Mechanical Thought

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lyrics

This mechanical maltaise
educing free speech to an
amalgamation of hate and dreamscapes
back through the echo chamber
is you from your youth
nine parts agony and one part truth.

Caught in the gears
the blood curdling cry
of unsubstantiated fear
propped up in the mirror
and it's all still for not
after all these years
loosing all that you've got
as it became clear
a complicit vibe chatters
it's way through the vibe mind
severing ties and repeating
the crimes of the past
and at long last we've
achieved our revolution a day
a thought killed tomorrow
can be still-born today

Why bother to follow if you're already a slave?
Why relive tomorrow when you could skip past today?
you might just creep past all these little cliches
and have a chance to be the first to decorate their own cage. --

My echo dances with each extreme
teaches me nothing, tainting my dreams
My echo flies in both directions
it's greed fuels my wanting a tainted perspective.

Your thought-
(it is mechanical.)
Not far
(from the tyrannical.)
Happens
(Lechter comma Hannibal)
Everyday.

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from Survived By, released August 4, 2012
Lyrics: Makousky, Music: OBCT (Makousky, Bateman, Johnson, Erickson, Emrys & Nelsen) Mixed and Mastered by: Nic Heidt

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