SONGS
LYING FOR THE CAUSE
The water’s pure
The food is safe
The work is good
We do what we should
Lying for the cause
Lying for the cause
We make the goods
We stimulate
Your interest and desire
There’s no need for you to wait
Lying for the cause
Lying for the cause
They hired me
Into this industry
To tell you all how
You can have it better now
Lying for the cause
Lying for the cause
As each year goes by
I believe it more
You’ve got to try
What we won’t let you ignore
Lying for the cause
Lying for the cause
You’ve watched us for years
You know what we do
If your speech has any power
We want to have you
Lying for the cause
Lying for the cause
If it’s hip and happening
If it’s flashy and new
If it has any pull
We will bring it to you
Lying for the cause
Lying for the cause
It they’re pretty and sexy
They’re all over the screen
We add the commentary
And you’ll buy the whole scene
Lying for the cause
Lying for the cause
We understand
If you’re tired of the sound
We have a plan for that
We’ll help you drive it to the ground
Lying for the cause
Lying for the cause
We’ll give you shows
About the gun and knife
When you get bored
With the shallow life
Lying for the cause
Lying for the cause
If you like the excitement
Of the firing of the gun
We’d be proud to have you
As an Army of One
Lying for the cause
Lying for the cause
To keep our way of life running
You can capture the oil
We have legitimate claims
Under foreign soil
Lying for the cause
Lying for the cause
Then, come back to the party
And see what it’s worth
We’re the only truly
Free people on earth
Lying for the cause
Lying for the cause
You’ve watched us for years
You know what we do
If your speech has any power
We want to have you
Lying for the cause
Lying for the cause
We have the explanations
For when things go wrong
Blame a few institutions
And get back where we’re strong
Lying for the cause
Lying for the cause
Don’t bother looking outside
We’ll give you the news
We’ll free up your time
And tell you all you need to use
Lying for the cause
Lying for the cause
The home is safe
The industry’s pure
If we cause a problem
We will find a cure
Lying for the cause
Lying for the cause
Nothing has to last for more
Than a generation
We build and rebuild
We’re the always better nation
Lying for the cause
Lying for the cause
We know it seems crazy
Like one day, it must go bust
But, to keep the wheels turning
We will do what we must
Lying for the cause
Lying for the cause
You’ve watched us for years
You know what we do
If your speech has any power
We want to have you
Lying for the cause
Lying for the cause
WINSTON HARDENED
I face the twenty-first century
With eyes educated by Orwell
And I judge that the reprieve is gone
If what is happening now
Had happened in the 1950s
His timetable would have been spot-on
I report back
That in the shifts during the interim
Big Brother came from the right, after all
Their minds are made of sterner stuff
They more convincingly shout out “treason”
When there are truths whose currency they must forestall
And if they succeed
We will be the ones
Who shouted the truths
Before we were cut down
And as we keep kicking back
Out of the memory hole
We keep threatening to make
Their spell unbound
But it is not enough!
No, it is not enough!
They are painting the world with photonic lies
They give Potemkin stories for our eyes
Telling us what all things mean
Blocking out the world with their electron screen
As the empire brings us down
The masses within and the masses without
The anglosphere bids to be the unipole
The imbalance dictated by military clout
Holding their own masses in line
While the Oceanic elite finally demonstrates
The superiority of its strategic mind
Damn the masses!
Damn the masses!
And reconcile them to their damnation
Let them make excuses to themselves
When we squeeze them
Let them feel themselves at fault!
Jehovah has his witnesses
To an error that faith won’t try to stop
Orwell has his witnesses
In the age's corpo-fascism watch
Which world is your mind in?
Empiricism?
Or, in suffering, trying to make the end of the world
Fit again and again?
What if, after the earth is torn apart and poisoned
We are caught, and the story won’t end?
The world is not an allegory
Where justice arrives in the end
Why keep treating it like a story
And old mythologies like a friend?
If we blow it in the here-and-now
Don’t think you’ll be delivered somewhere else somehow
Once they lock up humanity
Don’t expect an outside power to set us free
Don’t
Let
It
Happen! (3x)
You don’t have to let it happen!
