Archiac Invigoration

Old Wounds Festering open
Boundaries of taste broken
Archiac Invigoration
A Species confused by anger


Let the evil build its force
Push too far to change the course
Archiac Invigoration
A species doomed to failure


Learn or fail from the start
Return to ways of the heart
Archiac Invigoration
A Species lost in the mire


Journeys end is sure to come
Breathing space, Gaia become
Archiac Invigoration
Species will rise higher


Feel the power of unity now
Feel the need, the way, the how
Archiac Invigoration
Species, Lift, Adapt, Inspire

Future

Searching For Meaning



Searching for Meaning

Damned by Design

Searching for feeling

Contradictions align



Severed link, old ways die

Case aside your chains

New ethos to live by



Searching for Meaning

Damned by Design

Searching for feelings

Contradictions align



Damaged goods

Lay fallow by grace

Not out of the woods

No Earth to replace





Anthropocene



All hail species of Man

Epoch of the damned

Hasten the end my friend

Extinction, we demand



Bring forth the flames

Poison the terrain

Hasten the end my friend

Rain on earths parade



Devotion to unseen lie

Glory, without fear, they die

Hasten the end my friend

Hatred, Forgotten, Goodbye



Devastation, scale beyond

Unaware, blind & wronged

Hasten the end my friend

Can we avoid this path were on?















Ocean of Humanity



Ocean of humanity

Tide of the last kind

Wave of lost of souls

Nature needs rewind



Ocean of humanity

Bright lights shine

Gracious in death

Autonomy enshrined



Ocean of humanity

Swathes of pain

Fleeing from war

Peace to obtain



Ocean of humanity

Mired in their filth

Change to come

Freedom to kill



Ocean of humanity, Lost beyond words, Ocean of humanity, Future reversed



Not in my name



Feeding the need for blood

Pressure on freedom

Security at price of love

Pressure on freedom



Feeling of being lost

System of Martydom

Counting up the cost

System of Martydom



Freedom,Love, Paying the price

Death, War, Powers device

Peace, unity, Pay the price

Money, God, Powers device



Profit over life and purity

No more war Game

Given over to complicity

No more war game



Death from above

Not in my name

No Peace, no love

Not in my name

Ggs coming up

EP is out on December 5th, on  bandcamp

https://woundedcross.bandcamp.com/album/bonecrusher

And various other places.

Postmortem of Britain - In Lyrics

Burdened

Succumbed to False
Burdened by fear
Indulged in Hate
Justice disappear

Allow the Madness
Grant them Grace
Allow the Evil
Put them in Place

Repentance coming
Punishment due
What to do now
All suffer for few

Only one option
Cards have been dealt
Only one option
The people Revolt.


War is coming

Batton down the hatches
Be ready for the assault
Batton down the hatches
Fear led to the fault

War is coming, Must prepare
Peoples army, do we dare?
Stand your ground,dont let down
Stand your ground, take back crown

Batton down the hatches
Keep your loved ones near
Batton down the hatches
No Saviour to appear

War is coming, Must unite
War is coming, ready the fight
Protect the innocent from the rich
Rally together, thats the pitch

Use your anger, use it well
Use that fury,Mass Rebel
Must unite to weather the storm
Must unite to reverse the norm

Change is coming, comes from within
Change is coming, its Happening


Cast The Fracture

Slither in by word of mouth
Face the Foulness head on
Bile spew, jaded now
Staring face of oppression

Boot of Power, Violent will
Resist purge & Fight on
Corrupt,misleading voices
Combat nature No long

Sick, unjust, but unaware
Right in name but wrong
Change the mind, hard task
All we want is to belong

Follow, follow, lead by death
Follow by proxy, fool prolong
Fall in line, listen to fear
Masters say you Belong

Who owns you? but you alone
Cant change mind, Hope gone
Make new system, old behind
Cast the Fracture, cruelty begone

Education, Immigration and War.

A Metalhead lost in a sea of politics.

Anybody that knows me knows that I am a very lazy person. Lazy,  something of an asshole at times and a bit of a loudmouth pisshead too. That’s fine, I can live with who I am. But in the last few weeks, I have been the most passionate, the most driven and the most excited about something than I have ever been. I would like to explain why.

It was teaching Media in 2010 that started me thinking about things. Understanding bias and seeing the difference between truth and spin has always been something that has interested me. A good friend of mine often loves to send me wild conspiracy theories, and sometimes its fun to find the original sources and rebuke them.

I remember seeing a news article about climate change and its possible ability to cause long term damage. I found it truly difficult to find any kind of realistic source to rebuke it.

