Bred In Captivity

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1.
Essential Worker (I Think My Boss Wants to Kill Me) 06:12
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Get up at 5 in the morning Put on my mask and my nitriles Ride my bike scared of the subway Danger and death all around me I work the pharmacy counter Suffer from crippling anxiety I am an essential worker I risk my life for society General Strike General Strike Shut it down General Strike General Strike Shut it down General Strike General Strike Shut it down General Strike General Strike Shut it down Why must I go to the office Just to maintain some computers? Why do I work at the market? I think my boss wants to kill me I am a nurse at the hospital My life is worth less than others I am an essential worker When I collapse no one bothers General Strike General Strike Shut it down General Strike General Strike Shut it down General Strike General Strike Shut it down General Strike General Strike Shut it down General Strike General Strike Shut it down General Strike General Strike Shut it down General Strike General Strike Shut it down General Strike General Strike Shut it down The working class and the ruling class Have nothing in common We have our needs and they have theirs They'll never let it trickle down The working class and the ruling class Have nothing in common We have to wait and while they get tested We service their hungry mouths The working class and the ruling class have nothing in common We have the numbers to offset All of their power and money The working class and the ruling class Have nothing in common When will we realize that the crisis we face Is a game of kill or be killed? It’s a game of kill or be killed? It’s a game of kill or be killed? General Strike General Strike Shut it down General Strike General Strike Shut it down General Strike General Strike Shut it down General Strike General Strike Shut it down General Strike General Strike Shut it down General Strike General Strike Shut it down General Strike General Strike Shut it down General Strike General Strike Shut it down
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We Don’t Trust the Cops 03:18
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They’re marching around in riot gear in the Upper West Side Arresting all the protest kids they’ll take us for a ride They’ll shock your ribs with a taser gun, smash your face with a billy club They’ll put a choke hold around your neck make sure you’ll never get up We don’t trust the cops We don’t trust the cops We don’t trust the cops We don’t trust the cops Oh no! They said there’s riots going on from Brooklyn to Portland town You don’t have a right to demonstrate if you are black or brown You know they don’t want no foreigners, there’s only one language here The great ICE purge has now begun they wanna make us disappear We don’t trust the cops We don’t trust the cops We don’t trust the cops We don’t trust the cops They’re fucking killers! This is a call for disobedience, a call for revolution Reform is not the strategy there’s only one solution Let’s take it to the fucking streets, let’s take it to the police stations Let’s take it straight to capital, there’s no collaboration We don’t trust the cops We don’t trust the cops Warriors of white supremacy - We don’t trust the cops The state enforcer is your enemy - We don’t trust the cops Fuck it up now! Burn that shit down! Reform is not the strategy Abolish the brutality Reform is not the strategy Abolish the brutality Reform is not the strategy Abolish the brutality Reform is not the strategy Abolish the brutality
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Resistance Song 03:11
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They wanna triple the rents in Astoria They buy the politicians and then they take all the cash They deploy the ICE surveillance camera Set the future on fire and turn it all into ash Then the call came from The Mighty AOC She said "will you stand down or will you stand with your community?" From Athens Square down to the Queensbridge If we fight back they won't get away with this Let's put all the landlords in prison Put the developers on the firing line Are you with me or will you hang me out to dry? Mission abort Amazon - you are under enemy fire Mission abort Amazon - you are under enemy fire They wanna triple the rents in Astoria They buy the politicians and then they take all the cash They deploy the ICE surveillance camera Set the future on fire and turn it all into ash Then the call came from The Mighty AOC She said "will you stand down or will you stand with your community?" From Athens Square down to the Queensbridge If we fight back they won't get away with this Let's put all the landlords in prison Put the developers on the firing line Are you with me or will you hang me out to dry? Mission abort Amazon - you are under enemy fire Mission abort Amazon - you are under enemy fire Mission abort Amazon - you are under enemy fire Mission abort Amazon - you are under enemy fire Fight back!!! From Athens Square down to the Queensbridge If we fight back they won't get away with this From Athens Square down to the Queensbridge If we fight back they won't get away with this From Athens Square down to the Queensbridge If we fight back they won't get away with this From Athens Square down to the Queensbridge If we fight back they won't get away with this
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5 AM Black Coffee Days 04:12
