Coke Bust - Degradation EP

Coke Bust
Degradation EP
2010

1. Another Fucking Problem (0:40)
Work, death, bills, debt, time, life, stress. Fuck, when will it end? I am just a simple man. I do everything I can to keep the peace, make ends meet, make it work, make you see. Stability, health, future, fights. Done it all clean, obeyed all their rules. I try my best but I still seem to lose. I'm in over my head, and I can't seem to solve them.
Just another fucking problem.

2. Long Gone (1:02)
Been quiet for so long and now it's adding up. You try to cope but. it's just too tough. All of us should have seen this coming. All of us should have been prepared. Long gone after building your wall and you're long gone from distancing yourself. You need to understand that you aren't alone. A lot of us have been through this ourselves. We' re reaching out but you don't listen. We try to talk but you shut us out. We're not here to blame, we' re here to help and it's no fucking use. You're throwing it away and losing your life. you' re prepared to say 'fuck it' and pay the ultimate price. Take a look at yourself, take a look at what's real. You have all this support. You're lying to yourself if you think everything's fine. You refuse to be helped and you ignore all the signs.

3. Keep Out (0:53)
Vision's blurred, excitement thrills- in your nose and up your face. Classy enough, give and take another line of the blow. Violence and death caused by the trade; pay for it and there's blood on your hands. Keep out. Unregulated capitalism in all of its glory and you stumble to meet it's demands.You never questioned what you do. You're having fun and it keeps you loose. You hit your peak- it keeps you idle. Go ahead, what' s your excuse. You bought in and paid for their ploys. These giants profit off your demise. Destroying your friends and fucking your families and you buy and you buy and you buy. Keep out with that fucking shit. It keeps you useless, keeps you in a bind. You stumble across the floor and have a stone for your mind.

4. Degradation (0:51)
People over people and fictitious kings calling all the shots and pulling the strings. On the median in the heat, begging for change, and sleeping in the street. Put on a stage and verbally abused, put in a costume, while he serves them their food.
Degradation- how we cope.
Degradation- we pass along.
Degradation- how we react.
It's a war of the classes and the lines have been drawn. Degrade.
They're peacefully losing while you assert Your dominance.
and bruising while you flash Your dominance.
They're bleeding and bruising while you flash your dominance.

5. No Authority (0:46)
Preaching and scolding judging when you come around. You feed us your borrowed rhetoric and try your best to fucking wash it down. Who are you?
Come from outside and have no fucking relevance. Your involvement extends as far as your control of this.
Your rules + our scene, and you call it unity?
This is ours, we don't need no authority.

6. Deathbed (1:48)
When your time is through
and you're forced to face your thoughts
will you look back with regret
at everything you've done?

When your time is done
would you do it again?
Tell me how you would feel.

Would you take it back?

x.
Recorded by Kevin at Developing Nations Studios on July 12th, 13th, and 22nd
Mastering by Smok Regiment.

Nicktape — Vocals
Jeremy — Guitar
Jubert — Bass
Chris — Drums

Thanks to: Robert Refuse, Grave Mistake, Kevin, Smok Regiment, Six Beaks, ThirdXParty, Headcount, Flo, Tom Ellis, Jeff DeSantis, harDCore, everyone that has helped us out in any way throughout the years.
Back Cover photo by Angela Owens.
Layout by Drugged Conscience.
REFUSE RECORDS 2010