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A Flat Thing (Part 1)
03:45
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I DON'T BELIEVE IN GRAVITY
YOUR INSTITUTIONS LIE TO ME
WE'RE CAUGHT IN THE MACHINERY
NOW EVERY LIE'S THE SAME TO ME
AND EVERY TRUTH IS HERESY
AND YOU KNOW THAT THEY SHOT KENNEDY
BACKED KILLERS AND INSURGENCIES
CLASSIFIED IN SECRECY
THE TRUTH IS A FLAT THING
THAT STRETCHES UNBENDING
THE TRUTH IS A FLAT THING
DON'T TELL ME IT'S CURVING
I DON'T BELIEVE IN GRAVITY
THERE'S NOTHING PULLING YOU TO ME
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Lizard Brain
03:06
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It's in the blood.
Through thousands of years,
you have protected the blood.
Royalty breeds with royalty,
nobility breeds with nobility,
celebrity with celebrity,
all to protect the blood.
You have kept the impure
in subjugation, in bondage.
The resources of the earth
belong to the few,
the evil,
the reptilian.
And I am not like you,
I do not have your blood,
but I know
that I am capable of evil, too.
I do not have the lizard blood,
but I have the lizard brain.
We all have the lizard brain.
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We don't deserve this world.
We are a plague.
We are a sickness.
We only destroy.
There is no good in this world,
save for that which survives in spite of us.
Nature is resilient.
Someday
the universe will take us back
Someday
the sun will explode
Someday
the black hole will crush us
into a singularity
Someday, my children
The world is too beautiful for us.
We don't belong,
we are invasive.
We don't evolve in harmony.
We were left here--
spores on a boot.
Someday
the spaceship will come
Carve Out The Cancer
Take us back where we belong,
some distant planet
of poison and fire
of bile and rot
Our home.
Someday we will go home.
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Monetizing Fear
02:35
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Keep your eyes on me, you see
and watch the bouncing ball.
It will kill you all, you see,
it will surely kill you all.
All the others lie to you,
they want what you have earned.
They'll storm your castle, finally,
your home and family burned.
Your neighbor may be one of them,
an enemy within.
Those unlike you cannot be good,
they reek of sloth and sin.
Our country will be over soon,
I tell you this is true,
so rage against the change, all change,
any change will do.
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Life Is A False Flag
04:34
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It's a false flag.
When nothing means anything,
anything can be seen as nothing,
and nothing can be seen as something,
something nefarious,
something evil.
And any fool with an algorithm
can predict what you will see
by what you already believe.
This is your truth,
this is our inevitability.
We watch the end of an empire
and you know whose fault it is.
Who is really pulling the strings.
Who is manipulating.
Who is lying.
It's a false flag!
It's all a false flag!
Everything is a false flag!
This is your truth.
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Things Just Fall
01:15
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A waterfall flows uphill,
to cascade down,
to flow back uphill,
to cascade back down.
We can split the molecule
and harness the energy
to split a new molecule,
and we will never want again.
We'll burn the hydrogen,
we'll breathe the oxygen,
our waste will be water,
and water shall not be wasted.
To bring us together
I will split the molecule,
and if it will keep us together,
I will split the atom.
Money is only paper,
is only numbers in a database.
Energy is freedom
Water is life.
To bring us together
I will split the molecule,
and if it will keep us together,
I will split the atom.
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They poisoned me!
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A Flat Thing (Part 2)
06:14
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I don't believe in gravity.
Your institutions lie to me.
Open up your eyes and see
we're caught in the machinery
where every lie's the same to me
and every truth is heresy.
If you study the topography
your mind becomes a casualty,
blinded by the fallacies,
without belief I still can see
the bright intrinsic beauty
in your theory of gravity.
The truth is a flat thing.
Don't tell me it's curving
out on the horizon.
The truth is a flat thing
that stretches unbending
in every direction.
The truth is a flat thing.
I believe that they killed Kennedy,
backed killers and insurgencies
from Bolivia to Haiti,
classified in secrecy.
I don't believe what I can't see,
and you tell me about gravity.
No, I don't believe in gravity,
it's not in my philosophy.
Your institutions lie to me.
We're caught in the machinery.
When every lie's the same to me
my every truth is heresy.
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