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Medicines is about the idiotic law of patent pending the modern medicine industries work by. We can absolutely see the importance of patent pending in some cases but many companies use that very rule to artificially raise their prices. For some people it’s impossible to pay for certain pills because they simply cost too much. What’s even worse is insurance companies and pharmacies are also becoming more obedient to specific medicine producers. It’s another sad story of human wealth against corporate order. In other words it seems it’s more important to keep the firms economy flourishing than saving human lives.

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Blocking out different transmitters
And popping pills at their command
Thanks to the patent pending
Greed and medicine walk hand in hand

But they say they make you better…
They said they’d make me better…

Blocking out all competition
Keep popping pills at their command
Thanks to the patent pending
Our choice is forced down to one brand

Their aid(s) comes with a price
An ironic genocide.
‘Cause with the prices they set
Another man is compelled to death.
Pushed on from the critics’ side:
It’s time for a grand confession
That the healing‘s not important
And your firm withholds progression

They keep on chasing
What is on our minds
They keep on chasing
Use everything they can find
Until we think we cannot function
Without their products we would fall behind
Commercial manipulation
was never so refined
Commercial manipulation
was never so refined

Their aid(s) comes with a price
An ironic genocide.
‘Cause with the prices they set
Another man is compelled to death.
Pushed on from the critics’ side:
It’s time for a grand confession
That the healing’s not important
And your firm withholds progression

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from This Season Needs Torches (LP​/​CD), released September 1, 2011

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Sweet Empire is a politically engaged melodic punk rock band from The Netherlands. Their sound is aggressive and emotional, yet melodic and playful. Mixing elements from 80's and 90's punk rock and hardcore, it is difficult to pin this four piece down to one genre. ... more

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