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II

by MASADA

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1.
japan 02:15
bring your pieces to the table wait for the day when you are able and then we sing with elephants memory and invisible strings ____________________ es bleibt nur der rausch als illuminierte nachtseite des selbstmörderischen tages es bleibt nur das rauschen als geschäftige alternative zum todesdrang der stille es bleibt nur der rauch als hinweis und spur als leere hülle des verbrannten es bleibt nur das auch als floskel als schöner zu sagen als oder es bleibt dabei der weg ist der weg und das ziel bleibt das ziel daran sind die tage zu messen ___________________ too bright my light too light my spine and i’ll go as far as i can go entitled though i throw my bones and i catch my breath with less relapse chest further forward neck farther back
2.
to rest 03:30
i am one quarter fine extravagant simple swine a chuckle of swerves the birth of my nerves and you ask if i know it yet but i still don’t know my shit sedatory low can't be bothered to show ____________________ and so now fascists are shooting people in the middle of the street while their people are voting for this violence, drum this beat, sing this song of power proudly from the empty shell they are that they were sculpted into by the hands of history and war ____________________ von allen namen stehts den schlimmsten doch ich kann mich darin finden ____________________ by the idea that hell on earth would just vanish by itself and take with it all the bodies all the ashes as they fell there’s has been no consequence so how can we be be surprised by this force that we think is waking up but it just has never died ____________________ we are all stuck on this wheel and it grinds us down to dust and my eyes have started seeing what i first couldn’t and now must and it breaks my heart with ease fills my days with empty fear and one day we’ll talk in silence as our faces disappear
3.
I wanted change so I changed I wanted love so I loved I wanted peace so I broke I wanted hope so i lost rekindling hope seems to be treason how can we call this life I’m dying and you are not breathing so we are not alive i’ll let it break my spine here you have all my time
4.
work 02:56
no it is not the presentation it’s the context and the song that has seen this thing before and has been playing all along that surrounds your mere existence that has given you your voice and your thoughts and your ideas and the idea of your choice ___________________________ then i work until my hands are bleeding stumps and my lungs are flat and my thoughts are numb and my legs are broken and my spirit bare and have no more mirrors and i have no more stares and my voice is gone and my breath is dry and my hopeful singing just passes the time and then i am replaced by the following spare all the sweat and pain it’s like they were never there all the swallowed wrath an indifferent hiccup in space
5.
sweetness 01:37
so oh do not mistake my tone for graciousness of peace for i do hope that this fire burns the state and the police and the men that laugh at others all the men that live in peace for i hope the violence they bring are the end that they will see but there is no god no judgement no lever and no hell patriarchal power pulls the strings and rings the bell _______________ i cant replace your sweet embrace i cant replace your sweetness
6.
do no harm 02:13
and to feel this pain now is entitled and it’s because i was promised sense and now i‘m not getting what i wanted and my surprise, well it offends and it should, because these things well, they truly are not new and i am only starting to imagine how it must feel to be you _______________ my train is 45 minutes late all the engineers are busy developing self driving cars theres a guy in a suit standing right next to me and i don't know quite what it is but just hearing him talk on his phone makes me livid and super fucking sad ______________________ do no harm take no shit in the end i am glad i exist i just hope i‘ll do it differently _______________________ and because of this core frustration i lack essential motivation and even with consideration all we've got is automation i'm not writing from the heart i'm not writing from the heart what is writing from the heart what is writing from the heart
7.
still life 01:41
and sure they are lighting torches stealing bullets, writing books they are writing down our names they are remembering our looks __________________ what are the chances connect the dots as you fill out the answers i will forget the thoughts what makes my shapes my bones or my games my song or my shame am I composed of verses or of things I need to hide; from learning to unlearn and/or rewire reuse or retire I’ll be the basket you be the grapes you be the question I the sound it makes
8.
it’s the saddening of silence while the knees are slowly bent and time and days and weeks and months and centuries depend it’s the comfort of the creature who can wait for things to pass not in fear and not in danger and with a breath that still can last _________________ while we do crack we stay intact but there are other things we do
9.
horizont 01:50
phalanx of lenses dance of tenses friction of words I’ll make you feel things unheard find traces of limbs unused rejoice when found and regrown when bruised __________ horizontversprechen ohne aussicht. morgen wirds besser oder schlimmer denn ganz sicher gleich bleibt es nicht.
10.
ferry man 01:49
i am singing to you father oh you strongest of all things oh so fearless, oh so clueless to make a thing that sings more but just another song infused with your own way of things it’s the listening that’s missing and the pleasure that it brings what is strength if not a ladder that uses it’s own reach to lift others higher, others smaller, giving itself as a gift ___________ on infinite hold summer is ending sampled to pieces part time pretending pressed through new hands woven from old love lovingly trembling i am a terrified hum i am a sum i have a lot of flaws but that isn't one

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this is our second record.
our music is meant to be played live.
however, things changed in 2020/2021 due to covid-19.
we miss playing shows!

but still - we played all of this at red audio in herzogenaurach in september 2020.
thanks to rafi and chris for the live recordings!
our music was mixed and mastered by will at dead air studios. thanks!

thanks to flo for layouting the artwork!
thomas, pascal, anika, magdalena - thank you for your help with the cover photo.

we have been working on this record since
our trip to japan in 2018.
keisuke made this journey possible and is
part of the song 'do no harm'.
thank you for everything!

we would like to thank our friends and families
for their love and care!

if you read this lines...
... support your local antifa,
... support feminist projects and politics,
... abolish all borders, prisons, the police
and capitalism!

if you have money to spend, give it to...
... alarmphone
... ni una menos
... and again: your local antifa!

masada - july 2021
lukas - julian - hanni - clemens

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released October 25, 2021

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