shock and terrorize
El_Kabong
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dedicated to paul wolfowitz
When the majority of money is coming from corporations....it's just fucking common sense that it's this great big circle jerk of the military industrial complex and other industries. The same ones who own the television stations. They make the bombs and then decide how we get to hear they were used. the heroic, video game esque 'shock and awe' oh so surgical, oh so precise...
is over 75% of the casualties 'precise'?
see, there's this nagging my head that says 'no'
and while i don't have a dictionary handy
something is telling me 'surgical' might not be the proper word, either
but that's just me.
We all know war is ugly so we must shelter ourselves from reality and accept the script they have come up with.
Let's kid ourselves
and grab our blankies.
It's all for the greater good.
It's all justifiable in the end, you just need....
to look at it in a certain way
twist it to the side a little bit
squint
repeat it to yourself softly
embrace it
we all know
war is hell
<flips on tv>
<closes mind>
<Wallows in the distraction>
they are robbing us blind and selling our lives at the same time.
When's the last time Halliburton paid taxes?
How often did Dubya's companys pay taxes?
$9 Billion in Iraq unaccounted for how?
What miscalibrations and voter irregularities?
Oh, but now they say with their chest puffed out
lips all pouty and decree
how bad such a thing is....
smoke and mirrors, my friends.
smoke and mirrors
Our political system is a complete cancerous mess.
Infested with lil piggies suckin on the teet of our tax money in great contracts and back scratching
money that simply can not be accounted for
that is....
the trail grows cold after being placed in their hands
stuffing their pockets full, circle jerking, bending us over often enough....
but hey <shrugs> why think about it?
that might mean i may have to actually do something...
i might have to <gasp> sacrifice a little bit for…
my fellow man?
Hell, i don't even know him
what the fuckhas he done for me lately, anyhow?.
and besides
if strange things were afoot surely the liberal media would've alerted us looooooong ago.
yeah, the liberal media
the liberal media owned by.....
who again?
the same ones telling us to just play
don't think
don't question
just forget
just consume
just look the other way
just rationalize
Just give in to the distractions
It’s easier to just not think about it
Right?
the same ones telling us what we need to be afraid of this week
continuanly pumping us full of fear to where it is hard to function
the same ones telling us about the newest wonder drug that will make it all ok
for a while that is...
then you will have to be afraid when the side effects turn out to be too dangerous
the same ones filling our conformity boxes with mindless crap
created soley to distract
and blind
and make us forget
there ever was a war
that $9 billion is unaccounted for
that it turned out there really was no reason for
war
and a lot of the times this is the case
but we don't care
we can't miss american idol
Who do ya think will be voted off the island this week?
the same ones shoving the approved footage
are the same ones building the cluster bombs
the same ones telling us they were used effectively
effective to whose standards?
That is the question that really must be asked
someone really must put a dictionary on their christmas list
maybe it's not all lies
maybe it's not all spin
maybe it's not all just how you look at it,
how you selfishly choose to rationalize it
looking out a window to see the total devestation
seeing the mass graves piling up
turning to the tv and seeing
something that looks nothing like the view from the window
the view from the street
the view from almost anywhere you go in the burnt out
crater filled town
the same view from everywhere but the other side of the tracks
the side they do show
the side where lives the ones who see it ‘the right way’
the ones with homes much too nice to bomb
it's not that they don't want us to see it, per say
we simply must be shielded from such images
we can't go turning the public off
we have a deal for a video game of the war afterwards
advertising revenue folks
that's what's important
world banks
world debt
yet record profits
your skewed balance...
world hunger...
no, on second thought
make that
selective hunger
I think that is far more appropriate, now
don't you?
world wars
bullies holding the planet hostage
gun in one hand
placed firmly in their backs
stuffing pockets, bank and offshore accounts with the other
looking down and noticing to some disgust the blood
but hey,
you're nice enough to hire some of them to clean it all up
Those stains are to get out, after all
and I simply can't be bothered with even seeing it
No sir
there's a saying
I think they might even have it in tennesse
you can flock some of the herd some of the time
but...
can't....
can't get fooled again....
well...maybe that's not an exact quote
but what nowadays ever really is?
not everyone was force fed the same edited version of what is mistakenly labeled 'history'
not everyone has been indoctrinated in the gloriousely freeing habit of selective amnesia
they don't forget how empty thier childrens bellys were
while you were impatient waiting on that refill and someone really needs to fire that fucking waiter
they won't forget the sounds of their childrens cries at night
while you mingled at functions drinking, laughing, making little jokes
they can't forget the date on that eviction notice
while you fly from a ranch to for the bill signing photo op
I just don't understand
you seem to sadisticaly enjoy all of this....
