The title of the track is derived from the words of Rahm Emanuel:
“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste. And what I mean by that is an opportunity to do things that you think you could not do before.”
The song plays to this theme of powers that be using crises to enact power plays. Some w...
Can you feel the outrage spreading?
Can you feel the outrage spreading
Nerves inflamed, the rising conflict?
Can you feel the outrage spreading
Nerves inflamed, the rising conflict
Discord as a pathogen?
Chorus of unhinged emotion
Contrast of polarization
A necessary precursor
For every question is an application
For every crisis, a final solution
Your dissonance is nothing more than a variable
Nothing more than a cause for a cure
Nothing more than an equation
Nothing more than manufactured plague
It is nothing more
Trigger the outrage
And cue the division
The optics of your distraction
Opportunity
Desensitize and sterilize to remove the stigma
It's all in the script
Your senses cannot be trusted
Cure the pulse of your reaction
Insert the nostrum to your receptors
Priming for the reboot
Desensitize and sterilize to remove the stigma
It's all in the script
Strategize the immunity to every emotion
It's all in the script
Trigger the outrage
And cue the division
The optics of your distraction
Opportunity
Can you feel the outrage spreading?
Can you feel the outrage spreading?
Can you feel the outrage spreading?
Opportunity
Desensitize and sterilize to remove the stigma
It's all in the script