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Be Your Own Authority

from Equilibrium Mixtape by Strife

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To each their own to reach our goals
Turn this shit up till the speaker blows
Decrypt the cypher, crack the code
Evolve our ways
Through solidarity and mutual aid
Sharing the feasts, that communities made
Dues have been paid, unite the human race
Do graffiti, put up stickers, tags, and stencils
Reclaim public space
Chuck the teevee out the window
Throw block parties with your friends and kinfolk
No one has superiority
We been broke
Throw seeds in the ground
Be your own authority
Trash the banks, defend minorities
Smash atms,
Fuck shit up with hammers
Cause some mayhem
And rip down some cameras
Talk to your neighbors,
Give gifts, share skills, don’t be a hater,
Start a commune, be a creator
Ain’t all about the paper, plant a garden,
Raise your children to be writers and artists
Never cut their losses but cut their carbon
Please Cut their carbon please they should cut their carbon


Live like you’ll die tomorrow
Die like you’ll live forever
Living on time that’s borrowed
It’s the final measure

Cash left us bleeding
Crash an investors meeting,
More than protestors pleading
We need Direct action,
Without leaders backing
Start a riot and attack them
You can’t stop this, it’s potent
Shoplift,
Take what you need from those who own it
Dumpster dive, give food to the homeless,
Worker’s cooperatives, we build from below
Find new ways to live, on less traveled roads
Squat foreclosed homes
Keep the landlords on their toes
Tree-sit, drive spikes into oaks
Reclaim your self-worth
No compromise in defense of the earth
Take a bat to petty tyrants and racists
Barn raise a pirate radio station
Demand the basics
Spread the underground across the airwaves
Copwatch to keep the law in their place
Organize for better conditions and fair pay
Run yuppie scum out on a rail
Your town is not their playground
Your Life is not for sale

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from Equilibrium Mixtape, released March 1, 2023

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strife

n.

1. Heated dissension; conflict or clash.
2. A struggle, fight, or battle.
3. Contention or competition between rivals.
4. Contest, controversy, combat, warfare.
4. An omnipresent force that punctuates the evolutionary process. ... more

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