Compacted Conscience

By Trash Compactor

On Trash Compactor EP

Released on October 3, 2025

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[Verse 1]

The Wasteland, the future

We enable apocalypse

Processing, crushing

Symptoms of our decline

Pacific Garbage Patch

Shuttled forward through time

Delaying, adapting

Lifelines to our demise


[Chorus]

Compacted conscience

Unwillful ignorance

Committed to the course

No reward for remorse


[Verse 2]

Disposal Pipeline

Two-hundred states strong

Digesting, flattening

Futures, family lines

We know what’s wrong

But we can never say

We know what’s wrong

But we’ve got bills to pay


[Chorus]

Compacted conscience

Unwillful ignorance

Committed to the course

No reward for remorse


[Refrain]

Think of your family

Think of your future

Think of your innocence


[Verse 3]

If you step out of line

You’ll go through the wormhole

Uphold the Pipeline

Or suffer in exile

We’ve made a good life

But it’s hard denying

The Wasteland swarms

With landfill ziggurats


[Chorus]

Compacted conscience

Unwillful ignorance

Committed to the course

No reward for remorse


[Refrain]

Think of your family

Think of your future

Think of your innocence


[Breakdown]

Speak out, be

Erased from the Earth

Fall in

Save yourself

Speak out, be

Erased from the Earth

Obey

You’re nothing


[Interlude]

The Pipeline is killing us, killing us all

We’re helping them offload their problems

We’re helping them guarantee poverty

Time is locked in place, future storing our waste

Time corrupts absolutely, Kings embrace mortality

We’re killing ourselves to live ordinary lives

We’re killing ourselves to survive

Compacted conscience, goodbye to innocence


[Bridge]


[Outro]

Pray for your future