The simple explanation is that you have three characters on the album who all describe a certain situation from their point of view, which is the execution of a woman. - Rody Walker, vocalist of Protest The Hero. ------ Turn Soonest to the Sea Do you remember how it was when you bled? When you loved and burned in those flames that youve kept because Vestas long been sleeping? Now, youve come to accept that anatomy defines more than a few of the gaping holes in our social fabric, and it defines more than a few one night stands. And, I mention more than a few prison bars melted into wedding bands. Weve made you all the peasants and weve made ourselves the kings. Our queens are still subordinate as an angel (without wings). But, we make it easy to belong which means its easy to be wrong. Put some plastic in your tits, youd look better as a blonde.” I remember when you were hopeful - never thought your life would be lived inside a coffin with a moral sacrifice and a million social obligations, labels, and expectations - When you were young and a modern seventeen in vogue (and vague) pursuit (of a) cosmopolitan dream. So, when you bled on the bed as you fed those expectations - as a whore and not a human - you embraced, with hesitation, the very parameters of all you can be - not a mother, not an aunt, not a sister thats not subdued - because dignity is not physical and your flesh means more than you. And I know well all wake up one day with a gun to the back of our brains. Youll be asking for your rib, and Ill smile and Ill call you brave. Maybe someday, when this bloody skull has dried, (I’ll) know our city is in ruins when our greatest source of pride (is) a monument of dicks and ribs and the gender crown we wore. Where, underneath, a plaque will read No woman (is a whore.)” Ready, aim...
Posted on: Sat, 29 Nov 2014 09:08:21 +0000
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