Best songs about corrupt mind controlling government & spiritual war.

This song is so inspiring and important to me. I would love to hear more music, popular or not, related to this topic. Post your favorite song with lyrics.



[Singing Chorus]
I get out, I get out of all your boxes
I get out, you can't hold me in these chains
I'll get out
Father free me from this bondage
Knowin' my condition
Is the reason I must change

[Verse 1]
Your stinkin' resolution
Is no type of solution
Preventin' me from freedom
Maintainin' your polution
I won't support your lie no more
I won't even try no more
If I have to die, oh Lord
That's how I choose to live
I won't be compromised no more
I can't be victimised no more
I just don't sympathize no more
Cuz now I understand
You just wanna use me
You say "love" then abuse me
You never thought you'd loose me
But how quickly we forget
That nothin' is for certain
You thought I'd stay here hurtin'
Your guilt trip's just not workin'
Repressin' me to death
Cuz now I'm choosin' life, yo
I take the sacrifice, yo
If everything must go, then go
That's how I choose to live

[Pause]

[Singing rest of Verse 1]
That's how I choose to live...
Hehehehe, awhh
No more compromises
I see past your diguises
Blindin' through mind control
Stealin' my eternal soul
Appealin' through material
To keep me as your slave

[Singing Chorus]
But I get out
Oh, I get out of all your boxes
I get out
Oh, you can't hold me in these chains
I'll get out
Oh, I want out of social bondage
Knowin' my condition
Oh, is the reason I must change

[Singing Verse 2]
See, what you see is what you get
Oh, and you ain't seen nothin' yet
Oh, I don't care if you're upset
I could care less if you're upset
See it don't change the truth
And your hurt feeling's no excuse
To keep me in this box
Psychological locks
Repressin' true expression
Cementin' this repression
Promotin' mass deception
So that no one can be healed
I don't respect your system
I won't protect your system
When you talk I don't listen
Oh, let my Father's will be done

[Singing Chorus]
And just get out
Oh, just get out of all this bondage
Just get out
Oh, you can't hold me in these chains
Just get out
All these traditions killin' freedom
Knowin' my condition
Is the reason I must change

[Singing Verse 3]
I just accepted what you said
Keepin' me among the dead
The only way to know
Is to walk then learn and grow
But faith is not your speed
Oh, you'd had everyone believe
That you're the sole authority
Just follow the majority
Afraid to face reality
The system is a joke
Oh, you'd be smart to save your soul
Oh, and escape this mind control
You spent your life in sacrifice
To a system for the dead
Oh, are you sure...
Where is the passion in this living
Are you sure it's God you servin'
Obligated to a system
Getting less then you're deserving
Who made up these schools, I say
Who made up these rules, I say
Animal conditioning
Oh, just to keep us as a slave

[Singing Chorus]
Oh, just get out
Of this social (?)-----> PURGATORY
Just get out
All these traditions are a lie
Just get out
Superstition killing freedom
Knowin' my condition
Is the reason I must die
Just get out
Just get out
Just get out
Let's get out
Let's get out
Knowin' my condition
Is the reason I must die
Just get out

this is one of my all time favorites....


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The lyrics

SAUL WILLIAMS CODED LANGUAGE LYRICS

Whereas, break-beats have been the
missing link connecting the diasporic
community to its drum-woven past

Whereas, the quantized drum has
allowed the whirling mathematicians
to calculate the ever-changing distance
between rock and stardom

Whereas, the velocity of spinning vinyl,
Cross-faded, spun backwards, and re-released
at the same given moment of recorded history,
yet, at a different moment in time's continuum
has allowed history to catch up with the present

We do hereby declare reality unkempt
by the changing standards of dialogue

Statements such as, "keep it real," especially
when punctuating or articulating modes of
ultra-violence inflicted psychologically or
physically or depicting an unchanging rule
of events, will henceforth be seen as retroactive
and no representative of the individually
determined IS

