Maybe You've been Brainwashed Too

by ApagaLaLuz 9 Replies latest social entertainment

  • ApagaLaLuz
    ApagaLaLuz

    There is a band called The New Radicals. They had a hit album about 4 or 5 years ago. I bought the album while still a good little dub. The front man, Gregg Alexander, was raised Jehovah Witness and left when he came of age. Here are the lyrics to their title track. They also have a song called "Jehovah Made This Whole Joint For You." He has a very interesting story. Just some info I thought some may enjoy.

    MAYBE YOU'VE BEEN BRAINWASHED TOO

    Consider the fact that Maybe Youve been brainwashed too

    Many will tell you otherwise

    I bet you trust your bank

    Just wait untill it tanks

    Your parents had it planned

    We're almost like them?

    Fun, racist professional sports

    Management gets the real rewards

    Multi national owned evening news

    If we believe we're fools

    You watch 4.5 hours of t.v a day

    And we should listen to what you say?

    Opinions on life and the world

    You eat at the Hard Rock abroad and you disrespect your girl

    Sexism is so ingrained

    that women get the blame

    Is it smug middle class satisfaction you peddle?

    Better hope your car don't breakdown in the Ghetto

    Rich companies lobby best

    Use their products, prepare to lose a breast

    Why your sick mothers health insurance got

    "Accidentally" cancelled is no mystery

    Somebody's paying the government a lot to have access to everybody's medical history

    Greedy banks bought all the farms

    Chemical food, aren't our lives charmed

    Teenagers baited, their money spent

    With credit cards at 20%

    Too broke to worry about the loan

    Their funkin turning off your phone

    And politics, a f***in joke

    Right and left-they're both a hoax

    Just hope the "international" markets don't crash!

    Rock N Roll! Some truth? Alas!

    Careerist cowards sucking ass

    Is real investigative reporting dead?

    Of course, but keep watching your CNN

    The glitz, the glamor, all jokes aside

    If a sponsor pays enough, they'd turn a blind eye on third world genicide

    "Bro, don't get heavy, the bills are paid!"

    Twice a week (missionary style) we all get laid

    Middle management goes first, your out on your ass

    Most ignorance is bred at home

    Good Christian families? then why condone

    Petty hatred of anything different or new

    The fat girl hung her-self in June

    No love at home, they thought she was strong

    Her classmates made up her own song

    "Piggy Peggy ate everyone's pie"

    The kids moved on, one teacher cried

    The kids switched targets the week after she died

    Well? human nature wont change much

    Unless we make a shameful bunch

    Of those we see so glaringly

    Who show hate, ignorance, and hypocracy

    Don't be a coward-make a stand!

    Get in their facae-act like a ham

    Let people know it's not PC

    To be greedy and judgemental under the guise of religion and democracy

    Get loud and stand up every time

    If you give a f*** about man kind

    Cuz if human nature don't evolve soon

    Don't kid your-self, you're f***ing doomed

    Don't run away from change and growth

    Let's start right now, "I take the oath!"

    But first accept one simple truth

    That maybe you've been brainwashed too

    So cynical, so hip, so full of s***, they told us to shut the f*** up and write another hit

  • ApagaLaLuz
    ApagaLaLuz

    By the way...... the way he got his musical start, was by visiting his disfellowshipped aunt in California. Here's a link to the bio

    http://www.angelfire.com/ca2/TechnicolorLover/personal.html

  • RandomTask
    RandomTask

    Geez why should I even go out of my house? Yeah, life sucks so hard, we are all just living in a pit of filth and beng ruled by "the man", senselessly eeking out a futile existence. Life is so bleak its no wonder that I sit on the couch all day eating doritos and smoking joints and writing songs about how hard snowflakes have it. I mean for Chrissakes why don't I just go blow my head off right now?

    Edited by - RandomTask on 13 December 2002 18:43:50

  • ApagaLaLuz
    ApagaLaLuz

    No No hunny don't do that!!!!!!!

    lol..... I think maybe the point was missed :)

  • RandomTask
    RandomTask

    Yeah, i'm not talking about the JW angle, but any of these people who write their little songs and write their little poems about how f***ed up life is and how everyone is just screwed up and the whole world has gone to hell bother me. Why don't we just wipe everyone off the face of the earth and start over? The witnesses would certainly agree.

  • ApagaLaLuz
    ApagaLaLuz

    I agree with you....... bunch of Manics.....

    :)

    I like the words though. It's like what else can you find to complain about....... But it does give a nod to people who use religion as a cover for judgement and hypocrasy

    p.s. I've been chillin on this board too much. It's growing much too nice :) I'm finding it harder and harder to say 'Fuck Authority'

  • RandomTask
    RandomTask

    Yeah I got you

    How about deleted Armageddon, this is hell!!!'? a song which I hypocritically like.

    Edited by - Englishman on 14 December 2002 18:53:34

  • ApagaLaLuz
    ApagaLaLuz

    Very good one..... I just might have to steal that one. Don't sue me for royalties later k?

    A line from one of my "real" songs is :

    What makes you think the world is going to end?

    It's just because we're all afraid of death

    Praise the Lord and give him all your faith

    Tommorrow you'll be suffering with AIDS

    I think the deleted Armegeddon, this is Hell" comment might fit in rather nicely there.

    Edited by - Englishman on 14 December 2002 18:54:46

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  • DanTheMan
    DanTheMan
    Yeah, i'm not talking about the JW angle, but any of these people who write their little songs and write their little poems about how f***ed up life is and how everyone is just screwed up and the whole world has gone to hell bother me.

    I agree RT. A Metallica song popped into my head today that I used to listen to over and over in high school, a song to kill yourself by! For Whom The Bell Tolls
    Ride the Lightning

    Make his fight on the hill in the early day
    Constant chill deep inside
    Shouting gun, on they run through the endless grey
    On they fight, for they are right, yes, but who's to say?
    For a hill, men would kill, why? They do not know
    Suffered wounds test their pride
    Men of five, still alive through the raging glow
    Gone insane from the pain that they surely know

    For whom the bell tolls
    Time marches on
    For whom the bell tolls

    Take a look to the sky just before you die
    It is the last time he will
    Blackened roar massive roar fills the crumbling sky
    Shattered goal fills his soul with a ruthless cry
    Stranger now, are his eyes, to this mystery
    He hears the silence so loud
    Crack of dawn, all is gone except the will to be
    Now they see, what will be, blinded eyes to see

    For whom the bell tolls
    Time marches on
    For whom the bell tolls

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