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Conform to Perform

from Counterculture Necktie by Betamax DC

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What you think about this
What you think about that
Has the scene been grounded?
Is it real established?
What you think about this
What you think about that
Benchmarked to a soundtrack
Validate on your graph

360 in every way all day
Herded into a masqueraded play
Can’t get a wink not without the hype of the day
Well funded cheats never hearing a word that we say
All got a fix for the world we’re living today
Can’t even replace the hate out their own damn face
Hard work and talent, just put in the hours, great.
Hard work and silent, just heel to masters, slave.
Not even words for the waste in all this space
Confirm what’s wrong just to nod & keep the pace
Faux rebels screaming in their custom designer shirts
A druid swarm leaking cash for their blank adverts

I’d rather die with original eyes near the flies
These fucking maps that they’ve drawn for us are all lies
Reprise the greatest hits, that’s it
All here in life that was meant for us, is missed.
Can keep that life hack fun of the day to yourself
It’s time to put the system’s toys right back away on the shelf
It all protects itself this whole machine they’ve built
And just to rationalize to wash away the guilt.

Fuck you. I’m talking to you, but me too
This old slew, of counterproductive voodoo
A whole school of sociopathic crews
A world built for strongest infractions to rule

All Ponzi schemes
Built to extort you
Stunt all your dreams
Enthralled to a false truth

Thrown away without a say every day
Escorted to a masqueraded decay
Can’t get a wink not without some tripe in the way
They live to cheat while ignoring the value we lay.
The fix is in for the world we live in today,
Ideas of peace is a subjugated display
Rise up a ladder just to slide to your own grave
Normalized & neatly trimmed, enslaved.

Fuck you. I’m talking to you, but me too.
This old slew, of counterproductive voodoo.
A whole school of sociopathic crews
A world built for the strongest infractions to rule.
Fuck you. I’m talking to you, but me too
This old slew, of counterproductive voodoo
A whole school of sociopathic crew,
A world built for the strongest infractions to rule.

All Ponzi schemes
Built to extort you
Stunt all your dreams
Enthralled to a false truth

All Ponzi schemes
Built to extort you
Stunt all your dreams
Enthralled to a false truth

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from Counterculture Necktie, released January 1, 2023

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