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Illusion of Freedom

by STRANG

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1.
Our Show 04:26
Our Show Join with our community while you have a choice We're going to march into the street and make a lot of noise About the way we're treated by the one percent's not fair We're rising up with this demand: that everyone must share We're educating all the children, planting our own seeds "From each of our abilities to each of us our needs" If we can work together we can make the people strong And build a new society where everyone belongs WE'VE GOT THE UNIONS AND THE ACTIVISTS ALL WITH US WE RUN THE MEDIA THERE'S NO WAY YOU CAN MISS US YOU NEED ASSISTANCE? THEN FOR US YOU SHOULD BE VOTING WITH EACH NEW LAW WE PASS OUR INFLUENCE IS GROWING We don't believe in violence, we don't believe in hate But every child depends on us, their future cannot wait Our opposition's too entrenched, they say they'll never change At some point we will have to act or lose all we have gained We're coming... WE'LL SEIZE UP ALL THE WEALTH AND DOLE IT TO THE PEOPLE ROUND UP THE RESISTANCE, WE'VE MADE IT ALL ILLEGAL WE'LL STACK THEM UP IN PITS, FROM SMOKE THE SKIES WILL DARKEN WE'LL BUILD A NEW WORLD ON THE ASHES OF THE FALLEN we're killing you softly killing you softly you won't even know that you're dead
2.
Limbo 05:12
Limbo We've finally solved our problem with a pill And it will lead us to Utopia It's every where now and we call it Limbo You'll see your problems disappear Not habit-forming but then you won't care It makes your life feel sort of upbeat The world will come to know a care-free existence Our evolution will be complete No disagreements for us anymore No matter what happens we're all just fine No strong emotions and it's thanks to Limbo We never seem to want again The system takes care of our every need We've put the concept out of our mind There's nothing better than this care-free existence To finally leave our troubles behind We put our saviour in the food supply At last we're equal, everyone's the same There's no desire to escape from Limbo When it has freed us from our pains Not habit-forming but we can't live without it We can't abide the bitter or sweet We don't feel sorrow when our children die How can we when life's sort of upbeat? And it's thanks to Limbo Yes it's thanks to Limbo
3.
Speech Control There's a cancer growing in society, growing every day It takes the form of something we use constantly, the very words we say It's been said the pen is mightier, mightier than the sword It can build up nations and educate, or it can start a war JUST A SIMPLE IDEA MIGHT COME TO BE A: START OF A DIALOG TO ESTABLISH A GOAL AND SOMETIMES OBJECTIVES BECOME TOO SUBJECTIVE THAT'S WHY WE NEED TO IMPLEMENT REAL SPEECH CONTROL People spewing out whatever's on their minds doesn't make much sense So many people and all of them are different makes our troubles immense Extreme disparity of conscious thought only ends up in strife A regulated mindset of the common man leads to a better life We tend to dwell on things that threaten us instead of what is good Pouring out our feelings on the internet, often misunderstood But it's a tool that's easily handled wrong, like when it's used to destroy The capability to reach out to a multitude, it can't be seen as a toy WHEN SOME THINGS AREN'T SILENCED IT LEADS TO VIOLENCE AND YOUR RAW, EMOTIONAL WORDS LEAD TO BLOOD IN THE STREET EVEN CALCULATED AND CIRCULATED CALLS FOR A REVOLUTION CAN TURN UP THE HEAT
4.
The Things About You The things about you are hard to forget Makes me wonder what we haven't seen yet You always say the things that we want to hear You're honeyed words are well received by our ears The language that you speak may sound similar But the true message is unfamiliar And if we take the time to think and translate We'd see when you say "love" you really mean "hate" And when you're up on our screens, Your polished image just beams Our connection just seems so real, Just like we're supposed to feel When you preach freedom and prosperity The subtext screams a neutered liberty But all your actions only prove the lie That we're all equal even though you are so high And the cards you used for your house, Talking out both sides of your mouth All it takes to blow them away: Just ignore the things you say The things about you are hard to forget Makes me fear the things we haven't seen yet Maybe one day people will think things through And they would realize they don't need you
5.