Adjust to find a safe, cramped life
Within?
No, I’m a polit
It’s been a political prison since before I was born
And ever more so in the one-world imperial dawn
My voice is shouting
We don’t even have the time
To find
The depth of their lies
They want the people
Lulled into loving
The Escape from Freedom
I’m harder than I was
I use the freedom I still have
To be harder than I was
Thanks for the warning, George!
Here is my warning:
Human power can’t do a thing
After the shackles are on
Us all!
We must cause this nascent state to fall
Make them fall!
Before they get their full hold
Make them fall!
Before they gather world control
Make them fall!
They keep twisting what they’ve heard
Never give them the last word
Make them fall!
They keep deflecting us with new lies
Make them fall!
The opposition begs off with alibis
Make them fall!
They know how to play for time
Confusing the objections of the common mind
Make them fall!
Don’t heed small changes in their call
Make them fall!
When they’ve discovered resistance to forestall
Make them fall!
For the human promise still in us all
Make
Them
Fall!
THIS ISN’T IT
This isn’t it
Stoking the engine, feeding the fire, bearing the cost
This isn’t it
Selling the hours, trading the purpose, joining the lost
This isn’t it
Regimentation, working for the windfall for a corporation
This isn’t it
Alienation, not sharing the windfall, not securing your station
This isn’t it
This isn’t it
This isn’t it
Learning to admire the self-seeking killers who know how the game is played
This isn’t it
Your own futile self-seeking that doesn’t pay off because of how long you’ve delayed
This isn’t it
If it isn’t in your nature to seek your best advantage in the choices that they carve
This isn’t it
The artifice of freedom, where you choose a false role in order not to starve
This isn’t it
This isn’t it
This isn’t it
The interested ruse, misdefining what you’re part of, and what you have to lose
This isn’t it
The life that you choose, as if you were destined to do what you know you should refuse
This isn’t it
Fashions of consumption, wasting precious life on following the game
This isn’t it
Expecting to be lied to, expecting to be cheated, living sick of the shame
This isn’t it
This isn’t it
This isn’t it
Forced dependence, not learning how to live without buying
This isn’t it
Forced independence, twisting fairness to mean that if you’re losing, you’re not trying
This isn’t it
Cheaters use their edge to make working people poorer and blame them for their lot
This isn’t it
Where you don’t trust leaders you elect or people getting your hours to give back half the wealth you got them
This isn’t it
This isn’t it
This isn’t it
And we must get off this wheel
We’re just helping them to steal
When we’re too dazed to resist their lies
Too born into it to even know why
Hey-ya, hey-ya
Too long stolen from
Hey-ya, hey-ya
Too long stolen from
The debt is false, the debt is false
We are too long stolen from
This isn’t it
And that’s why every ten years
They have to confuse us with a new set of lies
This isn’t it, this isn’t it
This will never, never be it
GOOD HOUSE
You were born into Good House
And Good House gave you care
Not left upon the open waste
Good House gave you care
Warm Hearth in the winter
And harvest every year
Time to explore your talents
Good growth every year
Now you want to shake your burden
Now you want to subtract your share
Whatever doubts you may darkly fathom
You know your obligation to give back your share
Son of Good House! Son of Good House!
Son of the honored ways!
We bred you well in Good House
We made you whole in Good House
Protected you in Good House
Invested you with Good House
We gave you skills in Good House
Gave you strength in Good House
Enlightened you in Good House
Explained it all in Good House
Your fitness comes from Good House
Your leisure comes from Good House
Your advancement came from Good House
All from the store of Good House
Our balance comes from Good House Where am I caught and
Our height is based on Good House what am I caught in?
How can this come in Good House?
How can this come in Good House? Ask!
Son of Good House! Son of Good House!
Your debt calls against rebellion’s ways!
