{"id":156,"date":"2006-02-16T00:19:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-16T00:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/?p=156"},"modified":"2015-11-01T18:00:24","modified_gmt":"2015-11-02T02:00:24","slug":"have-you-embraced-the-beast-i-see-the-mark-is-on-your-face","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/2006\/02\/16\/have-you-embraced-the-beast-i-see-the-mark-is-on-your-face\/","title":{"rendered":"Have you embraced the beast? I see the mark is on your face&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/ayearofsongs\/images\/blogimages\/HaveUEmbraceTheBeast.jpg\" alt=\"Have U embraced the beast?\" align=\"left\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"6\" vspace=\"2\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 180%;\">W<\/span>hen I posted the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayearofsongs.org\/ayearofsongs\/2005\/12\/have-you-embraced-beast.html%5C\">previous version<\/a> of this song in early December, I was careful to paint a picture of the troubled time in which it was written. I was concerned that the stridently polemical, confrontational lyrics might be taken out of the context of a time of US taxpayer funded death squads in Central America and the US funded war by Saddam Hussein&#8217;s Iraq against Iran, with its chemical gas attacks and overt and covert US aid to Saddam.<\/p>\n<p>But then I thought &#8212; well, <span style=\"font-style: italic;\">damn.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>So, without further excuses or equivocation here&#8217;s a little slice of unapologetically self-righteous, blind fury.<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy.<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-156-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/Have_You_Embraced_the_Beast_v.2\/AYoS20060215_Have_U_Embraced_the_Beast.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/Have_You_Embraced_the_Beast_v.2\/AYoS20060215_Have_U_Embraced_the_Beast.mp3\">http:\/\/www.archive.org\/download\/Have_You_Embraced_the_Beast_v.2\/AYoS20060215_Have_U_Embraced_the_Beast.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ayearofsongs.org\/ayearofsongs\/2005\/12\/have-you-embraced-beast.html%5C\">previous AYoS version<\/a><\/p>\n<p>HAVE U EMBRACED THE BEAST?<\/p>\n<p>Have you embraced the beast?<br \/>\nI see the mark is on your face<br \/>\nHave you embraced the beast?<br \/>\nAre you a slave of greed and hate?<\/p>\n<p>Have you embraced the beast?<br \/>\nDo you serve the war machine?<br \/>\nHave you embraced the beast?<br \/>\nDid you trade in your soul on (for) the finer thinsg?<\/p>\n<p>Have you embraced the beast?<br \/>\nDo your taxes buy bullets for fascist death squads?<br \/>\nHave you embraced the beast?<br \/>\nThey&#8217;ll be coming to your hometown before too long . . .<\/p>\n<p>Have you embraced the beast?<br \/>\nI see the mark is on your face<br \/>\nHave you embraced the beast?<br \/>\nAre you a slave of greed and hate?<\/p>\n<p>Have you embraced the beast?<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 1984<br \/>\nT.K. Major<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I posted the previous version of this song in early December, I was careful to paint a picture of the troubled time in which it was written. I was concerned that the stridently polemical, confrontational lyrics might be taken out of the context of a time of US taxpayer funded death squads in Central [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6,340],"tags":[281,45,561,923],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2110,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions\/2110"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ayearofsongs.org\/blg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}