Institute - Readjusting the Locks Lyrics
1. MPS
fermenting neoliberal dreams
dangerous free market realities
let the state rot, competition is king
they're the mont pelerin society
who? the mps
narratives of welfare dependency
no recognition of the poor or even poverty
except zero tolerance policing
watching everybody suffer while
everything gets more deregulatory
2. Mon Cherie
big bank man can't you see?
you got sociopathic tendencies
you say, "mon cherie, my money"
you like ernest tubbs and two tub man
but you got all this money in your hand
comb in the hand combing your hair
look in the mirror but all you seein there
is mon cherie, your money
"well you people don't matter much
i've never met no one i could trust so much
a mon cherie
became imperceptible long ago
letting the technocrats hold social control
for mon cherie, my money
cuz capital equals democracy
the preservation of the white man is
funding me
and mon cherie, my money
and when you operate invisibly
you keep world order so nice and clean
for mon cherie"
3. Let Me Be
perfection's in this hallowed thing
unique to you and me. do you see?
unique to you like a snowflake's been
purely unique no matter how it seems
do you feel me? you're your own being
in this hallowed thing aporia is king
but people are trying to sell it telling you
how it goes....but don't believe
so please don't you agree with me
because i can't see what you see
you'll debase my serenity
and it's all i got man so please let me be
let me be
perfection's no cut up clean like they
want it to be
there's no perfect perfectly
do you see? aporia is king
you'll never find me.
4. Indoctrination Set
my happy and docile all consuming self
civically inspired to buy but what else?
so many things from which to choose
we're free baby, so what could we lose?
in an indoctrination set
my kid needs a telephone
to call on her and get home
my kid he's about twenty two
an anxious wreck - dunno what he'll do
in an indoctrination set
a commodity fetish set
5. Roll Music
i dunno what we wan't
but i don't really see no future here
but you stand and cheer, we play guitars
with recycled music in podunk bars
no i dunno what we want
strange passions keep us up here now
so give me some of that rolling shit
cuz the truth's all relative ain't it?
the future's bleak
it's so nice and empty for me
but i wanna love, i want to make
be myself hopefully
no career bred crap, cheap and stale
just give me lots of music and i'll be ok
no i dunno what we want
strange passions keep us up here now
chorus again......
let margaret, freddy, drew, marie
do their thing so beautifully
they're patron saints - we're your boys
playing with some rocker toys
i don't know what we want
strange passions keep us up here now
6. Can't See Nothin
i can't see the banks from here
no i can't see nothing that i really fear
where to go? and what to do?
world's so sick we're not breaking thru
they leave us down here with the police
and ass backwards white supremacists
while they sit and collect dough
they got no clue where they're going
no they don't
no future - just sitting getting old
they're gonna die, rot, and mold
7. Shangri-La
don't you think we're just the queens
at sorting everything?
of giving names and categorizing?
and when we want ideal things
we lose all spontaneity
cuz human progression has capital means
driven by the rich - not you and me
progression as they sell it to you
is tied up privately profiting a few
advancing on shangri-la
they categorize the world for you
then wrap it up and sell it back to you
giving experience and emotion
a monetary companion
cuz driving the world with stock prices
lends clean solutions to everything nicely
i don't want to buy my well being
only i know what i need
8. St. John's Wort
hanging out down on my street
nothing to say, i think we're happy
deferring all decisions to the back of my head
nervous, scared, unawared - but i'll just go to bed
saint john's wort
everyone shivers and everyone shakes
under crippling anxieties in a construed world
solving things
no more solutions please, you ain't solving anything
when is a solution ever part of the solution?
9. Dazzle Paint
a new fascist exercise
in theatrics, truth, and lies
a dazzling disguise
but i don't see any german eyes
cubists they break the ice
find it subverts nive
till it's thrown back at you
got no reference for the truth
works in war and back home
while all the artists just get stoned
the depths of reality are sewn in...
dazzle paint
they take truth like they're taking loot
move it around behind you
the proletariat is fooled
by corrupt rule. why?
wartime military mirage
serkov's american entourage
camouflage
10. Anxiety
new jobs and degrees
will validate you and me
incessantly competing
professionally and socially
driven by anxiety
doin everything oh so anxiously
trans-national elite, financiers, and stockholders
corporate overseers
they're all shaking hands they're so happy
but what about you? and what about me?
we go nowhere as far as i can see
driven by anxiety
doin everything oh so anxiously
living in anxiety
in neoliberal subjectivity
where do we go? we've got no room. we don't.
fighting for room is all we got anymore
in a world that doesn't even pretend to support us anymore
11. Utopia Sound
well they spin you round and round to this same old
shit utopia sound
they know we're fools as bernays found
so they sell us shit they call profound
you see? no this shit ain't for me
i don't want to go - no i don't
accelerationist investees
with extraneous technologies
utopian shit from one valley
buys and divides democracies
you see? no this shit ain't for me
i don't wanna go - no i don't
12. Fooled Again
deadlock's on the brain again
sitting here managing
our decline into oblivion
truly inept at doing anything
well we got some hope and some new
pope
but we're fooled again
livin on the upwards slope
we're fooled again
technology ain't managing anything
not anything
obsessively consuming
we're fooled again
we ain't ever returning
from a future we arrived in
left our tool bag at the shore
but everyone wants more and more
13. Deadlock
all alternatives are fetishizing
our predicament, we must look to the end
the light at the end of the tunnel
is another train
we're in deadlock universally
it's precisely when we think we see a reality
it's a gap we perceive
deadlock
you won't ever find authentic ways of living
you're just passing time now, hope it's sweetly
cartesian subjects are just a dream
we're abstract systems - no reasoning
deadlock
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