1. |
Fire
03:24
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2. |
Glut Co
05:47
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We can be happy together when we are consuming together
Out with the old and in with the new
You won’t want to live without one of these
And remember everyone in the family needs one
So please, breed often that we may exhaust our productivity
All of us in the name of god
Consuming
Consume
More
I don’t care about the name of your first born child
As long as you make your replacement when it’s time to die
I’ll keep you fed with meaningless things to try and buy
Engineering massive debt to work you till you die
Through the airwaves I control I’m inside your home
Blasting images of things I’m telling you to own
Re-wiring your minds to feel unsatisfied
And watching helplessness rise up and swallow you alive
But trust in me your salvation is something you can buy
I’m gonna do this for as long as it takes
You’re gonna play my little game until you break
Designed for you to pay and for me to take
From birth to the grave it’s all part of the game
Stripping the earth to reap the fuel to feed this lie
Paying your government to turn a blind eye
Until the well is dry I’m getting mines
You’ll just have to wait in line
I bought a scientists to tell you that I’m right
And wrote a check to get the church to bless my fight
In this age of illusion I can sell it all
With xenophobic vitriol
You’re not equipped to live outside of my walls
I’ll stigmatize any of you who don’t play ball
So conform to me and enjoy the spoils
Of consuming more
Put your trust in me I’ll make sure you don’t think too hard
I’m on your side so it’s ok to slip the blind fold on
For your convenience I’ve created binary tribes
I’ve done the research and the math to market to both sides
Spinning the narratives and keeping the conflict high
Watching the profits grow while you're wasting all of your time
I’m always there to help you sign at the dotted-line
Laying the trap to make sure that all your money is mine
I let you pick your favorite color giving you a choice
And help you fit the shackles on to take away your voice
If you’re worried that your side is just a lie
You needn’t worry cause you're all on the same side
You’re the ones who work
And the ones who pay
And pay and pay to run the maze
My pharmaceuticals will dull your tired mind
Properly subdued and you will stay in line
Dancing to the beat
Greasing the machine
Doing the arm and leg routine
Raising your children while you’re lost inside the phone
Cranking the dials up to crush their tiny souls
Training them to hate the person in the mirror
Listen up and let me make it clearer
I make you with only a single job in mind
To consume more and feed my bottom line
Now get back out there and do the steps
And read the script repeat the lines
Consume
More
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3. |
Escapitalism
03:45
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There’s gotta be more
There’s got to be more
Because we need more
To feed the hunger
That we got
Because we want more
And cause we need more
Of the things
That we already got
Drowning the quiet
Trying to hide it
Afraid to look at
what’s wrong inside
It’s what we’re told
Every day
Open your mouth
And stuff it in
Cranking the Earth
Over the flames
Until the taste is
All burnt away
Eating it up
Every scrap
Down on our knees we
keep coming back
With what remains
We melt it down
Building our very own
Personal crowns
And for a moment
We can forget
Lost in the rush of
All our new shit
From glowing screens
To the front door
This plastic joy has
Us on all fours
Nothing is a sin if it’s in the name of
We want the stuff
That makes us feel good
Don’t preach to us now
About the real world
When this one breaks or
Goes out of style
Just to throw it out
And buy another one
Cause we don’t care
about the cost
To your future
It won’t be ours
Cause Frankly we
Won’t be around
So while we’re at it
We’ll take another one
This retail therapy
is our sobriety
From the reality
Of this insanity
We’re building machines
Generate smokescreens
To put our hands on the throat of the world
And then we squeeze
We’re pushing forward
Uncompromised
On the things it takes to satisfy
We’re Unchecked
We’re Unrestrained
We’re unashamed
And we won’t be blamed
We need more
We need more
We need to take and take and take and take
Until there’s no more
We’re Working hard
Everyday
Winning the prizes that
Take us away
From all the pain
And all the shame
Under the weight of
Material gains
Speeding Towards
The promised land
Of the fulfillment
That we demand
Granting us access
To the prescribed
Euphoria
That was advertised
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4. |
Pixel Honey
04:28
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It’s not enough
The attention that we crave
Stimulation is the game
Splaying our minds
Just to feel something inside
And it still
Is never enough
Press the button to join the hive
Secretions flow from your mind
Fingers and eyes
Scrambling to find
The next chemical high
But it’s never enough
Caught in a trance of auto refreshing dopamine
Pulling you towards the cult of me
Rewiring reality so that our need for identity
Become more important than the truth
You better think like me
You better talk like me
You better look like me
If you’re gonna join the team
This is the new polarized virtual reality
Thoughts are converging
We are becoming one
You better think like us
You better look like us
You better talk like us
If you’re gonna join our team
Our eyes are everywhere watching for conformity
Policing everyone fighting for purity
No matter what you say
No matter what you do
We will correct you
And We will perfect you
Saving the world from a
Diversity of thought
We only possess a single thought
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5. |
Disconnected
04:47
