Driving me nuts, bolts, screws
I got the blues
From paying dues
For programmed news
Of honeycoated lies
Your eyes can't believe.
That weave the devil's magic
With the latest gadget
From the Mean Machine.
A' running the same game
With another name
Down to your brain
Blowing your mind
Stealing your time
Smooth and slick
With the latest trick
To get rich quick
From nonsense at your minds expense
As you dig the scene
From the Mean Machine.
Designed to drive your brain insane
Loudspeakers blasting inside your head
Saying what someone else said
For your do do what they want you to
NO. GO. FAST. SLOW.
Getting high of the latest lie
Telling you when, where, how and why
As your mind digs the scene
From The MEAN MACHINE.
A' running the same game
With another name
Factories of insanity
Playing on your vanity
As they distort your sense of self
Telling you what you need
And how to succeed
As they steal your wealth
Probing your mind, trying to find
How to scheme on you best.
From programmed schools with devilish rules
Putting you to the test.
Death dealing devices
Sold at high prices
Designed with you in mind to buy
As they kill you slow
AND SOME OF Y' ALL DON'T EVEN KNOW
Y'all playing the Mean Machine to die
Mechanised lies, dressed up in disguise
In forms of various kinds.
Treachery and deceit
The people must defeat
In the battle for free mens minds
For complete domination
Is the goal of this nation
Of all free thinking thought
And those who oppose
Will be killed by their foes
The flunkies whose souls have been bought.
Transplants to revive the living dead
Replacing the truth with lies instead.
Newspapers, radio, tv's
Spreading lies across the seven seas
Robot men with computers for brains
Spaceships, cars, trains and planes
All calculated to blow your mind
Moving faster than your sense of time.
Living luxuriously soft
While the people slave hard.
For the devil would have you believe he is God
Chemical drugs that keep you high
While the Mean Machine creates another lie
For power and glory and worldwide fame
While running the same game
With another name
It's a computers equation
For worldwide invasion
That comes in the name of Peace and Goodwill.
But all of them are lying
As they keep in try
To set the people up for the kill.
Population control, of the people with soul
All over the planet earth
Manipulating their will
With a tiny white pill
To control their natural birth
Behind the scene schemes
Further the Mean Machine dreams
Of conquest and world domination
From the furthest depths of the universe
To the smallest earthly nation.
RADAR, SONAR, LASERBEAMS!
JETS, TANKS, SUBMARINES!
MEGATHONS, H BOMBS, NAPALM, GAS!
All this shit will kill you fast
All products of the Mean Machine
The devil disguised as a human being.
And he will even preach that God is dead.
And some of y'all will believe what the devil has said
And will then act as the worlds police
And the sun will rise in the west and set down in the east
And when it came time for the end...
And when it came time for the end...
And when it came time for the end...
The men will look like the women
And the women like the men
And some will dance in a hypnotic trance
Like as if they have no care.
But these will be the signs of changing time
That the end is drawing near.
For it was prophesied many centuries past
That the end will come in a fiery holocaust
And only the righteous people will survive the blast
And the devils machine will bring about
His own end.
And peace, and love, and joy will reign once more.
And man will understand man.........
And man will understand man.........
And man will understand man.........
And man will understand man.........
And man will understand man.........
And man will understand
And live in harmony and peace,
And the sun will once again rise up in the East.
The Last Poets