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Evil Prevails!

by Monty O'Blivion

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1.
We're All Mad Here 03:53
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Deprived of oxygen Your mind is playing tricks again You’re looking for a pay phone Get a ride to a place you once called home Wake up in the back seat of a stranger’s car Rub your eyes and blink Back in ’86, you need a fix Enjoy yourself, it’s later than you think You see a broken mirror through a cracked lens Absurdity reveals itself as you approach the end This ain’t wonderland baby But we’re all mad here This ain’t no funeral baby But we’re all sad here And we’re all mad here And we’re all mad It’s happening again for the first time ’82, ’67… Reliving the losses, unanswered prayers Old bosses and fucks and doomsday scares You see a broken mirror through a cracked lens Absurdity reveals itself as you approach the end This ain’t wonderland baby But we’re all mad here This ain’t no funeral baby But we’re all sad here This ain’t wonderland baby But we’re all mad here This ain’t no funeral baby But we’re all sad This ain’t no funeral baby But we’re all sad here This ain’t wonderland baby But we’re all mad
2.
Endless Growth 03:14
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Sand, a beach, a shore, a leech Land, a reach, a door, impeach Water things slaughtering Daughters sing, flags waving Innocence lost to the wrath of endless growth Laundering, pondering Effective ways to wash a brain We want, we got, they die and rot Remains decay, remains the same Innocence lost to the wrath of endless growth Bourgeoisie democracy Hypocrisy, bureaucracy Corporate welfare state Methinks they doth protest too much Innocence lost to the wrath of endless growth Laissez faire debonaire Toxic air, no one cares Age of steam, keep it clean War machine, suffering Suffering Suffering Suffering Suffering Suffering Suffering
3.
Kiss The Hand 05:31
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In your hands What chance did we ever have? Love is in demand Gouge the price and cut supply in half In a dance of idolatry With the captains of industry Play the part and you’ll go far Kiss the hand that starves I don’t want what you got I guess I’m not impressed Your tragic comedy this is not The protagonist is dead Daggers in your eyes Tear a hole in a paper sky Shove it back into your mind With the moral guilt mankind designed Is this what you’ve come to Missionary for the chosen few An extra in their puppet show Reading lines they wrote for you I don’t want what you got I guess I’m not impressed Your tragic comedy this is not The protagonist is dead One by one we fall One by one we fall One by one we fall One by one we fall In a trance of idolatry With the captains of industry Play the part and you’ll go far Kiss the hand that starves They make their tyrants as they make their gods They make their violence as they make their laws They make their promises as they make their tea They tell their lies with impunity They make their tyrants as they make their gods They make their violence as they make their laws They make their promises as they make their tea They tell their lies with impunity
4.
Thinkin' Evil 02:40
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Human waste you can smell and taste it In your head making you complacent Caught in earth’s gravitational pull Fogged up my brain in their fecal schools Trails of blood should you care to follow Endless tall tales for you to swallow It’s all just business, it’s all in the game We all get burned but never blame the flame This is not a new world Or a new generation Just another basement Of frustration You got a lot to spare You say life’s not fair You got a well laid plan To keep our cupboards bare Not that it matters but we exist Not that it matters, but workers are pissed We’ve got a machine And we keep it clean I hope you like our guillotine I’m thinkin’ evil I’m thinkin’ evil I’m thinkin’ evil I’m thinkin’ evil Hate to break it to ya but talent’s a myth Hate to break it to ya, but your job is a grift Hate to break it to ya, life is pain Hate to break it to ya, but we’re all insane Don’t know what to tell ya Every day has a dog What can I say Every machine has a cog This ain’t no democracy Just white supremacist capitalist patriarchy I’m thinkin’ evil I’m thinkin’ evil I’m thinkin’ evil I’m thinkin’ evil Not that it matters but I’m an anarchist Not that it matters but workers are pissed We’ve got a machine, we keep it clean I hope you like our guillotine I’m thinkin’ evil I’m thinkin’ evil I’m thinkin’ evil I’m thinkin’ evil
5.
Profiteering 03:36
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Burn an effigy to the profits Make the forest move Penance must be paid from the flesh To the Harvest moon Missiles fly The specter of commerce looms To the grave We follow what the profits say No sympathy Got no time There’s money to be made No sympathy Profit over all Die for the economy You gotta die for the economy You gotta die for the economy It’s a battle between good and evil It’s black and white It makes you wanna kill It makes you wanna fight You’ll sing your regrets on the ledge Say it must be done A sacrifice must be made, It’s the American way No sympathy Got no time There’s money to be made No sympathy Profit over all Die for the economy You gotta die for the economy You gotta die for the economy You gotta die for the economy You gotta die for the economy You gotta die for the economy You gotta die for the economy
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Compromised (Mix 3) 03:28
