"Strategies Of Manipulation" lyrics

How you're controlled

Divert attention from social issues
Imprisoned by themes without real importance
While keeping you endlessly busy with work

Creating the problems, offering solutions
Unpopular decisions, deferred imposition
Through auto-consent and imprisonment

Injecting ideas of fear and desire
Implanting compulsions to induce behavior
Clutching your throat, an invisible master
Speaks to you like a child...

Served with pain
You serve in vain
These strategies of manipulation
Served with pain
You serve in vain
These strategies of manipulation

Perpetual churn and howl of the classist
In fashionable terms refuting the past
Paralysis through self-hating guilt

Learning through screens and writing with thumbs
Pontification of dumb and the numb
Preventing cohesive revolution

In a perpetual stalemate, each is a loser
Except those that play all sides of the game
Algorithms know more about you
Than you know yourself

Served with pain
You serve in vain
These strategies of manipulation
Served with pain
You serve in vain
These strategies of manipulation
Served with pain
You serve in vain
These strategies of manipulation
Served with pain
You serve in vain
These strategies of manipulation