Lyrics: the New World Oz (NWO)

The New World Oz

 

Welcome to your world

You’ll want to know the rules here

so first you’ll learn our words

and how we give them meanings

 

we train you how to speak

we train you how to think

we train you how to breathe

we train you how to dream

we teach you what should be

to blind you to everything

that is not what should be

so, at most, you’ll reject it with fury

 

we teach you what to protest

we teach you what to resist

and to condemn us

while you focus on our plan to form your life against

 

worship our evil with your attention

think of it always but call that prevention

you are the special agent of our creation

new scandal new drama new media sensation

 

we tell you what is wrong

we tell you what not to do

our monopoly is words

your world plays by our rules

 

we tell you what is wrong with you

we tell you what not to do

our monopoly is words

your world plays by our rules

  

we hide truth in plain sight

right behind your closed eyes

like water to a fish

it’s what you may never notice

 

our system is transfer

by divert and conquer

you borrow our credit

and we take your retirement

 

your real estate equity slips through your grasp

your stock market holdings suddenly collapse

even gold and silver all deflate in this crash

cuz our organized violence is what gives power to cash

not ink on paper

are you really that naive

now it’s even electronic, though some say it should not be 

ha!

listen to the ex-millionaires plead with the deputies

“please do not take the bank’s mansion from me”

 

fools… do just what we taught them to: rebel

so they’re surprised but proud and then exhaust themselves

“say it ain’t so, Joe” and “make the world a better place”

but the world isn’t a problem… till we relate to it that way 

 

“it shouldn’t be like this, it should be more, better, different

We should be heroes, yet we’re convinced that we’re victims”

and that my friends is the design and operation of the system

what you resist, persists

naming evil is our wisdom

 

 

we tell you what is wrong

we tell you what not to do

our monopoly is words

your world plays by our rules

 

we tell you what is wrong with you

we tell you what not to do

our monopoly is words

your world plays by our rules

 

 

worship our tantrums

believe in our saviors

we put them on TV

to promise you favors

 

support them

elect them

die for them

even kill

 

still we’re gonna take your whole farm

and your little dog, too 

 

riddles: which one’s named gulch

like as in a great depression?

didn’t the crowned heads of Europe

teach you their lesson?

 

the wicked wizard of ounce

paved the streets with gold

while Elton John sang

it’s a good buy and hold

this yellow brick road

well, maybe except in a Kansas tornado

 

so, when the winds of change start to blow

just point your sails where you wish to go

or, when the winds of change start to blow

don’t point your sails where you don’t wish to go

it’s your choice

 

But whatever you do please pay no attention

to the man behind the next depression

he’s the one pulling levers in a voting booth

and signing a mortgage against the future of truth

he’s doing just as we programmed him

he’s fanatically faithful to the counter-revolution

 

 

we tell you what is wrong

we tell you what not to do

our monopoly is doublespeak

your world plays by our rules

 

we tell you what is wrong with life

we tell you what not to do

our monopoly is doublethink

the brave new world is Oz

 

December 25 & 26, 2009