Others have left Good House
They found no ground but Good House
They wavered without Good House
Were stranded without Good House
The nourishment of Good House
Will bring you back to Good House
Take the grace of Good House
No grudging camp at Good House
We want you back with Good House
Defeat your doubts in Good House
Think in the ways of Good House
Dream in the ways of Good House
Your mental strength is Good House Why do these words
Don’t turn it against Good House seem wrong persuasion?
The chaos threatens Good House They are rightful
What would become of Good House? What is my..my..my..
What would become of Good House?
What would become of Good House?
Rarr! Ra-arr! Rarr!
Break me, break me, break me out!
Break me, break me, break me out!
Break me! Break me!
I understand the meaning
I understand the meaning
Now break...me...out!
Ahhhh!
EXEMPLAR
“The world is a battle between good and evil
The world is a struggle for the righteous way
Those who don’t hold to the way help protect the evil
Their defiance has stood too long in our way
The liberties we have draw fanatic hatred
The liberties we have are being abused
The nation helps the world to protect its freedom
And not for our own domination, the way we’re accused”
They thought they supported democracy
They want democracy of the right-minded
The evolution of the modern world
With free-thinkers, won’t let them find it
They think there’s too much at stake
To let democracy make a mistake
To let people be misled by the objectors
They are the people’s expert protectors
They thought they could abide others’ sovereignty
But they want to deprive power to those who disagree
That the prophecies ought to bind the state
And that the nation they belong to ought to promulgate
The apocalyptic tendencies
Of ancient false omniscient decrees
License for
Crusade
Inquisition
Crusade
Inquisition
“The Muslims are the enemy
The atheists are the enemy
The French and Germans are the enemy
The liberals are the enemy
(Blow them up, send the troops, blow them up)
“
(Get the planes, get the guns, blow them up)
“Find out who opposes it inside”
(Get the cuffs, get the jails, lock them up)
“Too much at stake to let the loudmouths ride”
(Get the cuffs, get the jails, lock them up)
Taking back the country from the godless judges
Taking back the country from fringe elements
United ‘neath the banner of the good and decent
Whitewashing the fallout from state violence
Listen to the story, hear the destination
Authoritarian rule as a Christian nation
Rectify the culture
Rectify the press
Don’t be fooled into thinking they want any less
They think they’re opposed by evil
Evil must be crushed by any means
They want no less
License for
Crusade
Inquisition
Crusade
Reinterpretation
Crusade
Inquisition
Arrest for protest
Arrest without charge
The numbers start small
Watch them get large
FIRE
I know we can do it
And I look for a way
I look hard at their plans
And throw the program away
I won’t hold to what we’re told
I am stubborn and bold
When they say I owe them my allegiance
I don’t trust what they say
Touched by the revolution
That won’t be defined
Seeking another level
That will give life to the mind
I’m convinced by the ideal
And I don’t know why I feel
When I advance from the old world
The movement leaves me behind
Working in frustration
Where I used to aspire
Decade after decade
Still trying to catch fire
If I were to die a year
After my last try
It would be worth it all
If I had seen it catch fire
Seen it catch fire
AMANITA
The human story’s so grand
The land is still the land
We elevate the winning man
The land is still the land
Outside the stadium walls
The world re-opens, and the fiction stalls
The diva’s so hot
She gets to take the shot
Give her some of what you’ve got
To give her juice to take the shot
Outside the story line
Your true senses await your mind
The music’s so loud
It brings you into the crowd
You’re projecting so proud
Your heart is finally allowed
When you settle from the height
The earth seeks you in the night
The structure tries to push you down
You try to keep your ground
Store up the lessons that you found
And bring things back around
If you can pay your debts,
and grasp for luxury
Don’t get in deeper, just get free
You learn in your own way
By what people do and say
By what happens day by day
Within the story where you stay
Once you’ve found out where it leads
You come back to what the world needs
The world stretches past our kind
And wants to pull on the human mind
Wants to show what it can find
Outside the limits of our own design
After we write our own song
It wants us back where we belong
After we write our own song
It wants us back where we belong
BUT WHY NOT?
