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A Better Version
01:38
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Make him comfortable by
pretending you’re something you’re not
Make him talk
Tell him what he needs to hear
Compliments give you control
Allow him to open up
Wait a few years and
now decide that you only liked
the image of him that you had fabricated
You conclude that a real person is too weak
And you don’t want what’s real
Now take it all back
as you’ve taken everything
Use everything that was said as ammunition
There is a better version of him
in your head
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2. |
Research Farm
01:29
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Sounds like those from other stables
Sun shines normally like it does on all the rest
Hay is stacked, but it's better than the usual
And farm hands are wearing lab coats
Maybe the steer are larger
Could it be they have no tails?
Perfect corn, all identical
Was that a baby or the scream of a pig?
Inside, featherless chickens are fed through plastic tubes
Skinless swine eat unbruisable oranges
that, in a way, are thier own relatives
Sting of bleach and piss makes tears stream but has
no effect on eyeless hybrids that wil never go outside
in thier entire lives
The investor, the cause, never
sees but knows it is right because
the product is convenient
Fund Mengeles of the barnyard
Research farm
Pull the plug on the gene pool
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3. |
Junk DNA
01:30
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Trash strung together
Slapdash, random
Whatever was available in the heap
Develops over time
Whatever works for the circumstance
Grovels, kills, but survives
No guiding virtue as consciousness develops
Begins to praise itself
Believes in its superiority
Leper messiah
King dung-beetle
President of this pile of shit
Now rearranges itself
Plays god after it made god
Breaks it all up into a homogenized soup
The discarded pieces remain
to survive and repeat
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4. |
Compassion Fatigue
01:20
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Just like on playstation
Don't worry about those people
They are not a real nation
You're so good at it, it's almost innate
Shoot em up just like a video zombie
Fucking lower primates
Of course you knew it was just a game
Coincidentally, though,
these controls are exactly the same
Finger on the joystick trigger
So familiar with this bird's eye view
Foreigner, computer, monster,
it's all the same
No hesitation
Families lie, bleeding,
but it's like it never happened
It's too far away to be real
It won't be shown on our screens
We know it's just a game
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5. |
Supercommittee
00:42
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Wearing capes
Filing impossible claims
It’s a bird, it’s a plane
It’s as heroic
as It makes itself out to be
It's able to leap capital
in a single bound
Swish , crack, thud And levitating
documents above our heads
Far beyondour mere mortal
computational skills
Championing the system their
forefathers have erected
and keeping the population
in its place
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6. |
Turning Backs
01:59
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On thrones, decorated
Hands are washed
Scientific idolatry
Reading the newspaper
about the bomb
Resistance of the heart is real
A clear written goal
is the key to success
They shall not be affected
It is just too ugly
Important disclosures, relating to accounts
These are the verses of the book that makes clear
Biting dried, bony meat
The bull had been brave and now they dragged him, dead
Fair market value
Gallileo said nature is written in mathematics
When ten thousand beings fall,
watch their turning backs
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7. |
Bush Meat
01:00
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Churning stomach
Growl
Salival impulse
Incisor sever
Skin roast
Parts is parts
Rip cartilage
Gag, continue
Monkey cannibal
Greasy face
Smoke and ashes
Earth-encrusted fingernails
Splayed, glistening
Abdominal pulse
The sensation of falling from a cliff
Engrossed in hunger
The taste of copper
Burning hair
Suffocate
Smothered in juice
Immersed in prey
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8. |
Beyond The Wall
01:07
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Talking wall
Screaming wall
Crying wall
What you take in and
build a reality from
It's a deaf wall
Oppressor, repressor, limiter
Location, location, location
Fuck you
Hater, controller, container
Bleeding wall
Killing wall
Forever wall
Beyond:
Dark matter
Unseen universe
Another’s feelings
Quantum entanglement
A glimpse into the unimaginable
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9. |
The Lifespan Of A Fact
01:17
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The mathematics are established
Systems and formulas in place
Believe in permanence
You're doctor learned from the pharmacy
Attourney learned from the criminal
Your representative learened from the lobby
It's all correct if it works in the short-term
Please don't look at the whole picture
The way you still think is so last decade
The funding has changed,
so commercial has changed
and the book we’re taught from follows suit
Now only focus on vocational training
Really believe in separate subjects
Subtract yourself from the larger discussion
Subtract your validity
Subtract yourself
Subtract
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10. |
Brand Loyalty
01:43
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I pledge allegiance to coke and ford
and disney and all that they stand for
Thank you for accident forgiveness
and cash back on items I buy
I, the consumer, vow to make more
sacrifices and I promise to
make more purchases for the good of
the economy
I do this in your name
I do this for my country
I do this for the brand
And the leaders of corporations
who are too big to fail
I firmly resolve with the help of zero-down
to over-extend myself
I conveniently remain
one paycheck away from destitution
and too exhausted to cause much trouble
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11. |
Digging In
01:25
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Picking away at it again
Like an idiot, you scratch
Then really get the fingernails up underneath
and begin to peel it up
Crust attached to moist
stringy connective tissue
What is it you like about this?
