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ARE YOU A COUNTER-ELITE?
01:30
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are you a counter-elite?
are you a counter-elite?
are you a counter-elite?
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COMPARTMENTALIZED
00:34
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compartmentalized
I'm goin' blind from all the fires in disguise
blowin' my mind on all the news and the lies
and payin' the price
compartmentalized
I'm bleedin' out from both my ears and my eyes
showin' my kind who's takin' over this time
and trivialized
compartmentalized
bangin' my head over and over again
beaten against the ropes and I'm seein' red
and burnin' inside
compartmentalized
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THE HANDS OF EVIL
00:34
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hope is in the hands of evil
so are the dreams
our homes are in the hands of evil
so are the screens
our care is in the hands of evil
so's the routines
our shares are in the hands of evil
so are the schemes
our souls are in the hands of evil
so's liberty
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BUST 'EM UP
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big banks
bust 'em up
big food
bust 'em up
big ads
bust 'em up
big news
bust 'em up
big pharma
bust 'em up
big heads
bust 'em up
big lies
bust 'em up
big money
bust 'em up
big ranks
bust 'em up
big rules
bust 'em up
big scams
bust 'em up
big blues
bust 'em up
big stars
bust 'em up
big reds
bust 'em up
big ties
bust 'em up
big brother
bust 'em up
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PRIVATIZE IT
00:47
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how do you degrade a people?
privatize it
how do you distort a message?
privatize it
how do you deter a daydream?
privatize it
how do you despair a youth?
privatize it
how do you defeat a movement?
privatize it
how do you deepen a chasm?
privatize it
how do you destroy a country?
privatize it
how do you deport the truth?
privatize it
how do you declare an evil?
privatize it
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TOO MUCH OF EVERYTHING
00:54
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too much of everything
what's the agenda? who's in the play?
too much of everything
what's the dilemma? why the delay?
too much of everything
when did we get here? why do we stay?
too much of everything
how are we programmed? where's the decay?
too much of everything
where are the limits? who's in the way?
too much of everything
when do we settle? why do we wait?
too much of everything
how do we swallow what's on our plates?
too much of everything
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WHO'S ON THE OTHER SIDE?
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who's on the other side of the screens?
who's on the other side of the eyes?
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GONE IN A BOOM
00:41
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pain and broken hearts and jealous thoughts and lovers' lies
gone in a boom
works of art and things we've bought to kill the time
gone in a boom
games we start and wars we've fought and the greatest minds
gone in a boom
shipping crates and mortgage rates and parking fines
gone in a boom
tectonic plates and rapture's gates and duty's binds
gone in a boom
plans of fates and heads of states and humankind
gone in a boom
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WAR IN THE STREETS
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war in the streets
we gotta prepare
bring clean underwear
war in the streets
we're ready to go
get on with the show
war in the streets
they're comin' to kill
we'll die by their will
war make the men
war break the friends
war bring the blood
war black the sun
war spike the punch
war free the lunch
war save our souls
war right the world
war in the streets
the screens are alive
they're rats in disguise
war in the streets
the cameras are on
our privacy's gone
war in the streets
believe in the best
or die with the rest
war in the streets
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GOIN' HIERARCHICAL
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we're goin' hierarchical
yesterday's over
we're goin' authoritarian
the best of days are in the past
we're goin' totalitarian
yeah we are!
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MORE IS NEVER ENOUGH
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the weather's bein' engineered and so are our opinions
the reckless few direct the view from all of their dominions
and more
is never
enough
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ALL TALK, NO ACTION
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all talk
no action
no thought
regression
all wrong
suggestions
no talk
reaction
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OURS
00:39
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ours
they try to come between our friends and families
and everyone we've ever met
and everything we like
ours
they make us think that everything's amazing, awesome, great
that all our days are just the best
while gearing up the fight
ours
pretend the celebrations of our history were born
around the things we bought
not how we spent our nights
ours
destroy the rhetoric with with subtleties of senseless scorn
and kill the words 'til none are left
to legislate the rights
ours
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CHOICES
00:33
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choices
what am I gonna do with all of these voices?
