Red alert! This is not a test We bring it to you live on emergency broadcast This just in: breaking news flash! A firebomb leak posing danger to the masses Wait! Wait! Don’t panic A crackerjack team has been summoned To the scene of the accident They say it was a random attack But come on now, kids. You know better than that They found him in a suicide vest They decided that sedation would be best The psychoanalytical report read: Prognosis insane, lack of moral support Tick-tock telepathic, kinetic pornographic Glued to the set, tooth and nail eating static He’s gonna flip the switch, you cannot look away Shaking with the pressure, eyes gone grey
Long ago, we were young and innocent Far away from decay and decadence Evil came in the form of instruction Born of thirst and material seduction Hostage heart, child of addiction Fall to the spell of blind superstition Sleep sweet sheep. Disregard belief Bound by the need to acquire and keep
Damage control, this is Red Team One Suspect is unstable and brandishing a gun He appears to be armed with some inside knowledge We may need an expert in rouge ideology
Stop the press, informant overload Communications breakdown, play it back slow We interrupt this telecast With a message for the civil psychopath What a mess, modern monochrome City in the clouds, say it ain’t so Incorporated holy man, valley of the damned Loyalty on instant-queue, religion on demand You saw it first on Channel 17 You read it later on a million tiny screens Regurgitated, parsed and amended Nicely filtered as the media intended Fractal footage for an acclimated nation At the mercy of the angle-down generation Fully functional, ready to submit Singularity is such a good fit
Red Team, this is Alpha Command We’re gonna have an epidemic on our hands It’s probably contagious Do not give chase Strap a gas mask on and return to base
In other news shares in avarice have soared Securing futures for the fiscal feudal lords Investors promise that conviction will return But lucky for the public There’s no cause for concern Recent findings show a trend of moral deficit Overshadowed by the growth of hive intelligence According to authorities on post-synaptic spending Recession-proof consists of endlessly pretending The latest version of reality is out And user agreement lets you fit in with the crowd Quick-change artist infected bipartisan Cast your vote, let the sickest and the smartest win Let us distract--I mean inform you once again That shit is going down, survival’s looking grim A storm of misdirection is predicted in the forecast Hypocrisy and tear gas will protect the upper class