These days
I’m getting flashes of a righteous rage
Then as suddenly, it goes away
The minute that I scroll down the page
These days
I’m a slack-jawed quivering mass
Of videos and multiple tabs
Skim-reading my facebook feed
And I know the world is hurting
And I’ve got a feeling that the medicine’s not working
But I’m a fat lab rat in a box
Found a way to make the pellets drop
And I keep on pressing and I can’t stop.
Cos we don’t need no teargas
Cos boredom is a weapon, is a weapon
And we don’t need no gulags
Cos boredom is a weapon, is a weapon
We don’t need no teargas
Cos boredom is a weapon and they got me
You guys go on without me.
These days
I got voodoo in my TV
And in my mobile phone
Not knowing gets easier
With every new unknown
And when I said I read the terms and conditions
It was a bare-faced lie
Each and every time.
We outsource our labour to the sweat shops
Outsource our thinking to the think tanks
Outsource our questions to the Murdochs
And I’m trying to find another way
But it’s all so boring
And a thousand memes are calling.
These days
We need a better villain
More sinister, more reptilian
Less measured and beige
Because the tedium is rising
And it’s covering the gravest sins
In a fog of buzzwords and acronyms
Private finance initiative, clinical commissioning, quantitative easing, something something competition and/or innovation
something something freedom
Libor, sub-prime, bail out, triple dip,
deficit reduction, rescue packages
Atos, Cerco, Halliburton, BP
what if apathy’s a commodity?
Move on!
If the lie is big enough
The people will believe it
But if the words are long enough
Then nobody will read it.
Terry Venemous is releasing new music every 3 weeks this year. His latest EP is sumptuous art pop with a wry sense of detachment.
Bandcamp New & Notable Mar 27, 2024
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