Attentat! It’s Propaganda by the deed. Attention. May we have your attention Please? Our Intention is to stir up preconceptions with a deadly display of propaganda you can see. Habitual crownings and ritual clownings, just a bunch of Big Wigs holding court. A glitter bomb to get it done, we’ll leave our mark amongst the blood and return to the shadows to watch the body politic contort. Attention. May we have your attention? May we have your attention please? Oppression is becoming too relentless and we can’t go to the police. Do we have your attention now? We will burn it all to the ground. Do we have your attention? We’ve been deprived and dispossessed of all we have earned now all we have left is disaffection, insurrection. Time has run out. Time has run out for the masters and rulers, the many have sat and watched plans that have hatched that deprive and dispossess us. It has gone too far. This all sounds a little too familiar: the guns and the bombs and the righteous mobs. The demagogue zealots claim that they’re saving the whole damn world, even as they burn it to the ground. Chaos animate us, order has lulled us to sleep. Attention! Men with dusty feet took their goods from town to town, they settled in and lost their heads, and now they run the show. These warlord merchant thugs have colonized like mold the ineffable spark of life with a dangerous status quo. A hapless mass of human flesh, with social skills and a reptilian complex. Apes that know just enough to be dangerous.
credits
from Man Without a Head,
released June 15, 2016
7. Propaganda by the Deed (Curran / Smyth)
Glenn Curran: Guitars, Keys, Vocals
Sam Libretti: Bass
Nnamdi Ogbonnaya: Drums, Aux Percussion, Keys, Vocals
Paul Casey: Saxophone
Brendan Smyth: Lead Vocals, Keys
Seth Engel: Vocals
Joe Valente: Vocals
Patrick Mitchell: Vocals
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