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MiddleClassWar
02:39
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The suburbs are a symptom of a system going wrong
A system running strong
The place you don’t belong
The suburbs are a lesion in the season of disease
The rich live lives of ease
Dying by degrees
You bought the lie ‘n’ stepped inside the walls you always hated
Communities are gated
To keep us separated
The grass is green; the driveway’s clean; your conscience feels polluted
Your decency diluted
Your ethics been eluded
You lost your will to corporate swill, obedient consumer
Like a fucked-up baby boomer
You fester like a tumor
Ain’t it a shame you play the game where everyone’s a loser?
Environment abuser!
Another resource user!
Comfort’s not a crime but by the time you fucking find it
You more than get behind it
It rapes but you don’t mind it
What have you done? When you were young, you swore you wouldn’t have it
But you saw it then you grabbed it
Now it’s become a habit
They’re grinning now; they’re bragging how their stinking shit-pile glistens
but if you look and listen
you’ll only find division
You’ve got it all, now it’s your call on what to do about it
Get mad and shout about it!
‘Cause millions live without it
The suburbs are a symptom of a system going wrong
A system running strong
It can’t be strong for long
The suburbs are a lesion in the season of disease
The poor are on their knees
And dying by degrees
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Violence = Depression
01:04
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Rape and relocation in Congo and Sudan
Human degradation: Yemen, Pakistan
Carnage in Aleppo; war in the Levant
This dissonance inside me—I don't know what I want
Violence. Oppression.
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Silence. Depression.
I feel so fucking guilty for being unfulfilled
While people the world over are getting fucking killed
Sisters and my brothers—murdered in the street
While apathy and ennui are pooling at my feet!
Religion’s not the answer!
And money’s not the answer!
And drugs are not the answer!
There is no fucking answer!
This violence is a cancer!
My mind is a disaster!
I’m dying for an answer!
There is no fucking answer!
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3. |
Not Givin' In
03:36
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I don’t want it your way!
You worthless hypocrites—I’ve heard all you have to say!
You refuse to be swayed
An’ miss opportunities—you piss ‘em all away!
But we’re not givin’ up—no, we’re not givin’ in! (x2)
I’ve seen it before
People shot for less—why can’t we shoot for more?
The ones in power wish for us to be divided
The power’s ours if we fight to be united
We’re not givin’ up—no, we’re not givin’ in! (x2)
Don’t even try to explain!
I won’t be caught playing your racist, classist games!
No shutting down our civil rights—NO WAY!
We fought for them before; we’ll fight again today!
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4. |
Murder Machine
03:25
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Liberty of thought starts with liberal education
Exposure to Enlightenment of past generations
If you wanna open fire on our freedom of expression
Far-right ideology’s the ultimate oppression
You seek the murder machine!
You speak the murder machine!
You preach the murder machine!
It’s a broken, ugly system and the system fuckin’ stinks
We teach kids to conform when they should be taught to think
They should be asking questions; they should want fuckin’ change
But to break the fuckin’ rules they gotta learn the fuckin’ game!
Kids: fight the murder machine!
Despise the murder machine!
Ignite the murder machine!
You want holy armies to wage your holy wars
The Morality Police will be kicking down our doors
Repressing rights of women and toying with their health
You claim to love the poor while you hoard all the wealth!
We’re trying to create a world, not tear it all apart
Let’s imitate the nations that govern with a heart!
Unless there’s civil rights for all, the Civil War has never ended
Until there’s civil rights for all, this civil war will be extended
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5. |
Whatever I Do
00:54
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