1st: The New Jersey-based… Read Full Bio ↴There are three artists known as Endeavor.
1st: The New Jersey-based hardcore band Endeavor comprised vocalist Mike Olender, guitarists Kevin Tunney and Mike Duffy, bassist Mark Zeveney and drummer Mike Rummel. After issuing their debut Crazier Than a Shithouse Rat on the Conversion label in 1997, they signed to Trustkill for the follow-up Constructive Semantics, released later that same year.
2nd: The Chicago-based Christian band Endeavor comprised vocalist, guitarist, and songwriter Thomas Hirschler; bassist Chris Kress, Geoff Kovarik, and Jim Geske; vocalist and pianist, Melody Hirschler; and drummer Nathaniel Hirschler. They released their debut album The Farmer's Rain together in 2010.
3rd: The Netherlands-based ambient/electronic musician.
Semantics
Endeavor Lyrics
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The song "Semantics" by Endeavor is a scathing critique of American foreign policy and its impact on democracy around the world. The lyrics suggest that the definition of terror has been redefined by policies that claim to protect democracy but actually undermine it. The inflated defense budget, fueled by taxpayer dollars, is used to maintain an international machine that serves the interests of the United States. The talk of threats to freedom is used to justify social engineering that produces fear and approval for additional funding.
The School of the Americas, also known as the “school of the assassins,” trained and supplied individuals who were tasked with ensuring a market that would abide. US foreign aid recipients offer dictatorships to their people who are too terrified to fight for the democracies they have lost to market forces. The song suggests that the US has undermined democracies in multiple countries, including Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Iran, Guatemala, Haiti, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Dominican Republic, Bolivia, Greece, Indonesia, Uruguay, Cambodia, Honduras, Columbia and others all in the name of “democracy.”
The song also speaks to the idea that the new world order is not one that promotes democracy but instead perpetuates terror under the guise of security. Death squads are used to ensure security from prospective democracies, and as a result, the grip gets tighter. The humanitarian conscience dies amidst such constructive terror. The lyrics suggest that everyone must turn their head and hand over control to this new order, ensuring that the final result will leave the majority of the population powerless.
Line by Line Meaning
The semantics of terror have been redefined with a foreign policy the undermines the concept of democracy we profess to protect.
Our government has played with the definition of terrorism to fit its own agenda, which includes policies that actually work against democracy.
Let's look at that defense budget we're so eager to inflate: Our tax dollars fuel the international machine.
The U.S. government spends way too much money on defense, most of which goes towards military actions in other countries.
The talk of threats to our freedom convince us all. Social engineering produces fear and approval for addtional funds.
Our government uses fear tactics to make people feel like they need to give more money towards defense and military actions.
But what of the School of the Americas... "the school of the assasins", US trained and supplied to insure a market that will abide.
There is a military training center in the U.S. called the School of the Americas, where soldiers are trained and supplied to fight for a market that benefits the U.S.
Recipients of US foreign aid offer dictatorships to their peoples too terrified to fight for the democracies they've lost to our market plight.
Countries that receive foreign aid from the U.S. often end up with dictators who oppress their own people, who are too scared to fight back against the negative effects of the U.S.'s market policies.
We've undermine democracies in Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Iran, Guatamala, Haiti, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Dominican Republic, Bolivia, Greece, Indonesia, Uraguay, Cambodia, Honduras, Columbia... (etc.)... for "democracy"?
The U.S. has played a role in undermining democracies in many countries, all while claiming to be promoting democracy.
The archipegalo with its many Third World satellites that assure a safe and secure New World Order that can literally pull off your face.
The U.S. has created a network of countries, primarily in the Third World, that work together to maintain a certain level of control over the world, which is dangerous and disturbing.
Death Squads insure security from prospective democracy. The grip gets a bit tighter.
There are groups of people called Death Squads who are put in place to make sure democracy doesn't take hold in certain countries, which only makes the U.S.'s grip on power even tighter.
Subsidize, Neo colonize what we can't even look in the eye the humanitarian conscience dies (in the midst of such constructive terror) just turn your head and hand over that 51%.
The U.S. subsidizes and essentially colonizes countries that we don't even want to acknowledge, all while abandoning any humanitarian conscience. People are encouraged to ignore the terrible things happening and just give in to the system.
Contributed by Jackson C. Suggest a correction in the comments below.