Proper Gander
Are you sick of the bullshit that spews forth from the screen, the newspaper, the radio..embedded journalists bring the truth like plastic flowers to a flower show.
'Listen' they say'we come to "liberate", whats a few casualties for freedom (ours is at stake, at your expense),
Like the Berlin wall , they said, a historic and monumental day, they said
as the US tanks helped topple Saddam's statue in Saddam square,
on the telly, they showed crowds of extatic, jubilant Iraqis, cheers the demise of the dictator (no bad thing)
, but this was deciet waved in our eyes like a patriotic flags, with the bold audacity of stating 'believe it'.
This was no crowd, it was a theatre piece, a spin job, a set up. In a city of 5 million, the US mustered no more than 150 people
to attempt to rewrite history even before it got cold.
we were had...NOT.
Take a propa gander
at the bold black lines
and see if you can discern
any lies
it's a manufacturing marvel
of these modern times
to market to the masses
the same mumble many times.
The symbols and the syntax
supplied within the news
create and construct
a cartoon of correct views
and once its on the screen
its valid then as proof
so go flick through the channel
to see the branded truth.
YOU ALL RIGHT MATE?
To target to the market
takes a certain skill
select out the stereotyped
image of all the social ills
There's pills for cocks, pills for highs,
and pills to counter pills
in addiction, who needs substance
as long as there is thrills.
So tease out the tension
with warnings of terror
and colour code the chaos
to prevent the picture getting clearer
hide behind the safety lock
cos ITS GETTING NEARER
the telly suggests a survival kit
but now a little dearer
YOU ALL RIGHT MATE?
so take it once, take it twice
take it right between the eyes
take with mock satisfaction
bent over, open wide
take it long, take it soft
whatever you do, take it all
heres the choice for the taking
no need for blinders made of wool.
Here we are and here we go
its always showtime
and we know they always lie
but somehow not this time
we deplore the criminals
unless its own crime
then we hollar 'its justified'
within the parties 4/4 time
each morning comes the latest slant
comes rolling of the press
all the people that have been saved
like a turkey being dressed
and I know one way of the other
there are those who 'cant care less'
so ladies and gents present your tickets
for the one-way ride on the Babylon express.
YOU ALL RIGHT MATE?
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