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Creation and the Timeless Order of Things

by RACETRAITOR

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1.
Eid 03:26
The divinations of a child  To join the black parade  Behead the king, the torture regime  As the symphony played The Prophet, The Engineer The Holy Spirit made   The Mojahed, the sinners and the dead The hangman and the hanged They cast my father out to sea Our lifeboat shatters  Into a thousand splitters ساز نو آواز نو *x`xx
2.
Chamelecón 01:30
The soccer fields 
 Used for public executions 
While the river swells 
Our storm generation 
Blood begets blood 
Blood begets blood 
At night the demons 
 Dance on the rooftops 
Spirits like whispers 
Out of cedar trees Blood begets blood 
And becomes an ocean
 Blood begets blood Blood begets blood
3.
In cave of the Patriarchs  A ghost town is Old Hebron Gutted out by settler terror We laugh failure This joy they’ve taken away   Each street looms a sniper tower Each move tracked by a racist shooter We laugh failure This joy they’ve taken away   These checkpoints grade humanity The guys talk hip hop and family Normal is our sanctuary
4.
Godspeed 02:38
Primordial in their hope Primordial myths of old Fears that breed disarray  Escape to sea and  disarray  When we are dead
 Seek not our tomb in the earth
 But find it in the hearts of humans * Immortal I hear her voice  Immortal is a hostage child
 Sun worn face in Istanbul  Myths of old are primordial You’ll never understand what it is
 To abandon your home At the risk on never finding home again* Grow the vine
5.
Unceded traditional homelands of the Council of Three Fires 
Council of Three Fires Ojibwe, Odawa, Potawatomi 
Menominee, Miami and Ho-Chunk
 You slept so long you forgot my face 
Trail trees will help you find the way 
Drunk their medicine waters 
Keepers of fire
Keepers of fire 
Faith, trade, healing 
You slept so long you forgot my face 
Trail trees will help you find the way
 Breath in autodidactic learning 
To shed these hegemonic spoils  And I see their blessed home 
I see them live beyond grave 
I see them sow this ground Avow every sound 
It will never be safe 
It will never be alone
 It will never be whole
6.
The borders of dead empires Dug deep into the dead earth Like the lines scared into your face Two days later we could still see the blast  Bombs in the market White butterfly in her chest He wore black docs Hit this sword to dust 
7.
Black Creek Dirt boots so bold, soot eye The cup runs over with time Dancing in the cave New worlds in our darkened days These mountains scream our name Moments between long dead dreams 
 Extract carbon to taste The wine answers to the pitted fates Feet bound in mud and salt Your love escapes Ghomara’s Gate  Red River  The devil came on a white horse He rode past when she was a child On the banks of the river Guadalquivir White sinister face smiled with gold teeth Took her hand carry the flood
8.
Fashion a snake two-headed Murderous heart and eyes Trumpets of the last and wicked days United Fruit Co.  Your conquest of iron  Tied bruised wrists and mass graves  Countless histories of death and shame Trumpets of the last and wicked days Trumpets of the last and wicked days
9.
Sarcophagus 01:52
In the delusion of the dimmest light Piss tears to worship at these distant shores Brutal performance On these stages and courts Bees in your mouth Flowers in your hair
10.
It was the time of the supremacy plague Lay all to waste White borrowed crown You would say anything to call it your own The light shines on you The light shines on you
11.
Cape Rerenga 03:42
She came to the northern cape  Where the sea and ocean meet  Where they greet you by singing of ancestors and earth She tumbled in the waves  Still longing for so long ago In her heart she feels it burning again  Bruised and struggling to breath   Dragged by the colonial current But she found her voice In treaties and dance to be restorative
12.
Sword 01:10
Work don’t feel right A husk in burning light Still these towers grow Gulf tastes dead against my lips  A thirst oil can never quench  We are all slaves of We’re slaves of a better life You called me "sir” An honor I’ve never heard Please remember my toll We are all slaves of We’re slaves of a better life You don’t own the sea or sky
13.
We’re merely souls digging a  hole But again and again and again we hit bone Sail the ship to ghosts Seeking oblivion  Tectonic plate being A slow slide of santons Spinning again and again and again  Sail the ship to ghosts Release me release me now Pangaea اعضای یکدیگرند  * که در آفرينش ز یک گوهرند Gondwana and Laurasia 
Collapse to ruins once more یک بدن هيچ بدن

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Creation and the Timeless Order of Things (GFM103)
Written and produced by Racetraitor
Recorded at Electrical Audio by Greg Norman, Paint by Numbers by Stuart Sikes, and VoidDawn by Dan Binaei
Mixed by Greg Norman at Studio Greg Studios
Mastered at Audiosiege by Brad Boatright

*Lyrical attributions go to Shahram Nazeri, the tomb of Molana Rumi, Rupi Kaur, and Sa’di of Shiraz

Avaz performed on Eid was based on the poem by Hafiz.

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released November 17, 2023

Racetraitor is:

Dan Binaei: Guitar

Andrea Black: Guitar and Backing Vocals

R. Brent Decker: Bass Guitar

Andrew Hurley: Drums

Mani Mostofi: Vocals 

Guest vocals: Fared Shafinury, Patrick Hassan, Hera, Dennis Lyxzén, Ruben L. Garza Jr., Tim Kinsella, Stan Liszewski, Carrie Gerardi, Sanket Lama

Photography by Mustafa Esen
Layout and Design by Mani Mostofi and Chris Ledesma
Copy editing by Aasim Syed

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RACETRAITOR Chicago, Illinois

As one of the most political punk hardcore and metal bands of the 1990s, Racetraitor helped pioneer the blending of extreme metal with hardcore. Reformed in 2016, Racetraitor picked up right where they left off bringing their message and music into a new era. ... more

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