Make Belief
They create a reality that people live for, celebrate, murder for in religious wars
So that the domain of make believe and the domain of make belief overlap
And influence and affect each other
Both are very very powerful
One is when you know you're pretending
And one is what you believe is absolutely true for the whole universe
Where's my big break, baby?
Hanks ain't waiting in the wings
You keep saying "maybe"
But you wanna see what's underneath
Fear, anxiety
Outside, inside of me
Isolation, tragedy
Gas it out entirely
Fear, anxiety
Something wrong with me
Desecration, hypocrisy
A make belief society
You know "let's make believe"
It's pretending
It's being who you are not
The impetus of this rhetoric is to make belief
To make people feel that this is their actual social, political, reality
Where's my payback guarantee?
Or did I do this all for free?
Just a tool that you've been screwing
Playing the fool is what I'm doing
Fear, anxiety
Outside, inside of me
Isolation, tragedy
Gas it out entirely
Fear, anxiety
Something wrong with me
Desecration, hypocrisy
A make belief society
Of course we know what make believe is
It's related to the Stanislavskian "As If"
It's related to children's bedtime stories
A politician especially in so called "democratic countries"
When a politician campaigns
This politician always, always is making believe
They know that what they're saying on the campaign trail is not true
They know and we know that they have been costumed
They have been scripted
They have been prepared
They have been rehearsed
It's more tightly scripted than a Hollywood movie
"Make belief" is when these kinds of actions
Create a substrate of belief that people are willing to die for
The most obvious examples are, of course, religion
When someone believes in divinity of Jesus Christ
Or the profit of Muhammed
That Moses led the children of Israel
Or that Vishnu took a human form
These things are not in doubt for the people that believe them
And in actually performing the rituals
In the Jewish seder
Or the Christian communion
Or the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca
Or the Ramlila in India
These actions, these performances actually create the belief
They create a reality
Fear, anxiety
Outside, inside of me
Isolation, tragedy
Gas it out entirely
Fear, anxiety
Something wrong with me
Desecration, hypocrisy
A make belief society
Fear, anxiety
They are presenting this within the arena of make believe
Isolation, tragedy
They want you to believe what they are saying as the truth
Fear, anxiety
Even we are not something, we share in being that very something we are not
A make belief society
So that the domain of make believe and the domain of make belief overlap
And influence and affect each other
Both are very very powerful
One is when you know you're pretending
And one is what you believe is absolutely true for the whole universe
Where's my big break, baby?
Hanks ain't waiting in the wings
You keep saying "maybe"
But you wanna see what's underneath
Fear, anxiety
Outside, inside of me
Isolation, tragedy
Gas it out entirely
Fear, anxiety
Something wrong with me
Desecration, hypocrisy
A make belief society
You know "let's make believe"
It's pretending
It's being who you are not
The impetus of this rhetoric is to make belief
To make people feel that this is their actual social, political, reality
Where's my payback guarantee?
Or did I do this all for free?
Just a tool that you've been screwing
Playing the fool is what I'm doing
Fear, anxiety
Outside, inside of me
Isolation, tragedy
Gas it out entirely
Fear, anxiety
Something wrong with me
Desecration, hypocrisy
A make belief society
Of course we know what make believe is
It's related to the Stanislavskian "As If"
It's related to children's bedtime stories
A politician especially in so called "democratic countries"
When a politician campaigns
This politician always, always is making believe
They know that what they're saying on the campaign trail is not true
They know and we know that they have been costumed
They have been scripted
They have been prepared
They have been rehearsed
It's more tightly scripted than a Hollywood movie
"Make belief" is when these kinds of actions
Create a substrate of belief that people are willing to die for
The most obvious examples are, of course, religion
When someone believes in divinity of Jesus Christ
Or the profit of Muhammed
That Moses led the children of Israel
Or that Vishnu took a human form
These things are not in doubt for the people that believe them
And in actually performing the rituals
In the Jewish seder
Or the Christian communion
Or the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca
Or the Ramlila in India
These actions, these performances actually create the belief
They create a reality
Fear, anxiety
Outside, inside of me
Isolation, tragedy
Gas it out entirely
Fear, anxiety
Something wrong with me
Desecration, hypocrisy
A make belief society
Fear, anxiety
They are presenting this within the arena of make believe
Isolation, tragedy
They want you to believe what they are saying as the truth
Fear, anxiety
Even we are not something, we share in being that very something we are not
A make belief society
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Writer(s): Joseph Scarpellino
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