Album: Pain to Power (2025)


Matt Buonaccorsi:

The four of us acutely understand this song, and you can say it’s in two halves. It’s a furious cry against the impact of late-stage capitalism and the wealth of the one percent on global society.

The first half is the narrator/us/the listener experiencing anger and frustration at the discourse right now. The lyrics refer to multibillionaires and oligarchical figures like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos, Mark Zuckerberg. All these people have so much power and can control what we see in our lives.

The fact that these people have so much power and wealth has created a tension that’s boiling. A lot of the first half of the song alludes to that, along with war as well. That same type of greed can arise in our politicians who are, alarmingly, quite open with it. America is profiting from selling weapons to Israel who are butchering Palestine.

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