You dig deeper
What’s in there?
You know you already know
If only you could climb inside
The infection oozes out
You widen the wound
You go past the first layer
and remember it’s all hollow inside
except for you, now
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12. |
Ad Hominem
01:14
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The more you explain
the worse it gets
It’s not paranoia
It’s objectivity
But you presented free thought as fantasy
Treated honest questions as absurd
Had the talking heads roll their eyes
Mocked witnesses for their neighborhoods
or for their age or how they look
Expelled from the debate those who could not afford
Made the truthful look like idiots
The cover story is the baseless theory
Information hoarder
Lying motherfucker
We define conspiracy
We know who has something to hide
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13. |
The Gift Of Remorse
00:53
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The illusion that there is direction
but really there is just a constant shuffling,
a mixing up of patterns, repeatedly
As if we know anything
Our mouths keep running
As if we are sure,
we think we decide
Rest easy in the full knowledge
that you are wrong
Know that the arrogance of your belief
does nothing but cause harm
Relax and know that
it’s always been that way
The gift of remorse
It shuts you up
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14. |
Post-Human
01:29
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It’s a strange thing, saying goodbye to yourself
You define me
Don’t ask who I am
Post-human
Sorry I turned off
Just a picture of a man, and not a man
In an image of a house, and not a home
The illusion of a life, and not a life
Sorry that I stopped
Sorry that I am not
I am not
Can’t believe the illusion of decision
See me singing, but I am not a singer
See me dancing, but I don’t’ even know how
Believing, but I’m not a believer
Laughing, but nothing is funny
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15. |
The New Poor
01:18
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Welcome to the growing ranks,
but this club is not exactly exclusive
now you’ll learn to go without
You can think of it
as a vacation from
all your old obligations.
No more mortgage, but no more house
No morning alarm, but nowhere to be
No more insurance, but you own nothing
No more family,
but they never loved you
Now you can lay down and relax
under your mobile cardboard home,
dreaming that there was more
to you than your income,
dreaming that there was more
But you know there was not
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16. |
Man On The Moon
01:08
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You can’t remember what your dreams were
Another person’s vision was easier than your own
Your children don’t know you, your wife could care less
You’ve become everything you said you hated
You refuse to see yourself
No objectivity in the mirror
To follow your heart is out of the question
Something ventured, nothing gained
Sacrificed the moment for some bullshit
You thought you had it all
You have nothing
You thought you had friends
You are alone
You thought you had a future
You never had a chance
There never was a man on the moon
There never was a father in the home
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17. |
Remington Solution
01:47
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Remington solution
12 gauge problem solver
Levels out the playing field
Doesn’t it?
Winchester quick-fix
Magnum express
Respect for you
A bad day for them
Shotgun salvation
Waste the whole population
just because your fucking feelings got hurt
You think it’s revenge?
You think you’re part of a cause?
You’re just breeding more of what you claim to oppose
Now your actions create more hate
Kill kill kill kill
You still lose
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