come back The harder you fight, fight, let’s fucking fight Your eyes as wide As the pills you swallow Be they crass or coy Their effects are detrimental
5.
Merchants 02:17
Oh calm down and pass another round There’s no discussion when you’re drinkin’ And your armchair wisdom is so rare They ought to bottle & sell ya True North is true As long as currents pull through Sea legs, knife fights The Merchants turn out their lights All cut off with a wink, a nudge, a cough There’s no end to this seething Can you see the boy hiding in the man When his wounds start bleeding True North is true As long as currents pull through Sea legs, knife fights The Merchants turn out their lights You’re really something We’re so impressed You’re really something Makes us want to… Oh calm down, just calm down There’s nothing here worth seeing Their blood rites wrapped in dress whites They wave their flag of hate across this country
6.
Lighters Out 02:11
Yeah, surreptitious Your forked and jagged tongue You slip the knife in As soon as our backs are turned With pained precision You hatch plans to eat your own A malevolent failure A modern-day Caligula Cast out the demons All the thoughts you call your own While your moral compass Falls off its pendulum It’s semi-tragic All the ways you spite your face In the hopes of spreading Your righteous bitterness Something’s always killing you man, something always kills Too many powders and too many pills, pills, pills Let’s get the gas out, let’s set it ablaze We’ll let this mother burn for 40 nights and days Lighters out, lighters out, lighters out man, lighters out… Yeah, surreptitious Your forked and jagged tongue You slip the knife in As soon as our backs are turned With pained precision You hatch plans to eat your own A malevolent failure A modern-day Caligula

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Recorded and mixed electrically by
Alex Newport in July of 2008
at Future Shock Studios - Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

Mastered by Paul Gold
at Salt Mastering - Greenpoint, Brooklyn.

Mass: Matt Wittman
Time: Lee Diamond
Velocity: Steve Shodin
Volume: Ken Edge

Artwork/Design by Ken Edge

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released July 12, 2010

Lee Diamond: drum kit
Ken Edge: electric guitar
Stephen Shodin: vocals
Matt Wittman: electric bass

Backing vocals & hand claps: Ken, Matt, and Steve.

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Blood City Brooklyn, New York

According to some reports, it all started sometime in 2006, but nothing can be confirmed or denied. Speaking only in the broadest of generalities, it is fair to say that sometimes the group was sassy, and sometimes it was downright mean. On many occasions it was both, while also slipping into something utterly indescribable- a moulage of congealed blood if you will. Blood City are fucking dead!!!! ... more

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