![Irony. Utility. Pretext. - Algiers](https://cdn.muztext.com/i/32847578338453925347.jpg)
Date of issue: 31.05.2015
Record label: Matador
Song language: English
Irony. Utility. Pretext. |
They said it’s not enough |
Just to shoot us down |
It’s a sound that’s systematized |
It’s a noise just to drown us out |
But when your time is come |
We’ll all be there |
Just to watch you fall |
And then one by one |
All the parasites will just fall off |
You put your vote in a ballot box |
This one’s marked UNDP |
Inscribe your tyrant’s name in blood |
Choice is the guillotine |
We’ll put our faith into Afro Pop |
In a decolonized context |
Espouse the aesthetes' contempt for ethos |
Irony, utility, pretext |
But all you can say |
«Embrace primitive man» |
(La-la-la-la-la, you say) |
«Destroy primitive man» |
(La-la-la-la-la, you say) |
«Embrace primitive man» |
(La-la-la-la-la, you say) |
«Destroy primitive man» |
(La-la-la-la-la, you say) |
«With our art |
We’ll transcend again» |
You put your hand out to shake |
Then they export you in chains |
You fought for centuries for change |
And they gave you more of the same |
They swapped the dogs and the cross |
For sublimated forestalling |
They changed the names of the boss |
Until you forgot who it was |
Find your favorite color |
So you can wash it out in your hymns |
Correcting primitive cracks into straight lines |
Superiority is born again |
We’ll put our faith into Afro Pop |
In a decolonized context |
Espouse the aesthetes' contempt for ethos |
Irony, utility, pretext |
But all you can say is… |
«Embrace primitive man» |
(La-la-la-la-la, you say) |
«Destroy primitive man» |
(La-la-la-la-la, you say) |
«Embrace primitive man» |
(La-la-la-la-la, you say) |
«Destroy primitive man» |
(La-la-la-la-la, you say) |
«With our art |
We’ll transcend again» |
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Blood | 2015 |
Cry of the Martyrs | 2017 |
Remains | 2015 |
Death March | 2017 |
Walk Like a Panther | 2017 |
The Underside of Power | 2017 |
Dispossession | 2020 |
Black Eunuch | 2015 |
Losing Is Ours | 2020 |
A Murmur. A Sign. | 2017 |
There Is No Year | 2020 |
Games | 2015 |
Animals | 2017 |
Claudette | 2015 |
And When You Fall | 2015 |
Mme Rieux | 2017 |
Plague Years | 2017 |
Hour Of The Furnaces | 2020 |
Hymn for an Average Man | 2017 |
Unoccupied | 2020 |