[Introduction]
Do you remember David Frost and Richard Nixon?
We’re not that powerless
There was a time when a president could be taken down by a working journalist
In a world where a Facebook status can result in the obstruction of justice, the age of information becomes a weapon of mass instruction
[Verse 1]
Do you know that everything fades, your dreams, passions and fates and that this whole place is in a perpetual state of change?
The state of play remains the same until the changing waves create a tidal wave that can deface an entire race
The chemistry appears to rearrange the fear in your brain
Society dictates your behaviors ’til you're contained and restrained
I can’t explain this terrain that I don’t understand why everybody’s running around tryna get the upper hand
Who am I to stand and rant? Another angry man
My brain dry from drugs, hanging with a lively band
Remember that to give revenge a chance to stand in the street and protest with a V For Vendetta mask
Don’t think I’ll get the chance to dance in that revolution
Even if I love the idea of communion, I know
After the march, we’ll all just go home
And then by mobile phone, talk about the principle, another sword in the stone
[Chorus]
We need
A technological intervention
This world’s demanding our attention
Dishonesty, authority we follow dishonorably
Oh how long will we continue to devolve in monotony?
We need
A technological intervention
This world’s demanding our attention
Dishonesty, authority we follow dishonorably
Oh how long will we continue to devolve in monotony?
[Verse 2]
[?] marching [?] wouldn’t let us do it
What about organizing online? Isn’t that an improvement?
Well yeah if we can do it by moving past our own amusement
Maybe we can draw the blueprint for a legitimate global movement
The protests are experimental
Would it not be more effective if the student body had a sense that they were transcendental?
Instead of protecting our numbers in politics with art
Maybe we can try to write a song from the fucking heart
I wanna keep moving forward, [?] I can handle
Don’t hold me back for too long, I think I [?] my ankle
In my silence, what’s the application of violence?
Against this army in city and there'd be no [?]
Deep in my generation, this level of hatred is blatant
Blatant distaste of my making from all of my rage and frustration
Beginning to wear on my patience
A level of misinformation spread to my generation on a daily basis
I hear the video, makes me sick, it’s so ugly
Why are we letting all these immigrants into the country?
Pass me over the sun and sharp a bit politics
You only live once, John, try to stay positive
But [?] talkative, governmental incompetence
Makes me wonder who’s been causing this Islamic apocalypse
We’re too busy paying our mortgages, it’s pandemonium
Meanwhile Great Britain is gripped by Islamophobia
And it doesn’t take a doctor to spot the hysteria that has been created by the mainstream media
The needy get needier, the greedy get greedier
There’s a growing demand for interactive multimedia
What’s that? That’s a surer fact of jet life
Imagine an election where no one could ever tell lies
On set, investigate a journalist credited to the internet and causing all kinds of turbulence
We know that change comes from outside of the structure
It’s as simple and as profound as that
We need a global access to the internet, people connected at last
National boundaries becoming another thing of the past
My violence defined or just by the lack of an act
But vow to never hit back when you are under attack
It’s not about turning the cheek, suffering in silence
It’s about using any and every method other than violence
We are at war with ourself and most of us are slumbering
Ignorance isn’t bliss, it’s the cause of our suffering
Income inequality’s a major league priority and yet the conversation is avoided periodically
And if everybody had the balls to mention it in policies, they’re accused of starting a class war in a democracy
Ha
[Chorus]
We need
A technological intervention
This world’s demanding our attention
Dishonesty, authority we follow dishonorably
Oh how long will we continue to devolve in monotony?
We need
A technological intervention
This world’s demanding our attention
Dishonesty, authority we follow dishonorably
Oh how long will we continue to devolve in monotony?
We need
A technological intervention
This world’s demanding our attention
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