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A Lifelong Fight

by Optimal Crime

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1.
Reaper 00:47
Conscious choices My mistakes Done time Felt hate Burn like Trash I am Catching fire I withstand Body crumbles I scream Insides rot Infecting me Clench my fist Hardened veins Drawn blood My bane Left behind All I know A buried soul Hardly know Hear a knocking At my door The devil waits A burning core Fuck you
2.
Abort 01:50
How am I supposed to feel Rights stripped away Bound by law We have no say Where do we cross the line With unhealthy obsessions The fate of our fuckin’ lives We’ve got everything to lose Your body’s not your own Why does man have a say Ignorant unholy garbage Projecting misogyny How am I supposed to feel Rights stripped away Bound by law We have no say Where do we cross the line With unhealthy obsessions The fate of your fuckin’ lives We’ve got everything to lose You’ve taken all of me There's nothing left to give
3.
Pretty 02:50
I wake up everyday, wishing That I was still asleep In my dreams I feel alive Not just a face An inevitable reflection A hollow soul staring back Why can’t I see what they see I’m such a god damn piece of shit You’re too pretty to be sad they said Depicting sadness as ugliness Crying for help Oh it must just be a phase My internal suffering pinned as a hormonal fucking breakdown Stop fucking invalidating me I feel like I’m dying How low is low enough Until I’m 10 feel under Why me? It’s getting warmer everyday I’m closer than you think I wake up everyday, wishing That I was still asleep In my dreams I feel alive Not just a person with a face An inevitable reflection A hollow soul staring back Why can’t I see what they see I’m such a god damn piece of shit Self hatred grown within These expectations can’t be met I fucking hate myself What don’t you get Stop fucking invalidating me I feel like I’m dying How low is low enough Until I’m 10 ft under Why me?
4.
Static 01:17
I’ve got Question Unanswered thoughts Static fills my empty limbs Where my lazy bones once lived My blood dries away I've got Questions Unanswered thoughts It's no skin off my back It's been stretched thin I may be running out When will I feel alive Take a breathe And over ride Is this my own genocide
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6.
Morrigan 01:25
Drowning in my failure Weeping for those who don’t care I’m told to bite down on the knife I'll become stone, cold flesh to share Each of you care until I bleed All I am is broken glass My stomach is still rotting From trying to keep it clean The crow flies straight for those who die A candle burns for those who talk I feel pains the of child birth My singing turns too keen The crow flies straight for those who die A candle burns for those who talk Each of you care until I bleed All I am is your dark mask My stomach is still rotting From saying what I don’t mean Sell my body, gnaw my skin Everyone wants me undressed Burn my body prison of sex Nobody wants me to speak TAKE MY KNIFE YOUR MOUTH SO IT WILL BE
7.
Dissociate 01:53
Have you ever felt the agony Of needs sticking through your brain Walking on pins and feeling it In every waking god damn limb Is this a cure to help endure the pain For shit we wish never existed Corrupted minds, these negative thoughts Closing in worse than I thought I tried my best, it wasn’t enough A life long fight, a shackle and cuff I hear my name but nobodies there I long for help, my despair I see these faces glaring me Making judgments only they can see What makes you so different than me That's for only you to deceive If only we payed attention To those who silently yelled and screamed

about

Optimal Crime is a feminist hardcore punk band out of Minneapolis, MN. A Lifelong Fight is their debut EP. OC will be touring as soon as some one let's them out of the house. Get fucking ready!

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released June 3, 2020

Optimal Crime is:

Ace R. - Drums
Alissa D. - Vocals
Mike Giralico - Bass
Siobáhn Fideler - Guitar

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Knol Tate
Album art by Jackson Bunz
Band photos by Nels Potvin
Released and distributed by Don't Panic Records & Distro

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