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Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test
© 2017 Jef Knight
I'm not here to educate you Mock, diminish or berate you
but in your life there is mileu
From which you build your worldview
Ignorance, sewn-together with a thousand errant views,
Are yours to to act as glue In your intelectual stew
A tasteless broth of TV news Seasoned with some googled clues
Cobled together like clown shoes from the stories you've consumed
the tv-an,-the-internet do their best
to-sell-us-an electic koolaid acid test of will
it's us V them
in the market-place of consumer mayhem
but the tv will not save you
and the internet enslaves you
to the clickbait that enrages
for the mouse clicks it engages
so here's a word to just remind you
that the map that they have sold you
is not the world outside your window
just a map how you're lied to
by the one's who seek to own you
and will silently control you
as you beg to lock the shackles of your fate
on your own wrist...but wait, here comes the twist...
You can save yourself the trouble
just by exiting the bubble
of the battle for your mind
if you can just see through the lies...
I'm not here to educate you
or dispassionately berate you
just a gentle shake to wake you
you are not your the things you own
you are not the things displayed and shown
you are not the pictures of your food
or the vintage wine that you consume
as you bask in tv's glow
you're not the hero of your favorite show
you are not your watch, your boat, your car,
you are not the trips you take affar
for all the shopping trips you've made
and all the precious things displayed
will end up all as worthless junk
delivered to the local dump
so I shed a tear, each time I pray
that you have the strength to just resist
the pull of life's perverse buffet
of goods and things and shows you've missed
that make you wonder if your life's your own
or someone else's shot to call
but the answer's waiting there inside you
all you wanted through it all
is love
all you really want is love
only love
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1984
02:57
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1984
by Jef Knight
We're being victimized by telescopic eyes
And satellite beams coming from the skies
They invade our homes and the tap our phones
And break our bones if we don't comply
1984
Someone is watching you
1984
Is almost here
They have machines to duplicate your genes
So they can clone every human being
They control your very soul
And leave your mind and empty hole.
They know my every move....
We live to hate the police state
The men with machines try to seal our fate
And use their bate to incriminate
We must beat them at their game before it gets to late
1984 is almost here
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The Apocalypse Will Be Televised
© 2019 Jef Knight
You will be required to stay home, citizen.
You will be required to shop online, tune in, and order out.
You will be required to work 100 hours a week
in your gig economy delivery job,
just to afford your car
You will be required to lose yourself on
movies, tv, medical marijuana, and Zoloft
Because brothers and sisters
the apocalypse will be televised.
The apocalypse will be brought to you by
Big Money, Big Pharma and Big Brother
In 22 episodes featuring 900 commercial interruptions.
Cuz the apocalypse will be televised
The apocalypse will show you pictures of your leaders
blowing the bugle of war against unarmed civilians in foreign lands
While Democrats and Republicans stage photo-ops at state dinners
to raise money for their glorious re-election.
The apocalypse will be brought to you by
OAN and Fox, CNN and MSNBC
And will star cartoon villians like Donald Trump, Mitch McConnel, Nancy Peloci and Spot, the Robotic Crime Dog.
The apocalypse will not give your fake breasts sex appeal.
The apocalypse will not cure your flacid girth.
The apocalypse will not make you look fifty pounds thinner,
but the apocalypse will be televised, citizen.
There will be pictures of your average family
pushing a shopping cart down the street filling the 24 hour news cycle,
and immigrants and the homeless being stuffed into busses to be shipped off to FEMA camps.
In the heat of our future's untimely demise
The networks will be able predict the next war, disaster or pandemic within the hour
based on reports from offical sources
There will be video footage of the cops shooting down
unarmed citizens in the instant replay.
There will be pictures of political prisoners being held captive without due process.
There will be video of our leaders ordering the illegal execution of
those who dare to expose their crimes
and unnamed sources declaring the constitution null and void
for your own protection
The manufactured lies of the media will become the official narrative
that only unpatriotic conspiracy theorists would dare question,
meanwhile millions of starving people will avoid dumster diving for a their next meal
for fear of arrest
The apocalypse will be televised.
There will be highlights on Twitter and Facebook
and memes of the starving, the shoeless and the homeless,
While the President gives a glowing report of his success.
The theme song underscoring our collapse will be written by your favorite
pop singer, social media influencer
or an aging rock star from the 70s.
The apocalypse will be televised.
The apocalypse will be right back after these messages
About unhealthy fast food,
unnecessary pills
or poorly made consumer goods
manufactured in totalitarian countries
by impoverished children
The apocalypse will deny the human rights to the masses
The apocalypse will will eliminate poverty by eliminating the poor
The apocalypse will not be a don't pay a cent event.
Because ladies and gentlemen the apocalypse will be live streamed
24 hours a day
to remind you of all the freedoms you have been blessed with
Like having a scented air freshener in your plug socket,
how much you can save on your car insurance,
or fewer stains in your toilet bowl
The apocalypse will not deliver your pizza in 30 minutes or less
The apocalypse will not be a reality tv show where beautiful people hookup for money
The apocalypse will not be a computer generated fantasy
shot in front of a green screen,
brothers and sisters;
The apocalypse will be live.
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4. |
The New America
04:03
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The New America
by J. Knight
This used to be the land of the free
The only place for my family and me.
Do unto others and the golden rule,
Momma's apple pie after school.
Daddy taught us 'bout respect and how I gotta
Love my enemies as myself
So I'd have no need to run and hide
'Cuz the truth, and justice, are an my side.
Then came a racist from a southern church
Sayin' "If you ain't a white Republican you're gonna burn"
Soon the enemies of freedom were repeatin' his lies.
These Christians are the Nazis, the rest of us are good guys.
Chorus
The cross is the new swastika
Jesus is dead in America.
Now the president and his fellow foe,
Like cartoon villains in a TV show,
Destroy our country with their cross held high
Mastermindin' terror and takin' our children's lives.
They think it says, in the sermon on the mount,
That Jesus wants them to increase the body count.
If we disagree then we're goin' to Hell.
Don't let your worries kill you; let the church help.
Chorus
Bridge
Limbaugh, Malkin, Coulter, Goering, Goebbels and Riefenstahl,
They say that Jesus hates us and wants to kill us all.
Propaganda, racist hatred and lies,
Momma always said the Devil would appear in disguise.
The cross is the new swaztika,
Jesus is dead in America.
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5. |
Free Trade Blues
02:32
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No Refunds
01:00
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No Refunds
by Jef Knight
You can't get no refund
And you can't affort to make a seen
It's only a nickle bag of weed
But all you got was stock and seeds
No refunds on drugs
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