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It Can't Happen Here

by Yatsu

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1.
Opportunistic vermin camouflage themselves Amongst the peacemakers To strip the meat from the carcass And slither back to their dens To tell their brood of their kill Our progress slips on the slick left in their wake
2.
Your infantile misanthropy lives only to feed On wet dreams of mass extinction Now you’re forced to live With your contributions to this dying earth like the rest of us Forced to live with your choice to neglect Just like all of us
3.
Self-appointed knights in rusted armor that would never fit Bringing war to their neighbor’s doorstep To make them sacrificial lambs They alone will bring war The world was burning before they smelled the smoke
4.
They pulled the flesh from Appomattox And built their homes from its bones School their children in bunkers just to hide the numbers Did you buy your gun yet? I can hear you preaching safety from your gated communities I can hear your screams over F-150s and AR-15s The blood of others feeds the roots of your safe spaces
5.
Your great white hope will fail you at every turn Your body will rot from the inside when you can’t afford that surgery
6.
Civic Duties 02:10
You’ve seen the bodies of men and women Used as fodder for the pigs You’ve seen the children orphaned overnight With parents stacked like meat inside of trailers Yes, you’ve seen it all, yet you ask… “What about how I feel?” “What about my revolution?” “I’d rather break my finger than push that button”
7.
When you’ve been killed in the street They’ll use your corpse as a soapbox To create a psalm A song only sung once
8.
The number of bars outnumber the morgues The number of mouth breathers outnumber the ICU beds
9.
It can’t happen here
10.
11.
Matricide 02:02
We used her skin To make suits for political figureheads Used her spine to build strip malls We siphoned oil from her breast to fuel machines Building bombs in factories Building bombs for schools overseas
12.
Whitewashed infographics And dietary substitutes for conservative blood Fuel the myopic outrage Our boiling blood propels forward into the jaws of division To be chewed and spit out like the misinformation we consume A million voices, a million solutions, a million hands pointing the finger Influencers and straw men flooding our timelines
13.
Wombs of mothers are being scraped clean To feed war machines harvesting new fodder That could have been you or me Give us your sick, we’ll use them We’ll keep them warm Covered in arms of war No doubt this blanket will keep you warm Covered in arms of war
14.
Jim Crow perches on the shoulders of senators Baby blue eyes watch your every move Their bloodline is foul But it lives on in the soil And on the signs of our streets Walk across those roads Band together just to fight A nation smothered beneath a white hood
15.
Confederate graves pollute your Dixieland It is nothing to be proud of
16.
We’re not better than this We never were We’ve bred generations of cops and rapists And then elected our own executioners Why are you acting so surprised? We’ve always had the blueprints We stuck to them the entire time We built the thrones they sit on Stop acting so surprised
17.
We were groomed by capitalist fathers And nursed by the teats of their weary wives And though the milk grew sour, we drank our fill Then we drank until we burst But that was not enough Now I just want to take and I don’t want to feel I want to choose to refuse To see what’s in front of me Then they sold me a dream If I could take a life not mine overnight I could be a king But I don’t want to know And I don’t want to feel I hate that I can see the selling of a false dream That they could all live like me

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released November 3, 2023

LIMITED EDITION VINYL ALSO AVAILABLE THROUGH THE GHOST IS CLEAR. ORDER HERE: theghostisclearrecords.com


Lane Oliver - Guitar
Josh Huddleston - Drums
Imran Syed - Bass/Vocals
JD Sweat - Vocals
Michael Briggs - Noise/Manipulation

All music and lyrics written by Yatsu
Except "It's Already Happening Here" by Ben Chisholm

Recorded, mixed, and mastered by Michael Briggs at Civil Audio in Denton, TX

Design and LP layout by Hell Simulation
CD and Cassette layout by Paul Pavlovich

Vinyl released through The Ghost Is Clear Records
CD/Tape released through Roman Numeral Records

PRESS:
"...despite the very real and very heavy subject matter, this is a highly replayable set of songs, full of inventive details, refreshingly unstuck to any canonical genre, but still coming across as familiar and as instantly exciting as a simpler raw grind record made as god (i.e. Napalm Death) intended."
-Decibel

"Blasting out of the DFW area in Texas, Yatsu (born as a band in 2019) already show that they’re not here to take prisoners. This album is revelatory, a clear denouncement of modern humanities choices, all to a chaotic hydra unmusical attack of venom and bile. Essential!"
-MoshPit Nation

"It's always a delight to hear fiercely and unapologetically left-leaning political metal and hardcore from the south, and Yatsu leave no room for confusion across the aptly titled It Can't Happen Here. Antifascism and anticapitalism are clear through-lines throughout the record, and the noisy, throat-searing cacophony drives the point home with such intensity, accentuated by a wrecking-ball of a rhythm section and inventive, textured riffing."
-Heavy Blog Is Heavy

"...this is the kind of raging, pissed off hardcore/powerviolence you need in your life that isn’t just 20 second blasts. The whole thing is fucking heavy, but it’s mixed into a stew where you get enough variety to keep things interesting and engaging throughout."
-Hex Records

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