[Introduction]
Do you remember David Frost and Richard Nixon?
We’re not that powerless
There was once a time when a president could be taken down by a working journalist
In a world where a status update can result in the obstruction of justice, the age of information becomes a weapon of mass instruction and we have the ability to transform the face of this planet
[Chorus]
We need
A technological intervention
This world’s demanding our attention
We need
A technological intervention
This world’s demanding our attention
[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 those changing waves create tidal waves that can deface an entire race
The chemistry appears to rearrange the fears in your brain
Society dictates your behaviors ’til you're contained and restrained
I can’t explain this today that I don’t understand why everybody’s running around tryna get the upper hand
So who am I to stand and rant?
Just another angry man, my brain dry from drugs and a lively band
Hey, rather than give revenge a chance, have them stand in the street and protest with a V For Vendetta mask
But I don’t think I can get the chance to dance in that revolution
Even if I do love the idea of communion, I know that 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
And 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
And 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 and drop 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 all of the numbers and politics in art
Maybe they 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 I watch the application of violence
I guess this army is city and that we all know is ISIS
Even my generation, man, is literally hatred is blatant
Blatant distaste of my making from all of my rage and frustration
It’s starting to wear on my patience
It’s starting to wear on my patience
Nodded headed video makes me sick, it’s so ugly
Why are we letting all the immigrants into the country?
Pass me over the sun and sharp a bit politics
You only live once, man, try to stay positive
I think you’re talkative, the governmental incompetence
I wonder who’s causing all this Islamic apocalypse
We’re too busy paying our mortgages, it’s pandemonium
Half of the industry is being gripped by Islamophobia
And it doesn’t take a doctor to spot the hysteria that has been created by the mainstream media
The needy will get needier, the greedy will get greedier
There’s a growing demand for interactive multimedia
What’s that? That’s a surer fire for jet life
Imagine an election where no one could ever tell lies
On set, investigate a journalist connected to the internet and causing all kinds of turbulence
We know that change has to come from inside 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
No violence defined though just by the lack of an act
But [?] to never hit back when you are under attack
It’s not a bit tongue in the cheek, suffering in silence
It’s about using any and every method other than violence
We are at war with ourselves and most of us are suffering
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 has the balls to mention it in policies, they’re accused of starting a class war in a democracy
A class war in a democracy?
That oxymoron only should be enough to realize our problems are not monetary
[Chorus]
We need
A technological intervention
This world’s demanding our attention
Dishonesty, authority we follow dishonorably
And 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
And 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
And 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
And how long will we continue to devolve in monotony?
This world’s demanding our attention
This world’s demanding our attention
This world’s demanding our attention
This world’s demanding our attention
This world’s demanding our attention
This world’s demanding our attention
This world’s demanding our attention
