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Pity Party

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Sick 03:24
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What Is Love 04:21
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about

Hello and welcome to the latest release from Canada's foremost futuregrunge entity, The Swine. Included are THE MOST PERSONAL SONGS FROM THE BAND TO DATE. It's an album full of self-loathing, pathos and the cyclical nature of failure. Want to know more? Keep reading but you'll probably regret it because I've included the lyrics this time.


About Bold Of You To Assume I Wouldn't Completely Fuck My Life Up:

I guess this is a song about repeating the same errors time and time again. I'm sure there's more to it than that but you'll have to read the lyrics to find out!

Lyrics:

Evaporation is my main form of being
Passing all of my faults into smoke
How else can I explain all of my errors
Without a single need to atone
I've gotten better at blaming myself
Without the need to ever seem weak
Self hate as a form of escape
Penance as bloodless as my own self critique

Bury me in a sea of regret
My own indulgent sorrow
Sadness to the point of distress
Stuck and feeling hollow
I beg to be absolved
Baptised in tomorrow
A clean slate still covered in filth
Still repeating his problems



About Suicide Prevention:

So, I was feeling bad this one time. Like, really bad. I won't lie. I was in a dark place. I was looking down into a deep hole in myself and I was about to end it. I was looking for a reason to go on. Hell, maybe just a reason to end it. And that's when it hit me. If I killed myself, I'd never know how the Saw franchise ended. I wish this was a joke but no. That's how deeply I was invested in the canon. But you know what? Sometimes it's the little things that keep you going in life. So keep going. Because you never know when you'll miss the next sequel in your favourite movie franchise.

Lyrics:

I'm gonna kill myself
I'm gonna end it all
No desire to live
No reason at all

I grab my pills
Reach for a knife
I'll end myself
I'm gonna do it tonight

Rope around my neck
I'm feeling no pain
Tightening the noose
Thoughts enter my brain

I'll never know
How it ends
My favourite show
So I'll just
Keep holding on

Keep holding on
Keep holding on
Keep holding on
Keep holding on


About Sick:

Sick is about depression and dissociation. As I've grown older, dissociation is something that I've had to deal with more and more to cope with some of the issues I've had in my life. So that's what this song is about. It's about not just the dissociation but also the experience of feeling dissociated. Walking around in a haze with your body and not quite knowing who you are. I'd say that this is probably the tonally darkest song on the album because unlike the other songs, it is purely bleak to me. There's no light. Just the feeling of grey desperation.

Lyrics:

feeling sick again
say it's in my head
i can't face the sun
feeling sick again

you can't hide away
from yourself
no escape
there's no way out

shut the door again
clouds in my head
feeling sick again
feeling sick again

you can't hide away
from yourself
no escape
there's no way out

gotta get it out (x4)
feeling sick again (x8)


About What Is Love:

I was going to record a super serious cover of this song as a joke but once I read the lyrics, I really started feeling that there was a lot of legitimate hurt that went into it. I think it's commonly thought of as this party jam but after reading to them, they seem to have come from a very sad, very broken place. So in retrospect, while I did record this as a joke, it fit in with the context of the album which is more than I can say about "Meat Police".


About Meat Police:

So, there's this fake news story going around how Biden is going to take away everybody's meat and it got me thinking. Not because I think the story is real, but because I started imagining this Judge Dredd hellscape. So I wrote a post about it on facebook so instead of just writing out a summary, I'm just going to paste in the post here instead so you can truly understand the context.

"I'm fascinated with the idea that people are pushing that Biden is pushing some anti-meat rhetoric right now that I've invented this whole dystopian society in my mind. In the future the president has instituted PERMANENT VEGAN MARTIAL LAW. Under the government, The Constitution no longer exists and there is only one Government: The Blood Order - a fascist dictatorship that took hold of the nation in the mid 21st century. The only rule in America is that of cruelty free eating. Anybody caught will be summarily executed and utilized as fertilizer to feed the nation's industrial plant farms. And every single day, millions go missing at the hands of the Meat Police who answer only to themselves. Their true dictate: control the population...with extreme prejudice."

So then I wrote a song about that.

Lyrics:
KICKING YOUR DOOR
GUN IN YOUR FACE
EATING A STEAK?
BLOW YOU AWAY

MEAT POLICE
MEAT POLICE
MEAT POLICE
MEAT POLICE

I AM THE LAW
ARRESTING YOUR BEEF
20 TO LIFE
FOR BEATING YOUR MEAT

MEAT POLICE
MEAT POLICE
MEAT POLICE
MEAT POLICE

PERMANENT
VEGAN MARTIAL LAW
NO CRUELTY
EXCEPT MY BOOT ON YOUR JAW
SAVE THE EARTH
OR WE'LL END YOUR LIFE
MEAT POLICE
PATROLLING TONIGHT

(ANNOYING SOLO)

MEAT POLICE
MEAT POLICE
MEAT POLICE
MEAT POLICE

credits

released May 7, 2021

art and music by aaron m.

This project has been made possible in part by the City of Grande Prairie
www.cityofgp.com

contact: theswineband@gmail.com

This album is provided under Creative Commons licensing and is available for use in private and commercial projects. If you have questions about use, please contact theswineband@gmail.com for more information.

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