CONTRAVENE LYRICS

"The Lies They Want Us To Swallow"

Miles beneath the earth, another machine is drilling.
Producing the products of mass consumption.
The one we feel is worth killing for.
Taking the lives of the people, choking the life out of earth.
Organized death squads to silence the protests, to ensure their profits worth.
The real facts are plain to see, life means shit to these oil companies.
They'll murder they'll lie, cover up, deny,
Destroy indigenous cultures and poison our earth.

Billions of dollars a year, but still it's not enough
Everyday they create a new way to turn over another buck
Exxon is the largest - with a 150 billion a year,
But for their workers and the environment do you think they fucking care?
Their air pollution record is the worst in the business
And in Venezuela they're destroying the rain forest.
In 1989, one of their tankers ran aground,
Spilling 11 million gallons of oil into Prince William Sound.
They use toxic chemicals in their refineries,
And falsify their records to keep the truth from you and me.
Texaco is close behind with one of the sickest histories.
They made millions selling oil and gas illegally to the Nazis.

And they're tied in with Chevron, as the company Caltex,
Where deep in Indonesia they support apartheid governments.
In the interest of oil, the company suppressed protests,
Issuing security forces to destroy indigenous cultures.
They use toxic chemicals, in their gasoline
Dump toxic waste in oceans and support anti-environmental campaigns.
Then there's fucking Shell, who merged with Texaco,
And now they're the second largest, oil company in the world.

In 1989 they worked out deals with Nigeria,
To create death squads and silence protests and killed Ken Saro Wiwa.
Others were hanged arrested or murdered for disrupting Shell's operations.
In villages millions were killed for protesting their pollution.
Their list is endless from murder to production of illegal chemicals.
They co-ran operations at the Rocky Mountain Arsenal.
And this is only the beginning of the policies these companies follow.
A far fucking cry from the lies they want us to swallow.

The real facts are plain to see, life means shit to these oil companies.
Where there are so many more alternatives that would put our world at ease.
End this fucking oppression and smash their fucking greed.
Cause there's more at steak than the money they make.
There's the lives they take, the lies make.
End their senseless tyranny, end their oppression smash their greed.

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