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Out To Lunch
04:13
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False prophets
Making profits
While screwing you
From their bubble
Causing trouble
Making life
Tough for you
Back breakers
Money takers
Pick a pocket
Or two
Selfish dreamers
Great schemers
You find yourself doing what
They want you to do
Tiny tin gods
Hooks on steel rods
Make believe scraps
Are gifts for you
And we oblige
And we comply
I don’t know why.
Do you?
They’re a cult and
They’re a curse
Think they’re the centre
Of the universe
It’s getting worse
They have a thirst
To suck your blood
And leave you
Black and blue
It’s nothing new (it’s as old as the hills)
It’s nothing new (just a different drill)
They twist the truth
Get you confused
Make believe
They’re smarter than you
Don’t be tricked
By these cliques
By these ruthless,
Heartless
Brutes
They’ll hold the line
They won’t resist
They’re ambition
Takes the piss
They will fight
They will persist
They’re obsessed
To make their wish
Come true
“You can fool all the people some of the time and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.”
(Abraham Lincoln)
Out to lunch
Out to lunch
I hear them preach
Don’t hear them teach
They’re out of reach
They’re out to lunch
Look in their eyes
Look at their smiles
You’ll see their guise
They’re out to lunch
Out to lunch
Out to lunch
Out to lunch
Out to lunch...
(We have a vision
For the common good
Now is the time not to be selfish
We are in this together
Listen to what we are saying
Now is the time to be selfless
Now is the time to work together
Listen to what we are saying
Listen to what we are saying
We have a vision
For the common good
We have a vision
For the common good,
Yummy, yummy.
We care about you)
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Lately
02:48
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Lately
I feel so scared
Feels like I'm somewhere
I shouldn't be
These are strange times
Feels like I have died
I'm in the dark mind
of someone crazy
Maybe
Something can save me
I will be set free
from my disease
More love
More understanding
Another way
to be
Lately
I feel so scared
Feels like I'm somewhere
I shouldn't be
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3. |
What A Bloody Mess
03:13
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So much confusion, so much unrest
An abomination, a bloody mess
So much corruption, so many lies
Needless destruction, wasted lives
What a bloody mess
What a bloody mess
All this information being pumped into our brains
It’s such an intrusion, it can drive you insane
If you want inclusion , well you better play the game
Don’t raise any objections or you’ll be shamed
What a bloody mess
What a bloody mess
Monopolies, rich elites putting on the squeeze
Slippery, rickety ideologies
Pomposity, opacity, insincerity
Puppetry, treachery, hypocrisy and sleaze
It’s all deception, smokescreens and spiel
A wicked illusion in which we’ve been wheedled
It was only compassion why The Buddha turned back
He knew our condition is a hard nut to crack
It’s been going on for so long
This shit’s been going on for so long
It’s been going on for so long
This shit’s been going on for so long
It’s been going on for so long
This shit’s been going on for so long
It’s been going on for so long
This shit’s been going on for so long
Will it ever
Will it ever...
Stop?
What a bloody mess
What a bloody mess
What a bloody mess
What a bloody mess
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There comes a time when you stop dreaming
And it's hard to find something to believe in
And you're left wondering what to do
When you realise what's in your mind's an illusion
Do you drop the disguise to see what's behind the curtain
And start wondering who are you?
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5. |
Don't Let It Fly
03:10
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It’s time to use your bow and arrow
And aim straight at the bull
No more sport for pleasure
Gotta go in for the kill
You can’t take any half measures
You can’t blink an eye
Or be affected by the weather
No, no, no, you can’t let it fly
I said, no, no, no, don’t you let it
No, no, no. don’t you let it
Don’t you let it fly
You’ve gotta make sure that you’re ready
Know you’ll be called a crazy fool
You’ve gotta be headstrong and steady
Remember pride comes before a fall
Don’t be pulled in by distractions
Don’t get caught up in sides
Look at the whole and not fractions
Keep a close watch on what’s happening inside
No, no, no, don’t you let it
No, no, no. don’t you let it
Don’t you let it fly
You’ll find reasons and excuses
You’ll find something to be justified
But only you are being cheated
Only you are being chastised
Shine a light on this darkness
Don’t pull the wool over your eyes
Don’t look for answers but guidance
Find you own way to the other side
It’s time to use your bow and arrow
It’s time to pinpoint the lies
And watch these glass walls shatter
Watch theses waves subside
No, no, no, don’t you let it
No, no, no. don’t you let it
Don’t you let it fly
No, no, no, don’t you let it
No, no, no. don’t you let it
Don’t you let it fly
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6. |
Waiting On A Dream
03:02
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I stayed a seed
I did not grow
Spent my life in darkness
Waiting for the light to show
I let my thoughts take me
I took them for real
I dreamt who I could be
And my fate was sealed
I was waiting on a dream
I was waiting on a dream
I stayed a ghost
I could not be seen
All I saw around me
Were shadows on a screen
I never knew who I was
Or if I had been
For I was always dreaming
Who I could be
I was waiting on a dream
I was waiting on a dream
Waiting on a dream
Waiting on a dream
Waiting on a dream
Waiting on a dream...