why not go all out?
why not make it the spectacle it is to you?
why not paint the cluster bomblets like little easter eggs?
ya know
kill 2 birds with one stone
embrace our religion
boom
or maybe
mines like christmas presents
embrace our culture
boom
point being
get back in line
point being
shut the fuck up
you were warned
damn fallujahns got what they deserved
so did those damned guatamalans
and the panamanians
and the nicaraguans
and the iranians
annd the el salvadorians
and the argentinans
and.....
fuck it
let's cut to the chase
and anyone else who had what we wanted and wouldn't play ball
meaningless
take comfort in your distractions
your empty, hollow distractions
your god damn fucking distractions
thank god for michael jackson
save terri schivao
thank god congress is investigating steroid use in baseball
now we don't have to be bothered with such stories for now
just ease your mind
eat some over processed food
drink some beer
forget
your guilt is not just implied
your guilt is in your silence
the silence that equals your consent
your consent that 'each life is precious' is actually subjective
that ends justify the means,
as long as taxes don't go up,
as long as i don't have to bother with anything
our recurring theme
stand behind your choosen figurehead
repeat their mantra 'they hate us for our freedom'
shake your fist over 3,000
scream for blood
howl for revenge
just don't expect the world to care much
when those numbers are far eclipsed there,
every year,
at the ends of our guns,
our bombs,
our policies
Sell your soul for a few hundred extra at tax time
your not the one who will be paying it back
...................................................................
if you would like to leanr more on this subject
http://forums.pearljam.com/showthread.php?t=103938&page=1&pp=15
thank you
this has been an el+kabong PSA
When the majority of money is coming from corporations....it's just fucking common sense that it's this great big circle jerk of the military industrial complex and other industries. The same ones who own the television stations. They make the bombs and then decide how we get to hear they were used. the heroic, video game esque 'shock and awe' oh so surgical, oh so precise...
is over 75% of the casualties 'precise'?
see, there's this nagging my head that says 'no'
and while i don't have a dictionary handy
something is telling me 'surgical' might not be the proper word, either
but that's just me.
We all know war is ugly so we must shelter ourselves from reality and accept the script they have come up with.
Let's kid ourselves
and grab our blankies.
It's all for the greater good.
It's all justifiable in the end, you just need....
to look at it in a certain way
twist it to the side a little bit
squint
repeat it to yourself softly
embrace it
we all know
war is hell
<flips on tv>
<closes mind>
<Wallows in the distraction>
they are robbing us blind and selling our lives at the same time.
When's the last time Halliburton paid taxes?
How often did Dubya's companys pay taxes?
$9 Billion in Iraq unaccounted for how?
What miscalibrations and voter irregularities?
Oh, but now they say with their chest puffed out
lips all pouty and decree
how bad such a thing is....
smoke and mirrors, my friends.
smoke and mirrors
Our political system is a complete cancerous mess.
Infested with lil piggies suckin on the teet of our tax money in great contracts and back scratching
money that simply can not be accounted for
that is....
the trail grows cold after being placed in their hands
stuffing their pockets full, circle jerking, bending us over often enough....
but hey <shrugs> why think about it?
that might mean i may have to actually do something...
i might have to <gasp> sacrifice a little bit for…
my fellow man?
Hell, i don't even know him
what the fuckhas he done for me lately, anyhow?.
and besides
if strange things were afoot surely the liberal media would've alerted us looooooong ago.
yeah, the liberal media
the liberal media owned by.....
who again?
the same ones telling us to just play
don't think
don't question
just forget
just consume
just look the other way
just rationalize
Just give in to the distractions
It’s easier to just not think about it
Right?
the same ones telling us what we need to be afraid of this week
continuanly pumping us full of fear to where it is hard to function
the same ones telling us about the newest wonder drug that will make it all ok
for a while that is...
then you will have to be afraid when the side effects turn out to be too dangerous
the same ones filling our conformity boxes with mindless crap
created soley to distract
and blind
and make us forget
there ever was a war
that $9 billion is unaccounted for
that it turned out there really was no reason for
war
and a lot of the times this is the case
but we don't care
we can't miss american idol
Who do ya think will be voted off the island this week?
the same ones shoving the approved footage
are the same ones building the cluster bombs
the same ones telling us they were used effectively
effective to whose standards?