Furthermore, as determined by the collective
consciousness of this state of being and the
lessened distance between thought patterns
and their secular manifestations, the role of
men as listening receptacles is to be increased
by a number no less than 70 percent of the current enlisted as vocal aggressors

Mother#ers better realize now is the time
to self-actualize. We have found evidence that
hip-hop's standard 85 RPM when increased by a number at least half the rate of the standard
or decreased by 3/4's of its speed may be a
determining factor in heightening consciousness
Studies show that when a given norm is changed
in the face of unchanging the remaining
contradictions will parallel the truth

Equate rhyme with reason. Sun with season.
Our cyclical relationship to phenomena has
encouraged scholars to erase the centers of
periods thus symbolizing the non-linear
character of cause and effect.

Reject mediocrity. Your current frequencies
of understanding outweigh that which has
been given for you to understand. The current
standard is the equivalent of an adolescent
restricted to the diet of an infant. The rapidly
changing body would acquire dysfunctional
and deformative symptoms and could not properly
mature on a diet of applesauce and crushed pears.

Light years are interchangeable with years of living
in darkness. The role of darkness is not to be seen
as equated with ignorance but with the unknown
and the mysteries of the unseen.

Thus in the name of: Robeson, God's son, Hurtson,
Akhenanton, Hatshepsut, Blackfoot, Helen, Lennon,
Kahlo, Kali, The Three Marias, Lilith, Lourde,
Whitman, Baldwin, Ginsberg, Kaufman, Lumumba, Ghandi,
Gibran, Shabazz, Shabazz, Siddhartha, Medusa, Guevara,
Gurdjieff, Rand, Wright, Banneker, Tubman, Hamer, Holiday, Davis, Coltrane, Morrison, Joplin, Du Bois,
Clarke, Shakespere, Rachmaninoff, Ellington, Carter, Gaye, Hathaway, Hendrix, Kuti, Dickerson, Ripperton, Mary, Isis, Theresa, Plath, Rumi, Fellini, Michaux, Nostradamus, Neferttiti, La Rock, Shiva, Ganesha, Yemaja, Oshun, Obatala, Ogun, Kennedy, King, four little girls, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Keller, Biko, Peron, Marley, Shakur, Those who burned. Those still aflame. And the countless un-named.

We claim the present as the pre-sent as the
hereafter. We are unraveling our navels so
that we may injest the sun. We are not afraid
of the darkness. We trust that the moon shall
guide us. We are determining the future at this
very moment. We now know that the heart is
the philosophers stone.

Our music is our alchemy. We stand as the
manifested equivalent of three buckets of water
and a handful of minerals, thus, realizing that
those very buckets turned upside down supply
the percussive factor forever. If you must
count to keep the beat then count. Find your
mantra and awaken your subconscious. Carve
your circles counter-clockwise. Use your cipher
to decipher coded language, man-made laws. Climb
waterfalls and tree

Sorry no link.
But David Bowie "The Cygnet commitee" put it on your turntable on a warm summers morn.

Megadeth is on full blast with this song. The lyrics are in the video.

reply to post by hautmess


A Perfect Circle "Pet"



Here are the lyrics:


Don't fret precious I'm here,
step away from the window
and go back to sleep

Lay your head down child
I won't let the bogeyman come
Counting bodies like sheep
To the rhythm of the war drums
Pay no mind to the rabble
Pay no mind to the rabble
Head down, go to sleep
To the rhythm of the war drums

Pay no mind what other voices say
They don't care about you, like I do, (like I do)
Safe from pain, and truth, and choice, and other poison devils,
See, they don't give a expletive deleted about you, like I do.

Just stay with me,
safe and ignorant, go,
back to sleep, go
back to sleep

Lay your head down child
I won't let the bogeyman come
Counting bodies like sheep
To the rhythm of the war drums
Pay no mind to the rabble
Pay no mind to the rabble
Head down, go to sleep
To the rhythm of the war drums

I'll be the one to protect you from
Your enemies and all your demons
I'll be the one to protect you from
A will to survive and a voice of reason
I'll be the one to protect you from
Your enemies and your choices son
They're one and the same
I must isolate you
Isolate and save you from yourself

Swaying to the rhythm of the new world order and
Counting bodies like sheep to the rhythm of the war drums
The bogeymen are coming
The bogeymen are coming
Keep your head down, go to sleep
To the rhythm of the war drums

Stay with me
Safe and ignorant
Just stay with me
I'll hold you and protect you from the other ones,
The evil ones, don't love you son,
Go back to sleep.