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7. |
The Town The Sun Forgot
04:30
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I'm weighed down by these streets
The clouds are hanging low
I'm walking in my sleep
With nowhere to go
Round and round in circles
Like some heavy ghost
I'm haunted by and haunting
This hostile host
It's a lonesome town
A cold, dark town
A town the sun has forgot
I feel the Smokey air
Stick to me like glue
I hear the buildings groan
And hear some crying too
I see these things around me
But they don't seem to be
Feels like death in disguise
Don't feel like life to me
It's a lonesome town
A cold, dark town
A town the sun has forgot
I guess I better be leaving
Before it gets under my skin
Before I start believing
This is how you live
Before I feel nothing
Before I cannot see
Before I turn into someone
I believe is me
It's a lonesome town
A cold, dark town
A town the sun has forgot
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Won’t you show me the map
That details the path
Between the concrete and the air
From the hues of insight
To the dusty moonlight
Through the shades of despair
And as that map disintegrates
The land will melt away
Depiction’s
Kinda funny That way
In these hollowed out hours
Beneath psychic towers
That we hang from the sky
We perform our passions
Measure reactions
Only in order to deny
That as the map disintegrates
The land will melt away
Depiction’s
Kinda funny that way
At the heart of the maze the monster resides
A howling residue of the pain inside
So you try to lay a thread to lead your way back
And that thread represents everything you lack
And the thread gets so tight you can’t comprehend
Where the thread begins and the monster ends
Cause they are one and the same
They are one and the same
One and the same
They are one and the same
(Words by Simon Hayward)
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Gentle Jim had the patience of a saint
There was so much that he could tolerate
Yes, he knew that life wasn’t fair
But they managed, just about,
To keep out of his hair
But now they’ve pushed him too far
Though he saw them chilled in fine tailored suits
He was always aware of their steel capped boots
So he found ways to keep them from his door
But these greedy wolves just had to have more
And now they’ve pushed him too far
It started with a prick, then a prod, then a shove
And they kept on pushing until he’d had enough
And venting the spleen of a mild mannered man
Results in a wrath you can’t even imagine
They pushed him too far
He just wanted a quiet, simple life
Not to bother or be bothered, you know, be nice
But now they don’t even give him a crumb, let alone a slice
And they wonder why they’re in this fight
Oh, they pushed him too far
General Jim stood alone on the frontline
The neighbours at first thought he had lost his mind
But his booming voice, clear and concise
Soon attracted the ears of other mice
You see, they pushed them too far
If you give choices no one wants to choose
Don’t be surprised when they refuse
And if you take everything it’s the end of you
Because those with nothing have nothing to lose
They pushed them too far
The crowd is loud and the crowd is large
They're not here for a party, they’re ready to charge
And there’s General Jim standing strong and tall
Only last year he did not exist at all
But they pushed him too far
Yeah, the likes of Jim were not seen or heard
So no one knew the power of their words
And now they’re getting what they deserve
If only they hadn’t kept piling on the dirt
They pushed them too far
It started with a prick, then a prod, then a shove
And they kept on pushing until he’d had enough
And venting the spleen of a mild mannered man
Will result in a wrath you can’t even imagine
They pushed him too far
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10. |
Ghost In The Machine
02:59
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I should always be in wonder
To have this chance to be
Before I go back under
Before I am released
Look at what has been given
A brief moment in time
With this mechanism
This body, this mind
For so long I was hidden
There was no mystery
Am I someone else's vision?
Is this all a dream?
I should always be in wonder
To be something in this space
I should really surrender
I should really say grace
I know one day I'll have to let it go
That it will all turn to dust
So I'll try to be careful what I sew
I'll try hard not to bluff
I should always be in wonder
To have this chance to be
Before I go back under
Before I am released
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The Idiot Society Portugal
Origin: Portugal/U.K.
Bill Rivers and Dawn
Mendonça
Genres:Eclectic, Experimental Pop/Jazz/Electronic
2010 - Present
Label: Independent/ MiMi Records
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