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Madness in the Maze

by Mean Ends

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1.
once built to last we now buy to satisfy the hunger the wanting consumed by the mythos of the great self we demand the right to buy individuality as they prescribe and if we feel a global loneliness we export benevolent bombs colonel sanders a slave wage to share our freedoms to share our freedom the people have spoken the people are smokin banana peels force fed a creed that chains us apart we require the right to acquire and throw it all away throw it all away there is no we in iphone throw this all away
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Under night sky locked behind bright lights there's still madness in the maze. Some have to sleep on hot concrete. There's no mercy in this game. Insanity's still around in the morning. Business comes before giving. And all the words I hear us say sound like propaganda for this way of living. They've got all of the weight on us. Surviving leaves you voiceless and tired. And if we don't rise up, the pain can only end on the day that you've expired. So many layers of grief piled in a monstrous heap. Slow down. Step back. Can't you see we're all in pain? No one's free from pain. No one's free. In this darkness, there seems to be so very little I can do, but I know I have to try. I know I have to let my love shine through. It's so clear to me. The pain's maintained by the ones at the top. We've got to quit their game to make the hurting stop. We've got to slow down. You've got to step back. You've got to face the truth and see we're all in pain. We've got to free us all from pain.
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I am you and you are me our gears and levers firing still independent we build a fire from ancient fuel all collective conscience is our composition the tie that binds it is our minds our presence here today is a culmination I am you and you are me our gears and levers firing still independent we are one nuclear code passing down our hate and love through the generations yet our separate sets of engines concurrent scream through night I am you and you are me our gears and levers firing still independent we came upon this unaware but through our interactions our minds are liberated our bodies fail the mind goes on in a pool of vast primordial cognition solidarity is earth's highest quality you fall awake and I gain you sleep through with me in pain we build together this stays forever bound together bound together forever change its in our brains leaving our mark on each other we can't go back we are the almighty bound together bound together
4.
institutions of violence bosses schools preachers cops forget the world god is white that corpse in your mouth its your birthright machines raping, castrations disease is growth at all costs babies branded life spent caged humane bolt to a captive head earthlings monetized emotional lives snuffed out death merchants flying free all in good taste suffering begets superbowls and it is not good beatdowns at home weakerthans starved for a brutal love learn your place do not stray fear of the belt rules the day rules the night this oppression internalized aggression learned collective delusion violence sanctioned to keep whites in power this is lynching, this is Parchman 41 not guilty shots surroundings infer this system of violence slaughterhouse informs the hole is the norm this is done to the ones we love we all pay to play we come into a toxic way of the families that slay this dependence severed in mind forced to act we must strike down
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Real Relief 04:09
Billions of aching feet need real relief from concrete, yet they'll tread till it renders all dead on a world that was life. The endless running's got a hold on our minds. The mistake is old, but we won't be so bold to change. You know it is 'cause we're buying what they sell that this magic planet's being twisted into a plastic hell. And that patch of Earth you now stand above, when was it last host to true actions of love? What has it been and what still can it be? All potential locked away just so the few can have their awful party. You know it is 'cause we're buying what they sell that this magic planet's being twisted into a plastic hell. Humanity is hurting. It seems to me we're less intelligent than confused. And with everything at our whim, it's everything we stand to lose. It's time we let go of this routine that requires that we grow numb to the violence that spares nothing. And if you choose to let no one decide your destiny, make certain you never find yourself to be somewhat of an authority. Respect and embrace all of the mysteries and soon the end of hate and competition will be but yours, hers and history.
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a melancholy object to witness so many do languish in boredom in this world wide echo chamber the end of all history before them over any need for concern dont make them feel for any pain beards and PBR may be all they need and bikes with a fixed chain appropriate what they haven't earned nothing amounts to much a no-wheat meal with a silver fork indigenous headdress just the right touch but oh do speak of that one thing on which their hearts do swell a clamor so great that it shakes shakes the trees and leaves a wake fried fat fat and salt pray tell is that all but its not all never was all bacon has become our national fetish our decadent last throes yawp spent on its grand lasciviousness and more pigs heads must be chopped therefore humbly do i offer to public to consider a modest proposal indeed that future bacon stock be gleaned from that which ennui does breed I grant this food will be somewhat dear and proper for the rich would stimulate once so great markets back to their prime efficiency number one prime directive will be profit lets get this great nation back to work for since they have no cares at all no time to consider a pig let's make hipster bacon our national dish what can you do but dig?
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i grew up hoping to play ball learning the masculine themes pursuing the life of those high-earning heroes whose failures still invade my dreams i woke up from a video game war to find auto-tuners and egotistic preacher whores and country stars from the city punk rockers at the mall juiced home run records imposters all my heroes have always been steroid users and they still are it seems sadly in search of one step in back of the fake-ass amerikan dream
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a fluid youth a glass half full pour it in lay it on thick force the empire's terms when you've only cast them out your only measurement is a golden standard so they are doomed to face examination suffer to fail to endure your penal code each day they face your alien nation while you whine about opportunity disaster is your favorite opening catastrophe helps you seal the deal manipulate say it’s for the kids when its said & done you've got an industry cellophane scheme we see right through you and we defy your corporate salvation this is a stickup they're taking over there's no move to reform this is a bean counter revolution white savior can you save them what will you do white savior can you save them we know it all comes down to you white savior can you save them what will you do white savior would you save them if profits didn't flow to you white savior white savior takeover segregation union busting is what these charters bring fundamentals of the market deciding everything this is a stickup! to fix the schools we must end poverty take back our minds there's so much more to see take back the streets I’m talking you and me how to one word solidarity

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released June 20, 2015

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