Edit to Add: I also recommend bands like All Shall Perish and Demon Hunter. Demon Hunter is a Christian metalcore band from Seattle and back when I was a Christian they were what made me start to like Metal music, even now that I'm no longer a Christian I still love me some Demon Hunter





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well..the first thing that springs to mind is nineteenfourtyeightish by roy harper....from the album 'Whatever Happened to Jugula'...he knew EXACTLY what was coming..

here are some versions:

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here some info from here:

www.royharper.co.uk...

1985's collaboration with Jimmy Page, 'Whatever Happened to Jugula' was released on Beggars Banquet records. Harper wanted to change the original title, 'Whatever happened to 1984?' to 'Jugula', but the manufacture of the record had proceeded to a point where only one word of the title could be altered, so it became the enigmatic 'Whatever happened to Jugula?'. Throughout 1984, Harper had toured the United Kingdom with Jimmy Page, performing a predominantly acoustic set at folk festivals, including the Cambridge Folk Festival, under various guises such as The MacGregors, and Themselves. The album features the 10 minute '1948ish', which was the original release date of the George Orwell epic '1984'. The song revisits some of the principles of the book, 36 years on. Harper's lifelong opposition to the death penalty is highlighted in the song 'Hangman'. Also included are two poems, the spoken 'Bad Speech' in which he pictures the future of the planet, regardless of man's effect on it, and the sung 'Hope', with music by David Gilmour, in which he addresses an imaginary future.

an amazing song writer and poet..


lyrics:

The lemmings push their pens and rush
In hoards of crashing stupor
Towards the farms of Babylon
To scramble mother nature
Where unrelenting drudgery
Is all there is to nurture
And life and death are by consent
And love is for oppression
Welcome to my nightmare
It's the one in which I always press the button

A million tons of printed #
Come through my door each day
Up to my dick, around my neck
I can't even throw it away
Bills for my shirt, receipts for my soul
With only a moment to pay
Before the thud of the future
Gives me the shakes
Welcome to my nightmare
It's the one in which I always burn the cakes

In 1649

Just as I light the loaded fire
A space invader lands
It's full of cops and bureaucrats
With bouquets of final demands
And I see my life flash before me again
Slipping through my hands
As the sound of harvest closes in
Swooping - reaping
Welcome to my nightmare
It's the one in which I walk when I'm not sleeping

In thirteen twenty four
The one we've all been waiting for
Nineteen eighty-four

There's a little man left to hold the can
He don't know how and his only plan
Is everlasting life

He beats the street with his plates of meat
In the sandwich board of his final retreat
Bellowing goodbye

Everyone sees and nobody shares
Everyone knows its the truth that he bears
That the end is nigh

And he stands against the rails at Oxford Circus
Leafleting the souls who keep this pace
That gathers speed and calls itself
The human race

And shadows fight with men of straw
In pockets of derision
While mother checks up on the stars
Denies her intuition
And sends young Julia to school
To learn an empty vision
That's full of paper tiger rats
To pass to her own children
Welcome to my nightmare
I'm the father, son and whole polluted system

In nineteen eighty-four
Nineteen eighty-four
Nineteen eighty-four
The one we've all been longing for
Nineteen eighty-four



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Ive heard "Muse" and "immortal technuiqe" sing about these things.

Here are the muse lyrics to uprising

The paranoia is in bloom, the PR
The transmissions will resume
They'll try to push drugs
Keep us all dumbed down and hope that
We will never see the truth around
(So come on!)

Another promise, another scene, another
A package not to keep us trapped in greed
With all the green belts wrapped around our minds
And endless red tape to keep the truth confined
(So come on!)