It was around about this time that a news article came out that said that 85 people had as much wealth as the poorest half of the planet. I have never been wilfully naïve, I have always known that the world is a vastly unjust place on the whole, and the fact that this news wasn’t surprising was what shocked me the most. I decided, a good two years ago now to start buying New Scientist. I don’t see spin in this magazine, I see factual basis and scientific anaylsis. When they touched on the link between inequality and climate change, I saw the dots connect just as the scientific community already had.

I have never been a fan of politics or politicians. Despised it for a long time, and I still do. Difficult to find myself being involved in it, I once thought. The link between the climate change problem and the inequality problem is an issue bigger than simple politics. It angered me, It made me more interested in the social deprivation being dolled out onto my own country and people. I wondered, what can I do, as one person? Just sharing articles on Facebook isn’t enough. Just being on twitter and doing the same, sharing information with strangers, isn’t enough.

The damage that’s been done in the last five years has been surmountable. I have seen true stories of disabled people kicked out their homes, suicides due to welfare reforms, the poorest and most vunerable in society being hit by the harshest of sanctions and cuts. I have seen public services ravaged and turned into private businesses. The privatisation of the railways when Maggie was in was nothing compared to the rampant destruction that has been caused in the last 5,even 10 years. All of it is in the name of economic growth and the ideology of trickle down economics. Make the rich richer, and it will flow down the rest of us. This doesn’t work, and hasn’t worked. Scientific studies, Reports, surveys, and research has been done that proves this to be the case. Capitalism isn’t inherently evil, but when its allowed to be completely unregulated as it has, we see the wreck it leaves behind.

It was as clear to me now as it was then, something needs to change and we can only change a system that’s broken by fixing it en masse. Revolution, of course, was the topic of a lot of media, made pliable by the irksome, marmite character of Russell Brand.

We have to thank for him for bringing ideas of social justice and change into the public consciousness. No matter whether you like or loathe him, his presence HAS been effective for the better. Ridiculous really considering his recent about turn, but no less true.

How can we change the system? Without pulling it down with firebombs and riots? Reverse the power and influence this richest 0.01% have?

I researched the current political parties. I didn’t want to, but figured it was an obvious choice. When I got to the Greens, it became clear they offered something different. I didn’t know how different at first, and ill get to that.

I joined a year ago now. When I first joined I had barely any money to scrape together but felt like I wanted to make a point, it was summer 2014. A few weeks after joining and going to a meeting, it became clear, and no disrespect to any member, it was something much smaller than I expected. A bunch of good friends, campaigning on local issues.

I had met Terry white a few times. We were at a party for the Eurovision song contest, we often do them. I told him to join the Greens, he had a political background, and I suggested it would be good for them and for him, a point for him to rally behind. He joined, and became the candidate, and the rest leads me to the point when the manifesto was launched.

That Manifesto for the Green party….I don’t see this as a political manifesto in the same way that the other parties do things. If you look, at this 84 page document, there are changes in almost every aspect of human life that would benefit us for the long term, reduce inequality and ensure climate change is kept at bay. Its like all the social justice movements of the last couple of years have been connected together and joined together under one name.

In education, members have picked policies from the best education system in the world. In health, they have looked at research on every topic needed to ensure it makes our health service the strongest it can be. In Travel, they aim to invest into public services to eventually, longterm, have less cars on the road, reduce our carbon footprint. In Economy, they wish to make banks more accountable, stop them being able to create their own money, another research based policy chosen by members. That’s just a few examples. When I joined, I never thought id end up voting on policy at a conference, and I did. Any member can submit a change in a policy and as long as its voted in, it becomes actual policy. That’s real people power.

We have seen a massive uprising across the world in global consciousness, I never realised how linked it all was. I was spurred on further when I saw how Syriza took Greece, and how Podemos have risen in Spain. There is a clear people power movement being built across the world. When I read this document, it became clear to me this was the only logical answer to the issues we face here in our own country and that this is part of this global movement.

Since this election period, I have worked my nuts off. I have barely seen my wonderful, long suffering partner. I have worked everyday at the school, sometimes under a lot of pressure due to the coursework, finished at 5,gone out leafleting. I have leafleted, delivered posters,delivered billboards, attended hustings events, ran the social media presence (risen twitter from 400 to 1,290) and basically made sure as many people in our town have seen or met their candidate Terry. Its been like doing two jobs..but its been amazing fun.

I have never seen myself so driven, so passionate and so determined.

Politics is something we should all do. Not something that should be thrust upon us.

By Voting Green, you are using the system you hate against them. You are exercising the one small right they have given you, to take back what is yours. True People power, True Democracy, True change.

And that is my view on this election. Take it or leave it, I am glad ive made a mark.

