Ritual Lyrics - Downset

Do you know what it is like to run? 

Do you know what it is like to live in fear? 

Do you know what it is like to run? 

Do you know what it is like to live in fear? 

'Cause she knows what it's like to run 

She knows what it's like to live in fear 

Because she knows what it's like to run 

Rape ritual 

How can I stand in silence while you are raping my sister? 

Ritual 

I said I'll throw you in the wind because I ain't with that 

Say what have we done to mother, sister, daughter, lover? 

Beat them down to submission, into that corner of constant fear 

Humanity reduced to a sexual commodity, objectification 

Pretty faces, molded imagery 

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Damn they drop the dirty mack demands 

She's more than booty to me, bypass her sexuality 

Tradition, your sexism is what you want me to learn, surrender 

Gender hatred, fade it to kill it, compassion returns 

One out of three and they say my sisters are free 

Incarcerated by hatred, propagated by sodomy 

Continual ritual victimizing my sister 

Physical rape is psychological murder 

Ritual 

How can I stand in silence while you are raping my sister? 

Ritual 

I said I'll throw you in the wind because I ain't with that 

Ritual 

How can I stand in silence while you are tearing? 

Rape ritual 

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Jenny, ho, slut, trick, bitch, buddy 

Terms that burn in our popular brutality 

That media camera's at you, trying to show you what's up 

Illusion magazine fantasy got you feinding to bust a nut 

Body identity suffocates in her nudity, she's dying inside 

Fashions asking won't let her be, strip her to flesh 

For apathetic male ego, you bet the set ain't down with your wak 

Rape ritual 

We got to meet this hate with love 

We got to meet this hatred with love 

Why do we fall for it, fuel it 

Sexual violence equality? 

Please, so-called alternative movement 

Statistics never confess her wounded aloneness 

Internal inferno locked away calm diminishment 

Sharon stone, you ain't all of that, Madonna, you ain't all of that 

Sell you shallow shock value charade is wak 

Sister, put a fist in what's expected of you 

Deny, defy, reject false definition of you too 

There's no excuse for this brutality or this lack of humanity 

Rape ritual 

How can I stand in silence while you are raping my sister? 

Ritual 

I said I'll throw you in the wind because I ain't with that 

Ritual 

How can I stand in silence while you are tearing? 

Rape ritual 

I say that I'll throw you into the wind 

Say that I throw you [Incomprehensible] 

I say your traditions mean nothing to me