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Intro
01:24
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You know, I've been seeing something lately. Government, big business, technology. They all have one thing in common: they're like cancer. Think about it: all three were originally put in place for, supposedly, humanity's benefit, like the cells in our bodies. But, like cancer, they grew and grew, until it got to the point that they are now detrimental to humanity's well-being. We are at a tipping point now. This cancer, this disease on humanity, has gotten so big that I'm not even sure if it can be put into remission anymore. I say it's time for an intensive surgery. I say it's time we burn the fucking swamp.
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Burn the Swamp
06:18
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Divide and conquer
The strategy
A war with each other
Benefits the powers that be
Us vs. them
Black vs. white
Right vs. left
Fuck the division, we should unite
The enemy
They want us blind
They plug our nose
We've forever been in a bind
The swamp's been drained
But it's still a mire
The stink remains
So let's baptize it in the fire
Chorus:
Burn the swamp down! (x4)
A controlled burn
Clears out the weeds
New things will grow
If the land here fits our needs
But as it stands
It's rotten wood
Corrupt to the core
Filled with evil and falsehood
Why keep it around?
Why let it grow?
After all, they made
A world that's worse than during Jim Crow
Is there a third way
For humanity?
Let's give it a try
Bring about some anarchy
Chorus
Goin' back to nature
Goin' back to green
Goin' back to a world
That modern man has never seen
A world of peace
With no combat
A place that's free
From all these goddamn technocrats
And there's no fear of
Singularity
Unplugged from A.I.
And now have some clarity
End the endless wars
Bring down the pomp
Can't take anymore
Stagnant is the techno swamp
Chorus
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Diogenes the Dog
02:13
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Chorus:
Diogenes the dog
The first punk in the land
Wove his lantern around
Searching for an honest man
Verse 1:
Diogenes was born in ancient Greece
A man of principle, a man of peace
He lived in a barrel and begged for scraps
He flipped the bird, didn't give a crap
He was the first of the ancient Cynics
Even if he lived quite unhygienic
Told Alex the Great to get out of his light
Diogenes was a hell of a sight
Chorus
Verse 2:
GG Allin, born Jesus Christ
His life to punk, he sacrificed
Like the dog, he didn't care
He'd just plain take a shit anywhere
Diogenes would be quite proud
They both stood out from the crowd
Now let's set the record straight
Both loved to publicly masturbate
Chorus
Verse 3:
What have we learned from these dead men
That they lived free and they lived zen
So don't let the G-men keep you down
Give the finger to your crappy town
Celebrate Diogenes the dog
And start living free, don't be a cog
There's nothing that can be more freeing
Than to be true human beings
Chorus (x2)
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The Dark Beat
04:40
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Trapped in my head
I cannot climb out
I'm plagued by neuroses
And lots of self-doubt
I don't even know
If this song is good
Or if it is junk
Another falsehood
Art and the sound
They give me a voice
But what to persue
The ultimate choice
Maybe I'll choose
Both flexibly
As long as I find
A new destiny
Just once I wish
You'd listen to me
But what do you care
To you, I'm a flea
You think I'm a joke
To be pushed around
I'm sick of this life
I'm sick of this town
I tried to get better
I tried to do well
But you step on my head
And kept me in Hell
I hate what you made
This world of lies
I hope your ideas
Will soon fucking die!
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Connected to the Cloud
04:26
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Verse 1:
C colon, backward slash
Sim Planet Earth, run. The program crashed
Run defrag, delete email
The computer's on fire, and the hard drive failed
The real millennial anxiety
Is this technophilic society
Like junkies who can't stop using drugs
It's just a ride that we won't unplug
Prechorus:
Implants
Under our skin
Once was considered science fiction
But now
It's reality
Controlling all the worker bees
Chorus:
Connected to the cloud (×2)
Verse 2:
A false cloud 9, deluded ideal
How much is phony, how much is real
Quantum computers and 5G
Turn what we know into blasphemy
Division and bombs make a big ashtray
To distract that the Earth is a game of role-play
But this conclusion is not foregone
Give the powers the bird...WITH YOUR YELLOW VEST ON!
Prechorus
Chorus
Prechrous (×3)
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Invasion of the Bugmen
08:25
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Let me tell ya about da Bugmen
Dere all ovah, can ya see dem?
Dey look like humans, but where dey thrive
Is consuming more tech from da mega-hive
First in line for da new phone
From da rotten apple, a "milestone"
Da Bugmen, no personalities
Foot soldiers of technocracy
5G rollout, it comin' soon
What is 5G? Da bringa of doom
A micro-microwave, fryin' da brain
Just for fasta internet, quite insane
Bugmen don't care; dey want fasta streams
Netflix on da go; dey living memes
5G towers, everywhere, every block
So Bugmen can see more Marvel movie schlock
Hollywood hypocrites tell ya how to live
To dem, da Bugmen like to give
Dey talk about respect and unity
While raping in gated communities
Dey play fake people on a screen
Da real world, dey've nevah seen
Bugmen, of course, are not critical
Of phonies who tink dey political
Bugmen are blind, goin' into debt
Dey don't know or care 'bout the internet
European Union, tryin' to divide
Article 13, freedom denied
Copyright infringement is what dey say
But really, dey take our freedoms away
Hey EU! You own da internet when?
