Name: Strata
Duration: P00H04M05S
Description: I did this song as a demo when AoF reunited in 2010 and recorded New Normal Catastrophe. For some reason the band could never get the vibe I got on this demo; I tried it later with RSA and Dead Ending as well, but something about the machine drums and the wall of guitars could never be repeated. So here is the original, which still seems oddly the best version of this I could make.

Strata

by VIC BONDI

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I did this song as a demo when AoF reunited in 2010 and recorded New Normal Catastrophe. For some reason the band could never get the vibe I got on this demo; I tried it later with RSA and Dead Ending as well, but something about the machine drums and the wall of guitars could never be repeated. So here is the original, which still seems oddly the best version of this I could make.

lyrics

I feel like I'm buried alive
All those layers of strata
overwhelm my sight
I can't see daylight
I can't see sky
My ears are ringing with lies

I can't live under this rock
I need to get up
What I want is free
I'd pull myself up
by my own bootstraps
If they weren't so busy
cutting me off at the knees.

Strata.

There's an entire class
buried under this trash.
A thousand talking heads
spreading it on so thick
We're being bulldozed by the rich
pushing layer after layer after layer
of bullshit.

Strata piles higher and higher
The situation dire...

Strata.

They're interring the social contract
and cremating the common interest
They're piling on all that feudal matter
and leading the best and brightest
to slaughter

The gravediggers of history
are out to bury me
and everyone like me
All well past their use
too close to the truth
Everyone is expendable
If your only interest is capital.

Capital.

Strata.

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released August 22, 2020

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VIC BONDI Seattle, Washington

I've been playing music for forty years--since the beginnings of the American hardcore punk movement in the 1980s. This band camp site is where I make a variety of my non-band project experiments available--solo tracks; covers; movie soundtracks, etc. Most of it is not hardcore. For that, see the links below. ... more

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