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They Live, We Sleep

from Blueprints of the Afterlife by Deathamphetamine

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This song is about how our world was, and still is, pretty much exactly like John Carpenter's "They Live." The lyrics are a little dated, but the fact that we are ruled by capitalist fascist space aliens remains unchanged.

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THEY LIVE, WE SLEEP

Minds to dangerous to exist
Not some but all of these thoughts
Create mistrust and unrest
The World Bank, IMF, Wal-Mart, and the UN
Made damn well sure that the human race would never think again!

The plan set in motion
To trivialize all human thought
Emotions, interactions, devalued
Until reality gets lost in sands of time and questions die
NO!
Why does it have to end this way?
If hope exists, one foot’s been in the grave
This false rebellion gives purpose, but who can tell them?
It suckles all their basest hates and fears and reassures them
ALL!
We construct meaningless ideals
Distractions from the dire problems, that are very fucking real
Much harder now to think of ways to take it back
Much easier to blame it all on the Jewish and the blacks

I say that it is time to begin again
RIGHT THIS TIME
I say that it is time to begin again
RIGHT THIS TIME
I say that it is time to begin again
RIGHT THIS TIME
But is it too late?

Ever stop to think why it is that you hate?
You’re a pawn
Another demographic in the market structure
No free will
I say that it is time to begin again
Right this time

They live, we sleep

It’s a prison system built in your brain
They invited you in for a better life free from doubt and pain
The death and destruction that constantly fucks you is no longer real
Possessions and internet identities are how you feel
ALIVE!
They’ve helped you build a shell around yourself
Facilitating reinforcement of childhood defenses with profit pretenses
You’ll buy them all, they know you will, conditioned from birth to consume
You’re a joke, you’re the punch line, you’ve created your own hell

The plan, set in motion
And you’ll die before you learn what you did back then
And how you helped
Make it happen, their dream, right this time
Your life is a joke
Don’t ask why, you’d rather die

credits

from Blueprints of the Afterlife, released February 8, 2018
Music and Lyrics by Beckett. Guest Lead guitar on the first solo by Jalfin. Second solo by Beckett

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Deathamphetamine Boston, Massachusetts

Check out the new album “Blueprints of the Afterlife”

Sci-fi Grinding Thrash, formed in 2002.
Lyrical themes include: Sci-fi, environmental destruction, phantasmagoric events, dystopian present and future.
Influences: death metal, punk, hardcore, grind, black metal, and power metal. ... more

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