Lyrics - musings - Bits n Bobs

Revolution

Message Received loud and clear
We dont want change,we want fear

Why let us hope when its easier not
Whats the point if it goes against the plot

No more talking, lead us into action
No more lying, truth is gaining traction

Planet wide now we see a change
Consciousness in rearrange



Biocentrist

Is this all illusion of hive mind Is this all made up by mankind

Is this all connected by the soul Is this all linked by some control

Collective awareness Matter simply lossless Chance is predetermined Fate is part of dreaming

As a race we ask no questions As a race we lack a direction It's time to ignore our clocks It's time to think outside the box

Reality is dawning Mass effect of waking Force of life surrounding Mysterys unravelling

As a race we ask no questions As a race we lack a direction It's time to destroy the clocks It's time to think outside the box Time and space is all relative Time to get Meditative.

Ancient Beast (not finished)

From the depths he rose
carrying vast tomes
laying waste in his path
bringing forth the aftermath

demon they shouted
beast was benevolent
knowledge was his aim
fear and violence overcame


Beauty of death (Poem)

The beauty of death is that its never really the end
Doesnt matter what you believe
Memories mean you live forever
Even if theres more to what we see and what we feel
The beauty of death is real.


Drag me to Hell

Spectral arms clasp my neck
Pulling and dragging
Spectral arms cant protect
Falling and forcing

Spectral demon bursts my eyes
Spectral demon cuts my time

What I did was worse than feared
What I did was beyond my tears

I deserve this graceful death
I deserve my final breath
I chose to cause pain, it was all my fault
I chose to judge and kill, by default

Spectral demons take me down
Spectral demons throw me around
Spectral demons righting wrongs
Spectral demons dont take too long

Sins to atone, truth be damned, curse on my soul, take my hand.


Vessels of Flesh

Energy Dictates form
Body vessel weathers storm

Function of space and void
Body vessel sadly devoid

Atom within the vessel of man
Atom makes matter not the plan

Corrosion of flesh, seperate from soul
Corrosion within, stress takes its toll

Release thyself from material desire
Release thyself from being higher

Flesh and bone is that alone
Pure energy is behind the cloak

Academisation.

Today I taught a class that I can only describe as Feral.

In the last year, I have worked in over 20+ Schools within a 40 mile radius of Rugby as a cover/supply teacher. I have finally found a place I like, so i'm chuffed (And in this post I am not explicitly criticising my current place of work) .

However, Something I have noticed has to be discussed.

A lot of the schools I have worked in have been turned into Academies. And essentially, it means they are no longer ran by the local Council, for the benefit of the public and the kids, but ran by private businesses, who tend to own several schools. I even worked in one owned by the Carphone warehouse...

When you turn a public service, such as a school or a hospital, into a business, there's something inherently lost. Perhaps its a duty of care towards its staff or kids, or perhaps its its beating heart or soul.

Whatever the case may be, so many of these Academies are suffering massive turnover of teaching staff. Unhappy with new demands placed upon them, or unhappy with the general attitude these new business led schools give towards them, or just generally angry, so they leave. This is not one school, but practically all of the ones I went into that were turned into Academies.

So what happens when kids are constantly having different teachers?
Inconsistency. Which then in turn, leads to Disinterest. Which in turn, leads to poor behaviour. Which in turn can’t be turned around, because good teachers go in and face this torrent of poor behaviour, and then leave. Vicious circle that seems to be worsening. But who suffers?

The Kids.

I actually find it extremely concerning, and consider the possibility of there being an entire lost generation of young people, I also think when they are older and they realise they were screwed over by the system, not their own ineptitude, you’re going to have a LOT of angry young people. The balance of power has shifted in two ways in our schools. The first, which is technically the most damaging is the transfer of the administration, from public to private, people power to capital power. The second, which is actually the more damaging to those on the frontlines is the transfer of power from the adults to the students. The more teachers leave, the more kids take control of the schools. This happens because when a teacher leaves the worst kids take it upon themselves to wear the responsibility for it as a badge of honour. Thus, good kids are left behind and the vicious circle continues.

 

What is the solution to this? We have an election in May, and after reading up on the policies for schools for all the main parties this is what I’ve found on their official websites:

Labour - Want more qualified teachers, new directors of school standards for local areas, new vocational qualifications
Lib-Dem- Have a petition to stop privatising schools, with 70 signatures, and say they will increase spending into pupil premium

Tory - Securing a good school for every child, ensuring Apprenticeships. Pro academy, pro free school
UKIP - Support free schools, bring back grammar schools, make Offsted sign a petition before they can visit a school, introduce apprenticeship qualification.
Green - Scrapping Offsted, turning all academies back to local council, revitalising the education system

 

I consider the issue to be drastic, and I also think it needs to be fixed and soon before more kids are lost to this system. After a recent rise in profile, I think its obvious to me only Greens offer a solution in their manifesto, Labour seem keen to fix a broken system but make no mention of scrapping academies.

Things need to change, and quickly, before we lose the future generation to this desperate situation.