Institute - Readjusting the Locks (2019)

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

Institute - Subordination (2017)

Institute - Subordination Lyrics

1. Exhibitionism

see public schools with names like robert e. lee

want you not to see those living less fortunately

such petty exhibitionism is all they really wanted from me

instilling in me with a crippling need to succeed

such brash exhibitionism is all they wanted from me

they said "you deserve it because you've lived comfortably"

obsolescent white bread schools bred conceit

into innocent beings

they said "just show off and show us a college degree"

such petty exhibitionism is all they really wanted from me

instilling in me a crippling need to succeed

such brash exhibitionism is all they wanted from me

they said "you deserve it because you've lived comfortably"

2. Only Child

my life's been sunny - sunny and warm

since the day - that i was born

never had no brothers - an only child

the shining glisten - of my mother's eyes

as if a childhood of love could condition one for the sadness of this world

could've been born to war

as if my family bickered - as if we were poor

all i knew was comfort - comfort and warmth

i have no guilt - i have no pride

i want happiness for most human life

it's hard to say these things do stunt you but most privileges do

a world behind a curtain with no reference for pain, just a wash of good

3. Prissy Things

your played out white boy morrissey plea

a privileged thing you privileged beings

you look and you look but you never will

this shit you spin says look at me

livin' for the news that you're the hottest thing

but that shit means nothing

it's tempted me, have you seen?

but it's just fame and prissy things

have you discovered anything other than how you look with some money?

some shaky lines, obvious things

"idiot savant's insecurities"

i hope this shit won't satisfy me

this played out - vain white boy industry

so vain

4. All This Pride

through my open mouth, the system shows

weak minded bullying, that i don't wanna know

you beat your ego down as far as it goes

but watch, too far and your pride just shows

you push your ego down as far as it goes

can't be proud of how you see the world

because when you are, you ignore another's world

all these flags and all this pride...

what are you proud of?

what do you hide?

all your art school shit shit-talking

oh it got to me - god i think

narcissist - self-obsessed

above another being

ok? ok?

can you see this is not ok?

ok. ok.

pursue a freedom from pride and hate

there's no honesty

sick of the facade of fame, the facade of success

don't you know fame is just incomprehension?

the worst case of it. you're creating things only intended to be seen - not comprehended, not even conceptualized in the first place. only the honest will make it.

5. Oil Money

your system to subordinate identities different from the norm, from the straight

history as we know, wrote by you. a white man. yes? any others? no.

hand on her arm

oh we know

it's what mother learned on her favorite tv show

sexual law

wealthy class boys

fulfilling dreams of post-nuptial joys

you're social nonsense

but we hear you boast

you're a shell of love in a soulless host

you settled for marriage

or was it fear?

your children more about love than you queers

you taught me order

taught me straight

took other ways to an insecure place off my plate

bunch of lizard brains ashamed again

defining sin of the secular man

for your gain

your beady country boy eyes

all your maroon shows and your burnt orange skies

texas pride, your football schools

oil money for the few

you're the shit we despise

and your shitty little eyes

you're just shit we despise

with your shitty beady eyes

families of fear

domestic hate

communal restraints and your private estates

morality is a fashion show

archaic laws are your status quo

6. Human Law

pre-history - no human constraint

the violent catalogue of our animal brains

rejecting all conventional law

for a natural rhythm with no christian flaws

no art, no music, a tainted system

humanity rejects a primal rhythm

a madman targets the sane bourgeois

disoriented from all human law

catholic thought, you nuclears decided

a genetic aversion or fate presiding?

apocalyptic end through violence

true anarchy and genetic violence

violence, true genetic violence

it's our genes janeen

7. Too Dumb

perfectly content living in fear

sheepskin coat, sheepskin ears

took all the cues on who to be

let a beautiful world decide for me

veal, a baby calf

you cut the belly and you tear

no blood though just a bit of air

instructions with a bush and some kindling there

it's all too pretty, too soft, too immaculate to bear

too dumb

too dumb to fight the world

close-minded and i judge

prejudice is no fun

can't stand the rules cause i follow them

and social stigmas, ya they did me in

there's a brick wall to the abstinence purity brought

prodding sex for answers was bubonic thought

poking it to pop, to progress, and rot

detritus and pain all from thought

too dumb

8. Good Ol' Boys

childhood near whites with money

close to the running pack

uniformity cut and cut into my back

you wouldn't hear them say

you can't be gay

but it was just so safe to assume that'd it never really be ok

they breathe, they breathe in a comfort marred in hate

watching good ol' boys buy into a southern state

the explicit bigotry of the powers that be

with the gaul to ignore a dismantling of history

so ignorant

you, you, the bourgeois

the housewife unkowing perpetuating her mother's bigotry

the husband racism, the vile inheritance

a baton handoff hidden in daylight for my old friends

for a sense of normalcy, for comfort, for convenience

the hypocrisy!

