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ARE YOU A COUNTER​-​ELITE?

by The Counter Elites

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1.
are you a counter-elite? are you a counter-elite? are you a counter-elite?
2.
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
3.
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
4.
BUST 'EM UP 00:30
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
5.
PRIVATIZE IT 00:47
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
6.
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
7.
who's on the other side of the screens? who's on the other side of the eyes?
8.
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
9.
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
10.
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!
11.
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
12.
all talk no action no thought regression all wrong suggestions no talk reaction
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OURS 00:39
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
14.
CHOICES 00:33
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
15.
NOT RIGHT 00:43
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
16.
it's a critical moment critical moment critical
17.
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?
18.
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
19.
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
20.
NO TIME 00:40
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
21.
spectacle repetition spectacle repetition spectacle repetition spectacle repetition spectacle repetition spectacle repetition spectacle repetition spectacle repetition spectacle repetition spectacle repetition spectacle repetition spectacle repetition
22.
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
23.
I'M DIVIDED 02:05
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
24.
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
25.
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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physical CD includes 25-minute closing instrumental "Dystopian Daydream" plus a 30-page booklet and sticker

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released August 27, 2013

Jonny Genocide: vocals, bass guitar
SW Semi-Automatic: drums

written and performed by The Counter Elites
produced by Jonathan A. Berz and Shaun Wisniewski
2013 Simple Living House of Records, Publishing and Collectables

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