That is the question that really must be asked
someone really must put a dictionary on their christmas list
maybe it's not all lies
maybe it's not all spin
maybe it's not all just how you look at it,
how you selfishly choose to rationalize it
looking out a window to see the total devestation
seeing the mass graves piling up
turning to the tv and seeing
something that looks nothing like the view from the window
the view from the street
the view from almost anywhere you go in the burnt out
crater filled town
the same view from everywhere but the other side of the tracks
the side they do show
the side where lives the ones who see it ‘the right way’
the ones with homes much too nice to bomb
it's not that they don't want us to see it, per say
we simply must be shielded from such images
we can't go turning the public off
we have a deal for a video game of the war afterwards
advertising revenue folks
that's what's important
world banks
world debt
yet record profits
your skewed balance...
world hunger...
no, on second thought
make that
selective hunger
I think that is far more appropriate, now
don't you?
world wars
bullies holding the planet hostage
gun in one hand
placed firmly in their backs
stuffing pockets, bank and offshore accounts with the other
looking down and noticing to some disgust the blood
but hey,
you're nice enough to hire some of them to clean it all up
Those stains are to get out, after all
and I simply can't be bothered with even seeing it
No sir
there's a saying
I think they might even have it in tennesse
you can flock some of the herd some of the time
but...
can't....
can't get fooled again....
well...maybe that's not an exact quote
but what nowadays ever really is?
not everyone was force fed the same edited version of what is mistakenly labeled 'history'
not everyone has been indoctrinated in the gloriousely freeing habit of selective amnesia
they don't forget how empty thier childrens bellys were
while you were impatient waiting on that refill and someone really needs to fire that fucking waiter
they won't forget the sounds of their childrens cries at night
while you mingled at functions drinking, laughing, making little jokes
they can't forget the date on that eviction notice
while you fly from a ranch to for the bill signing photo op
I just don't understand
you seem to sadisticaly enjoy all of this....
why not go all out?
why not make it the spectacle it is to you?
why not paint the cluster bomblets like little easter eggs?
ya know
kill 2 birds with one stone
embrace our religion
boom
or maybe
mines like christmas presents
embrace our culture
boom
point being
get back in line
point being
shut the fuck up
you were warned
damn fallujahns got what they deserved
so did those damned guatamalans
and the panamanians
and the nicaraguans
and the iranians
annd the el salvadorians
and the argentinans
and.....
fuck it
let's cut to the chase
and anyone else who had what we wanted and wouldn't play ball
meaningless
take comfort in your distractions
your empty, hollow distractions
your god damn fucking distractions
thank god for michael jackson
save terri schivao
thank god congress is investigating steroid use in baseball
now we don't have to be bothered with such stories for now
just ease your mind
eat some over processed food
drink some beer
forget
your guilt is not just implied
your guilt is in your silence
the silence that equals your consent
your consent that 'each life is precious' is actually subjective
that ends justify the means,
as long as taxes don't go up,
as long as i don't have to bother with anything
our recurring theme
stand behind your choosen figurehead
repeat their mantra 'they hate us for our freedom'
shake your fist over 3,000
scream for blood
howl for revenge
just don't expect the world to care much
when those numbers are far eclipsed there,
every year,
at the ends of our guns,
our bombs,
our policies
Sell your soul for a few hundred extra at tax time
your not the one who will be paying it back
...................................................................
if you would like to leanr more on this subject
http://forums.pearljam.com/showthread.php?t=103938&page=1&pp=15
thank you
this has been an el+kabong PSA
standin above the crowd
he had a voice that was strong and loud and
i swallowed his facade cos i'm so
eager to identify with
someone above the crowd
someone who seemed to feel the same
someone prepared to lead the way
he had a voice that was strong and loud and
i swallowed his facade cos i'm so
eager to identify with
someone above the crowd
someone who seemed to feel the same
someone prepared to lead the way
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they would carpet us in bombs,
but who are they
and is it a red carpet?
It must be red;
it's the one they walk
when they wipe their feet
on us.
On US?
US, they, them, us --
You mentioned taxes
I would rhyme it with faxes.
it sounds the same
to me
and I laugh in rhymes
because at times
like these, like those, like
mike
If I could be like mike
(who looks like nike,
but doesn't rhyme)
I might not worry
so much
about taxes and faxes,
but I'm not.
to you, to them, to us
From me
You is the only singular
and plural
pronoun
in our language.
You can do a lot.
In the right sentence.
They can carpet us
in bombs
you can carpet me
in truth.
nothing short of amazing
Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
-Oscar Wilde