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THE ANTI​-​TERROR ALBUM

by PV Knude

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1.
[singer] IT’S STILL NOT LIGHT AM I THE ONLY ONE WHO IS AWAKE THIS MORNING? MY THOUGHTS HAVE NOT YET BEEN INTOXICATED I’M SITTING BY THE TYPEWRITER ‘CUS I’VE SEEN HOW THE WORLD WORKS YOU SEE ALL THE DOTS ARE CONNECTED HOW INFORMATION IS SPEAD HOW FEAR IS BUILD HOW EXPERIENCE IS SUBLIME AND IN NOT TOO LONG I WILL FEEL RESPONSIBLE FOR CONTACTING THE PEOPLE WHO CONTROL THE SPREAD OF STEREOTYPES WHO CONTROL THE SPREAD OF HATE I FEEL RESPONSIBLE FOR STUDYING MORE READING MORE AND UNDERSTANDING MORE [clairvoyant] The articles reinforce “The good and the bad”, “The victim and the perpetrator”. These stories that we see in Hollywood movies and how they set people up in opposition. “The light and the dark”. Are these binaries good? [singer] ARH! OUR BEATING HEARTS THATS TRUTH IT’S OVERWHELMING YOU MY SUSPECION IS HERE BY PROVED A RACIST NATION GREW I WOULDN’T SING IT TO YOU IF IT WASN’T COMPLETELY TRUE
2.
EI - KI - UHM - OOLA I DON’T WANT TO WAKE YOU UP WITHOUT A PIECE OF FRUIT IN YOUR MOUTH HONEY WHAT KIND OF GUILT CAN WE BE AGREEING ON WHEN I WANT TO SHAKE YOU UP MAKE EM LOOSEN THE GRIP REAL GOOD TO ACKNOWLEDGE, TO FIGHT TO CHANGE IT ALL THE EMARESSING POLITICS THAT OUR NATION IS A SYMPTOM OF AND WHEN YOU TELL ME THAT THIS RACIST STORY IS NOT IMPORTANT TO SEE ALL I CAN THINK OF IS HOW DO I ENGAGE WITH THIS TOTAL APATHY ALL I CAN THINK OF IS HOW DO I ENGAGE WITH THIS TOTAL APATHY I DONT WANT TO WAKE YOU UP I DONT WANT TO WAKE YOU UP I DONT WANT TO WAKE YOU UP WITHOUT A PIECE OF FRUIT IN YOUR MOUTH HONEY
3.
[speaker] The vast majority of people around the world have never lived through war. While some have witnessed its horrors, few have actually participated in combat. Most of our ideas about war come from watching movies, above all, American movies. Hollywood has never stopped filming visions of war in all its possible forms and scales. Past wars, present wars and future wars. [singer] BEND YOUR BODY FORM A CHAIR FOR THE DEAD INNOCENT FEEL THE WEIGHT OF THE DEAD CHILDREN THE SCHOOL TEACHERS WE KILLED WITH DRONES FEEL THE WEIGHT OF THE DEAD MOTHERS THE STUDENTS WE KILLED WITH DRONES GLIDING OVER IN ARIAL SHOTS AS PERSPECTIVES ARE LOST THIS IMAGE YOU SEE ITS WARFARE TECHNOLOGY ITS NOT THE FULL PICTURE THIS CAMERA KILLS PEOPLE THIS IS THE CULTURE-MILITARY INDUSTRY WATCHING OVER SCAR TISSUES FORM WITH EACH ANNONOMOUS STRIKE THIS IS THE WOUND OF CINEMA VIOLENCE PORTRAIED IN ALL GLORY EIGHT THOUSAND REMOTE DEATHS 253 DEAD CHILDREN [angel screaming] BEND YOUR BODY FORM A CHAIR FOR THE DEAD INNOCENT […] [singer] UNTRIALED BOMB BEHEADING IN RAMSTEIN ON SATTELITE CONNECTION EUROPEAN SILENT ACCEPTANCE SEX AND THE CITY IN A NUCLEAR BASE ON THE SAME SIGNAL AS THE EXECUTIONERS MONITOR
4.
