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The Problem with the American Dream

by Shoot on Sight

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1.
The World is a Business 01:30
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The world is a business. It is ebb and flow, tidal gravity, it is ecological balance You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples There are no nations, there are no peoples There are no Russians, there are no Arabs There are no third worlds, there is no West There is only one holistic system of systems One vast and immane, interwoven, interacting Multivariate, multinational dominion of dollars There is no America, there is no democracy The world is a college of corporations Those are the nations of the world today We no longer live in a world of nations and Ideologies Mr. Beale It is the international system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet That is the natural order of things today That is the atomic and subatomic and galactic structure of things today
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Regularly Scheduled Programming 00:45
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There's poison in the water there's Prozac in the food Everybody lies to me I don't know what to do Change the channel pick a side we have realities for you Just sit back believe and buy we'll sell you what is true Three or four voices, illusion of choices Three or four voices, illusion of choices How do you think they pick the songs the radio's playing? And who pays the talking heads for the opinions you are hearing? If everything is entertainment how can I believe what I'm seeing? Why do you think they call it programming?
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Corporate Sponsorship 02:04
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Evicted out from my home The banker says I don't belong You know I try to do what's right Politician says I'm what's wrong Sweat and blood for the company That gave me a respiratory disease All the tolls I cannot pay Along the gilded path I paved I'm just following my orders Beating up the protesters Why don't you try arresting your peers and your bosses Then move on to the ones that bought them No triumph of the American dream this is Father to son oligarchy Too big for arrest or incarceration Banks and corporations the new nations So called free market reeks of corruption If the game is rigged is it still capitalism The pen is mightier than the sword But we lost them both so long ago They own the discourse thats how they blind us If money talks that leaves us voiceless I want my bosses to pay taxes too Fill their accounts while they steal from you Bulldoze the ghettos to build golf courses Command personal military forces The invisible hand is under the table Cloaked in false laissez-faire fables The whole world is ripe for exploitation Privatized globalization So called free market reeks of corruption If the game is rigged is is still capitalism The pen is mightier than the sword But we lost them both so long ago They own the discourse thats how they blind us If money talks that leaves us voiceless This is shelter from tax, this is Goldman Sachs Bank of America, this is super P.A.C.s The climate change debate, congressional lobbies Penn Road in Crossett, Koch Industries When fascism comes to America It will have corporate sponsorship
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Productive Member of Society 02:10
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Militarism the macho bullshit that we're taught Kids romanticizing murder, take pride in that kill shot Or revere the rich and famous gonna chase after the money Posessions and power make a man, soldier or yuppie Sex is all you live for heroes and materialists get some So punch the clock or grab a gun Efficiency over humanity Productive member of society The boardroom says war, breed, consume I won't live or die for you The pink and purple hierarchy where do you stand Buy our productds to be perfect compete to get a man Make a home and chase after the fairy tales you covet Validate yourself, pump out another unit Defined by your body, home, wardrobe, and bedmate You're a broodmare for the state Efficiency over humanity Productive member of society The boardroom says war, breed, consume I won't live or die for you
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The Problem with the American Dream 01:36
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It can all be mine if I just work hard enough I can buy my problems away So I live in a sterile cube rotting under florescent tubes I do everything they say Nothing's gonna trickle down From those bank accounts Play the game day out, day in It's no use you're at a dead end The problem with the American dream Is you have to be asleep If you dont succeed it's you're own fault that you didn't Horatio Alger is face down in the pavement It's statistically impossible for everyone to win Keep running in place you'll be in our percent If you're feeling discontent then there's something wrong with you You are not what you do you are consume Nothing's gonna trickle down From those bank accounts Play the game day out, day in It's no use you're at a dead end The problem with the American dream Is you have to be asleep These measure of success are a myth beyond your reach Life's not about an end it's living worthwhile means My I never be content may I never be complete May I never be content and may I never be complete
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Stand Up Fight Back 02:30
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The gravity is crushing, our bankrupt blood is boiling You want us to keep dreaming but our broken beds are burning Promises won't feed the hungry opiates won't stop the bleeding Prosperity gospil praying is as good as the poison air we're breathing The function of a government To protect the minority of oppulent From the majority of citizens We're all dead peasants Stand up fight back - the socioeconomic trap Stand up fight back - Panama Paper's idea of tax Stand up fight back - against the megalomaniacs Stand up fight back - slave masters with super PACS Predestination mechanized representation privatized Play your part strata confines this is your l ife in dollar signs Patronize misguide divide partisan polarized disguise Their political allegiance lies with the masters of mankind The function of a government To protect the minority of oppulent From the majority of citizens We're all dead peasants Stand up fight back - metadata and wire taps Stand up fight back - news cycle amnesiacs Stand up fight back - the social mores that distract Stand up fight back - and the autocratic ruling class Hold their feet to the fire keep your eyes on trails of paper Don't let politicians be false banners for the ALEC and bankers Power is from the top down but consent is the bottom up Without their foundations state houses are as good as dust Make them answer to you - we are many they are few Make them afraid of you - we are many they are few The function of a government To protect the minority of oppulent From the majority of citizens We're all dead peasants Stand up fight back - the forfeited social contract Stand up fight back - the ideologies of plutocrats Stand up fight back - we've got the numbers got the facts Stand up fight back - open your eyes, counter attack
