Ben Harris
Man, the message of this hits hard. The three different languages spoken only serves to undermine how universal of an existential mass crisis the state of mental health is. The uneasy and skittish anthem for anyone painfully aware that the systems that exist to "help" you will do nothing of the sort, but also the added arbitrary pressure from everyone else expecting you to permanently act as if everything is okay all the time.
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about
The Russian and Chinese governments have been profoundly involved in the global opioid trade, as has the United States government. Chinese and Russian actors have been known to mass-produce carfentanil, a highly potent synthetic opioid, not only as a drug and cutting agent, but as a chemical weapon. Carfentanil and other fentanyl derivatives are the most common agents in what have been termed "deaths of despair" in the poorer, neglected regions of the United States and Russia.
The drug trade has always been wrapped up in political intrigue, and the role of the United States, specifically the CIA, is no exception. As Peter Dale Scott has written about, the so-called War on Drugs has mostly been an excuse for intelligence agencies and cartels, often in alliance, to enrich themselves at the expense of other people. Iran-Contra was only one small piece of the gigantic puzzle, and even then, it goes deeper than assumed.
For instance, the CIA in the '50s and '60s was deeply tied with the business of psychedelics manufacturing and distribution, in part because the recreational use of such enabled them to gather a large recruitment base for experiments involving combining drugs, electronics, and various forms of torture and abuse in order to determine if the individual mind, and society at large, could be controlled. Maybe it was these experiments that fed into worldwide delusions about electronic harassment, or what is often called 電波 in Japanese...
This is the first single for the upcoming second Rose with Teeth album.
lyrics
Александра Элбакян, моя любовь – милость твоя.
Знание заставляет меня потерять себя
в странных занятиях, что отвлекают
меня от боли, и волн, что они вещают.
I don't know what I am trying to do
with my time, with my life. I am waiting for you
to tell me what my move is, but I don't even know
who you are. Tell me when it is my time to go
and I'll go without a fight, but the horrific light
makes me wonder if it's worth having eyes and eyesight.
And I know that I'm waiting and I can't stand the wait
'cause the drugs are pumping in and I know I'll suffocate.
Russian transliteration:
Aleksandra Elbakian, moja liubov' – milost' tvoja.
Znanije zastavliajet menia poteriat' sebia
v strannyh zaniatijah, što otvlekajut
menia ot boli, i voln, što oni veščajut.
Russian translation:
Alexandra Elbakyan, I am in love with you.
Knowledge makes me lose myself
in strange preoccupations that distract me
from the pain and from the waves they broadcast.
Japanese transliteration:
Min'na tanoshimou to shite iru.
Demo, umaku ikimasen.
Daremoga nakitai, demo,
namida-kan ga kowarete iru.
Karera wa watashi no namida o nusunda.
Karera wa watashi no tanoshimi o nusunda.
Namida ga denai. Tanoshimenai.
Dare ni nani ga nokoru no?
English translation:
Everyone is trying to enjoy themselves,
but it's not working.
Everyone wants to cry,
but their tear ducts are broken.
They stole away my right to cry.
They stole away my right to enjoy.
If we can't cry or enjoy,
then what's left for anyone?
credits
released September 3, 2021
Personnel:
• Angie Sutherland
──vocals, guitars, bass, synths, lyrics, composition, production, mixing, mastering, cover art
• Spencer Rider
──saxophone, composition
• Liz W.
──translation assistance (Japanese)
• NEKOSATTVA
──translation assistance (Russian)
Notes:
Instruments and equipment used: Shure SM57 and SM58 microphones, Steinberg UR22mkII and Behringer U-Phoria UM2 USB audio interfaces, a Line 6 Variax 300 electric modelling guitar, an Ibanez GSR200 bass guitar, a Guild G37 acoustic guitar, a Yamaha Advantage YAS-200AD tenor saxophone, and Ableton Live using presets, the sforzando and Dexed VSTs, and the soundfont/library Virtual Playing Orchestra.
Wherever possible, care has been taken to tune all instruments to the Werckmeister III well temperament.
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