[singer] I DONT HAVE A MEMORY I DONT HAVE A MEMORY UHH OF SOMTHING THAT FEELS THIS WAY ANYTHIG THATS FEELS THIS WAY A NATION AND ITS ENEMY CRAWL UP IN DESIRE: IMAGINE WATER DRIPPING DOWN MY CHIN IT FALLS DOWN TO MY CHEST UH FALLS DOWN LIKE MY CHEST IN THE DARK WITH ME YOURE IN THE DARK WITH ME
AND WE ARE 
A REBEL AND A STATE AGENCY IN THE DARK WITH ME YOU CRAWL UP TO ME SO YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO WRITE FROM IN YOUR POETRY
IN YOUR CRIME NOVELS BUT REMEMBER THIS THIS NIGHT IT WILL ONLY HAPPEN ONCE ONLY HAPPEN ONCE
IN THE DARK WITH ME IN THE DARK WITH ME CUS WE ARE A REBEL AND A STATE AGENCY [cell analyst #1] My brain is wired, so when I go on the internet and the headline is suddenly red instead of black I don’t know what my power to not click it is, I really feel that I can’t. That I can’t stop myself and I feel like a bad person if I don’t orientate myself in this reality. But it fucks up what I think about the world.
5.
ARE WE THINKING THE SAME DARKENED WITH GUILT ARE WE THE SAME WAS THIS THE LIMIT OF WHAT WE COULD SHARE TELL ME I WAS NOT THERE WONT YOU SIT WITH ME NOW? HEY WHEN MY WORLD IS EMPTY I FILL IT WITH THE STORIES OF MY HEART WITH YOU AND TOGHETHER WE FORM A UNISON SO FRESH SO NEW AND STRONG IN THE NATIONAL GALLERY AN ALCHEMY EXPRESSION BEWTEEN AN AGENCY AND WOMEN IN WAR WONT YOU SIT WITH ME NOW?
6.
CAN YOU HEAR CAN YOU HEAR IT THERES AN EVENING PRAYER FLYING ACROSS MY ROOM AT NIGHT VIBRATING SO DEEPLY THAT ONLY ANIMALS CAN HEAR THEY PREPARE YOU FOR A DEEP SLEEP KISSES YOU GOODNIGHT IN AN IMAGINATION OF CRIES THERES AN EVENING PRAYER OF FREIGHT AND ALARM ITS PROPAGANDA IT NOT ONLY PREPARES BUT MAKES YOU EXPECT BEING HARMED MY UNGODLY HEART REPLACED POETRY WITH THE ANXIETY OF A BROKEN HEART ITS AN EVENING PRAYER SUNK IN MY ATHEIST COUNTRY WHEN RELIGION WAS FORGOTTEN IT JUST TURNED INTO SOMETHING ELSE AS A DESTRUCTIVE VOICE AN EVENING PRAYER A SIREN DID YOU HEAR? ITS FEAR IT IS FEAR IT IS FEAR
7.
THE MORE 03:17
[singer] THE MORE YOU WRITE ABOUT IT THE MORE I FEAR THE MORE FEARFULL I WILL BE [choir] MORE MORE MORE YOU SHARE MORE, MORE AND MORE [singer] STRUCTURAL INSTINCTS ARE COVERED IN HIS GORE AS A STICKY, UNRENEWABLE VIOLENCE OF HIS DANCEFLOOR AS A YOUNG WESTERNER WHAT AM I RESPONSIBLE FOR? THIS MAINSTREAM WHITE FOLKLORE ITS REALLY NOT WORTH FIGHTING FOR THIS MAINSTREAM WHITE FOLKLORE NOT WORTH FIGHTING FOR SO I’M ASKING YOU TO SWIPE LEFT TONIGHT [choirl MORE, MORE, MORE YOU SHARE MORE, OF MORE AND MORE AND MORE
8.
[cell analyst #2] There is not a lot of self reflection in the article. If you look at the social media, then yes - to take down the video, but this is a newspaper and nothing about their own voice is questioned. I don’t know… They [newspapers red.] learned a lot after 9/11 to not use every material because they really created a parallel event and this made it so strong for the whole world. This parallel event, everyone was in front of their television! Streets were empty because everyone was looking at these pictures and the