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In those 5 AM Black Coffee Days you know somebody's gotta get up and feed the babe He tried to creep through the bedroom floor when betrayed by the violence of the closing door You know somebody's gonna get it You know somebody's gonna get it You know somebody's gonna get it They had it coming In those 5 AM Black Coffee Days you know that nobody's safe once they draw the shades He woke up in the sweat of a fever dream, you know the cops never come when the baby screams You know somebody's gonna get it You know somebody's gonna get it You know somebody's gonna get it They had it coming And the chairs crashed on the bedroom walls The vacuum echoed in the empty halls He's wide awake again It's fucking 5 AM!!! And the chairs crashed on the bedroom walls The vacuum echoed in the empty halls He's wide awake again It's fucking 5 AM!!! You know somebody's gonna get it You know somebody's gonna get it You know somebody's gonna get it You know somebody's gonna get it You know somebody's gonna get it You know somebody's gonna get it You know somebody's gonna get it They had it coming
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The Year I Hit the Wall 02:36
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Is it a lockdown or it a coup d'é·tat? My head is fucked up from being inside all day My therapist warns against my latest obsession Cable news watching like mental pornography I tell my friends that everything’s just fine I have a job and I don’t have the virus But every day that I take my kid to the playground I lose my mind because of other’s behavior It’s all been taken We’ve all been forsaken And I feel shaken Is extinction on its way? Are these here our final days? Late in the evening I see the shadows Up on the walls of my railroad apartment They took to the cities with federal agents Cracking down, down ‘til they kidnap the activists I’m walking the dog and I see a man coughing His face is uncovered so THEY don’t control him I feel the sorrow of 300 thousand Lives that are gone but he has his freedom It’s all been taken We’ve all been forsaken And I feel shaken Is extinction on its way? Are these here our final days? Make a change before it’s too late, now On our knees we are free and mourning Broadcast said the end days are dawning On our knees we are free and mourning Broadcast said the end days are dawning On our knees we are free and mourning Broadcast said the end days are dawning Watch out! They’re coming for you!
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Month #6 (Karl’s Song) 04:27
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He kicked back It was Month number six We were excited despite the landlord's dirty tricks And in the night you are my star of hope That's why we fight and you know how the story goes What goes around (comes around) and some other stuff But the law is the law and it's not enough Oh baby boy, we need your affection Oh baby boy, we need your protection Crawling up mountains, crawling up mountains You haven't yet arrived but you know the subtext Shaking in the darkness, shaking in the darkness Gasping for first air and we're taking on the heartless You know it won't be long, you know it won't be long, and pretty soon we'll be singing Karl's song Where am I at? What am I doing here? Is this world safe or will it make me disappear? I'm screaming out. I'm blinded by the light I was just born and I've already started to fight I've got some questions for which there are no answers I'm scared to death but I guess I'll take my chances Oh mama bear, I need your protection Oh papa bear I need your affection Crawling up mountains, crawling up mountains You haven't yet arrived but you know the subtext Shaking in the darkness, shaking in the darkness Gasping for first air and we're taking on the heartless You know it won't be long, you know it won't be long, and pretty soon we'll be singing Karl's song Thrust into this world screaming at the top of our lungs Terrified and excited about the things that are bound to come And I'll do my best to keep you safe from the monsters under your bed and the teenage voices in your head "Turn the TV off and let's read a good book instead." That's what your mama said
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Red Flags 04:18
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We are the red flags, we are the silent scream, We are the clenched fist, we are the righteous dream We are the growling teeth, we are the lunatics, We are the Antichrist, we are the heretics We bite the hand that kills, take down the autocrat, We are the serf, the peasant, the precariat We are the Viet Cong, we are the PLO, We are the IRA, we are the CIO Occupy, decolonize this place Unify, tear down the barricades We are the red flags, we are the Wobblies, We are the anti-state, we are the victory We are the soldiers who lay down their guns, We are the ones who will do what is to be done We are the red flags, we are the angry mob, The West Virginia teachers walking off the job We are the BLM, we are the prison strike We are the Antifa that keeps the them up at night Occupy, decolonize this place Unify, tear down the barricades Open the prison gates Disband the military Empty the churches Set fire to the factories Open the prison gates Disband the military Empty the churches Set fire to the factories Open the prison gates Disband the military Empty the churches Set fire to the factories Open the prison gates Disband the military Empty the churches Set fire to the factories Occupy, decolonize this place Unify, tear down the barricades Occupy, the time has come Unify, add up the sum
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The Verdict 05:10
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IV dripping bags of fluid Patient tired fighting nature Coughing sleeping waking vomit Machines beeping nurses on it Son convicted Verdict guilty Son convicted Verdict guilty Son convicted Verdict guilty Is it too late now? Is it too late now? Is it too late now? Is it too late now? Head is tilted mouth is silent Color greying skin is yellow Mind is fuzzy vision foggy Lungs infected breathing shallow Son convicted Verdict guilty Son convicted Verdict guilty Son convicted Verdict guilty Is it too late now? Is it too late now? Is it too late now? Is it too late now? Tell me father please forgive me For the times I acted selfish, selfish, selfish
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Periodical 06:27