this horrible country, the things we tolerate

your people running it accepting money with no interest in love

9. Powerstation

sexually insecure police cause violence

their means to ignore the lust inside us

ignorant men, senseless violence

sexually insecure police cause violence

in the backs of their cars

bottled up sexual tension can put you in bars

we all see what's going on

rejecting their frustration to put a costume on

we see you shaking hands with mass-killers, murderers, and rapists saying we're so proud of the work you did in florida, sandy hook, colorado

all the people scared, you put down

all the people you made feel weak

sexually insecure police cause violence

Institute - Catharsis (2015)

Institute - Catharsis Lyrics

1. Perpetual Ebb

why come when friends and fruitless lovers

look to me for shit

i got no love - got no passion

can't feel intimate

picture yourself on a dock in a bay

gulls flux - ships leave for the day

the world is all too clear

in terms of robbe-grillet

just a disconnected spoiled disarray

who's dull emotionally

a perpetual ebb

a decay

the ocean's tide always pulls away

a perpetual ebb

a decay

under the dock in a summer bay

life struggles as i pull away

but you know i really love you

though i act differently

an ungrateful mess that at it's best

still fails miserably

pull away from the parapet and the quay

expose slate - weeds - selfishly

this moon will never wax

it will always wane

got a fall that won't lead to spring

one season indefinitely

2. Admit I'm Shit

an insolent brat

nowadays

depression's to blame for how i act today

constantly needing to say

how i am so sorry

for my insecurities

decisions i made

back in la

made a bigoted cocksure coil out of me

beat me like a dog

to a pulp

until you can't recognize me

beat me to the floor

like a pulp

admit i'm shit

i'm shit

admit i'm shit

though it's hard

because every day i've gone too far

3. I Am Living Death

nothing can make life worthwhile

i see no brightness to her smile

approaching death with a smirk

oh this smirk

this life don't work

because we are already living death

life - a death

my memories - a death

sentience - a death

childhood - a death

experience - a death

on another plane we are already a death

4. Cheerlessness

rank renaissance affair

was such a pity

as were my feelings toward

battersea

recalls a wasted time

my fragility

suppressed nature

inside of me

blight - techno - puberty

unrewarding underwhelmed

could've been out to get a fuck

regretfully suppressed it well

a fertile boy hid a way

maimed that dog

made it lame

didn't want to hear or say

sexuality in anyway

purity?

more like abyss

a self-imposed cheerlessness

abhorred it

abhorred it

to no end

having the timourous expression

of a dog been whipped

scarred - it whimpers

an empty heart - an empty bed

priapus shakes his head

but i digress - excuse me

these words don't convey the shame

just some smutty shit i came up with today

5. Interlude

n/a

6. Untitled

n/a

7. Leathernecks

a leatherneck feels alright

for a brief time

it didn't help me in anyway

the joke that is our lives

somehow bitters - somehow blinds

an open heart feeling kind ultimately heals the mind

8. Cheaptime Morals

consumption sick plastic fumes

plastic fumes and rot

cheaptime morals cheaply made cheaply bought

i peak kind pleasures so pleased i got

cheaptime morals cheaply made cheaply bought

capitalist boom and bloom

no flowering finger up

cheaptime morals cheaply made cheaply bought

blooming - what i'm not

9. Billowing Mind

n/a

10. Christian Right

undermined by the christian right

preach peaceful hearts - peaceful crimes

who said they've got a right - a right to be proud

when they condemn lives of an unorthodox crowd

they preach money - success - war

while we're condemned for indulging fervor

tell me who's got a conscious that's more pure?

a servant of god or a girl they call a whore?

