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Scarecrow
03:44
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You’re a scarecrow
Your head full of straw
You like to
Think you’re a lion
Coward, you are a coward
Your ego inflated, position
Shaped by money that you didn’t even earn yourself
Life built on deception and lies
Face turning red
Arms flailing wildly
Mush in your head
To put it mildly
You talk big
No, you talk biggest
Ignorance so absurd
Reason to you doesn’t work
Push your way to the top
You’re a glorified bully
When your words finally stop
We will all feel free
Face turning red
Arms flailing wildly
Mush in your head
To put it mildly
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2. |
The Birds
04:27
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Fly! / Take wing
Leave us everything
Wallow in the mire that you’ve made
Try not to kill
Those for whom you are in charge
Follow examples set from the past
Leave the tweeting to the birds
Your attention span
Is like a goldfish’s and not a man’s
Your anger is like a toddler’s
Except your motives are so much worse
Taking talking points from talking heads
I wish you could understand
All the hurt and pain you cause
Just because you have to be the boss
Leave the tweeting to the birds
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Empty Gestures
03:15
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Stand tall, look tough, pose by a flag
Craft an image of support
But when the chips are down
You just squint your eyes and frown
These are empty gestures
We play into your hand
You say you support them
But you just deceive us
Pretend that you’ve served us
You care only for wealth
These are empty gestures
We play into your hand
It’s all a farce, this sham you call real
I don’t expect you can even feel
Pretend you’ve worked your whole life honest
But we all know that you only steal
Twisting the rules and breaking the norms
Look down on those who have less than you
Take us for fools while burning with scorn
All of your hatred brews poisonous through
These are empty gestures
We play into your hand
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Trojan Horse
05:26
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Promises made with no plans for execution
Say you win the game and you’ll change it all / same old scripts
Paint a scene so nostalgic / it’s an illusion
In reality nobody wins in your game
Your biggest appeal, greatest selling point is you are hateful
The security that you offer me is for white supremacy
Some might say you’re strong, and they’d be wrong / you invent your demons
Lacking leadership, you can’t get a grip / you appeal to people’s fears
You strode in like a shining stallion
But your insides are diseased like carrion
You said you would make us safer, yet you only divide us
You extend your hand to people who don’t deserve trust
You might speak of love, but you never learned more than lust
You’ll erect a tower in your name, and it will only rust
Some would say they’re jockeys, and they thought they could trust you
You said you could run and jump, but now you only graze
Spend your time on your cosmetics / not enough apologetics
Rearing up, you’ve gone from bad to worse / we can see you’re a Trojan horse
You strode in like a shining stallion
But your insides are diseased like carrion
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Let's Ride
08:47
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Let’s go! / let’s ride!
Throw expectations and see how far they fly
Take a sense of normalcy and leave it out to dry
And when things come crashing down we’ll all wonder why
We claim to have grown, that our dark past is past, but
Judging by our racist present, things have not improved
Pretend the US is caring, standing for ideals so pure
Hypocritical to the core, hypocritical to the core
First gear
Second gear
Third gear
Fourth gear
Let’s go!
Let’s ride!
Let’s go! / let’s fly!
Press the pedal to the floor / go so fast that we can’t slow
Our direction always forward / sadly we’re not oriented
Doomed to repeat past mistakes, doomed to repeat past mistakes
Life spent lying to ourselves
Say we’re saviors, but we’re captors, choking those who resist
Sense of superiority / unearned privilege wearing thin
Alienate those who’re our kin / rewind back and start again
First gear
Second gear
Third gear
Fourth gear
Let’s go!
Let’s ride!
Slow down
We need to
Let’s go!
Let’s ride!
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Pig
02:50
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Oink! Oink! Oink!
Is the smartest thing you’ve said all day
You’re so disrespectful that you talk of grabbing genitals
Multiple counts of sexual misconduct
You put down those you dislike without even knowing them
Acting like a child, you’re acting like a pig
You’re such an embarrassment
Your words and actions stink
Sometimes I wish you’d just think
There’s a pig in the highest office
This is not the first, but it’s surely the worst
There’s a pig in the highest office
You’d like our country to look like your teeth
White, white, white, white, white
Demonizing people who have darker skin
Outlawing their existence, mask it with a grin
Write your foes on a list, call them terrorists
Waste more human lives in the endless wars
Pretend military lives matter
But you hid from your own calling
If you served you’d earn respect
Your motives are circumspect
There’s a pig in the highest office
This is not the first, but it’s surely the worst
There’s a pig in the highest office
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Tides Are Turning
05:38
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Acting with impunity, you think that you can
Do all that you want, off scot-free and then you taunt
Dirty money that you flaunt / some day you may become poor
See your character reflected in the figures of your bank account
Countless hopes and dreams wasted on your empty promises
Betrayed trust and our ideals to climb your way up to the top
Countless hopes and dreams wasted on your empty promises
Betrayed trust and our ideals to climb your way up to the top
Better learn to swim
The tide is coming in
All these years we’ve fought
Soon you’ll pay for what you’ve wrought
Decor and decency left behind long ago
Make a laughing stock of us the whole world over
Pretending you care about our lives, and yet you lie
Open up your doors to others, take off your disguise
I would love to see you behave with intelligence
Just a few hours with some books is worth twenty Pence
Open up your doors to others, take off your disguise
Open up your doors to others, take off your disguise
Better learn to swim
The tide is coming in
All these years we’ve fought
Soon you’ll pay for what you’ve wrought
Acting with impunity, you think that you can
Do all that you want, off scot-free and then you taunt
Dirty money that you flaunt / some day you may become poor
See your character reflected in the figures of your bank account
Countless hopes and dreams wasted on your empty promises
Betrayed trust and our ideals to climb your way up to the top
Countless hopes and dreams wasted on your empty promises
Betrayed trust and our ideals to climb your way up to the top
Better learn to swim
The tide is coming in
All these years we’ve fought
Soon you’ll pay for what you’ve wrought
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The Last Headline
09:25
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I’ve been dreaming of the day
I won’t see your face again
Might be distant, but it’s there
And that knowledge gives me hope
These dark days of your reign
You inflict enormous pain
I can’t wait ‘til you have faded
Out of sight, just like your brain
This will be the last headline
Like a parasite you sap our strength
Mental, physical, all at length
Wasting precious time on selfish arrogance
Narcissistic, you worship yourself
What will you do when you fall out of favor?
Will you start anew or cast more stones?
We all know the answer, and it
Makes us tired to our bones
This will be the last headline
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Nyentek Chicago, Illinois
An “adventurer in electronic sounds-poetry” whose music is “mind-bending, at times blissfully bizarre.”
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