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Ghost Slave

from Cancer by NOWHERE

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"At first the burned dead were trees, and later the longer dead, in the form of coal and oil. The energy released in this burning originally struck the earth when these plants and animals were alive, and had been stored in their bodies. Of course using energy stored in the bodies of others is old news: everybody’s been doing that since they learned how to metabolize. And everybody who has ever used fire to keep themselves warm has used energy stored in trees, or coal, for that matter. The big change was in the conversion of these dead into mechanical energy, into what Catton and others call “ghost slaves.” - Derrick Jensen

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Its a long dusk...
The sun sets in the west
My ghost slaves pave new ways for me to undress, defile, detest
But here in my new clothes
Of flesh pulled over bone
Meditation and water are wedded forever
And I'm dry...

The first thing that one must do
Upon arrival to some place new
Search under every stone
For new flesh blooming on old bones

Because I am my human shield
Navigating my own mine field
I am white phosphor, I am searing skin
I am my own mother fucking puppet government
I am the sweating hand
Of the shaking finger that sits on the button
As blood beats in it's cage full of cancer
And the bone tree is blooming once again

So as you make your way through the webs of the spiders you think you miss
Licking on wounds you wish that did but never did exist
In your warm bath water as the world burns around you
You can choose but one of two
Salve paved roads that come rise to meet you... then bend.

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from Cancer, released May 29, 2014

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NOWHERE Berlin, Germany

Nowhere is a three piece punk-rock band that sings songs about disease, the politics of international migration and bad, 90s sci-fi.

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