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All Glories
02:24
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When you ask how the devil comes
In robes of smoke and flame?
In tailored suit? In uniform,
With bayonet and club to tame
All glories
Hosannas, once and future kings
When you ask how it all goes down
Trails of tears to internment camps?
Black helicopters collecting long guns?
Protests against wheelchair ramps
Work for the people
Service to the stake
Status and ritual
The progress of the rake
When you ask how they’ll own us
Walk us down the primrose path?
Indoctrination of the children?
Privilege metastasizes into wrath
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Trigger/ed
02:37
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I’ve heard it before, or maybe i misheard it once again
The Stories missed and innuendoes
Print edition for the dyslexic
Audio books for the deaf
Braille for the paralyzed
titles for the taking
pages for forgetting
Do you remember the day before
When we hugged and kissed at the door
Do you remember the day before
The day before the lore
When they kicked you to the floor
Do you remember the day before the lore
When it's all written down
It's designed to be religion (revision)
After the photos are taken
It’s already been rewritten
From nightmares to tall tales
From fear to saint
Empty lands/hands full of empty religion
Gutenberg spreads the virus
In the toner, there is pollution
In the eraser, there’s absolution
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Barricades
02:50
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Never enough second acts
Too many consequences
Skate on by, skate on by
Forest of mended fences
They make good neighbors
Be around for a long time
Rewarded with punishment
Nooses made of lifelines
Gather chips, head for the cashier
Cut your losses, head to the door
Leave your yesterdays behind, history locked inside
Press reset and try it once more.
I will live forever
The past will never catch me
Found the escape hatch
Hands full as I break free
Human hermit crab
A new life in a new shell
Eternal redemptions
Resonate in every cell
Yet we all end up where it began
Arm by arm
Yet we all end up where we belong
Street by street
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4. |
Left Behind
01:49
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So you’ve got bullets in each lung; just keep on breathing
So you’re locked in prison for a crime you didn’t commit, well, just stand up and get to leaving
So you walked off a cliff, big deal, just tell gravity to leave you be
So you got your life torn down; you wouldn’t need secrets if you were free
It’s a meritocracy, kid; start running if you don’t want to be left behind
So your electricity’s cut off, so simply will yourself to see in the dark
So the doors are closed, so what; simply walk through them to make your mark
Pull yourself up by the bootstraps
Physics be damned
If you can’t perform daily miracles
Are you even human?
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Robot Dance
02:02
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Ned Ludd rides again
Soft and clumsy; to arms, to arms
An unsustainable life created
Robot combines harvesting farms
There’s more than enough for all
If we want there to be
The means of production
Were never yours or mine
Right to work, the right to lose fingers
Straight to the graveyard from the mine
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