Chorus
They will not force us
They will stop degrading us
They will not control us
We will be victorious

Interchanging mind control
Come let the revolution take its toll if you could
Flick the switch and open your third eye, you'd see that
We should never be afraid to die
(So come on!)

Rise up and take the power back, it's time that
The fat cats had a heart attack, you know that
Their time is coming to an end
We have to unify and watch our flag ascend

They've given me a mission
I don't really know the game yet
I'm bent on submission
Religion is to blame
I'm the new messiah
Death Angel with a gun
Dangerous in my silence
Deadly to my cause

Speak to me the pain you feel
Speak the word
The word is all of us

I've given my life to become what I am
To preach the new beginning
To make you understand
To reach some point of order
Utopia in mind, you've got to learn
To sacrifice, to leave what's now behind

Speak to me the pain you feel
Speak the word
The word is all of us
Speak the word
The word is all of us

Seven years of power
The corporation claw
The rich control the government, the media the law
To make some kind of difference
Then everyone must know
Eradicate the fascists, revolution will grow

The system we learn says we're equal under law
But the streets are reality, the weak and poor will fall
Let's tip the power balance and tear down their crown
Educate the masses, We'll burn the White House down

Speak to me the pain you feel
Speak to me the pain you feel
Speak the word (Revolution)
The word is all of us
Speak the word (Revolution)
The word is all of us
Speak the word
The word is all of us
Speak the Word
The word is all of us

SPEAK!!!

Queensryche, Operation Mindcrime

Here are two, I have a ton of them, but my mind is drawing a blank right now.

Not that I think my country is but it makes some good points.

Anti-Flag » Die For Your Government Lyrics

you've gotta die, gotta die, gotta die for your government?
die for your country?
that's #! there's a gulf war vet, dying a slow,
old death and the government says,
"we don't know the source of his sickness."
but don't believe what they say,
because your government is lying
they've done it before and don't you know
they'll do it again
a secret test, government built virus
"subject test group: gulf battle field troops"
you've gotta die, gotta die, gotta die for your government?
die for your country?
that's #! first world war veterans slaughtered,
by general eisenhower you give them your life,
they give you a stab in the back radiation,
agent orange, tested on us souls guinea pigs
for western corporations i never have,
i never will pledge allegiance to their flag
you're getting used, you'll end up dead!
you've gotta die, gotta die, gotta die for your government?
die for your country?
that's #! i don't need you to tell me what to do
and i don't need you to tell me what to be...
# you! i don't need you to tell me what to say
and i don't need you to tell me what to think!
what to think! what to think, what to think, what to think,
think, think, think! you've gotta die, gotta die,
gotta die for your government? die for your country? that's #!



Anti-flag
The Press Corpse lyrics
l
The [Downing Street] memo says...

...We gotta work to make the facts fit the false charges
Pull the wool over the eyes of the filthy masses
Stab the people in the back for the corporate choice
Roll the propaganda out using The People's Voice

We don't want to talk about it...

The press scribble scribble every half-truth spoke
Then shoot it round the country like an April Fools joke
Hype the nation for a Desert Storm love affair
Wave the stars and stripes like you just don't care!

They talk it up all day, they talk it up all night
They talk until their face turns blue - Red white and blue!
But when the truth escapes the night and crawls into the day
We find the picture still askew

They don't want to... talk talk talk talk talk about it
They wanna tiptoe, walk around it
Wave the flag and mindlessly salute
They don't want to talk about it
They wanna tiptoe, walk around it
Wave the flag and cowardly salute

And on the TV screen...
...Diversion and aversion is the flavor of the day
Was it WMDs? Or Democracy?
Blame it on MI-6 or the CIA
The White House Press Corpse only has one thing to say...

"We don't want to talk about it!"

