Burn - Last Great Sea 2002

So rumor has it this record was recorded a bit after the s/t but wasn't released by rev until almost ten years later. Burn went on many hiatuses and reunited often throughout their short lifespan as a band. This record and Cleanse came out when I was getting into contemporary hardcore so I was definitely intrigued by them and listened often. My favorite Burn record fluctuates often because I love them all so much for different reasons but it seems most often to be Last Great Sea. There's almost a themed progression from the first track to the last. New Morality kicks it off politically poignant, tales of shatou fuses these politics with emotion, and last great sea ends in a slow, sad depressive self indulgence. I love it.







1. New Morality
It's the new morality
Programmed media is all we see
Refuse to question
We believe the lie
Worship the only thing that currency buys
For god and government
For the rich and the affluent
The church and state support the upper class
With greed deceit and prejudice
Who set that standard
Who made the call
For so many to have nothing
And so few to have it all
And how can you resign to say
Everything is fine when a man is only seen as a dollar sign
Eradicate the deviant
Deviate the education educate with
Ignorance for the protection of our nation
Illegalize diversity
Remove it so no one can see
Out of sight and out of mind
Making sure the public eye is blind
Refuse to see we can only be
A casualty of the major immorality
If they talk should we listen
Haven't I asked this before
And in reality none of us are free
And they'll be no end to this war
Leave it all up to fate
And we'll spend our lives on our knees
Fight back
Those who don't remember the past are only forced to repeat it again and again
We've all seen this before
And those who remain will end up mopping up the blood of the killing floor

2. Tales of Shatou
Two children are born into this world
The thrill exceeds
From rival sides of the tracks each other's counterpart
One has the world but the world has the other strung up by the collar
To keep him where he is forever and a lifetime
So he'll die alongside his brother
Who is dying from inflicted disease and cannot fight
Mentally lynched into his addiction that controls his life
Mean while on the other side
There's no tears from any eyes
One mother laughs the other cries
The scars are real there's no disguise
Fates twisted idea
They'll always be trapped here
While some of the rich just laugh and smile
The poor are trapped in an insane asylum vial
Life goes on
On the sweeter side a child nurtured grows intelligent and strong
On that more familiar side something somewhere always has to go wrong
But is it a mistake
Life goes on

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