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I pour my life into this tiny screen
Hoping to feel I belong
Ready to share
To display it all
I need to know that I exist
Your
Attention
Feeds
Me
This
Is
The
Ideal
Me
The kaleidoscope spins in front of me
The illusions start to dance
Distorted fictions are my reality as I
Disconnect my humanity
Caught in this storm of moving images
The spectacle knows no end
In this sea of voices I am sinking
Trying to be seen but I
Can’t see myself
I need to know
I can’t feel
And I need you
In the presence of your ghostly light
The darkness cuts away
I sit and watch the shadows fight
From deep inside my cave
The
Voices
creep
In
Please
Tell
Me
What
To
Do
I’ll
Be come
Anything
To
Know
That
I’m
Worth
Something
I can’t
See myself anymore
I can’t
Hear anything
I can’t
Connect to myself
I can’t
Feel anything
I can’t
Live fast enough
I can’t
I can’t
Live like this anymore
I can’t
Look Away
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6. |
Accelerant
01:20
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7. |
Petro-Rights
03:50
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Smearing on paint
Reason and shame
Fall away
Beating back those
Who fuck up the
Devout way
Swelling of arms
And making fists
Spreading fear
Join or be killed
The menu is
Pretty clear
Cheering for death
At the slightest
Threat of change
Making sure the
Winners always
Stay the same
Steady currents
Of hatred flow
In the air
Bubbling up
Until the words
Detonate
We gotta take
We gotta fight
We gotta kill
Our greatest fear
Is to be seen as weak
Encouraging
Psychopathy as strength
We’re ready to
Commit atrocities
In the name of
Our great democracy
Eating up all
The blood and war
On TV
Desensitized
From all the pornography
Fiery eyes
Yearning to make
You believe
Biting down hard
The venom will
Help you see
Jumping in sand
Doing the dance
Beating the drums
Feeding the
Flames of arrogance
Open the sky
And set us free
Raining down hate
Behind
Moral supremacy
Picking up stones
And smashing skulls
Soaking the blood
Into tapestries of
Greatness
Beat you again
Beat you again
Until you can
Understand
Freedom from shame
Inflicting pain
The strong always
Eat the weak
No more talking
And No more facts
We’ll pull out guns
And shoot you dead
Carrying hate
Of those before
Training our young
To carry it forward
In the name of
Our greatness we
Burn it all down
Do you see
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9. |
De-Evolution
05:10
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In the dawning of the final sun
The parody of what remains is made clear
The deceived primitives fallen from grace
Scramble on the floor in their newly found proper place
Under fluorescent lights in bunkers made to last
Clouded eyes and flesh all the colors of decay
Fester to form something new of those who remain
As the skin starts to fall away
Radiation rotting your brain
The makeup can’t hide it all the way
There’s no one left to blame
There’s no profit to gain
It’s just a waiting game
There’s no one
Cause we’re changing
Can you still deny
(Can you still deny)
Can you still say
That it was all a lie
Will you still deny
(Will you still deny)
Will you still say
That it was all a lie
Can you still deny
(Can you still deny)
Can you still say
That it was all a lie
Will you still deny
(Will you still deny)
Will you still say
That everything is fine
Can you still deny
(Can you still deny)
Can you still say
That it was all a lie
Will you still deny
(Will you still deny)
Will you still say
That it was all a lie
This is the end for us
This is the end for us
I hope the party was
(This is the end)
Worth all the destruction
(This is the end)
This is the end for us
This is the end for us
Enjoy the tickets to
See all the light go out
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10. |
Collapse
04:25
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We could have listened
But there was so much more to take
The soil cried for help
But we couldn’t hear it
We were strong then
And the air was already poisoned
We fought each other for so long
We cashed in our children’s future
To go a few more rounds in a greed driven nightmare
And now the world is caked in ash
Or falling beneath the sea
There aren’t many of us left
It won’t be long now
What a waste
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11. |
Mirrors
06:12
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Mirrors left behind
Phantoms sealed for all time
Delusions left on display
Beaming light across the wastes
Milky crowns of ice
Varnish the permanence of death
At the bottom of the trenches that they dug
They could not find themselves a shelter from the storm
Gasping for air and begging for an end
Discarded products stack like headstones for a mass grave
Mirrors left behind
Hollow thoughts ringing out through time
Living through the signs
Ignoring them
To the bitter end
A blue hue stirs underneath the ice
Waiting to be turned back on
Travelers unearth broken mirrors
Eager to see what’s inside
Opening the box a voice creeps out
The chorus become a swarm
Voices blasting out on all channels
The last words of humankind go
I need them to see
I need them to see me
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12. |
Fire (Reprise)
04:25
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I light the fire cause I like
The things it shows me
Inhaling smoke cause I like
The way it chokes me
The sky is burning but I like
The way it’s glowing
It’s raining ash but it looks
Just like it’s snowing
Gather around
And sing along
We like to play the
Same old song
Drinking our fill
Taking our pills
We dance around
While the flames thicken
All of our fears
And all the worries
Are for tomorrow now
What’s your hurry
And in the light
It becomes clear
This is all we will
Ever
Come to be
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