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Dreams in a Vacuum

from Collateral Damage by PECULATE

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We must maintain
The dream we’ve attained
(On the backs of the poor).

A life of dreams,
Dreams of comfort.

We must maintain
The dream we’ve attained.
A life of dreams,
A dream of comfort.

Comfort
Is all we seek.
Comfort
Makes up our dreams.
And we will maintain these dreams
By any means necessary.

We must maintain
The dream we’ve attained.
And, in order to do that,
Someone’s gotta be kept in chains.

(So we must ask ourselves.)
What are we willing to pay
For our comfort?
For our privilege?
And who is going to
Pay for it?

Welcome to the world.
You might wanna go back to sleep.
Know:
They dream to live;
We live to dream.

Welcome to the (ravished) world.
You might wanna go back to sleep.
Know:
They dream to live;
So that we can
Live to dream.

Dreams and lives
In our world of
Comfort and privilege
Don’t happen in a vacuum.
They come at quite the price:
The lives of the poor.

Dreams and lives
In our world of
Comfort and privilege
Don’t happen in a vacuum.
They come at quite the price:
The destruction of our world.
The destruction of everyone’s world.

Open your eyes.
Wake up from the dream.
Open your eyes
To a ravished world.

We must maintain
The dream we’ve attained.
And, in order to do that,
Someone’s gotta be kept in chains.

We must maintain
The dream we entertain,
And to do that,
At the price we expect,
At the price we demand,
Someone must be kept in chains.

This is the price of our comfort,
Our privilege.
Take a good look:
Dead children,
Sweatshops,
Genocide.
Take a good fucking look.

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from Collateral Damage, released March 18, 2013

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Progressive metal and mathcore meet jazz fusion and avant-garde classical music ||| Metal in Opposition ||| (PECULATE is the solo project of composer and musician Ben Norton)

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