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Puppets

Puppets, cannibals, satellite shadows
Businessmen, inmates, free-thinkers, and cattle
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Birds on power lines, lion heads on mantles
Pop idol pawns, dead presidents, live poets, and dust mites
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Hookers on birth control, men on wanted posters, the women who love them
Dinosaurs, inbreds, and alien holograms
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B-52 pilots and other airborne bacteria
Children born with STD's and the sons of rich tyrants
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Bewildered herd, sharpen your teeth
Remember these three quotes
"Only lie to cameras", "Cops", and "Crooks"
See, kindness is within our power, but fondness is not
Under the false umbrella of hope
Lives are sold and people are bought
Somebody once told me all men were created equal
You're not created in the womb
You're created in the classroom by rich people
And history is written through the eyes of the butcher
Those who benefit from an ignorant public
Condescend and insult you
They build us in the image of slaves, the free men got locked up
As long as they control the means of selling beliefs, no man is equal
If there's a policeman living in your head, you're not free
'Cause if free trade were real, everyone would own a company

All that is solid has melted into air
It doesn't matter who you vote for
The government will always get in
All that was once solid has melted into air
One hundred thousand lemmings can't be wrong...

People join the army to pay for college
In California, residents go to college for free
What will you do?
Smoke weed on the weekends and go hiking?
Or serve for a white-collar death squad of an oil company military?
Everybody wants heaven, but nobody wants dead
We are living in a rich man's heaven, a poor man's hell
The middle class is dwindling, the population is doubling
We are not living in Rome, we are living in a fiefdom
So when they remap all the genomes, remember
It's a hate-free zone
'Cause money doesn't care who burns it
"The world is a killer virus"
I'm not a happy plant so I carry diseases
So the ones who are starved of knowledge can someday flourish
And punish all those who stood between us
Quit your job, start a business, and read more
"All that was once solid has melted into air"
They're out of touch, and you can care 'em on their own land
They left the door open, 'cause the best illusions are half-real

Puppets, cannibals, satellite shadows
Businessmen, inmates, free-thinkers, and cattle
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Birds on power lines, lion heads on mantles
Pop idol pawns, dead presidents, live poets, and dust mites
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Hookers on birth control, men on wanted posters, the women who love them
Dinosaurs, inbreds, and alien holograms
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B-52 pilots and other airborne bacteria
Children born with STD's and the sons of rich tyrants
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("If a life could have a theme song - and I believe every worthwhile one has - mine is a religion, an obsession, a mania or all of these expressed in one word: individualism")