Choking Victim was an influential ska/punk/hardcore (what they call "Crack Rock Steady," a slight satire on the Rocksteady style of music which Choking Victim's style often included) band from New York City in the 1990s. The band became hometown (C-squat in the Lower East Side of Manhattan where they squatted and frequently continue to inhabit and organize shows) legends for their innovative music and highly political lyrics. At the same time they also became infamous for their Satanic imagery and numerous references to the vagrant lifestyle such as crack-smoking, shoplifting, and squatting. They also, like many other bands in the punk scene, have strong anti-police sentiments in their songs. The band prides itself on its Atheism, often making sardonic references to Satan, for the sole purpose of being offensive, rather than any sort of actual worship of the alleged deity.
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Born To Die Lyrics

Choking Victim

Born to die, and you get to sit and watch your TV set.
Believe the lies before your eyes, credit cards & apple pies!
50 stars to blind your eyes, 13 stripes to hypnotize!
Free thought is gone, you'll never see your just a pawn.
You'll die tomorrow but today your empty dreams just fade away
evaporate, dissolve to hate, while you survive and wait until a lifeless fate.
Your stupid lives just piddle on.
You slave for others, then your gone.
I just can't escape the lying,
moment we are born we're dying,
(and it's) such an ugly sight.

We have no rights.
We have no future.
No reasons why...
just born to die.

Your dumb self can't appreciate the freedom in my thought,
the weak sense of autonomy when I'm tripping in my squat.
That empty void was never filled,
but the dreams of others you helped kill...
You justify. Will linger on.
Don't you know your dreams all die the day your born?

We have no god.
There's only ignorant bliss.
No reasons why...
We're born to die. (just born to die)

Going to bed, god is dead, lies & truth are in my head.
Your history, economy, society... it isn't me.
It's all on you, reality, it's what you do, it's what you make.
The truth in lies, the freedom dies.
the mind it numbs, the spirit breaks!
(With) all our rights,
it kills our future.
our reasons why:
We are born to die. (just born to die)