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Ruled By Liars

from MMXX by Sick Jokes

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Lies, lies, right between the eyes
Can I get a witness, here among the witless
Anyway, look them in the tooth veneer
They dribble out the cult of fear
And the sound of the megaphone pops and they suckle it up
And the whole thing’s yours if you knuckle it up
For the march of the lockstep drum
And they sell it to the blind and the deaf and the dumb
And they listen to the hack of the mass societal voice
While the CEO’s of the banks rejoice
Take heed of the bell that’s ringing in the town
As the almighty pucker of the man looks down
While the doomsday clock ticks on
The checks all bounced and the money’s all gone
Taken by the con man
Time for the match and the gas can
The world is a pyre
Ruled by the liars
Truth is now a memory
Deal of the century
Now become a thief and a whore
The autopsy ambulance waits at the door
Tragedy rides on the downtown line
While liberty dies on the vine, killed by the lies
Of the rich getting rich on the elevator pitch
For the silicon don with the buttonhole stitch
On the emperor’s new gear, did you hear that
The gang’s all here and it’s clear that the end is near
And they peel back layers of attack
While the face in the front pays triple to the back
And the idiots march to the beat of the drum
Of the almighty dollars and the fife of the
Dumdum bullets for the people in the street
As the kid with the gun sets targets in a tweet
For the checkmark status of the point oh one
And the race is run

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from MMXX, released December 1, 2020

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Sick Jokes is an international collective of artists who create heavy electronic music.
Soundtrack for the Apocalypse. With guitars.

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