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1. |
Too Soon
02:38
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Every time I take a breath
The stench of death
Fills my nostrils
And wraps around my brain
The rot has set in
Sweat pours through cracking skin
Nothing begins
Just rehashing the same frame
Nothing moves unless it's pushed
But we're worn out
Stressed out
Bones broke bodies in too much pain
To give a shit about our neighbors
Do it later
Push off the losses for
Never enough gain
We know this is no way
We should live
Busting our asses for some capitalist
They'll take a mile
If we give them an inch
Their money comes from us and every penny they pinch
We gotta knock them down
We need a different tack
Strike hard and fast in a profit attack
Hit them where it hurts
Get them off our backs
It's time to give their bottom lines a smack
Another psychopath
Another capitalist
Doesn't care if you're broken
Only that you exist
Every dollar you make
Is a dollar he don't
You see the problem
Everything is never enough
And so he'll jack up prices
Cut his workers' pay
Slash every benefit
But the ones that make them stay
Now his shareholders are happy
And his bonus is great
They all get to keep
Every penny that he saved
We know this is no way
We should live
Busting our asses for some capitalist
They'll take a mile
If we give them an inch
Their money comes from us and every penny they pinch
We gotta knock them down
We need a different tack
Strike hard and fast in a profit attack
Hit them where it hurts
Get them off our backs
It's time to give their bottom lines a smack
If I hear another bootlicker talking shit
If I hear another paid-off anarchist
If I hear another genocide apologist
It'll be too soon it'll be too soon
If I hear another big band stay silent
If I hear another artist getting sick
If I hear another commenter racist
It'll be too soon it'll be too soon
Everything is political
Every choice you make
Every single word
Ignoring won't make it go away
If you don't embrace it
Nothing will ever change
We need to be the problem
That will always persist
Be the thorn in their side
Because they cannot exist
Without our labor sustaining
Their rank largess
We need to make them afraid
Of what we might do next
Our elected officials
Are bought and sold
They're collecting bribes
Until they're dead and cold
The power we have
Is the power we take
So unionize strike
Show them what's at stake
We know this is no way
We should live
Busting our asses for some capitalist
They'll take a mile
If we give them an inch
Their money comes from us and every penny they pinch
We gotta knock them down
We need a different tack
Strike hard and fast in a profit attack
Hit them where it hurts
Get them off our backs
It's time to give their bottom lines a smack
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2. |
AI Is for Assholes
03:30
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AI is for assholes
AI is for assholes
AI is for assholes
AI is for assholes
Just like you
Click click taking pictures with your phone
And with one click now your face is a cartoon
And the artist that this algorithm's ripping off
Doesn't get a single dime to buy herself some food
Meanwhile your selfie is uploaded to a
Server in a facial recognition data bank
It's linked to meta data storing every
Piece of information that you thought would be private
Your nose holds your email addresses
And your ears have every number in your contact list
Your eyes hold your bank account details
And all of you is held by private businesses
Your rent is compared to your income and
That then is compared to the average in your town
Landlords squeeze a little bit harder
Trying to take every little bit of money you can spend
Your world spins a little bit faster so that
You can never catch up or comprehend
Try try just a little bit harder
Treading water trying not to drown
Keep moving just a little bit faster
If you're staying still you're going down
Use this make it a little bit easier
Don't think too hard where it's coming from
If you poke any holes in this logic
You might start see what this really means is that
AI is for assholes
AI is for assholes
AI is for assholes
AI is for assholes
Just like you
Drink this it's a recipe I got from
Big list that was autogenerated by a bot
Don't think just swallow it up it's a
Passion fruit mocktail with just a bit of glue
That bot lives stored inside a server farm that
Poisons the aquifer the building's built upon
The air is corrosive and toxic
But it's all worth it to generate cartoons
It was built in a low income neighborhood
Right next to a bunch of houses and a middle school
So what if the residents can't breathe
I want content without learning tools
How dare you think I am selfish when I
Don't care about how much water every query takes
After all I'm just a little fish
My content generation is a drop in a big lake
Your world spins a little bit faster so that
You can never catch up or comprehend
Try try just a little bit harder
Treading water trying not to drown
Keep moving just a little bit faster
If you're staying still you're going down
Use this make it a little bit easier
Don't think too hard where it's coming from
If you poke any holes in this logic
You might start see what this really means is that
AI is for assholes
AI is for assholes
AI is for assholes
AI is for assholes
Just like you
Order up
It's a welcome email and
Order up
It's a meme pic
Order up
It's Italian brain rot and
Order up
It's nonconsensual porn
Order up
It's a sci fi novel and
Order up
It's a skin flick
Order up
It's a new commercial and
Order up
It's only deserves our scorn
AI is for assholes
AI is for assholes
AI is for assholes
AI is for assholes
Just like you
Billions have been sunk into these black holes and
Returns have been fractions of what has been shoveled in
So why is capital frothing
Throwing so much money into scammer businesses?
