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It begins when we chain ourselves to the ATMs
Make a mess when we pitch our tents on the statehouse steps
Now we're taking it, now we're taking it back
Now we're taking it, now we're taking it back
For the greater good
Goddamn Robin Hoods
Fan the flames, serve them cocktails down at the Stock Exchange
Hear the screams, take our baseball bats to the limousines
They'll be talking us, they'll be talking us up
They'll be talking us, they'll be talking us up
To the journalists
If there's any left
You know the Sixties proved that change is hit or miss
Every bloody pacifist concedes the truth
If one must die to save the ninety-nine
Maybe it's justified
The left is right
We're doomed
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You were calling out from the underground
You had lots of big ideas but no one can hear them now
They riddled you with guilt
They tempted you with wealth
They twisted all your words
They made you hate yourself
So now you do your schtick, a loyal patriot
And you toe the party line even though it makes you sick
They gave you talking points
They taught you double-speak
They forced you into war
By saying you were weak
They signed your checks til they had you in the bag
They scared you blind then draped you in a flag
Made you a man at Ft. Bragg
You'll do good business as an apologist
If you exaggerate their facts, if you perpetuate their myths
They made activism trite
They made honor optional
They made propaganda news
They made science radical
They pulled your teeth til you smiled and agreed
They slit you throat and buried you at sea
All for the land of the free
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All the founding fathers sewed their seeds
In the southern coast
All the godless heathens had to leave
To make a newer world
So we could live together in America
Justice is blinding so is love
Oh-oh, oh-oh
Oh-oh, oh-oh
All the stolen melodies they played
In the hit parade
All the power spirituals they fade
In a salute
So we could sing together in America
Black sermon anthem, painted love
Polystyrene 100 dollar bills
To build a shining city on the hill
(Forgot them all!)
There's no cure for pain or shame
You just have to be this way
Oh-oh, oh-oh
Oh-oh, oh-oh
If you steal and hustle don't get caught
Gotta risk it all
Hang on every note that they read off
For the Powerball
We'll all get rich together in America
Money's indifferent – so is love
Trash bags full of 100 dollar bills
(Statues on the wall)
We left that broke down city on the hill
(Forget them all!)
Have to relocate the past
Because we're never going back
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My whole family tree has got nothing to eat
The machine guns guard the checkpoint
from starving refugees
So when I stop to pray for the fifth time today
Still see my sister Alma
with a hole in her skull
As the tanks pulled away
Radicalized! Radicalized!
Radical lies! Radical lies!
I'm so surprised my mind's a tug-o-war
Radicalized! Radicalized!
Radical lies! Radical lies!
It's no surprise my mind's not mine no more
Can't afford no dream with a G.E.D.
Recruiter shook my brother's hand
now he's all he can be
So when his team's Humvee hit the I.E.D.
Me and my mother we cried
in our new double wide
Around the Christmas tree
Radicalized! Radicalized!
Radical lies! Radical lies!
I'm so surprised my mind's a tug-o-war
Radicalized! Radicalized!
Radical lies! Radical lies!
It's no surprise my mind's not mine no more
Radicalized! Radicalized!
Radical lies! Radical lies!
I'm so surprised my mind's a tug-o-war
Radicalized! Radicalized!
Radical lies! Radical lies!
It's no surprise my mind's not mine no more
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Always fast asleep in the middle of the day
They talk soft at my bedside, now, either way
Fill out the paperwork
it's just another little form
Each policy has its benefits
but some claims aren't covered anymore
I'll pay the blood test money
Heavy premium I had to quit my job
Don't want to sponge off the government
but I'm coughing blood
I met the specialist who will decide my fate
She smiled down at my X-ray
said I'm an ideal candidate
But you got to understand
It's not part of the plan
It's good news but you're not out of the woods
You got to wait your turn boy
Be careful what you earn
And we'll call you back
Just try and stay strong honey
Always wide awake in the middle of the night
Follow my friends through the telephone
but it isn't life
Feeling incomplete, I got the crossword done
I'll be prepared when they cut me up
but I can't imagine hell or heaven
But I finally understand
It's all out of my hands
I lived way longer than they said I would
So now I'm taking all your love
Like an experimental drug
Come by sometime a laugh would do me good
We got to let it go boys
You know we're all on hold
'Til they call you back
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I'm growing out my hair like it was when I was single
It was longer than I'd known you
I had no money then. I had no worries then at all
But with such a high standard of living
I just feel like I am dying
I would start an argument but you can barely even talk
But there is always good reason for your silence
You have to take care of some business
So I fix your plate and I stay out of the way
And you will stay like that forever
Right in front of your computer
You'll look up one day but you won't recognize me
So now you want to change
You read a letter from a lawyer
Want to take me out to dinner
You want to bury me under a mound of shopping bags
Like it would really make a difference
Or make up for your disinterest
I'm a bill you pay. I'm a contract you can't break
And it's like I'm under water
Or on an endless escalator
I just go up and up but I don't ever reach the top
And it reads just like the Bible
Twenty centuries of scandal
I guess it all depends on how you interpret it
The word is love, the word is loss
The words are damaged goods
That's what I am.
