Smash the Control Machine | Otep (Song)

Music video by Otep performing Smash the Control Machine.

(C) 2009 Another Victory

Vocals – Otep Shamaya Guitar – Rob Patterson Bass Guitar – Jason McGuire Drums – Mark Bistany

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Content Source/Owner: Dr. Otep Shamaya, Esquire

“With the perfect hairAnd the perfect wifeAnd the perfect kidsAnd the perfect lifeI will finally be somebody”

“Let’s play born-again American, resistance is the game”

Two pigs wearing suits brought the news that I’m wanted by the bankThey say the rent is due, Caesar’s on to you so you better remember your placeThen they outsourced my job and gave a raise to my bossBailed out the banks, but billed me for the lossThey say we must submit and be one with the machines‘Cause the kingdom of fear needs compliance to succeedSo waterboard the kids for fun, it’s all the rageAnd play born-again American, resistance is the game

Smash the control machineWork, buy, consume, dieSmash the control machineHappy little slaves for minimum wage

“The revolution will be monetized and streamed live via renegade wi-fi”

The clinic said I’m sick, toxic and impureBut there isn’t any cure for the poor or uninsuredSo we live our digital lives on multiple screensAnd we forget that the blood of the workers grease the machinesIn the psalm of the fiends, love discriminatesWhile the fat cats feed the rats their dose of daily cakeSo waterboard the kids for fun, it’s all the rageAnd play born-again American, resistance is the game

Smash the control machineWork, buy, consume, dieSmash the control machineHappy little slaves for minimum wageSmash the control machineWork, buy, consume, dieSmash the control machineHaters, betrayers, liars and thieves

She sold her soul for designer clothesFor the perfect lips and the perfect noseThe winner in the end always owns the mostReality TV told her so

Money changer, greedy banker, this is the people’s house

My minister has a sinister plan to save my soul with a credit card scam

Exploitation is contagious for the selfish and self-inflated

Start a war, use the poor, watch our profits soar and soar

We’ve become a nation of wolves, ruled by sheepOwned by swine, overfed and put to sleepAnd while the media elite decrees what to thinkI am wide awake, on the edge and on the brinkSo when Atlas shrugs, and the fountainhead bleedsAnd when Wall Street apostles preach a gospel of greedI’ll renounce the fame of this glutinous ageAnd be a born-again American, resistance is to blame

Smash the control machineWork, buy, consume, dieSmash the control machineHaters, betrayers, liars and thievesSmash the control machineA nation of wolves, ruled by sheep

Exploitation is contagiousExploitation is contagiousExploitation is contagiousExploitation

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Songwriters: Rob Patterson, Otep Shamaya, Mark Bistany & Jason McGuire

Lyrics source: https://genius.com/Otep-smash-the-control-machine-lyrics