Otep - Smash the Control Machine lyrics

"With the perfect hair and the perfect wife
And the perfect kids and the perfect life
I will finally be somebody"
"Let's play born-again American
Resistance is the game"

Two pigs wearing suit's brought the news
That I'm wanted by the bank
They say the rent is due
Caesar's on to you so you
Better remember your place
Then they outsourced my job and gave
A raise to my boss bailed out the banks
But billed me for the loss
They say we must submit and
Be one with the machines
'Cause the kingdom of fear
Needs compliance to succeed
So waterboard the kids for fun
It's all the rage
And play born-again American
Resistance is the game

Smash the control machine
Work, buy, consume, die
Smash the control machine
Happy little slaves for minimum wage

"The revolution will be monetized and
Streamed live via renegade wi-fi"

The clinic said I'm sick, toxic and impure
But there isn't any cure for
The poor or uninsured so we live our digital
Lives on multiple screens
And we forget that the blood of
The workers grease the machines
In the psalm of the fiends
Love discriminates
While the fat cats feed the rats
Their dose of daily cake
So waterboard the kids for fun
It's all the rage
And play born-again American
Resistance is the game

Smash the control machine
Work, buy, consume, die
Smash the control machine
Happy little slaves for minimum wage
Smash the control machine
Work, buy, consume, die
Smash the control machine
Haters, betrayers, liars and thieves

She sold her soul for designer clothes
For the perfect lips and the perfect nose
The winner in the end always owns the most
Reality TV told her so
Money changer, greedy banker
This is the people's house
My minister has a sinister plan to save
My soul with a credit card scam
Exploitation is contagious for the
Selfish and self-inflated
Start a war, use the poor
Watch our profit's soar and soar

We've become a nation of wolves
Ruled by sheep
Owned by swine, overfed and put to sleep
And while the media elite
Decrees what to think
I am wide awake, on the edge and on the brink
So when Atlas shrugs
And the fountainhead bleeds
And when Wall Street apostles preach
A gospel of greed
I'll renounce the fame of this glutinous age
And be a born-again American
Resistance is to blame

Smash the control machine
Work, buy, consume, die
Smash the control machine
Haters, betrayers, liars and thieves
Smash the control machine
A nation of wolves, ruled by sheep

Exploitation is contagious
Exploitation is contagious
Exploitation is contagious exploitation