Smash The Control Machine Lyrics - Smash The Control Machine - Otep

With the perfect hair and the perfect wife 

And the perfect kids and the perfect life 

I can 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 bank 

They say the rent is due, Caesar's onto you 

So you better remember your place 

Then they outsourced my job and gave a raise to my boss 

And bailed out the banks but billed me for the loss 

They say we must submit and be one with the machines 

'Cause the kingdom of fear needs compliance to succeed 

So water board the kids for fun, it's all the rage 

And play born-again American, resistance is the game 

Smash the control machine, work, buy, consume, die 

Smash the control machine, happy 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 impure 

But there isn't any cure for the poor or uninsured 

Do we live our digital lives on multiple screens? 

And we forget that the blood of the workers greased the machines 

In the psalm of the fiends, love discriminates 

While the fat cats feed the rats their daily dose of cake 

So water board the kids for fun, it's all the rage 

And play born-again American, resistance is the game 

Smash the control machine, work, buy, consume, die 

Smash the control machine, happy little slaves for minimum wage 

Smash the control machine, work, buy, consume, die 

Smash the control machine, haters, betrayers, liars and thieves 

America, she sold her soul for designer clothes 

For the perfect lips and the perfect nose 

The winner in the end always owns the most 

Reality TV told her so 

Money changer, greedy bankers, this is the peoples 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 sheep 

Owned by swine and overfed and put to sleep 

And while the media elite decrees what to think 

I am wide awake on the edge and on the brink 

So when atlas shrugs and The Fountainhead bleeds 

And when Wall Street apostles preach a gospel of greed 

I'll renounce the fame of this gluttonous age 

And be a born-again American, resistance is to blame 

Smash the control machine, work, buy, consume, die 

Smash the control machine, haters, betrayers, liars and thieves 

Smash the control machine, a nation of wolves ruled by sheep 

Exploitation is contagious 

Exploitation is contagious 

Exploitation is contagious 

Exploitation