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Payback Day

from Dissidentica by Lilou & John

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"Payback Day" is the band's signature song, and is by far the most popular song made by the duo. The song has aroused controversy due to its strong support for individual freedom and it is an attempt to describe the radicalization process among Libertarians, Conservatives and Nationalists that came out in the open after Donald Trump became American president in 2016. The song was also written as the band's only real protest song as it criticizes the widespread misuse of derogatory vocabulary to dehumanize people.

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Betrayal yes life was betrayal
A sewer that's where you were born
Born to a life of indifference
Prejudice violence and scorn
You learned that trust was a bastard
Tried to rise after each blow
Crawled in the dirt on your knuckles
You swore you're the last one to go

And they called you a “nazi”, boy
Refused to be somebody's toy
Disgusted by their lies

Shunned by the fake news media
Who called you extreme right wing
They gave you the sign of an outcast
But you swore to never give in
Your brother was too scared to fight back
Wore hammer and sickle for free
And while he was smashing windows
You started earning money

And they called you a “nazi”, boy
Refused to be somebody's toy
Disgusted by their lies

They got you to mental asylum
Your brother a job for the press
They tore out your heart but they never
Could stop the beat in your chest
But the resistance was rapidly growing
And one day they pushed you too far
You tore off the shackles and said “boy
Never forget who you are”

And they called you a “nazi”, boy
Refused to be somebody's toy
Disgusted by their lies

A free man you walked out a free man
And stood on a rooftop and screamed
The ruling classes divide us
In the name of diversity
And crime has been spreading like cancer
The people on top suck us dry
You picked up a two barreled shotgun
Said “shoot me but I will not die”

And they called you a “nazi”, boy
Refused to be somebody's toy
Disgusted by their lies

And you screamed all over the city
“Stop believing their lies
Made up to keep them in power
And make you a slave 'til you die”
So slowly you took up a matchbox
Said “hell to this shit let it burn”
And you knew your brother was running
For payback – that’s one thing you’d learned

And they called you a “nazi”, boy
Refused to be somebody's toy
Disgusted by their lies

Disgusted by their lie

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from Dissidentica, released April 7, 2017

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Eclectic heterodox shadowband creating music for introspective dissent in Drone City.

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