This song took us a really long time to write. It was originally almost twice as long and had an extended thrash-out at the intro. It was almost impossible to play, but we tried to a couple times live anyways. Originally, it was just going to be about a police officer doing whatever it took to protect corporate interest (riot cops in Brazil when the country spent millions it didn't have to pay FIFA were the muse, but examples from Canada can be found without looking very hard as well). But, through writing it, it morphed to be about the big divide between (most) Canadians' lives and the lives of most people in the rest of the world — The fact that we aren't protesting anything at all, while there are others that have to fight for their access to drinking water. How long is this going to last?
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Tear gas and rubber bullets straight in the face of a women in the frontlines. Her right to assemble now qualifies as crime. "I was just doing my job," says the cop, whose gun still smokes. I'm so far removed from these images on a screen. Of policemen wearing armour as if they go to war. This isn't a fucking battle, it's just a message to the poor. Is this the doom written within our nature? You do not have a say. You do not have a voice. You will not make a change. Step aside or be destroyed. Is this the doom written within our nature? How long will they continue to live downstream?
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