The point is to replace workers so that
Owners don't have to pay for our labor and skills
Robots to replace the wage slaves
And while they get paid well we're stuck with the bill
Your world spins a little bit faster so that
You can never catch up or comprehend
Try try just a little bit harder
Treading water trying not to drown
Keep moving just a little bit faster
If you're staying still you're going down
Use this make it a little bit easier
Don't think too hard where it's coming from
If you poke any holes in this logic
You might start see what this really means is that
AI is for assholes
AI is for assholes
AI is for assholes
AI is for assholes
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3. |
Killing a Billionaire
03:15
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We have a problem
We're the solution
A targeted strike
At the heart of the capital class
We make a dollar
They take a billion
So let's give them a round of applause
It'll be a blast
Take the highwayman's creed
Your money or your life
We'll disinfect their greed
We'll fill them with daylight
The only thing we haven't tried
To stop the cost of living's rise
Well above the wages they pay
For the profits they take
They come at us with violence they suppress dissent
All we have left is
Methods of threatening them
They only care about their money and lives so
Here we go
We're killing a billionaire
We can't out-bribe them no we can't outspend
We can vote for one of
Two extreme capitalists
Stick to the shadows if we cannot fight in the light
Here we go
We're killing a billionaire
We cut the power
We killed the lights
We have an inside man
At the electric plant
We knew security
Orders delivery
The driver is one of us
She drugged their food now we're in
We cut the battery line
We broke the generator
We picked a protest night
To spread out the cops
Now at the meeting spot
No names no phones no faces
Check in with the team
Then it's time to proceed
They will never do time or pay for their crimes
There is no justice
Just us and the justice we bear
Set your watches strike
At the stroke of midnight
Here we go
We're killing a billionaire
We got them outnumbered we got them outgunned
To a man they're cowards
Pull up and watch them run
Keep your club tight
Fight when the time is right
Here we go
We're killing a billionaire
We tried everything to prevent this
Protests only seemed to vent off steam
We have no voice in elections
When the only choice is in which puppet to vote between
It's been ages since we ran out of carrots
Now all we have left is a handful of sticks
If they are so afraid of violence
Maybe that's what will work against these pricks
Capital has captured what is left of the state
While the working class is fasting to to afford a place to live
If you want to see a change you need to focus your hate
On the ones who profit from your misery and pain
They want us
Divided
They want infighting
They want us
Not to notice
Their bribery
We found our target
Hiding in the kitchenette
Three shots later job is done
And we're off in the night
Casual cruelty
Isn't our policy
Get it done quick
Get it over with get out of sight
We're culling rabid dogs
We're slaying monsters
Excise the tumors
For the health of us all
They think that the foul stink
Of the working class and underlings
Clings to our clothes and our hair
But when the masses fight
We can set the record right
Here we go
We're killing a billionaire
These pricks think they're hot shit
Blowing up rockets to escape
The pollution they put in our air
Set the record straight
Grab a hammer and stake
Here we go
We're killing a billionaire
Cut them down cut them down to size
Strike hard strike fast disappear in the night
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4. |
A Plea
04:44
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President Xi can you help me
I don't make enough to feed my family
You see I work full time on a health care line
Telling desperate folks we won't
Cover what would save their lives
Meanwhile my kid is sick
See she hasn't been the same since she caught COVID
And she's coughing all the time and itching in my mind
That something isn't right when the nightly news says it is
And I know we're the richest nation on the Earth
And I know we're the best in average net worth
But all that money never seems to make it down to us
And what does gets spent on rent and health insurance
But I've heard you treat your citizens much better than this
And I've heard in China student lunch debt doesn't exist
So I thought maybe you could spare a dime
To us Americans about to spill over the line
Just writing this letter could get me shot
By a right wing fascist hit squad cop
My government's bought and sold
And capital has taken full control
So we scrimp and save 'til we're in our graves
