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Is this a holy thing to see / In a rich and fruitful land / Babes reduces to misery / Fed with cold and usurous
hands / / Is that trembling cry a song? / Can it be a song of joy? / And so many children poor? / It is a land of poverty! / / And their sun does never shine / And their fields are bleak and bare / And their ways are filled with thorns / It is eternal winter there / / (For where-e’er the sun does shine, / And where-e’er the rain does fall, / Babe can never hunger there, / Nor poverty the mind appall.) / With alms of surplus / Those palms are kept alive / By abjuring this worthless order / Those hands will remain idle

William Blake, the writer of this poem, had already remarked that philanthropy or charity is among the most
hypocrite inventions of civilization. States and Churches were/are always happy to offer indulgences for a good price. These acts of deception are there to “justify” what is just being destroyed.
Can you imagine that there are still societies hidden from our eyes (or rather escaping from our view), where the word charity has no equivalent part in the tribes language? Maybe because they do take good care of each other and not just pretending it...

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from 12" split /w Rivers Run Dry, released October 21, 2012

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Tyrannicide Amsterdam, Netherlands

We're an angry political HC band from Amsterdam & Nijmegen (NL). We started playing in 2010 as a 3 piece, later D joined us on the second guitar.

Our music is about anarchy, ecology & animal liberation and all sorts of issues that we encounter in our daily lifes.

G - Git / Vox
D - Git / Vox
B - Bass / Vox
H - Drums / Vox ... more

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