Tom MacDonald - The Machine lyrics

I am not Republican, I am not a Liberal
Why the hell can't I just
Be American without getting political?
The system gon' suppress us all
They don't care about the cost
How's this a democracy when we
Got communists in charge?
Cancel culture, Nazis
All they're missing is the swastikas
Honestly, this is a psychological holocaust
Pumpin' propaganda through the screen and
Straight into your brain
You ain't on a plantation
But you definitely still a slave
Race theory is indoctrinating children
Tell blacks they're disadvantaged
Tell whites they got white privilege
What a brilliant way to reinforce division
If whites believe they have it easy they
Will never help you fight the system
And now they burnin' books
In untraditional ways
They just traded newspapers for
The digital age now the facts can be deleted
With no physical flames
They just change the information and
The truth gets erased

They keep screamin' to wake up
But they're all woke, not awake
We know the system has failed us
And all the media's fake
I swear the government hates us
Having opinions is dangerous
The system built to enslave us
Only works if we're afraid

I am not Republican, I am not a Liberal
Progressive and traditional are hitmen hired
To kill the individual
They label people red or blue, divide us
They don't ever help
They want you thinkin' left or right
So you ain't thinkin' for yourself
Go ahead and vote
Cause both the parties are the same side
Two teams, one coach
Controlled by the same guys
Left-wing, right-wing
Both help the same bird fly
Brainwashing everybody at the same time
The internet was once a place that
We could get our facts from
But now it's been monopolized
It's Google or it's Amazon
Who's fact-checking the fact-checkers
I can answer that one
The people who control the
Narratives through the platforms
Let me break this down for
You simple as I can, 'kay
They use social conditioning to put
You in the rat race
It doesn't matter if you're first or third
Or if you're last place you're still a rat
And they're the cats who kill
You so you can't escape

They keep screamin' to wake up
But they're all woke, not awake
We know the system has failed us
And all the media's fake
I swear the government hates us
Having opinions is dangerous
The system built to enslave us
Only works if we're afraid

I am not Republican, I am not a Liberal
I am just a man who knows they're
Scared of a nation that's thinking critical
They kill us or they lock us
Up for nothing like we're criminals
Divide us cause they know that unified
We are invincible
Questioning the government's
Agenda's controversial
But promoting guns and liquor in
Our music is commercial?
They're confusing us with pronouns they made
Up to make us triggered
You can call me what you want
But just don't call me late for dinner
School teaches you to learn and
Never teaches you to think
So you absorb misinformation
Then you practice what they preach
You ain't free
Can't you see that's how they want you to act
That's called conforming to the norm
You don't need freedom for that
I'm not Republican or Liberal
Or left-wing or right leaning
I took the red pills cause that's
What's fighting for my freedoms
And you don't need to choose to
Be accepted they build fake teams
Evil runs the world now like
Hell ain't got no vacancy

They keep screamin' to wake up
But they're all woke, not awake
We know the system has failed us
And all the media's fake
I swear the government hates us
Having opinions is dangerous
The system built to enslave us
Only works if we're afraid