Because it's never enough no it's never enough to live
So I'm offering a heartfelt plea
To save my people and set us free
From the landlords and the banks and the capitalist ranks
That are keeping us under debt lock and key
President Xi can you help me
Political elites have eaten our free speech
Now we cannot criticize another nation's genocide
Without our glorious leaders putting us on federal list
Our press tells us its free
And to fight back for democracy
But it's owned by the same capitalists
Who bankroll all of our elections
The supreme court has decreed that money is speech
Effectively legalizing bribery
Now capital has fully captured the state
We have realized Mussolini's deepest darkest dream
Try to protest we get beat dead
By fascists looking to stove in heads
With taped over badges and body cams
So they can kettle us and we can never identify them
Just writing this letter could get me shot
By a right wing fascist hit squad cop
My government's bought and sold
And capital has taken full control
So we scrimp and save 'til we're in our graves
Because it's never enough no it's never enough to live
So I'm offering a heartfelt plea
To save my people and set us free
From the landlords and the banks and the capitalist ranks
That are keeping us under debt lock and key
We're running out of time
I'm running out of luck
This nation is a vile crime
Help us out of here we're stuck
The policies chased
By politicians make them rich
But for the rest of us
We are all fucked
We're running out of time
I'm running out of luck
This nation is a vile crime
Help us out of here we're stuck
The policies chased
By politicians make them rich
But for the rest of us
We are all fucked
I can't afford a rent and I can't afford food
And I can't afford health and I'm getting called rude
By liberals ostensibly on my side
Against the rising tide of the fascist right
My friends have been arrested for practicing speech
Now our only options left are fight flight or freeze
Even mentioning that paints a target on my head
So I'm begging for help from President Xi
President Xi can you help me
My daughter's best friend was kidnapped by ICE
Her family is torn they weren't wearing uniforms
We don't know if it was feds or white supremacists dressing the bit
We came to their defense and were met by violence
A concussion grenade and baton round to the face
The tear gas blast would be a war crime attack
On foreign soil but in America it's common place
Our feds are secret police and
Our cops are hard looking for people to beat
And the courts are writing letters and cute little notes
Saying they should lay off but the LEOs just say no
My wife's nursing three cracked ribs
And those bastards gas attacked my kid
And no one really knows if my broken nose
Is enough to free me from Palantir's mass surveillance
Just writing this letter could get me shot
By a right wing fascist hit squad cop
My government's bought and sold
And capital has taken full control
So we scrimp and save 'til we're in our graves
Because it's never enough no it's never enough to live
So I'm offering a heartfelt plea
To save my people and set us free
From the landlords and the banks and the capitalist ranks
That are keeping us under debt lock and key
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5. |
Yesterday
04:01
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Yesterday I saw a child
Carry water from a bombed out well
He was tired and his arms gave out
So the buckets fell
He broke down that water was
For what was left of his family
He couldn't be more than eight
But he was born an enemy
Yesterday I saw a footie game
At a refugee camp
The bombs fell unannounced
And blew off the children's' legs
It was a game clearly a game
Now there's a crater on the pitch
The death toll keeps climbing
But the needle doesn't move an inch
They can all talk until their ears fall off
And their faces turn blue
But our leaders won't stop sending rockets
And they will do the same to you
Yesterday I saw a man get attacked
By a military dog
It was sicced on him
By a psychopath in uniform
The man had Downs he wasn't a threat
And he never even spoke
When he finally did his last words
Were to tell the doggie no
Yesterday I saw a dad
Holding on to his last remaining child
She was martyred by a US shell
From Israeli cannon fire
He was gone he was gone
And there was no coming back
His blood may be pumping
But he didn't survive the attack
They can all talk until their ears fall off
And their faces turn blue
But our leaders won't stop sending rockets
And they will do the same to you
We call them terrorists
But they're families and they're only kids
The cash must flow and it always goes
To war and violence
They have land and the West wants in
So kill off all Palestinians
