World Entertainment War
World Entertainment War - In A Crisis lyrics
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She was mumbling in her sleep And I listened close to everything she said She was dreaming about the rocks and trees bleeding everywhere And I wrote down every single thing she said And she said The spirits of the earth are so hungry for justice They cry And the spirits of the sky are with us tonight And they cry In a crisis we cut away what we don't need anymore In the good times we fight our way We fight our way inside In a crisis we cut away what we don't need anymore In the good times we find our way We find our way back home I rode my bicycle by her house She was gardening in the dark Singing to the green beans and the beets She was wearing her high heels Chopping the high weeds Dealing out life and death And I wrote down every single thing she said And she said And I followed every dream she dreamed Everywhere she led And I wrote down every secret thing Every word she left unsaid The spirits of the earth are so hungry for justice They cry And the spirits of the sun are lined up on our side And they cry ************************************************** Thank you for purchasing the World Entertainment War propaganda bomb. "World Entertainment War: Too much entertainment--because you're too much..." The following graffiti is sponsored by World Entertainment War Subliminals, the program that turns you into yourself whether you like it or not. DEMAND #1: We demand that Dan Rather, Peter Jennings, Tom Brokaw and Carlos Castaneda be required to cry every time they report a tragedy on their nightly TV news shows. DEMAND #2: We demand that People magazine do a cover story on "The Ten Sexiest Homeless Americans." DEMAND #3: We demand that the average length of an act of sexual intercourse in America--which is now an appalling four minutes--be required by law to be a minimum of 22 minutes. DEMAND #4: We demand that the word "jerk" begin to be used as a term of endearment. DEMAND #5: We demand a woman chief of the CIA, KGB, ABC, IBM, NFL, MTV and USA. We demand that God be referred to on all future television shows as a big black woman. DEMAND #6: We demand that logic be declared a superstition. DEMAND #7: We demand a 72-hour global boycott of all forms of media once a month. DEMAND #8: We demand that you love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be jerks. We demand that you brag about what you can't do and don't have. We demand that you kick your own ass. We demand that you confess profound secrets to people who are not particularly interested. We demand that you wear underpants on your head whenever you watch rock videos. We demand that you brainwash yourself before somebody nasty beats you to it. We demand that you use your nightmares to become rich and famous. We demand that you live up to your true potential. Do you know how to tell the difference between your own thoughts and the celebrities who have demonically possessed you? Welcome to the New Age of total hype...the death of the news...the obliteration of consensus reality. This is beyond the apocalypse. It's the Hype-ocalypse... Propaganda Armageddon...the final triumph of hype, wiping out all other forms of information. There are no more facts, only facsimiles. Don't ask "what really happened?" Ask "which point of view was advertised and promoted in the sexiest way with the most money?" And then vote for that. We have made the catastrophic discovery that it is perfectly legal to torture and murder people with entertainment. The mass audience is in danger of total extinction through "enjoyment." An international consortium of entertainment criminals has, through telegenetic engineering, created metaviruses in the form of pictures and sounds. These metaviruses are virtually indistinguishable from normal pictures and sounds. After entering through the eyes and ears, they devour the imagination of their victims and replace it with the imagination of one of the entertainment criminals. If there are any entertainment criminals reading this right now, we urge you to turn yourself in. Reality is now nothing more than the sum total of the war between competing infotainment conglomerates. By the time children are 18, they will have witnessed 18,000 televised murders. More people watch reruns of Family Ties than voted in the last election. Blatantly totalitarian government is unnecessary here because the mass audience eagerly participates in its own brainwashing via entertainment. Coercion is unnecessary. Everybody in the world is addicted to drugs. Everybody lies all the time. Everyone loves everybody for the wrong reasons. Everyone who believes in the devil is the devil. But: We know nothing. We agree with everything. We love everybody. We are not ourselves. 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The World Entertainment War...official sponsor of President God and the American wet dream. Not just a fantasy but an actual real life event, bringing you continuous subliminal reruns of your happiest memories, freeing you up to go crazy in the name of creation not destruction