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Never Satisfied 02:01
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Pave the roads in bones of allies neutrals and foes Break men's backs and souls work the land till nothing grows Greed is good, conquer, collude, prey upon the multitudes Put up pantheons of platitudes, watch the interest accrue Blacken the skies, suck the earth dry Progress be my guise, desires be my guide From my brother's blood up do these walls rise The hole in the heart of mankind is never satisfied History untaught all thought better off forgot Echoes the woes and sorrows the wretched had wrought Our machinations never tire, a multifarious methodic pyre As global kings defile all sing the praise of empire Blacken the skies, suck the earth dry Progress be my guise, desires be my guide From my brother's blood up do these walls rise The hole in the heart of mankind is never satisfied
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Everything Falls Apart 01:57
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Everything falls apart - living is the process of self-destruction Everything falls apart - universal predestination Everything falls apart What's the fucking point of living I don't think I see it They say that things get better, do they really believe it The things that made me happy seem a mocking revenant Of innocence left so misspent my soul is cement Everything falls apart - living is the process of self-destruction Everything falls apart - universal predestination Everything falls apart It's a steady decline a gradual progression Convictions and passions give way to concessions Alienation, dysfunction, neglect and lost trust And those that stick around you'll let down soon enough Everything falls apart - living is the process of self-destruction Everything falls apart - universal predestination Everything falls apart
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Public Figure 01:47
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Why are you famous, what have you done This is ideological masturbation Tell me what I want to hear show me what I want to see Agree with me, define me, entertain me If I scream loud enough I must be saying something If people pay attention I must be worthy What's the difference between the exhibitionist teen and the political celebrity They crave our attention, what would they do without it Surrogation, validation, anything for that 15th minute If I scream loud enough I must be saying something If people pay attention I must be worthy
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Shoot on Sight 02:13
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Red and blue bright flashing lights Have never given me any peace of mind I don't want a one man jury Deciding that it's my time "Just be calm do what you're told Be respectful, know your role" But you don't know his badge number Let alone his death toll Unarmed minority - shoot on sight Innocent civilian - shoot on sight Homeless and handicapped - shoot on sight Begging for their lives - shoot on sight Just like black water in Iraq Megalomaniacs on the war path They find any excuse for easy prey Guilty of being poor or black An infallible fraternity Systematic lack of empathy Investigate themselves and clear all charges No accountability Unarmed minority - shoot on sight Innocent civilian - shoot on sight Homeless and handicapped - shoot on sight Begging for their lives - shoot on sight E-mails and texts joking about torture Canine mauling, abuse, murder Citizens dying in custody And they call this law and order Shot in the back with nowhere to run Executed on the ground their idea of fun 12 year old with a toy "I thought I saw a gun" Unarmed minority - shoot on sight Innocent civilian - shoot on sight Homeless and handicapped - shoot on sight Begging for their lives - shoot on sight
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Our Disease 02:13
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Give us your hungry, your tired, your poor Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free An habitual hypocrisy it's always been this way Expousing moral creeds but the flag Flies in the face as our promises break In the land of the slaves, home of the afraid We are the battered wives of our own politics The Stockholm captives of crony capitialists It's like the bible verses that you pick and choose Or the alternative facts on the fake news Our rulers, idols, and enemies Are only the symptoms of our disease Entitled to my fantasy and fetishized greed Oh narcissist's brutality, please make us great again Amend our history play pretend for nostalgia's sake Manifest our myths amen but the flag Flies in the face as our promises break In the land of the slaves, home of the afraid We are the battered wives of our own politics The Stockholm captives of crony capitialists It's like the bible verses that you pick and choose Or the alternative facts on the fake news Our rulers, idols, and enemies Are only the symptoms of our disease Flies in the face as our promises break In the land of the slaves, home of the afraid We are the battered wives of our own politics The Stockholm captives of crony capitialists It's like the bible verses that you pick and choose Or the alternative facts on the fake news Our rulers, idols, and enemies Are only the symptoms of our disease
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The Sky is Falling 03:03
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I don't want to wake up why's it have to be me The problems at hand have outgrown our apathy Billions of images every word in every document Pull the blankets over me I don't want to deal with it For the first time our eyes aren't shut But the light of day is too much It's not that we don't care We just gave up Those who ruined our lives propose a toast Meanwhile we can't decide which neighbors we hate the most Give us enemies and dreams to dream And you can sow the seeds that we're forced to reap All this stimulation had to become meaningless How we came to deal with it all we feel is entertainment Our elders invent simplier problems and each other take the blame They clutch onto the past while we mock everything away For the first time our eyes aren't shut But the light of day is too much It's not that we don't care We just gave up Those who ruined our lives propose a toast Meanwhile we can't decide which neighbors we hate the most Give us enemies and dreams to dream And you can sow the seeds that we're forced to reap The sky is falling - the sky is falling We need someone to blame The sky is falling - the sky is falling We can't deal with the pain So I'll just live my life in exile Desensitized and in denial Comfort bliss and willful ignorance Man the gates and block all substance Content in my divide It's everybody's fault but mine

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released August 6, 2020

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