A lifetime gets chalked up to an experience
Coincidence. we are chained to the events
That's it
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Propped up at the pulpit
A speech to please the proles
With coca-cola
Trickling down my throat
Well would you save all of your bottles
If I promised a refund
It's gonna come
I swear I swear I swear I swear
That it is
If you've got a special interest
There is influence I could sell
Just like water takes the shape of where it is held
I'm overflowing with ambition
But I got to keep in mind
The bottom line
Is the dollar signs
And big bright lights
Inequality franchised
The next location is mine
We're gonna lower costs
It's a work of art
Our giant golden arch
I'm gonna start a factory
The size of a country
I'm gonna teach them all
To work for liberty oh
But I'm not one for handouts
No they got to pay their dues
They can make our shoes
And then we'll walk on you
Always on the move
We heard that business will boom
If some people are removed
I know there's all body types
But we have just one size
I don't care if it's tight
It's the dollar signs
And the big bright lights
Inequality franchised
Every location is mine
You just do your part
Form a line lets march
Under the golden arch
March march march march
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What you learned, what you read in their books
All they offered
What you saw when they told you to look
A final offer
Well, today we are giving birth
To a new future
Yeah, today we are giving birth
To our own future
We will learn, we will love, we will work
Change each other
We will spread, we will cover the earth
Like air and water
Water, water, water
Change each other
We will spread, we will cover the earth
Like air and water
Tomorrow is blank, we'll just fill it in
With our own answers
If we are stopped, we'll just start again
That's the new offer
Offer
That's it
That's our final one
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Can’t live today off that minimum wage unless you sleep on the factory floor
If there is anything great left in this sorry state it was built on the backs of the poor
So we buy and we sell for your corporate cartel and we vote when the contestant sings
A mind-control mix for our obedience, strong sleep-aids and hard energy drinks
Cause Freedom is not free
Neither is apathy
“Slay Goliath! Slay Goliath!”
The flashmob all held up their phones
But you cannot predict when the students riot
And a big machine always moves slow
So throw your little stone
You can’t stop us
We are Anonymous
You can’t stop us
We are Anonymous
Expect us
We know what all of us know
You can’t stop us
We are Anonymous
You can’t stop us
We are Anonymous
Expect us
We know what all of us know
A half-dozen cops came to seize a laptop from a sleeping fifteen year old kid
They broke down the door and discovered some more, a hundred million exactly like him
So we do not forgive and we do not forget, we are legion, expect us, you’ll see
The righteous will resist, underfed eat the rich and the data mines finally come clean
Cause Freedom is not free
And neither is secrecy
You can’t stop us
We are Anonymous
You can’t stop us
We are Anonymous
Expect us
We know what all of us know
You can’t stop us
We are Anonymous
You can’t stop us
We are Anonymous
Expect us
We know what all of us know
We know what Big Brother did
We’re the Tattletale
We’ll see your All-Seeing-Eye in hell
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There is a lynching at Home Depot of the last day laborer
In this sanctuary city with its anchor-baby births
They say "Its time we had some justice for the white race on this earth
This place is strange and getting stranger"
"We got to round 'em up!
Door to door tonight we're ready"
Knock Knock Knock
"Drag them from their beds
They got some nerve to say they were here first"
"We're gonna round them up!
Hiding in the semi-trailers"
Knock Knock Knock
"Beat it in their heads
We keep our word and Maricopa pure"
They're sweating in Sun City cause they just got off the course
Saying "Sheriff Joe it's awful and it's only getting worse"
"Oh did you hear about Rob Krentz? They left him bleeding in the dirt
These Spics are brave and getting braver"
"We got to round 'em up!
Door to door the posse is ready"
Knock Knock Knock
"Drag them from their beds
Cause it's their turn for someone to get hurt"
"We're gonna round 'em up!
Crying in the day-care center"
Knock Knock Knock
"Beat it in their heads
They'll never learn until Maricopa burns!"
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Well, traffic's kind of bad
They're widening Easy Street
To fit more SUVs, they're planting baby trees to grow to shady peaks
A little shelter from the sun
Or the upper tax bracket
Here on the cul-de-sac we're not giving back till the community repents
Cause we can't afford to be generous
There's closing costs and a narrow margin
So go earn your degree and we'll take you out to lunch
You can work for us
But you got to eat em all up
Yeah, one more mouth full and we will be happy then
Yeah, one more mouth full and we will be happy then
Out west they're moving dirt
To make a greater Omaha
Another franchise sold, so there's even more restaurants per capita
And they all got a drive-thru
Yeah, who's got time to dine?
Although the floors are clean, the color scheme, it compliments me every time
So no one starves in this cattle town
The semis pass making squealing sounds
And it's all you can eat
And they'll never get enough
They'll be feeding us
They'll be feeding on us
Just one more mouth full and they will be happy then
Yeah, one more mouth full and they will be happy then
All those golden fields, lovely empty space
They're building drug stores now until non remains
I've been driving now for a hundred blocks
Saw fifty Kum-And-Goes, sixty parking lots
Yeah, one more mouth full and they will be happy then
Yeah, one more mouth full and they will be happy then
One more
Yeah, one more
It's one more
Just one more
Just one more
It's one more
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The album was recorded June 25 2015 at the storied Brooklyn DIY space and served as the release show for the band's long-awaited 2nd LP Payola. During a years-long hiatus from Bright Eyes, singer Conor Oberst had rededicated himself to his own seminal punk band Desaparecidos, getting the original all-star lineup of hometown Omaha friends & fam back on the stage and in the studio again after nearly a decade to handle some unfinished business.
A joint release by Brooklyn labels Freeman Street and Shea Stadium Records, this is the first live offering in the Desa catalog, and the ideal vehicle to experience the wild, raw, anthemic energy of a legendary punk band at the top of their game.