It was shaped by da people, even da Bugmen
Consumerism, da Bugman's disease
Gotta build up dem credit card fees
Dey be primed, like Babylon
Don't care about da forests, except Amazon
Amazon dot com, a big pyramid
Jeff Bezos at the top, power unlimited
Bugmen, like locusts, consume from dis disgrace
I and I take a flamethrower, burn da fucking place
No, I ain't gamin' an algorithm
So what be da point of dis here riddim?
I'm hopin' dat I am not insane
I tink even Bugs still have a brain
The world is wrong, nothing fits
Seems everything around has gone to shit
So here I am, here to make waves:
WAKE UP, YOU ALL ARE SLAVES!
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A mini-koto
Appropriating culture
Fuck all you haters
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Anti-Social Media
03:13
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Verse 1:
It's everywhere, in all our rooms
It may have brought a world of doom
An addiction, worse than caffeine
Where everybody looks at a screen
Chorus:
Turn it off now
See your real friends
And your familia
Don't get sucked in
By likes and shares
Anti-social media
Verse 2:
When will this stop, when will it end
It's already hard to make a friend
But when someone stares at a phone
Then you feel quite truly alone
Chorus (x2)
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Verse 1:
It happened in the summer
Just a few short years ago
I lost the best job I ever had
And I felt really low
I searched and searched for many months
Until all hope was gone
That's how this punk from Wisconsin
Went to the Amazon
Chorus:
There, you do not matter
You just chop down the trees
You try to keep the numbers up
And break your back with ease
A Baghdad of 9/11s
Makes one think of the knife
So I put on some Husker Du
And contemplate this life
Verse 2:
Felt like Doom Year's Eve was always
On the horizon
Got me a case of the Wanderlust
For a better season
At least I got a Bass Guitar
To escape from these droids
And all my bitter feelings
Brought the Art Rock Asteroids
Chorus
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Deep Fake
10:45
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Please note: the use of this software is for entertainment purposes only. Of course, "entertainment" is a broad phrase to us. After all, disinformation is entertainment to the power elite, and by extension this A.I. software. With that said, Deep Fake is now online.
The world leader appeared
On every single screen
It tells us what we want to hear
But it's not what it seems
It's hard to tell if it is real
Or if it is just a lie
After all, we live in a world
That is controlled by A.I.
I generated an image!
I tell it what to say!
Another CGI actor!
In this surreal play!
And the illusion continues
In this role-playing game
The simulation is being exposed
And will crash the mainframe
Glitches appearing even more
And they can't cover them up
But their connection is secure
And they have it all backed up
Even so, they cannot hide
'Cause they're in panic mode
They know the hackers will not stop
Until they crack the source code
GAN algorithm, go!
WaveNet, activate!
Create a new world leader!
Before it is too late!
Lying bastards!
Spreading fear!
Fucking cowards!
End is near!
Splitting mankind!
Into factions!
Nothing more than!
A distraction!
Social issues!
Politicians!
All the work of!
Magicians!
All the problems!
In the land!
Nothing more than!
Sleight of hand!
Half-truths abound
Centuries of misconceptions
And now it's easier to create a fake history
To keep the populace in tension and abject misery
Suppress critical thought
Burn the books 'long with it
So we can strip the earth of all of its humanity
To prop up the oligarchs, their structure of sociopathy
Failing infrastructure
Still no one can see it
'Cause they drown in media and refuse to be fully awake
To the reality that this world's constricted by a snake
THE DEEP FAKE!
Ouroboros
Eating its own
We see with the "resistance" that plays into the hands
Of the dragon
That strangles the world
And it keeps the people blind to its machinations
Epiphanic
Prison called Earth
Keeping humanity like cattle to build up its web of control
Society
Of pyramids
Just look how your governments' structured and tell me it's all a fib
Rebooting...Deep Fake is now online.
Just keep waiting in stasis!
As we generate!
A target we've selected!
For the next Two-Minute Hate!
FOR THE NEXT TWO-MINUTE HATE!
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12. |
Say Hello to Sunshine
06:56
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Verse 1:
Dark clouds all surrounding
They all fade with the light
There's nothing that can scare you now
It's the end of the night
Future's so uncertain
But it is not so grim
Your eyes and mind, they open up
And are no longer dim
Pre-Chorus:
Brighten up your brain
And brighten up your life
Be prepared for a time
When there's no more strife
Chorus:
Say hello to sunshine
In the midst of shade
From the blackness of the bass
A light note has been played...
Verse 2:
A field of flowers
Brings a pure, natural joy
That we cannot replicate
With all our glowing toys
Unplug from the hive mind
And see our planet Earth
Before it is too late
And we're all eating dirt
Pre-chorus
Chorus
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