The White House boils over, "Al Jazeera got it wrong!"
The Press Corpse jumps onboard singing the White House song
While over in Iraq thousands are dead because of lies
The spineless war drumming-press corpse have taken lives

They talk it up all day, they talk it up all night
They talk until their face turns blue - Red white and blue!
But when the truth escapes the night and crawls into the day
We find the picture still askew

They don't want to... talk talk talk talk talk about it
They wanna tiptoe, walk around it
Wave the flag and mindlessly salute
They don't want to talk about it
They wanna tiptoe, walk around it
Wave the flag and cowardly salute

Fires fueled on endless lies
Black shrouds coat desert skies
A nation's viewpoint blurred and led
As embeds report what they're fed

We don't want to talk about it...
We don't want to talk about it...
We don't want to talk about it...
We don't want to talk about it...

(We don't want to talk about it...)
We don't, don't want to, we don't wanna talk about it
(We don't want to...)
We don't, don't want to, we don't wanna talk

They don't want to... talk talk talk talk talk about it
They wanna tiptoe, walk around it
Wave the flag and cowardly salute
They don't want to talk about it
They wanna tiptoe, walk around it
Wave the flag and cowardly salute

[Papa Roach - Infest]

My name's Coby Dick
Mr. Dick if you're nasty
Rock a mic with a voice that's raspy
'an I'm poetic in my operations
My God given talent is to rock all the nation

We're going to infest!
Infest, the theory of my first manifesto
Push ya wig back with my lyrical pistol
Blow, now Papa Roach is on your mental
Banging like your head piece it's just that simple
Cock back and unleash with my physical
Wrap you in my thoughts and become indivisable
Centrifugal, forces individuals into my mind as we rock into ritual

You better do just what I say
And if you don't then you will pay....INFEST!

We're going to infest
We're getting in your head
What is wrong with the world today
The government the media or your family
We're going to infest
We're Getting in your head
What is wrong with the world today
The government the media or your family

You will do just what I say
Now that I got your attention
Did I forget to mention
All the heads we be infesting
Hope y'all people learn your lessons
Cause the game of life is crazy
Got all the people guessin'
What is wrong with the world today
Goverment, media, or your family
Would you cry if I died today
I think it be better if you did not say

You will do just what I say
And if you don't then you will pay....INFEST!
We're going to infest
We're getting in your head
What is wrong with the world today
The government the media or your family
We're going to infest
We're getting in your head
What is wrong with the world today
The government the media or your family
We will infest, die like the rest

First they shackle your feet
Then they stand you in a line
Then they beat you like meat
Then they grab you by your mind

First they shackle your feet
Then they stand you in a line
Then they beat you like meat
Infest your mind!

We will infest, die like the rest
People are the problem today
We will infest, die like the rest
People are the problem today

We're going to infest
We're getting in your head
What is wrong with the world today
The government the media or your family
We're going to infest
We're getting in your head
What is wrong with the world today
The government the media or your family

just about anthing by immortal technique particulary a song called 4th branch. also a son by english rapper called akala the songs called bull#

You need to listen to the john hiatt,song-shreadding the documents.Its a good song and can be found on the john hiatt,cd-walk on.One of the best cd ever made.

Not a song as much but a whole concept album. Queensryche- Operation Mindcrime. They came out with a part 2 but I never gave it a listen.

Just tells it how it is. Politics and so forth.


Cult of Personality Living Colour

Look into my eyes, what do you see?
Cult of personality
I know your anger, I know your dreams
I’ve been everything you want to be
I’m the cult of personality
Like mussolini and kennedy
I’m the cult of personality
Cult of personality
Cult of personality

Neon lights, a nobel prize
The mirror speaks, the reflection lies
You don’t have to follow me
Only you can set me free
I sell the things you need to be
I’m the smiling face on your t.v.
I’m the cult of personality
I exploit you still you love me

I tell you one and one makes three
I’m the cult of personality
Like joseph stalin and gandi
I’m the cult of personality
Cult of personality
Cult of personality

Neon lights a nobel prize
A leader speaks, that leader dies
You don’t have to follow me
Only you can set you free