tv. This selfreflection, that they are part of it, they are accomplices, they are producers, directors of all this… [cell analyst #3] Isn’t it one of the goals of the terrorist to get a lot of attention and create chaos? [clairvoyant] Especially because he filmed the whole thing, then one of his intentions was to show everyone what he was doing] [singer] IM TRYING TO HOLD YOU IN MY DESPERATE HEART IM BEGGING YOU IM BEGGING YOU IM BEGGING YOU TO REWRITE THIS SHITTY STORY ALL OF IT IM TRYING TO HOLD YOU
IN MY LONELY HEART IM BEGGING YOU IM BEGGING YOU IM BEGGING YOU TO REWRITE THIS SHITTY STORY ALL OF IT [tribe] … it happens through rose quartz, I said, rose quartz
9.
[singer] THINK OF ME AS A LADY IN A DARK NIGHT CONSIDER ME A TERRORIST WITH NO ONE ELSE IN YOUR MIND BLAME ME WITH REASON IM A CHOIR FOR PEACE DID THIS COME FOR FREE I WANT PEACE CAN, CAN I WANT PEACE I WANT PEACE
JUST TO BE WHO I AM I THEN
WHO I AM I THEN I SEE YOU THROUGH A DIRTY LENS WE HAVE ALREADY LOST PRESENT TENSE DOES THIS DEATH SET YOU FREE CUS 
I WANT CAN I WANT
PEACE
CAN I WANT PEACE
JUST TO BE [cell analyst #4] As you said earlier, “we all want to know”, I mean, I don’t think we can delete that in articles we want to know what happened in the video, if there was a video. We wanna know who he was, we want to know his background [cell analyst #2] …What do you want to know? [cell analyst #4] Sorry? [cell analyst #2] What do you want to know?
10.
RESPECT WHAT IS HOLY  FOR ALL THE OTHERS  CRIMINALIZE MY WHITE SKIN
THE TAX EVATORS
GOOGLE, AMAZON  LOCK THEM UP
SHARING IS NOT CARING  THIS IS A LIE WEVE BEEN FED SO LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING VERY REAL INSTEAD OFFLINE IS GOD RESPECT WHAT IS HOLY  FOR ALL THE OTHERS  OUR TEACHERS MUST
RETHINK THE P-VALUE * SUSPENDING SCIENCE  INTO DISBELIEF
I REFOCUS ON WHAT
THREATS TO KEEP
WEALTHY CASTLES FLOATING BY  IMMIGRANTS ARE BLAMED
FOR THIS UNJUSTICE IS IT A DECOY BUT WHY SILENT TESLAS ARE SNEAKING BY
IMAGEMAKERS WANKING IN THEIR LOLLIBYS  CULTURAL INDUSTRIES THAT HOLLOW OUT
ANY SOLIDARITY PLAN
GIVE ME YOUR BODY FOR FREE
THE EXPOSURE WILL
TAKE YOU TO ANOTHER LEVEL
LETS ALL FORGET WHAT RIGHTS
WE SHOULD BE FIGHTING FOR 
I AM NOT AFRAID OF A MINORITY THEY ARE NOT THE ONES WHO PRIVATIZE OUR STATE
I AM NOT AFRAID OF MUSLIMS THEY STOOD UP FOR ME
WHEN I WAS A VICTIM OF HATE
I AM NOT AFRAID OF TERRORISTS
BUT OF A MEDIA THAT USE THEM AS CLICKBAIR RESPECT AND RELOCATE YOUR ETHICS ITS YOUR RESPONSIBILITY  TO NOT BASE OUR IMAGINATION ON AN ISLAMOPHOBIC AMERICAN PROPAGANDIST TVSERIES WHO IS YOUR CRIMINAL WHAT ARE THE PROPORTIONS MY NAILS LEAVE YOU A SCAR
 WHO IS YOUR CRIMINAL  IMPRISON THOSE RESPONSIBLE THE LYING POLITICIANS THEY ARE THE REOFFENDERS THEY ARE THE REOFFENDERS  WHO IS YOUR CRIMINAL WHO IS YOUR CRIMINAL WHO IS YOUR CRIMINAL  YOU ARE VOTING FOR A FUCKING REOFFENDER [footnote] * more than 800 signatories call for an end to hyped claims and the dismissal of possibly crucial effects of ‘the holy grail of western sciences, “the P-value” [20.3.2019] - https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-00857-9
