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Assimilation Daze
04:53
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Assimilation daze
Lured into acts of hate
Conditioned to abominate
Detesting all others
Hatch plans inordinate
Existence reduced to religion
To execrate
Divergent thought control
In numbers, they prevail
Consciousness commandeered
Unconscious waking state
To please their masters
Foot soldiers for the cause
Decisions maneuvered
People’s brains zombified
Subsume, co-opt, engulf, absorb
Intrinsically woven into the fabric
Tired rhetoric; statistics spun to mislead
Obsession based on beliefs
Obfuscation is in order
Assimilate...
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Double-Crosser
03:19
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Disbelieve all that they said to you about non-invasion
Observing, the operatives move about always hidden
The shadow stays with you day and night, omnipresent
A presence, a feeling that you’re being watched, incessant
Scanning with their systems
They kill thoughts before they’re thought
They enforce a police state
Mere words can get you killed
The deception, engineered to curb dissent
To destroy, elements now band together
Disassembled, institutions are vestiges
Deconstructed, citizens have now turned double-crossers
In search of possessions
Expunging unison
Assisted suicide
Complacency rules
They’re snitching on their own fellow citizens
Virtue signals to satisfy one’s ego
This is the serpentine world of the double-crossers
Rambling, incoherent world of the double-crossers
The all-seeing eye’s installation is now complete
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Vivarium
03:41
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They view the world as an ant colony
Mere insects that go about their day
Unaware of hazards that loom above
Animals of prey seem to lurk around
Segregated and classified into groups
Information extracted for the systems
Labelled by only numbers, no names – dehumanized
Mass exploitation commenced to capitalise
Burned by systems in place
Colony’s been diminished
Decomposing to dust
Returned to whence it came
Skewed views
Bias encoded in the AIs
Failed at what it was meant for
Unconscionable deeds
Committed with the full knowledge
Of all the coders involved
In the creation of algorithms
For social systems and change
Existence imbued with suffering
Integration of machines
Flawed conclusions delivered
Vivarium
A glitch in the system
Scan, apply, process, reject
Into the system and out of the community
Vivarium
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Premonition
03:09
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(Premonition) Diseased, crumbling structures
(Premonition) Rotten, these walls chip away
(Premonition) Fragments of life are spread out
(Premonition) The stench of city rubble permeates
Toxic degradation
Their decrees have led to annihilation of the masses
Smoke billows from all the rooftops of the structures
Which are now just empty shells of our past lives
Buildings in shambles; organic particles are strewn across
Floating dust rains down upon the many roaches
That prevailed over the radioactive fallout
Toxic degradation
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Bait & Switch
01:47
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Incentives to bait the gullible
In a haze, the mind’s stupefied
Fraudster sees with ingenuous eyes
What you seek, will you ever find?
Tactics to swindle the common man
Bag of tricks used to con and defraud
Bait & switch
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Unreality TV
02:23
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Stories conceived to serve their ends
Images altered to ensnare you
Sounds morphed to make a fool of you
Facts hidden from view
Lies pushed; propagandized
Airwaves are hijacked by corporates
Programs target you
Hypnosis in progress to indoctrinate
No integrity in their practices
Enticed by ad money
Existing just for greed
The interwebs are poisoned thoroughly
Fake news is unleashed
Beguiled humanity
Influence with far-reaching abilities
News broadcasts turned into
Reality show programming
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Cover-Up
02:29
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You’re too far down the rabbit hole
In too deep
You’re too far down the rabbit hole
You know too much
Much more than anyone should
The guilt inside takes over you
The whistle has been blown
The evidence has been sent
Cover-up in progress
A witch hunt for you
You could die soon
‘Cause they’ll come for you
Dark silhouettes now appear
The menacing figures draw near
And the end seems close
Your movements are tracked
There’s no place you can hide
Sensing fear, they pick up the pace
You're just another target for them to hunt
Stealthily, they gain ground on you
You’re cornered
Before you know
Vision’s blurry
As it fades to black
All the leaks have now been sealed
Evidence nowhere to be seen
Traces of foul play’s been removed
All the targets hunted and neutralized
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Cult of Personality
04:52
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Pathological liars, power-drunk
An international alliance
Exhibiting megalomania
Lifestyle of grandeur
That’s been paid for by the people
Promises made but never kept
Conceited behaviour
Lies inform this world
Where news is not the truth
A sickness that cannot be rid of
At least not in the near future
Cult of personality rises
Hawking the big lie to the masses
Sickness that cannot ever be rid of
A cult of personality ascends
Social engineering techniques
To maintain control
The art of the spectacle
Mastered to rule supreme
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Smokescreen
02:36
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Forces manufacturing false pretexts
Sanctioned by the men on top, camouflaged
Leaders, certifiable and venal
Actions dubiously veiled and covert
Sinister chains of command
Fatal squads are deployed
Resources taken over
Personnel kill on order
Forces manufacturing false pretexts
Under cover of the night
Countries fall and then rise
Puppet states are set up
Infiltrate, occupy, conquer, and justify
Infiltrate, occupy, conquer, and...
Justify their occupations and smokescreens
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Murder Pawn
03:26
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Sacrificed for all the “good”
So they say, “The greater good”
Blood’s been split of innocents
By their pawns
A roll of the dice
Seals many fates
Assassins for hire
Mass murder
Devalued human life
Nothing’s up on the wire
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Extreme prog metal from Bangalore, India
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