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Periodical You swallow gold and spout the funk, you swallow gold and spout the funk You swallow gold and spout the funk, you swallow gold and spout the funk You swallow gold and spout the funk, you swallow gold and spout the funk You swallow gold and spout the funk, you swallow gold and spout the funk Interval 1. You set your ire on everything and everything beneath the sun and there we were on bended knee beneath your ghostly majesty the executioners decree of fire or flood of anarchy or apathy or atrophy of arks and fire and Babylon of black hole sun of welts and pelts and coal mine junk You swallow gold and spout the funk, you swallow gold and spout the funk You swallow gold and spout the funk, you swallow gold Interval 2. You drive the screw and bash the nails into the walls that can't be scaled you warn of bandits at the moats and pirate thugs aboard the boats the terror boys from other lands the Satanists from metal bands the other is the enemy the antichrists of anarchy you praise the cops and waste the punks You swallow gold and spout the funk, you swallow gold and spout the funk You swallow gold and spout the funk, you swallow gold and spout the funk Interval 3. The feudal lords the ministry they bring the peasants to their knees they blame the hordes for all that ails the mothers cry the babies wail watch as the serpent eats its tail they live on shit they live on junk You swallow gold and spout the funk, you swallow gold and spout the funk You spout the funk Interval 4. The stop the fire you close the door and duck and cover on the floor you search for borders to defend and cut me at the throat my friend with a blade that's dull and full of rust the patient that may not survive was scientifically revived my mystics clerics holy ghosts that keep their secrets in a trunk You swallow gold and spout the funk, you swallow gold and spout the funk You swallow gold and spout the funk, you swallow gold and spout the funk You spout the funk You spout the funk You spout the funk You spout the funk You spout the funk You spout the funk You spout the funk
10.
U R The Spark 04:28
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You said that you're unhappy when it rains I said this world is pretty fucked up so I will not dismiss your complaints Do you think that it's a criminal point of view To say that I select you everyday because of and despite of you Do you believe that we are fools? It took off like a rocket, high velocity, titanium melting fuel Do you believe that this is real? I love you for the highs and lows and in-betweens because you make me feel I said there is no triumph without struggle There are no rainbows without raindrops From the frightening clouds above There can't be hope if there's no trouble There's only sunshine after dark You are the spark, you're my forever love My forever love You said the river flows and ebbs I said that you like me have been caught And fought your way through the spider webs Sometimes we laugh, sometimes we cry You're bittersweet but kind of neat I've got a song for everything above the sky I said there is no triumph without struggle There are no rainbows without raindrops From the frightening clouds above There can't be hope if there's no trouble There's only sunshine after dark You are the spark, you're my forever love Buyer beware this product comes with damage and a troubled past A closet full of skeletons and misadventures that could never last But if you choose me then I'll choose you And I promise to try not to ever make you cry I'll write you love songs, write you mad songs about everything above the sky Don't you know that you're the spark?
11.
I Wanna Be Your Dog 03:42
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So messed up I want you here In my room I need you here Soon we're gonna be face-to-face And I'll lay right down in my favorite place Now I wanna be your dog Now I wanna be your dog Now I wanna be your dog Well c'mon Now I'm ready to close my eyes Now I'm ready to close my mind Now I'm ready to feel your hand And lose my heart on the burning sands Now I wanna be your dog Now I wanna be your dog Now I wanna be your dog Well c'mon Now I’m ready to close my eyes Now I’m ready to close my mind Now I’m ready to feel your hand And lose my heart on the burning sands Now I wanna be your dog Now I wanna be your dog Now I wanna be your dog Well c’mon
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When You Can’t Forgive the Wrong 03:48
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There were ashes in a jar in a house of the dead People told silly stories to deflect from their dread An injustice had happened, but they just didn't know Whether to acknowledge it and just how far could they go When you can't forgive the wrong We can't say it so we let it be sung and it's a given That I just can't let it go And the filler clowns shuffle along They're not forgiven You said this destroyed you the last time we spoke You said you'd take steps you were going for broke But it’s a one week, a two week and you're laughing again And I’m so angry I'm shaking, you're who you've always been When it's wrong, it's wrong, it's wrong The poison people laugh all night long and it's a given I refuse to just let it go And I'll say it and put it in song They're not forgiven The elasticity of toxicities un-responded Led to the tragedy of a life absconded We elevated the jaded broken poison pills in our community And now we suffer the discord of decadence and disunity So let it count for something this fucked up scenario Let it have meaning so we can improve and disprove The notions of maybe partying will help It's time to face life It's time to out-live our enemies There were ashes in a jar in a house of the dead People told silly stories to deflect from their dread An injustice had happened, and they just didn't know Whether to acknowledge it and just how far could they go When you can't forgive the wrong We can't say it so we let it be sung and it's a given That I just can't let it go And the filler clowns shuffle along They're not forgiven They’re not forgiven, they're not forgiven

