No Substance

A mutinous enemy carved a nascent country
Sweat, blood and valor forms the grit of our history
Bequeathed to everyone: chance and free expression
Substance was restrained and the spirit was broken

I feel a strange denial rhythmic as change
Constant as time
Lonely insistent whispers
Somber as a wave bye bye

Searching for solution, without constitution
Blackcoats by our sides promising salvation
Advocating dogma as tickets to hereafter
Mortals in their prime with their desperate hands in the air

Daunting complex and burning
Rhythmic as change
Constant as time
Conflicts, craving approval
Weighted as a murder trial
Oh, i feel a strange denial

Correct is consensus
Everything else, nonsense
Forward is the hope
Forget recompense
Peace and tranquility is only for the wealthy
Dearth for the masses and inequality

I feel a strange denial
Rhythmic as change
Constant as time
Lonely insistent whispers
Dissipating in the night
Like a lone forgotten light

And no one is helping me
It's a strange denial

K..k..k..killer (2x)

You have got your stranglers and prowlers in soft shoes
Furniture makers, carpenters too
Bombers and commandos, all with some lost cause
Disgruntled workers, immersed in "veritas"

But stealthily, in the land of the free, it's lurking right there
Most are unaware of
The biggest killer in american history (4x)
And god shed his grace on thee

Business institutions, universities
Both are quite the circus when the killer wants his way
I think of edward teller and his moribund reprise
Then i look to nevada and i can't believe my eyes
It's time for him to die!

Most cannot remember minutia learned in school
It's not there on the blackboard, it's what they don't tell you
We have got a problem, it starts and ends right here
It can be defeated but you've got to face your fear

We'll join and unite and steady our sight
Then we'll put it right 'cuz it's time to fight
The biggest killer in american history (4x)
And god shed his grace on thee

Neighbors, nobody loves you like we do. neighbors, your government has triumphed in finally making you a public fit for the 21st century. never before has a governing body shown so much concern
He economic well-being of its subjects. today we have insulated you from countless factions who threaten your financial viability; such as the poor; the idealistic foreigners still clinging to t
Childish notions of social welfare; why, you're even kept uninformed of useless propagandist journalism that reports alleged violations of human rights (we all know they wouldn't have been punis
F they hadn't been doing something wrong!!). and who better to dispense such blatantly evident factoids but a self-appointed authority like myself?

Acid rain is a thing of the past.... too many possible causes, too little significance for our modern thinking public, besides industrial manufacturing is at an all-time low anyway, who needs th
Arrow minded laborers, too many mouths to feed, hehe, and too much burden on the payroll! who needs 'em here in the land of the free time. some other ass-backward country will give us what we ne
Exploiting its uneducated children anyway.

The internet has expanded our ability to pacify average americans better than ever by offering fantastical adventures to every corner of the imagination. your home office is the window to your w
And the heart of your social life. such reclusive behavior helps clear the roads and public works from overburden like the lower middle class and others who depend shamelessly on their governme
Oday you are freer than ever to do what you want, provided you can pay for it!

Remember, the first word in usa is us!
We have arrived, neighbors, we are the privileged elite

Look around the country, an abundance you'll find
Of mediocre minds
Sift through the fodder as sane justice declines
Because of mediocre minds
Shrouded under cover, the most flamboyant guise
Hides a mediocre mind
You got yours but you can never bend mine
With your mediocre minds

When they cry foul you had better watch out
Because you never know which aptitude they're griping about
Don't act too smart for their stenoscopic ways
You'll be discarded away

Reason's not to be what the privileged define
With their mediocre minds
So many sighted people are so helplessly blind
From their mediocre minds

If you want attention then you'll be asked to bend
But the surest insurrection is enlightenment
Then you can live outside inharmoniously
Without friends and enemy

They wanna keep me locked away
Cuz i've an overactive brain

Leaders, presidents and the nightly news guys
Cater to mediocre minds
Reason's not to be what the privileged define
With their mediocre minds
You got yours but you can never bend mine
With your mediocre minds
The only natural thing that i really despise
Are the mediocre minds
Mediocre minds! (2x)

Here inside this quiet room there's direction
Outside in the sultry noon-time reflection
A million people scurry
They're looking for advice
None willing to lend charity, just exercise their

Shades of truth and partisan conventions
Shades of truth between disparate lines
Shades of truth interpret my intentions
You don't know i'm alright
You don't know i'm alright

Who authored the blueprints and made us captains?
Someone proclaimed creation, people listened
While children by the millions are thrown into this zoo
The so-called gift of clarity! oh what was god up to?

Shades of truth and lenient conventions
Shades of truth between disparate lines
Shades of truth interpret my intentions
You don't know i'm alright
You don't know i'm alright
Yeah!

So many walk in parallel and pull their blinders tight
So few offer apology and accept others' rights
And nothing absolutely can be cherished in the end
But can't we all accept that it will all happen again?

Shades of truth just partisan conventions
Shades of truth between disparate lines
Shades of truth interpret my intentions
You don't know i'm alright
You don't know i'm alright

Just shades of truth and partisan conventions
Shades of truth between disparate lines
Shades of truth interpret my intentions
You don't know i'm alright
You don't know i'm alright

What you do is what you are
And wishing upon distant stars
Won't improve the hole you're in
And won't absolve your deepest sin

But action is no gift from some covert and lofty god
It's dependent and weighty all the same
And it's oh so easy just to keep to yourself
Then you're at the mercy of imbeciles

Now i didn't make up the rules
But clearly we are led by fools
It is wise to know their ways
So you know how not to behave

But sometimes we find ourselves in desperate need
And we look to those of privilege and power
It's then we learn compassion sits inert upon their shelves
And we're at the mercy of imbeciles

No action is no gift from some masked spirit in the sky
It's reducible to flesh, mind and bone
And it's oh so easy just to keep to yourself
But then you're at the mercy of imbeciles
Imbeciles (3x)

Our apocalypse 1981
Teenage vagrants looking for some fun
A renewed promise of prosperity
A vulgar platform for the world to see
We were...
The hippy killers (4x)

Busted refuse from broken homes
Pocked flesh and malacious bones
Creatures sustained by desire, heart, and soul
Nothing to leave and nowhere to go
We were...
The hippy killers (4x)

The hippy killers (8x)

Good days during horrible times
Overused bodies, neglected minds
Shoulder to shoulder we formed as one
The next miserable generation
We were...
The hippy killers (4x)

We all know politicians only go
Just halfway there
Just halfway there
The innocence of youth needs protection not abuse
But no one seems to care
Yet no one seems to care

And you sit there and watch the world go around
From your pseudo-benevolent vantage point
While we who've been left to pick up after you
Try our best to make some sense for those who come next

Now what have you done to foster the truth
Besides just hide the lies?
Besides just hide the lies?
A selfish campaign never justifies the gain
But the means are verified
Yeah the means are verified

And you sit there and insist you are right!
From your popular psychological podium
While those who rely and depend on you
They wilt because you don't accept we need each other

While sowing the seeds of utopia
You invoked a convenient amnesia
You forgot how to care, you forgot how to provide
You forgot how to work toward a meaningful life