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OBFUSCATION LYRICS
"Swansongs" (1995 EP)
1. Enjoy
2. Swansong
3. Dreamtime Over
4. Values
1. Enjoy
This World! What a wonderful world it is! Just see it right. This Life! What a wonderful life you lead! Just relaz and enjoy - - while you're one of the privileged few who need not struggle to stay alive
Enjoy it while you can
There's something behind the beautiful scenes
Suffering and Pain
So be aware, this situation cannot last, the imbalance is too great
and it's growing still
Do you know who it is that keeps up our welfare?
Do you think they're going to do it, take it much more?
When the number of the exploited compared to those who exploit grows high enough - -
Things can get tough
So enjoy - - while you're one of the privileged few who need not struggle to stay alive
Enjoy it while you can
'Cause it can't last.
2. Swansong
Running low, low
In the night
The gears are turning
Somewhere deep inside the fuel is burning
From incubation to cremation our lives are controlled
Plugged into our sockets, fed with preprocessed junk information
Flying high on our virtual wings of air
Alienation
Ears shut, eyes shut, living a dream, so beautiful, so graceful, it can't be real
Here enjoying the fruit of a dying tree
Exploitation
The end justifies the means
Art for art
Pleasure for pleasure
Valves of survival are forgotten
Death before inconvenience
It's decadence
I see it all around
Its song fills my ears and eyes
Waiting for the tides of time
Swansong of western culture
Beautiful, sad and cruel
Fading out and dying out
As we're running out of fuel
3. Dreamtime Over
Dreams of beauty
Dreams of order
Dreams of harmony
Dreamtime over
Our protecting mother
Ignorance was slain
Now that we control our fate the question is no more 'why' but 'what' and 'how'
We're in trouble now
And this nightmare is reality
Dying in laughter may not be so respectable b then, who is there to judge?
Afraid of world's complexity
Blindly running in circles with no direction
Consciousness, our greatest mistake
Innocent death would be sweet
Dreams give us back the dreams
A hysterical monster with 5,000,000,000 heads not knowing what to do with itself
Afraid of the world's perplexity
but face the facts
Our futute depends on our own greater understanding
Expanding the capacity of our processing ability
The one hope I see must do as we must now fight ourselves with words
Dreamtime over
Next stage of evolution
Conscious alteration
Species substitution
Unbiological progression
4. Values
Secluded in a prison of expectations
It's hard to break free
Models of behaviour all around saying be like me
Given from above
Spread by those we love
Deforming our views
Gearing values
Conditioned to consume
Our desires harnessed to serve the sacred tast to consume
Serve it well - And you'll find yourself in an earthly hell
....the truth
....the whole truth
....nothing but the truth
....that's all I want to know
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