https://bandcamp.com/EmbeddedPlayer/album=3920907190/size=large/bgcol=ffffff/linkcol=0687f5/tracklist=false/artwork=small/transparent=true/So straight up I’d never heard these guys, but I have heard of OSK, and the mention of this split really piqued my interest and after checking out that track, damn, consider me majorly fucking INTO it.
I like the straight up raw feel of this, and like with most powerviolence/grind acts, the songs are short, violent and fun. But with Mercy For One, there’s a bit of a message here as well, drunk driving, suicide, jail time. I really appreciate this and think it’s a great track.
Lyrics are as follows:
a modern man’s tradition
The end of work-week celebration
Paint the town, drink it down
A macho expectation
The night has come you never learn
Take the back roads home
Death stalks the highway late at night
With mercy for only one
Broken glass and shattered teeth
Bodies twisted beyond belief
The bodies now rest in a family plot
Mercy for the one sleeping on a cell block
Good behavior cuts your time
15 years, out in 9
Is your life worth the 4 that you traded away?
For a little white cross and a roadside display
So drink yourself away
Try to forget what life’s become
But the ghosts of darker days
Will never leave you alone
I hope the gun in your mouth reminds you
Of a little boys last gasping breathe
I hope the gun in your mouth reminds you
There’s worse things to life than death
Why not in the meantime go check out Endorphins Lost on bandcamp and on facebook.
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