It's genocide and cowardice
To not call it what it is
Yesterday I saw a video
Of child heading off to school
He was going to kindie smiling
Following all the rules
He was only five when his world exploded
Taking him with it
Another family shattered by
The loss of another kid
Yesterday I saw an aid truck
Blown to bits
Inside was food water medicine
And US citizens
There was no outcry from our leaders
Until the CEO spoke
He banned them all from his restaurant
They could all choke
Yesterday I saw a man wailing
Carrying plastic bags
Inside was a 10 year old boy
Body blown to flesh and rags
Do you think one of the bombs
Signed by a congressperson killed him
Ultimately it doesn't matter
He's another innocent victim
Yesterday I saw the night sky lit
Like a fire over Lebanon
Another neighborhood crushed
By 2000 pound US bombs
It's fine the IOF said
The operation was a success
Thousands wounded hundreds dead
But they got that one terrorist
They can all talk until their ears fall off
And their faces turn blue
But our leaders won't stop sending rockets
And they will do the same to you
They can all talk until their ears fall off
And their faces turn blue
But our leaders won't stop sending rockets
And they will do the same to you
We call them terrorists
But they're families and they're only kids
The cash must flow and it always goes
To war and violence
They have land and the West wants in
So kill off all Palestinians
It's genocide and cowardice
To not call it what it is
I see my daughter in every slaughtered child
I see my wife in every wailing mother
I see my daughter in every blood stained face
I see my wife in every woman murdered
I see my daughter in every slaughtered child
I see my wife in every wailing mother
I see my daughter in every blood stained face
I see my wife in every woman murdered
Dems and Repubs love love Palestinian blood
Dems and Repubs love love Palestinian blood
Dems and Repubs love love Palestinian blood
Dems and Repubs love love Palestinian blood
Yesterday I saw a martyred girl wearing
My daughter's favorite shirt
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Welcome
I hope this meeting finds you well and
We hope
Your families are fit to sell
Because
This past quarter has been hell
Our stock is at its lowest point
Our shareholders are ready to revolt
You see
You've been loyal to the company but
Q3
Saw profit dip precipitously
So we
Decided to let all you go
It's you or me I hope you see
There really wasn't much of a big choice
We hope you carry dignity
With you wherever you wind up
Don't bother asking for references
We'll say you weren't up to snuff
All of your desks are currently
Being cleared off you'll find your stuff
Thrown carelessly into boxes
All of your pictures and your cups
This here's a message from the boss
You wanna know what the company thinks
You wanna know what your life is worth
You wanna know the value you bring
Sit down shut up get back to work
You hear
The lay-offs hit another team
Oh dear
I didn't know your wife was working there
At least
She'll get two weeks of severance
It's weird they said we're profitable
But then went and cut down 10 percent
Sorry
I don't know what to do about it
I hope
You had a bit saved for such an event
Hold on
Don't get upset with me I'm not the enemy
My empathy is waning now
So watch who you target
I hope you're man enough to see
Tighten your belt and you'll be fine
Just tell your kids to make believe
Your car's a bed a house a ride
Just cut back how much you eat
Ration your medicine this time
Of course your failure's all your fault
You shouldn't have lived over the line
This here's a message from the boss
You wanna know what the company thinks
You wanna know what your life is worth
You wanna know the value you bring
Sit down shut up get back to work
Your company cares about you
As well as you know the CEO
You're just a function to them
Input to output nothing more
You owe what's in your contract
And not a single extra hour
Now go and start a union
Go show the boss who has the power
Every capitalist cares about two things
Two pressure points exist for us to threaten
Every one of them loves their health and wealth
Strike there if you want to get a concession
Strike hard
Like you have something to lose
Organize and rise to
Collective action
You wanna know what the company thinks
You wanna know what your life is worth
You wanna know the value you bring
Sit down shut up get back to work
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Faustbot Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Faustbot is an synthpunk new wave project influenced by Adult., Gary Numan, Devo, Polysics, The Faint, Wall of Voodoo, Talking Heads, and, bizarrely, surf rock.
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