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We’ve been told You get what you deserve We’ve been told Who it is we serve The tree that bears rotting fruit Gets pulled out by the root I’ve had enough I wanna self destruct I’ve had enough I wanna self destruct We’ve been told Watch what we say We’ve been told There’s no other way The tree that bears rotten fruit Chopped into kindling Cast into the fire Cast into the fire Disconnected We don’t like you Denied, rejected We’re not like you I’ve had enough I wanna self destruct I’ve had enough I wanna self destruct We’ve been told What it means to be free Auto tuned apocalypse No room for fluidity We memorized all your lies It’s terminal, you’re compromised You’re compromised I’m not like you We’re not like you We don’t like you We don’t like you
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Manufactured Scarcity 03:12
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It’s a buyers market, sell your soul Tomorrow’s a workday, assume the role Bend the knee to the company Everybody’s having fun but me Tangled up in competition A tradition of contradiction You know it’s worth the price of admission Greed is god They all gotta lose if you wanna win Whats best for you ain’t best for them They all gotta lose if you wanna win You gotta choose if you wanna win Participation is mandatory Justice system behind a paywall The future plummets to the underworld Twisting and turning in a freefall I’ll take a cigarette you take the wheel I just don’t feel corporeal Drive me back to oblong fields Greed is god They all gotta lose if you wanna win Whats best for you ain’t best for them They all gotta lose if you wanna win You gotta choose if you wanna win Let’s do something drastic Take a cruise to the island of plastic The weather is fantastic Put your gas mask on so enthusiastically We manufactured this city On manufactured scarcity Stand on stolen land And demand us to Bend the knee and Kiss the hand Man made money, man made jobs Man made poverty, man made God Man made God did not make man Man made economy, man made scam We manufactured this city On manufactured scarcity Scrape to get by Scrape to get high Scrape the surface Break free
8.
Silver Screen 04:11
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We don’t care if people stare It’s none of our concern They might as well not be there Leave every stone unturned The lights go dim and it begins The coming attractions roll And now our feature presentation Please turn off your phone I feel everything all the time This must be a dream It feels so thin sometimes A flickering projection on the screen The soundtrack skips a beat But not me Film falls from the reels Winding down from the balcony We kiss on the silver screen In the empty theater Cigarette burns blinking Watching you watching me I don’t know where we go When the curtains close I don’t care as long as you’re there I’m not scared I’ll never leave your side You’ll never leave my mind It feels so thin sometimes A flickering projection of a dream The soundtrack skips a beat But not me Film falls from the reels Winding down from the balcony We kiss on the silver screen In the empty theater Cigarette burns blinking Watching you watching me
9.
Not Goodbye 04:47
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Symbiotically you feed inside me I become the devil inside of you When I’m fully drained I watch you shrink Adopt the pain you inflicted on me Now you fall on your knees and pray Don’t need to buy me Just go ahead and try me Next thing you know I’m the killer inside you You opened the chamber door Abandoned by those before you Now you’re just like the rest In a darkness of your own creation The path you tread Has a bleak and lonely view Now you’re just like the rest to me Just a phantom of a bad memory Do you long for a time when I did not speak? Do you long for the days when I was weak? Symbiotically you feed inside me I become the devil inside of you You opened the chamber door Abandoned by those before you Now you’re just like the rest In a darkness of your own creation The path you tread Has a bleak and lonely view Now you’re just like the rest to me Just a phantom of a bad memory It’s not goodbye It’s fuck off and die It’s not goodbye It’s fuck off and die It’s not goodbye It’s fuck off and die It’s not goodbye It’s fuck off and die
10.
Good Men Do Nothing 04:11
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I wake from a fever dream The room is just a little darker Than it seemed before I lived a lifetime in between But everything I’d seen was just a dream They say it happens for a reason, but consider the source Consider the source Evil prevails Good men do nothing Evil prevails Good men do nothing The train derails Good men do nothing The system fails Good men do nothing We live in the trees We live on our knees We live in the shadows You live in denial We live in the trees We live on our knees We live in the shadows You live in denial Evil prevails Good men do nothing Evil prevails Good men do nothing The train derails Good men do nothing The system fails Good men do nothing
11.
Curtain Call 04:13
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I hide my face, running for the train Once in another place, I ran to you It’s a tale as old as time Your words have grown teeth inside my mind Using pattern recognition to read the future Using tattered cognition to define reality One day, it’ll be as if I’d never lived at all Why bother showing up to the curtain call Trails end in entrails As the world shrugs Entrails at the trails end As the world shrugs Impurities magnified in the spotlight In this infirmary, I make believe I’m in control All they had to do was walk away Leave me to my fate Lost my mind searching for my soul Using pattern recognition to read the future Using tattered cognition to define reality One day, it’ll be as if I’d never lived at all Why bother showing up to the curtain call Trails end in entrails Through the red tape The world shrugs Entrails at the trails end Insufferable The world shrugs And the world shrugs

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released July 28, 2023

Monty O'Blivion did everything.
Special thanks to Katey Bright.

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