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Cannon Fodder Tour EP

by Dr. Karate

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It's my life, versus ours.
2.
Emperor 05:28
Charlie Chaplin's speech from "The Great Dictator" (1940): I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an Emperor - that's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone, if possible -- Jew, gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another; human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world there's room for everyone and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful. But we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical, our cleverness hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. The aeroplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men, cries out for universal brotherhood for the unity of us all. Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women, and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me I say, "Do not despair." The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass and dictators die; and the power they took from the people will return to the people and so long as men die, liberty will never perish. Soldiers: Don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you, enslave you, who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel; who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men, machine men, with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines! You are not cattle! You are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts. You don't hate; only the unloved hate, the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers: Don't fight for slavery! Fight for liberty! In the seventeenth chapter of Saint Luke it is written, "the kingdom of God is within man" -- not one man, nor a group of men, but in all men, in you, you the people have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness. You the people have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. Then, in the name of democracy, let us use that power! Let us all unite!! Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give you the future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power, but they lie! They do not fulfill their promise; they never will. Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people!! Now, let us fight to fulfill that promise!! Let us fight to free the world, to do away with national barriers, to do away with greed, with hate and intolerance. Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness. Soldiers: In the name of democracy, let us all unite!!!
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With your feet on the air and your head on the ground Try this trick and spin it, yeah Your head will collapse But there's nothing in it And you'll ask yourself Where is my mind? [3x] Way out in the water See it swimmin' I was swimmin' in the Caribbean Animals were hiding behind the rocks Except the little fish But they told me, he swears Tryin' to talk to me, coy koi. Where is my mind? [3x] Way out in the water See it swimmin' With your feet on the air and your head on the ground Try this trick and spin it, yeah Your head will collapse If there's nothing in it And you'll ask yourself Where is my mind? [3x] Way out in the water See it swimmin' With your feet on the air and your head on the ground Try this trick and spin it, yeah Josh: Yeah we're cutting that part out [giggle]
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Smokescreen 06:26
Wake me Shake me from my sleep It's far too late and I've run out of dreams A smoke screen From tragedy It's easier to face from my TV Jaded Jaded How'd we get so? How'd we get so? And the footage Of the wreckage All the death counts I'm falling down I'm falling down And the gleaming White cities City busses I'm tuning out I'm tuning out Are you moved? Are you indifferent? Or are you just self absorbed like me? It's always disappointing Nothing seems to change within us Arguments and failed ambitions Cloud our thoughts, keep us safe from What's outside our blurry vision And I'm no different I'm nearly blinded Cool apathy Washes over me Until I can't breath Teach me to see My atrocity Before my lungs Fill up Blue diamonds on my shoulders Send me to sea The crushing waves will comfort me But in your waking hour Don't call for me My sinking bones won't hear your plea
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For what it's worth http://youtu.be/H1yYD2fM_K0?t=2s For what it's worth I swear I'm trying

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Live recordings for our "Every Band Is Terrible" 2014 mini-tour.

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released July 19, 2014

Dr. Karate (James, Josh, and David).

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St. Louis, MO

James Ostlund - guitar, bass, vocals

David Ruby - guitar, bass, vocals

Joshua Milligan - drums, vocals

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