The Real Deal I'm getting sick of it, the same old rhetoric As if we haven't heard it all before What they don't realize is I don't sympathize With people who only want more and more And I can tell you if I had my own way I'd see their heads all mounted on a wall So much has been undone, this thing that we've become Manipulated by monstrosity But now that I'm awake, I see through all the fake The perpetration of idolitry They've shaped the world according to their lies Securing power over all our lives We're living under an illusion of freedom That we have branded The American Dream Liberty... Privacy... Equality... Prosperity... They have enslaved us Into their system With id numbers as we were are livestock The food they feed us A soft-kill option Another method to help manage the flock The entertainment They pump into us The same effect as those happy pills While all around us Decency crumbles Lost to obsession with degenerate thrills
6.
Possession 05:56
Possession I'll force you into possession I'll be the only thing you hold dear Emotions become my weapons There's no escape when you're a slave to fear You could try so many ways to break free But you are caught in a trap of dependency Your every move is only by my will Your every word is merely regurgitated Your every thought a longing to fulfill My every wish to which you're subjugated I see through you as if you're not there Your shallow, vain self-interest laid bare - to me Sometimes I see defiance in your eye A glimpse of hope without a logical basis There's no relief on which you can rely Lost in a desert at a dry oasis You have nobody to blame but yourself Thought you knew better than everyone else - but no
7.
Gone 05:52
Gone We stand in an endless line Awaiting food for another day The guards stand motionless with weapons at ready So if there's trouble you had better run When we were little we would listen to stories The old folks told about the world before A land of plenty, they'd even throw food away But this is too impossible to be true There's no emotion to see on our faces We've all been trained to be exactly the same Indoctrinated to refrain from expression The nail that’s raised up gets hammered down Imagination is only for service And even then only when it's been approved So if you're thinking, you're already guilty A life of pitfalls and catch-22s There is no record of what came before us And all the old folks have long since disappeared But we're too busy to worry about it Or we fear to question authority We do our part to build a prosperous future The leadership promised to one day reveal But as the years pass I find myself doubting And if they find out I know I'll disappear It's hopeless It's pointless To be thinking For yourself... or at all
8.
Our Destiny 04:40
Our Destiny First they put it in the water Then they put it in the bread They put it in the things I see They put it in my head All this time we've been living In someone else's dream And when they wake up "poof" we're gone Like we've never been I thought that I knew freedom But I'm trapped inside this lie They served to me as truth at school A pie in the sky They plugged me into the grid With everyone else And when I'm unplugged I don't know myself Now the cracks keep reappearing Like they've always done before The little things keep adding up Like we're always at war With some instinct of nature We keep trying to kill Driven by a fate we can't help but fulfill... Our Destiny Goodbye We all must die It's time... to say... Goodbye
9.
Intimidating Me I am an intimidating man You'll think I'm hiding some sinister plan With every smile you see, your fear will grow of me I am an intimidating man I am an intimidating man You'll be subdued by the shake of my hand Like an imposing fact and always dressed in black I am an intimidating man I am an infuriating man I throw my weight around where ever I can No matter what you've done, my race is better-run I am an infuriating man I am an infuriating man I make no effort to understand The other point of view, the only thing that's true Is I'm an infuriating man And though I'm really not that man at all People keep putting up their walls My voice will penetrate them all I am an egomaniacal man I have a perfectly organized plan And if you'll follow me we'll cleanse society I am an egomaniacal man I am an egomaniacal man I've seen a vision of the world at hand Where man has gone insane and always full of pain I'm an eerily prophetic man And so I'm sure by now that you can see There's no one I would rather be Than Intimidating Me

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released March 21, 2014

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