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Superstructure Lyrics by The Meaning Under

Cenotaph

2016

The first rule not to make waves
It’s the new punishment language
Once the murder’s violence was reflected
On the convict’s body, for all to see
The ruler’s vengeance
Was irrational and random violence
A show for the masses
Which was uneconomic for the State

Look around and what do you see?
Head down crowds and candid clothes
Long lined of men and women
Order and strictness for a better society
It all seems so perfect, so ideal
Now it is how we always wanted
The superstructure made us stable
Today the punishment’s language
Is the new panoptic society
The jail is a smaller part
Of a wider prison system

“The human body was entering a machinery of power
That explores it, breaks it down and rearranges it
A
‘political anatomy’, which was also a ‘mechanics of
Power’, was being born; it defined how one may have
A hold over others’ bodies, not only so that they may
Do what one wishes, but so that they may operate
As one wishes, with the techniques, the speed and
The efficiency that one determines
Thus discipline produces subjected and practiced
Bodies, ‘docile’ bodies”.*

Look around and what do you see?
Head down crowds, candid clothes
Long lined of men and women
Order and strictness for a better society
It all seems so perfect, so ideal
(as desired the world has changed
As desired the world has flowered)
Now it is how we always wanted
The superstructure nullified us
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The Meaning Under

The Meaning Under

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"Superstructure" appears on "Cenotaph" in 2016.

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