Friends & Neighbors
Brothers & sisters
Earth people of all kinds!
If you got ears that are open, you GOTTA listen.
A lot of religious people have been coming around here
Trying to tell you about the GOOD NEWS.
And we all see how that’s worked out.
Well I'm here to give you the BAD NEWS.
You gotta hear the bad news before you can get to anything good I think we all know that's the truth.
A DEMON STANDS ATOP THIS WORLD!
THAT"S A FACT!
Let me be clear: A DEMON STANDS ATOP THIS WORLD!
A demon stands atop the minds of men.
That’s a fact.
Don’t let any scientist or professor tell you any different.
As if reason or evidence could explain the red murder tide of history?
No, it’s a planetary demon.
It's a demon that herds our enemies into camps
That piles up the blood money into unscalable walls
It's a demon that dispossesses the weak and tears the mothers from their children.
It’s a demon that decides it needs to bomb the brown people because it can’t think of anything constructive to do.
A demon that guides our trigger fingers while we stand by and say to ourselves:
We had no choice! We thought he had a gun!
There’s just not enough to go around!
There were weapons of mass destruction over there!
Or my personal favorite: GOD told us to do it.
Yes it’s a demon that rules our minds. A demon in our self’s disguise.
And the sooner you get hip to that, the better off we’ll be.
You see some of us have wised up and found ourselves some eyes that can see.
Let me put you right.
We’re gonna let you in on a little secret here, tonight.
See there’s a secret tribe that lives among you- you might already be a member but you just haven’t realized it yet.
Have you ever noticed how every few years they seem to find a different enemy for us to fear?
If you’re the sort of person who wonders how they’ll spend a trillion dollars on bombs, guns, bullets, jail, police, high tech infrared killing drones and a global surveillance system, but not one cent on food and shelter for the victims and refugees of their never-ending terror campaign of shock and awe;
If you’ve ever wondered how anyone could be taken in or believe for one minute the tidal wave of bullshit, distortions and feeble justifications that drown our mind-space and airwaves every minute of every day until you can’t even get a thought in edge-wise;
then you might be a member of this tribe.
Yes, it's a tribe of people who see the demon clearly in all it’s shameful destructions and distractions.
See it clearly in its ceaseless quest to minds into a steaming lake of bullshit,
to turn our beautiful green world of love and aesthetic enjoyment into a stopped-clock hellscape of climate-change, mechanized warfare and eternal suffering,
Then you KNOW what we have to do. You gotta repeat after me.
We gotta cast that demon OUT.
If you’re a member of the last tribe of true human beings, you gotta say it after me:
We gotta cast that demon OUT.
I don’t care how cool think you are, I don’t care if you don’t even clap when you go to shows anymore, tonight you gotta repeat after me:
We gotta cast that demon OUT.
In the name of all the holy saints:
Bill Hicks, Robert Anton Wilson, Pauli Murray, that guy at the toll booth in 1982 who looked at me funny.
We gotta cast that demon OUT.
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