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1.
Too Soon 02:38
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
2.
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
3.
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
4.
A Plea 04:44
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
5.
Yesterday 04:01
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
6.
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

about

The world is being ripped apart by a psycopathically greedy handful of extremist capitalists. I needed to yell into a mic about it.

Recorded while on a break from working on a technical issue-ridden new wave album, this is an attempt to bring funk back to post-punk by starting with drums and bass, then layering guitars, organs, and my trademark rapid-fire lyrics about American politics and their effects around the world.

Listen, dance, scream into the void, join a mutual aid network, start a union, and always remember, generative AI is for-

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released January 1, 2026

Everything: Mike, aka Faustbot. I'm solely to blame for this.

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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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