1. |
Race to the Bottom
01:39
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Institutions rot
Foundations crack
As progress marches
On our fucking backs
Falling Farther Faster…
Straight to the Bottom
We can’t reform
What’s been razed
More than austere
It’s fucking deranged
Falling Farther Faster…
Straight to the Bottom
Socialize Risk
Privatize Gain
Subsidize Predation
It’s fucking insane
Race to the Bottom…
There’s no coming back
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2. |
Persist
01:47
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After twenty years
Commitment hasn’t waned
I chose the right path
And never fucking strayed
I said no compromise…
And I meant it
I said no compromise…
So I didn’t
Watch my peers decay
Grow old and obsolete
Experiments in living
Seal their fucking fate
I said no compromise…
And I meant it
I said no compromise…
So I didn’t
No False Witness
My Faith Persists
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3. |
Decline
01:55
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A culture of violence
I will not buy in
Bottle, needle, gun, or fist
Not one a worthy end
In vino veritas? Just another lie
Told by the powerful to pacify the blind
Their social contract…I won’t sign
Reject its terms; Reject its bottom line
Rites of passage
Designed to obscure
The truth perceived
By those who seek more
In vino veritas? Just another lie
Told by the powerful to pacify the blind
Their social contract…I won’t sign
A Faustian bargain….I decline!
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4. |
Closed System
01:26
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An arbitrary clustering
Of incoherent views
Held together by contempt
For those outside the group
Can’t justify…
The flags they fly
Can’t justify…
Those ties that bind
Assembled not for peace
But to bring a sword
As their grand narratives
Spin in the fucking void
Can’t justify…
The flags they fly
Can’t justify…
Those ties that bind
Cut the ties
That close your mind
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5. |
Mission Creep
01:49
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Invent a threat; sell some guns
Inflate our fears; drop some bombs
Grow a cancer; hawk the cure
Job creation; blood will pour
See the shrinking GNP?
We can’t bear the cost of peace
First a tragedy, now a farce
Security contracts light the dark
Send the drones; bill us later
Pull the trigger; make us safer
Collateral damage? No one cares
Protection racket; buy more shares
See the shrinking GNP?
We can’t bear the cost of peace
First a tragedy, now a farce
Security contracts light the dark
Endless war…
What the fuck for?
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DECLINE
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