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I have been terrified, to put this song out. I’m not sure how I feel actually pulling the trigger. This is an incredibly personal and angry peice of music. It’s also one of my favourite things I’ve ever written.

It’s a horrifying thing to be disabled in western society. You are dehumanised and pushed into boxes to generate value. If you can’t make value through labour you are exploited as a resource to generate value for others. If you can’t be exploited you are left to starve and die.

I’m scared of putting something out that constitutes a statement about this shit. Which is ironic as hell cause this song absofuckinglutely slaps. But my survival is tied to these systems that try to grind us down into nothing.

The month this releases in is Autism Awareness month, so there’s honestly no better time to release a song about my social experience as an autistic man, leaving it longer would be hiding.

I hope you enjoy the song.

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The sword of Damocles makes a heavy crown
Produce and reproduce or we will put you down
Thrown in a mire you can not escape
Less than a person from birth to your dying day

Keep on falling
Keep on crawling
Keep on stalling
Keep on falling

The weight of expectation grinds you to the bone
Pushed past the point of breaking takes a heavy toll
And they are watching, and they are waiting.
They just need one excuse to drag you from your home

Throw another body on the fire
Get to work and make the margins higher
Whether on your feet or on your knees
Suffer at the hands of wanton greed

Your independence is a fleeting dream
Your only worth what you feed to the machine
And there is no release, and there is no relief
Your life’s indebted to us and you signed the lease

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from Lay Down for the World, track released April 1, 2022

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Riain Mac Aoidh Londonderry, UK

Tá Riain Mac Aoidh ceoltóir é as Chontae Dhoire san Tuaisceart na hÉirann.

Riain Mac Aoidh is an independent musician from County Derry in Northern Ireland.

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