Born, taught, take your spot
Rituals and common talk
Learn to trust your caretakers
All without a second thought
Who makes the rules? Perfect fitting shoes.
Conform into a uniform & act like it’s a secret room.
Raw soul extortion, manic crowd syndrome
Drawn within in the lines of your little known window
Cookie-cutter blues, gloom and doom news
Divided up and conquered, always blameless in your in-group
Lying to each other, indoctrinated madness,
Validate the flash to disguise collective sadness
Taken to the cleaners, a culture built on lies
Peeling off your false-knit layers, nothing left to advertise
Despise, never rise, kicking others down in life just to get a stupid prize
Brain rot tribes, interest group cliques, monetizing death cuz it’s just another stock tip
Mind you, the collective hype it will find you
And society’s chains still will bind you
Never leaving a dime behind you
An eternal shell game to grind you
The collective hype it will find you
And society’s chains still will bind you
Always leaving your mind behind you
An eternal shell game to mime you
It’s perpetual noise just to blind you
Strip your agents away and divide you
White-labeled clean box you can run to
No humanity left inside you.
Promises of grandeur. A groupthink-tank of lies.
Boiling frogs so happy, shiny objects for the eyes
Are you going their way? it’s a highway paved with greed
All standards smashed to pieces, fine-print you didn’t read
Hang out with the pros, just the ones that run your cult
Condition pumped into your skull until they get the right result
Pretend we’re all a raw subversive tearing down the systems-lever
Claim to hate the mainstream noise only to join into the fever
Inane, wasted games, we could all look the same and find somebody else to blame
Brain rot lies, interest group tricks, manipulating minds with a dangled carrot-hand stick
Mind you, the collective hype it will find you
And society’s chains still will bind you
Never leaving a dime behind you
An eternal shell game to grind you
The collective hype it will find you
And society’s chains still will bind you
Always leaving your mind behind you
An eternal shell game to mime you
It’s perpetual noise just to blind you
Strip your agents away and define you
White-labeled clean box you can run to
No humanity left inside you
Always sold “that’s the way it goes, don’t you know?”
Just do what you’re told in the show
for the corporate goals and molds, until it kills you
Always sold “that’s the way it goes, don’t you know?”
Just do what you’re told in the show for the corporate goals and molds, until it kills you
Always sold “that’s the way it goes, don’t you know?”
Just do what you’re told in the show for the corporate goals and molds, until it kills you
Always sold “that’s the way it goes, don’t you know?”
Just do what you’re told in the show for the corporate goals and molds, until it kills you.
Dread Pirate Roberts is an underrated genius on the mic, the beat, and the pen. 'Hand of Death' and the self titled 'Dread Pirate Roberts' are my personal faves. Betamax DC
Aussie upstarts juxtapose tightly-wound post punk songwriting with nuanced production, jangling choruses, and heady jams. Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 29, 2023