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It's fair to say this all lands on my shoulders
It's all up to me
Industry helps, but the thing is
It's all up to me
Together we'll get through this thing!
It's all up to me
We can ensure the continuance of our species!
It's all up to me
No I'm not talking about masks, I'm talking about carbon footprints
It's all up to me
When the problem's the system, it's the rules that need fixin'
It's all up to me
Big personalities come and go
Danger comes and disappears
What never leaves our society
Is personal responsibility
When it comes to a crisis
Someone has to bear the prices
When the problem's the system
It's the rules that need fixin'
We need a vaccine to kill the infection
It's all up to me
Our enemies are liars, charlatans
It's all up to me
Listen to science, pure and safe!
It's all up to me
Keep us safe from misinformation!
It's all up to me
That's not COVID I'm talking about, it's nazi racism
It's all up to me
When the problem's the system it's the rules that need fixin'
It's all up to me
Big personalities come and go
Danger comes and disappears
What never leaves our society
Is personal responsibility
When it comes to a crisis
Someone has to bear the prices
When the problem's the system
It's the rules that need fixin'
Knock me down and I'll internalize
Tell me I'm responsible I'll be all knowin' x 5
Knock me down and I'll internalize
I'll internalize, I'll internalize
Big personalities come and go
Danger comes and disappears
What never leaves our society
Is personal responsibility x 2
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The Reason (I'm Told)
04:34
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You think things are bad?
You think you know authenticity?
You think your voice matters?
You think your thoughts matter?
You think you're unique?
You think you've got dreams?
You think you get people?
You think you are your past?
I only do what I'm told x2
You watch criminals on TV,
You ask yourself "why not me?"
You think the shoe will drop?
You think it needs a reason?
I only do what I'm told x 4
You think there's a chance?
You think you know real evil?
You want to see some change?
You ever think you can be real enough?
I think I'm an artist x4
I only do what I'm told x8
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Intro
03:18
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"But behind the perpetually revolving mirrors, the meaning is taboo to see: people may see greed of the rich, but not that greed is the global systems driver at every level. More productivity is liked across classes, but who sees that it only means less cost per unit of profitable commodities, bringing more life waste and destruction. Workers and left thinkers may no more want to see this than the corporate press. You point this out about productivity - they don't want to publish it because their interests depend on the delusion. The meaning of the free market itself is reversed. [...] It isn't really a free market. I go back to the classical: over centuries the free market has meant the opposite of the global corporate system: Public places of local life goods, ok? All opposite to what's going on at a global level; All exchange for legal tender, opposite; Featuring real foods and crafts, mostly opposite; No mass-conditioning ads, opposite; No debt servitude, opposite; No dominance of transnational money sequences; No throw-away packages of waste; No lobbies controlling governments; No invisible head offices pulling puppet strings; And no bribery controlling supply and demand. It's not a free market at all."
- John McMurtry
"What do we want? Do we still want capitalism but, you know, with a more human face,kind of, keyneasian-state welfare capitalism? Do we want, I don't know, a stronger state, do we want local community stores? [...] People always tell me, "but you ask too much, we cannot now give detailed blueprints of what new society we want." But I'm not talking about this. I'm talking much more fundamentally about the basic blueprint of "what are we striving for?""
-Slavoj Zizek
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Too many artists, that's the problem
Too many to compete, just get rid of 'em
The reason we don't make cash, we are too many
You ever see Trent's mansion? His shit is Disney
Hey! I'm an artist and because of this I can tell who will make it and who just posin'
Hey! This means of course that you're an artist since we're friends and you get it and we're authentic
Yeah.
Too many artists, that's the problem,
Too many to compete, just get rid of 'em
The reason we don't make cash we are too many
No wonder Kanye makes so much, of course he's a genius
Hey! You know the Vonnegut quit his service job to make 10 gs a pop writing short stories? And this was in the '50s?
Almost as if they cared if he survived or not
Hey. I know a jazzer who in the 70s played 5 times a week for 300 bucks a night. What he did with that? He bought a house, started a family, and never worked customer service in his life
Exposure don't pay the bills!
Fuck the internet!
Bite the hand that feeds!
It don't feed enough!
I'm not going viral! x2
From each according to abilities
To the investors according to their greed
From each according to abilities
To the investors according to their need/greed
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"There is in fact a new paper from folks from the London school of economics and king's college showing that countries that cut taxes for the rich did not show notable increases in jobs or growth. What they showed was increases in the wealth of the wealthy. Advocates of greater economic equality are meant to use such moments to advance the effort, but this case raises the question, just how much are we supposed to pretend we didn't already know?"
-Janine Jackson
(spoken)
Our numbers are not the problem. It's not competition, it's just... our environment. The reason we don't make cash is growing inequality. The reason a guy like Bono makes so much is that he uses tax havens.
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Here I am now, entertainin'
blah blah blah blah
I'm constantly horny and bored
with nothing to do but think my thoughts
Understimulated, undervaluated, unmotivated and jaded
and afraid for...
Overactivated, overpsychiated, totally messed up won't make it
I'm afraid for my life x 3
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Fearless
04:43
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Sell this! Winnipeg, Manitoba
Mixing industrial, classical and metal, Sell This! screams about the 2020s. Could be cathartic for you. It sounds like Trent Reznor singing for Apocalyptica.
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