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| We're this close! |
You're doing great! We're almost there.
You've learned an unimpressive list of irrelevant details. You've achieved a rare cloudiness of so-called vision. You know about some of the hopeless losers who have brought us here and some of the feckless fools who have been trying to keep us here. They're failing, you know. You're proof of that.
In short, you now know all there is to know about 9/11.
You're prepared to explain it carelessly to your friends -- the people you hate the most -- so they can misunderstand it as clearly as you do. And you hope that they will explain it carelessly to their friends -- the people they hate the most -- and so on. But not yet!
First you need to sit back and relax.
That's better.
And now, before you go on your way, my friend, please enjoy some really stupid music with me.
Listen: Bruce Cockburn: Let The Bad Air Out
Traitors in high places take my money, tell me lies
Take a walk past Parliament, it smells like something died
They ask for trust, but somehow I've got serious doubts
Open up the window, let the bad air out
Listen: Phil Manzanera / 801: Listen Now
Is it any wonder you've got no power
When you pay a thief to keep it for you?
Is it a surprise that your wine is sour
When you let a liar choose the brew he pours you?
Talk on the wire about force and choice
It's uncomfortable to raise your voice
Listen: King Crimson: Easy Money
And I thought my heart would break
When you doubled up the stake
With your fingers all a-shake
You could never tell a winner from a snake
Listen: Bill Nelson / Be Bop Deluxe: Life In The
Air Age
Life in the air age
It's grim enough to make the robot cry
Listen: Phil Manzanera / 801: Law And Order
The plans they've got for you are clear
So clеar
You're not so sure
You want that cure
And thosе who tried to tell you
About the shit that's going down
Are found out on the moor
Listen: The Clash: Clampdown
We will teach our twisted speech
To the young believers
We will train our blue-eyed men
To be young believers
Listen: Bill Nelson / Be Bop Deluxe: Modern Music
(suite)
When you're lonely and you're far away
When those blue guitars begin to play
Please don't let them steal your heart away
Listen: Bruce Cockburn: Call It Democracy
Kill the best and buy the rest
It's just spend a buck to make a buck
You don't really give a flying fuck
About the people in misery
Listen: Peter Hammill: The Future Now
I want the future now
I'm young, and it's my right.
I want a reason to be proud.
I want to see the light.
Listen: The (English) Beat: Two Swords
Two swords slashing at each other
only sharpen one another
and in the long run even he's your brother
even though the boy's a Nazi
Listen: Peter Hammill: Mediaeval
if we don't open our eyes pretty soon
then the Dark Ages'll be here to stay.
Listen: Alvin Lee / Ten Years After: I'd Love To
Change The World
black and white
rich and poor
them and us
we'll stop the war!
Listen: Peter Hammill: Nadir's Big Chance
We're more than mere morons, perpetually conned,
so come on everybody, smash the system with the song.
and the forests will echo with laughter
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| Yossarian salutes the (still unidentified)
9/11 Perpetrators, and the Patriotic COG Planners, too. But I repeat myself. |