Institute - Giddy Boys (2014)

Institute - Giddy Boys Lyrics

1. Giddy Boys

i don't try and be

more than i'm worth

inherent flaws

determined at birth

trip over petty rules

of life's game

death'll come so soon

with no fame

my life is bleak

a system of existence

doesn't mean a fuck to me

us giddy boys think we're keen

a neighbor of guilt

for some time

we talk of books

and fine wine

saturdays lure us to the club

half past ten

to make snide remarks

of young men

2. Success

i did it for money

i did it for fame

i did it for the blondes who cry out for me

i did it for sex

i did it without shame

picture this window shopper knowing me by name

success

created my image

created my life

my name on the marquee burning late at night

i did it for the drugs

i did it for the look

while all these bastards eat up my game

success

3. Fate in a Pleasant Mood

a fitting curse

for how sorry i am

i was so ashamed to become

a man

stumbling thru change with

spoiling meat looking

forward to when my body's weak

when my mind's gone

when i don't think

there, there, i'll find peace

Institute - Salt (2014)

Institute - Salt Lyrics

1. Salt

salt of the earth doesn't mean shit

it's just spoon fed to those who only choose to listen

like a case carved into a hand

that's salt of the earth, salt of the land

it doesn't mean shit, salt of the earth doesn't mean shit

personal outrage, media's spit

attributed to class and some trustworthy self image

trope of a farmer - a lawyer - the pope

spinning malleable morality - purity - hope

minds are scarred but it doesn't show

masculinity swells, but who could've known?

last chance at immortality

that's salt of the earth salt of the land

2. Nausea

don't see myself in the mirror, i see another man

he looks like me, yet he mocks me

we spend some time together, we spend our lives together

i desire the experience of a moment alone

to be free can be the worst prison

3. Familiar Stranger

nostalgia is fragile

i dip my toes into the tepid water, it laps over my skin

submerged, i'm swimming

as i crown for the surface my eyes blur

i make out a figure, a familiar stranger

4. Immorality

you were ashamed of what you knew

oh but the big folks, they knew something too

of a sewer to drain swollen needs of christian men

so unspoken, so unshamed, you leaned your head down anyway

immorality's near

wasn't punished as a child, so i punished myself

grief and mundanity in my sense of self

the condition wrapped up in a fischl painting

come on, i don't need your pity

immorality's near

5. An Absence

as i strip away the wax figure i've presented all of my life

i expose a dull interior masked by this cunning deceit of a smile

i tried to be intelligent - virtuous - indulgent- and shocked

but it was all so unexciting, i'm a void - an absence - a loss

and i spit on the blind

i have no desire for experience, no desire for anything at all

it's all just disgusting, this guilt that's triggered my fall

others so quick to a task, death regiments their daily lives

and they lean on the cross like a crutch to insure their place in heaven

and i spit on the blind

and i wish i would die

me, i never saw a task, nothing worth the follow through

puzzled by creatures who die for money

for their families - for their lives - for their brood

all of these are just impediments, just foot prints lying in the sand

that'll all be so quickly washed away when sweet death reaches his hand

Institute - Demo (2013)

Institute - Demo Lyrics

1. Putrid

pillage and pine, with abel's brother, so divine

depths of hell in my stomach

tap the well, so far from heaven

the sixth plague swells, the seventh is coming

i'll turn on you in a second

what's mine is mine, what's decided will happen

hate the pestilence inside you

a hate so real manifests as pain

discolored, a putrid yellow

insides have rot, turns many faces

feel the fever swelling

visions of blood, visions of purity

god got it wrong wipe the slate

you, the example of all our fates

2. Dead Sea

she was face down sitting in a corner

nothing hurt, her tears form pools

a vessel cold and empty

nothing fit for spoils today

they say there are no fish in the dead sea

only death

it's unlivable, nothing can survive there

only death

3. Bureaucrat

put up with a lot of shit

good one, but hear what i get

stories of mothers and uncles and distant fucks

i'd rather you have power and greed

and if you know what you need

stop pussyfooting and go and get it

anything to put on the table?

didn't think you'd be this feeble

i want to know there's something under this endless shroud

you're appearance is fooling

but please just pass right thru me

i don't need another cross to bear

4. Diamonds & Pearls

grown up as a girl

cute blond hair with curl

everything was so nice

daddy he kissed me twice

he told me he loved me at night

he said i grew up right

but i was mommy's doll

she cared about alcohol

paraded around at night

controlling me thru fright

everything was so nice

but for what price

pure body male mind

the shows they had me do

the way they treat me too

shallow materialist fucks

5. Weak Times

never needed any love from your sacred heart

no son, no king, no three headed fuck

count me out of the runnings upon your return

i won't fall on my knees and pray to the lord

your swine, what do they count for?

racism, bigotry, but not much more

those who choose to base their lives around libels

and lies and stories strung with lines of weak times

your swine above reason

faithfully loyal until the grave

your swine above instinct

need an idol to behave

6. Narrow & Straight

mother, narrow and straight

forgot god not delicate

don't want a part of your dated morals

don't want a part of your petty quarrels

mother dated and old

cut myself my blood runs cold

i want something like the last one

don't want your outdated war

god only knew what you were fighting for