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released July 21, 2022

Sam Rasiotis – vocals, guitars, bass, drum programming, toy sleigh bells, toy tambourine
Kyle Rogers – bass
Dave Siegel – piano, keyboards, saxophone
Keith Malonis – drums (on We Don’t Trust the Cops)
Rachel Swaner – keyboards (on Cops)
Ben Olson – guitar, bass, synthesizers, electronic percussion (on Periodical)
Joe Pepe – acoustic guitar (on When You Can’t Forgive the Wrong)

Produced and Mixed by Rasiotis and Rogers
Mastered by Rogers

All Songs written by Sam Rasiotis, Kyle Rogers, Dave Siegel and Keith Malonis, except The Verdict
(Rasiotis), Resistance Song and The Year I Hit the Wall (Rasiotis, Cambria, Reid and Coakley), I Wanna Be
Your Dog (Dave Alexander, Iggy Pop, Ron Asheton, Scott Asheton), Periodical (Rasiotis, Olson) and
When You Can’t Forgive the Wrong (Rasiotis and Pepe)

Dedicated to Keith Malonis and to those we lost during the pandemic.

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Bred In Captivity is a NYC based project, lead by Sam Rasiotis and made with a group of good friends remotely during lockdown, an evolution of The Assassination Plot and Dirty Wings

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