11.
JACINDA 03:14
RIDICULED FOR ASSUMING THE KINDNESS OF A STRANGER THE SPIRITUAL GIFT OF BLIND TRUST CUS I NEED YOUR SOLACE VISIONS TO LEAD ME THROUGH THIS BROKEN WORLD HER SYMPATHY HER INTEGRITY
HER CAPACITY
YOU CANT COPY HER LOVE
 HER SYMPATHY HER INTEGRITY
HER CAPACITY
WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN 
JACINDA WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN JACINDA LEAD ME JACINDA OH
12.
THIS DISASTER IS WRITTEN BY HIM ALONE AN ARROGANCE SO OPPRESIVE ON ITS OWN THE KNIFES IN HIS DRAWER ARE SHARP I COMPARE THEM THE ENEMIES IN HIS DARK “SAFETY IS A CHILD OF TERROR”* SO WHY NOT DEMONIZE YOUR MIRROR [door slams] WHERE WOULD YOU GO WHERE WOULD YOU GO WHERE WOULD YOU GO ONE DAY ILL RESIST ONE DAY ILL DANCE IT ALL AWAY * Winston Churchill described the his new geopolitical defence strategy with characteristic vigour: ‘Safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation.’ Thus, importantly, deterrence became not only a purported strategy, but the very grounds on which governments justified nuclear weapons themselves. Every government that now possesses nuclear weapons claims that they deter attacks by their threat of catastrophic retaliation. [14.1.2019] - https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jan/14/nuclear-deterrence-myth-lethal-david-barash
13.
[singer] AS YOU ASK ME TO TWIRL IN A CARCASS SCANNING ME FOR METAL I MURDER THEM IN SELF DEFENCE “SECURITY COMES FIRST”? ONE SPIN TO THE SOUND OF YOUR [choir] MONEYCOCK [singer] FROM BEHIND YOU LOOK AT ME THE REPEATED MONSTER IN THE ECONOMY OF OBVIOUS DESIRES [spellcaster] THE LANGUAGE OF TERROR IS TERROR ITSELF THE TERROR OF LANGUAGE IS TERROR ITSELF THE TERROR OF TERROR IS LANGUAGE ITSELF
14.
TONIGHT 
IM GONNA TALK TO YOU ABOUT EVERYTHING YOU DON’T WANT TO HEAR
UHH I HOPE YOU WILL UNDERSTAND MY POSITION
HOPEFULLY WALK IN THE CRYSTAL MOUNTAINS WITH ME

MY DEAR
WILL YOU PLEASE RETURN THE FAVOURS IVE BEEN ASKING
OH SOMEONE WHO RETURN WITH THAT GENTLENESS AND ONE WHO SHARE THIS WORLD OF IMAGINATION WITH ME CUS WHEN IT ALL COMES DOWN TO TRUTH THEY ARE MUCH STRONGER THAN ME AND YOU SO I KISS HIM I WOULD KISS THEM LETS JUST KISS THEM

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THE ANTI-TERROR ALBUM

Released 20.1.2020

- once you hear the musix on this record, you will
be less terrorized

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released January 20, 2020

Written and produced by
PV Knude
Angel Wei Bernild
Mads Brinch

Engineered by
Emil Thomsen

Cinematography by
PV Knude
Alexander Lind

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PV Knude Copenhagen, Denmark

I aim to create intimate lyrical presences by situating myself in areas of urgent political confrontation

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