Propagandaland
Words and music by Thom Carter
Welcome, citizen, to the land, and the flag, and the identity that has been selected for you at birth! Here is your ticket! It’s unique! Well, at least your ID number is! Keep it on you at all times as it represents your identity… and your allegiance to me!
I’ve been tuning in and letting it go, all the news that’s on the radio, seems so clear… if just a little insincere.
You support me everything then change up your mind, it’s like a software update, but there’s nothing going on inside… and I think I understand what I see…
Tickets Please!
On and on, the wheel it goes around, over the citizen, over the crowd, until it has ground down every peace, except the people who benifit from this machine
Art is the mover of ideas, when ideals are the truth and the abstract appears, information is controlled and squeezed, not to protect you, but the powers that be
(Propagandaland)
If you only had a say in it!
(Propagandaland)
They lend you your own money to pay for it
(Propagandaland)
War is a commodity - if you hold control
You’ve been given a non-choice for too long, and let your countries become corporations, do you hear me? Don’t take either side in it all
The ones who tell you that you must pick up guns, are never the ones fighting at the back or at the front, they’re long gone, getting medals pinned on, while you’re in a trench with a drone right above
If you want to win then own both sides, and find them very well, and then get them to fight, and be conservative when it’s tradition they need, and be so liberal when they want to break free
And any popular voice who gets a following? Well, you can compromise them with a hundred things, show them the tape and they’re yours to keep, and will be a tool to spread your message for you when you need it
(Propagandaland)
That’s the way that they play for it
(Propagandaland)
Don’t think that you’re safe from it
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You must believe in the current thing, or you’re inherently bad.
All the rides in the theme park are closed, in going home, I stopped feeling the fear that they’re supposed to give you, many years ago, take a good piece of your eternal self, spend some time getting to know you, then all of the tickets to Propagandaland won’t work on you anymore, can’t work on you anymore, don’t work on you anymore
Propagandaland, Propagandaland, Propagandaland, Propagandaland,