I didn’t know I thought I was the hero
I thought it would be quick
I thought it would be right
I thought I understood
It was going to come out
Good
It must be the chemicals I breathe every day
Or the chaotic expectations of the men who call the shots
Maybe I’m left on my own too much
It’s supposed to make me self-directed
It must be something wrong with my nervous system
It must be something wrong with the planet I’m on
I’m made of the spirit that should have been the hero
Where did it go wrong?
Where did it go wrong?
It’s nothing big or supernatural
It was just supposed to be something good
I was supposed to make a difference
Something people understood
The positive forces in the world
Were going to support me on my way
Where is the world I was ready for?
What is this world where I am destined to
Stay?
I didn’t know I thought I was the hero
That I was born to do something right
Until I came into these times
That have fractured my every light
I thought I understood how the story worked
How did that assurance arise?
Now that I know the real workings of the world
How could I even have been born from such
Lies?
POVERTY
Poverty
It sounded like they had a point
They focused on wealth generation
Restrictions seemed unfair to the productive ones
A disadvantage to their operations
But everything is already in somebody’s hands
We don’t start equal
It’s a question of power
When they allot the people too little to live well,
For the sake of higher profits
The nation will sour
From all the value they take
Poverty
They knew how to shift the burden
Away from the moneyed classes
With the profit set to flow into Wall Street
Mass production worked against the masses
The wealth kept coming to the calculators’ hands
We get more unequal
Politics fell ever more to the art of wealth protection
Power buying power
The populace was drawn by the work ethic,
Against those not making an honest effort
The honest effort from above
Was to grab it all, no matter who it hurt
Poverty
It was all handed to the market
The state abandoned social responsibility
In trust that the market would give just distribution
In the corporatization of our whole society
But the winners are the winners because of how the land is structured
It’s no product of nature
And they wouldn’t be the winners except for how we’ve cast the rules
They wouldn’t have the power
The social peace that their methods assume
Is a bargain, and since they keep pretending they don’t rely
On the masses, then half of the power they win
Is spent on defending the lie
Poverty
We built a wealth system, and some have the knack
To make it work to their advantage, with great repetition
Then delude themselves that it is their exceptional merit
That created their break, and not the hard-won preconditions
They resent the calls to give any share to the foundation maintainers
As if their surfeit were the independent justice of the gods
As if anyone who really deserved as easy a prospect as theirs
Need only try enough to catch up with the odds
As if there were no social reinforcement of disadvantage
As if low class status were only a productive matter
The crafty non-laborers above deride any crafty non-laborers below
Though they both want the same, only one pays for you to flatter
CLEARING THE STAGE
This land is your land, this land is my land
This land was made for…
Take your guns and clear the stage
Stand for yourself and turn the page
We broke from
They were the oppressors, but who are we?
This land- we occupied it
This land- stole and denied it
This land- land of the free
A beacon for the world to see
This land- we didn’t come to share
This land- how we got it, we don’t care
This land- our hunger was our right
Justice proven by the fact we won the fight
Take your guns and push out west
We own wherever we invest
We have the power you can’t deny
Destiny will speak when the bullets fly
This land, this land
With a bible in the hand
We went from defiance to command
We twisted our belief in our redemption
Into our right to take the land
Anyone else who does the same thing is wrong
You can tell it with your own eyes
Anyone else who’s done the same thing is wrong
Anyone else is not
Anyone else is not
Anyone else who massacres people is wrong
And the blood counts against them
And shows how much better we are
(Blinders on)
And confirms how selected we are
Hit the Pacific and push the ships out west
(From east go east, from west go west)
Keep
(Leader of the Free World, we know best)
We won by playing the rules they drew
(They can’t say anything to me or you)
Tell everyone we’re strong because of our virtue
Our virtue, our virtue!
And now, as if we didn’t gain our hold by slaughtering millions
And finalize our claims against the natives with the Gatling Gun
We face the world, with a smile, with whitewashed conscience
Thinking we’ve shown it’s something we know best how to run
We’ve had our practice
We know how this is done
Clear the stage!