A Start
Rats, monkeys, mice – teach 'em little tricks
Stay far from creativity, and from politics
'Cause the multinationals need a solid work force
Or their growing profit margins will be wiped out at the source
Conform to the status quo, set rules
Mold your mind into their fucking tool
Reciting back their facts and numbers – that don't make you smart
There's much more to intelligence – and thinking for yourself would be a start
Yeah, it would be a start (start)
It would be a start (start)
Yeah, it would be a start (start, start)
Pledge allegiance to a flag of which you're taught no history
Not Mexico, Granada, Panama, or Middle East
But they're just a mere fraction of this country's shady past
Skeletons locked in the closed and I doubt they'll be the last
"National Interest" defined for you
But who's it really serve? Who's getting screwed?
Reciting back their facts and numbers – that don't make you smart
There's much more to intelligence – and thinking for yourself would be a start
Yeah, it would be a start (start)
It would be a start (start)
Yeah, it would be a start (start, start)
Your prison warden is your school
Training you to be a social screw
Stage a jailbreak, swim against the flow
Show those motherfuckers what you know
I feel like I am suffocating
I feel my life depreciating
I know their teachings are riddled with lies, distortions, shit
It kills me knowing the masses are so brainwashed by it – brainwashed by it
Stay far from creativity, and from politics
'Cause the multinationals need a solid work force
Or their growing profit margins will be wiped out at the source
Conform to the status quo, set rules
Mold your mind into their fucking tool
Reciting back their facts and numbers – that don't make you smart
There's much more to intelligence – and thinking for yourself would be a start
Yeah, it would be a start (start)
It would be a start (start)
Yeah, it would be a start (start, start)
Pledge allegiance to a flag of which you're taught no history
Not Mexico, Granada, Panama, or Middle East
But they're just a mere fraction of this country's shady past
Skeletons locked in the closed and I doubt they'll be the last
"National Interest" defined for you
But who's it really serve? Who's getting screwed?
Reciting back their facts and numbers – that don't make you smart
There's much more to intelligence – and thinking for yourself would be a start
Yeah, it would be a start (start)
It would be a start (start)
Yeah, it would be a start (start, start)
Your prison warden is your school
Training you to be a social screw
Stage a jailbreak, swim against the flow
Show those motherfuckers what you know
I feel like I am suffocating
I feel my life depreciating
I know their teachings are riddled with lies, distortions, shit
It kills me knowing the masses are so brainwashed by it – brainwashed by it
Credits
Writer(s): Justin Cathal Geever, Christopher Mark Head, Christopher Lee Barker, Patrick C Bollinger
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Other Album Tracks
Altri album
- LIES THEY TELL OUR CHILDREN
- VICTORY OR DEATH (WE GAVE ‘EM HELL) [feat. Campino] - Single
- NVREVR (feat. Stacey Dee of Bad Cop/Bad Cop) - EP
- The FIGHT of OUR LIVES (feat. Tim McIlrath of Rise Against & Brian Baker of Bad Religion) - Single
- MODERN META MEDICINE (feat. Jesse Leach of Killswitch Engage) - EP
- LAUGH. CRY. SMILE. DIE. (feat. Shane Told of Silverstein) - Single
- IMPERIALISM (feat. Ashrita Kumar of Pinkshift)
- 17 Song Demo
- That's When I Reach for My Revolver (Bonus Track)
- The War On Christmas Is Over (If You Buy It) - Single
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