none's gonna notice or endorse my rejoices
or stand on my side
decisions
I'm goin' deaf from all these turbulent visions
blowin' my mind on industry expositions
and shakin' inside
foxes
they treat us like we're rotten rodents and pests
invest in injury, expecting the best
and rollin' the die
choices
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NOT RIGHT
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I'm not right for you
you're not right for me
I've got no hope for you
you've got no ropes for me
I've fought my fight from you
you've wrought my might from me
I'm not right for you
you're not right for me
I'm all wrong for you
you're all wrong for me
I've got no love for you
you've got no hugs for me
I've bought my rights from you
you've sought my nights from me
I'm not right for you
you're not right for me
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CRITICAL MOMENT
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it's a critical moment
critical moment
critical
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ARE YOU IN ON THE SHIFT?
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walking out on the old world
are you in on the shift?
spinnin' out on a whirlwind
are you in on the shift?
say goodbye to your girlfriends
are you in on the shift?
bustin' up all the business
are you in on the shift?
done with punchin' the clock
are you in on the shift?
new kids on the block
are you in on the shift?
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QUALITY CONTROL
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quality control
we've stifled the best
now try all the rest
quality control
we've got the prescription
who needs competition?
quality control
we're trimmin' the hedges
we're bettin' on hedges
quality control
we own all the patents
we say what'll happen
quality control
degeneration
of representation
quality control
we're gonna subvert
and promote the worst
quality control
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HE WHO LIMITS
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he who limits language writes the dialogue
he who limits voices speaks the monologue
he who limits movement writes the travelogue
he who limits thought becomes the demagogue
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NO TIME
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no time for hopeless worry
no time to wait
no time to wander aimlessly
no time to think
no time for hungry solitude
no time no space
no time among the multitude
no time no trace
no time outside the bubble
no time no place
no time away from rubble
no time to waste
no time for full discovery
no time to race
no time for whole recovery
no time no face
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SPECTACLE/REPETITION
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spectacle
repetition
spectacle
repetition
spectacle
repetition
spectacle
repetition
spectacle
repetition
spectacle
repetition
spectacle
repetition
spectacle
repetition
spectacle
repetition
spectacle
repetition
spectacle
repetition
spectacle
repetition
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WE'RE ALL COMMODITIES
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what's your going rate?
why's your message late?
where's your hope in fate?
who's your head of state?
we're
all
commodities
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I'M DIVIDED
02:05
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I'm divided
I don't know where to go or what I'm gonna do about it
I'm survivin'
on wasted time, nickels and dimes and basic sustenance
I'm resistant
I hesitate, deliberate, and make a mess of it
I'm oblivious
I see the signs, I read the lines but can't make sense of it
I'm ambivalent
I couldn't care nor wouldn't dare do anything about it
I quit
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I'M FOLLOWIN' YOU
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I'm followin' you
I know about all the things that you do
I've seen your family and I know who you screw
I'm followin' you
I've played your favorites and I've tasted your food
been to your places and I'm tuned to your moods
I'm followin'
played all your games and I've battled your foes
slept in your grave and I've rattled your bones
I'm followin'
sampled your flavors and I've heard all your moans
know what you're cravin' and I'm inside your home
I'm followin'
you
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WHAT HAPPENED?
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what happened to the blue sky blue sky?
what happened to the money in my pocket?
what happened to the green grass green grass?
what happened to the flowers in the garden?
what happened to the good guys good guys?
what happened to abolishing the rockets?
what happened to the black hearts black hearts?
what happened to the war that no one wanted?
what happened to the old days gone by?
what happened to our sense of camaraderie?
what happened to our wishful thinking?
what happened to the dust in the wind?
what happened to the cool breeze cool breeze?
what happened to the bridges and the roads?
what happened to the skeletons of industry?
what happened to the places that we used to know?
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26. |
DYSTOPIAN DAYDREAM
25:09
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