You gave me fortune
You gave me fame
You me power in your god’s name
I’m every person you need to be
I’m the cult of personality
Look into my eyes, what do you see?
Cult of personality
I know your anger, I know your dreams
I’ve been everything you want to be
I’m the cult of personality
Like mussolini and kennedy
I’m the cult of personality
Cult of personality
Cult of personality

Neon lights, a nobel prize
The mirror speaks, the reflection lies
You don’t have to follow me
Only you can set me free
I sell the things you need to be
I’m the smiling face on your t.v.
I’m the cult of personality
I exploit you still you love me

I tell you one and one makes three
I’m the cult of personality
Like joseph stalin and gandi
I’m the cult of personality
Cult of personality
Cult of personality

Neon lights a nobel prize
A leader speaks, that leader dies
You don’t have to follow me
Only you can set you free

You gave me fortune
You gave me fame
You me power in your god’s name
I’m every person you need to be
I’m the cult of personality

This Bob Marley masterpiece is one of my favourites.
Redemption Song



Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
None but ourselves can free our minds.
Have no fear for atomic energy,
'Cause none of them can stop the time.
How long shall they kill our prophets,
While we stand aside and look? Ooh!
Some say it's just a part of it:
We've got to fullfil the book.


Link is broke, can someone fix please.



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My contribution to this thread:

Originally posted by TheAssociate
Ministry -- N.W.O.

TheAssoc.

[edit on 3-5-2010 by TheAssociate]

ETA: If you like this type of thread, we do them all the time in the BTS Music Forum, feel free to visit and post.


TheAssoc.

[edit on 5-5-2010 by TheAssociate]

Originally posted by wigit
This Bob Marley masterpiece is one of my favourites.
Redemption Song

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
None but ourselves can free our minds.
Have no fear for atomic energy,
'Cause none of them can stop the time.
How long shall they kill our prophets,
While we stand aside and look? Ooh!
Some say it's just a part of it:
We've got to fullfil the book.


Link is broke, can someone fix please.

i'll second that one theirs a live version on youtube and its the dogs bollocks

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this is just brilliant, so I had to post it

nonpoint - the truth



if we only knew the truth about it
maybe we could work our way around it

then maybe we could ignore that the shore
used to be the edge
explore more
than our block or the next
city over
with nothing on our shoulders
but the clothes on our backs
and you leave us hear with nothing
expecting no attack
with soilders on the way

if we only knew the truth about what really goes on
maybe all the things i do would make sense just for once
maybe we could work our way around it
if we only knew the truth about it

you think its crazy to think theres
nothing to hide
whenever theres a proposition
for me to decide on
theres a million suggestions
with a million intentions
with the people getting richer
off the people getting poorer
its due for being over
theres justice on the way

if we only knew the truth about what really goes on
maybe all the things i do would make sense just for once
maybe we could work our way around it
if we only knew the truth about it

if we only knew the truth about what really goes on
and what you said
behind closed doors
on private lines

more than just a lie or two about what really goes and what you said
more than just the right thing to do the time has just passed us up instead
maybe we could work our way around it
if we only knew the truth about it

Originally posted by NoRegretsEver
...
SAUL WILLIAMS CODED LANGUAGE

This guy's got my brain moving . . .

Do you see what I see?
Truth is an offense
Your silence for your confidence

Do you hear what I hear?
Doors are slamming shut
Limit your imagination
Keep you where they must

Do you feel what I feel?
Bittering distress
Who decides what you express?

Do you take what I take?
Endurance is the word
Moving back instead of forward
Seems to me absurd

Doesn't matter what you see
Or into it, what you read
You can do it your own way
If it's done just how I say

Independence limited
Freedom of choice is made for you my friend
Freedom of speech is words that they will bend
Freedom with their exception

Do you fear what I fear?
Living properly
Truths to you are lies to me

Do you choose what I choose?
More alternatives
Energy derives from both the plus and negative

Do you need what I need?
Boundaries overthrown
Look inside to each his own

Do you trust what I trust?
Me, myself, and I
Penetrate the smokescreen
I see through the selfish lie

Doesn't matter what you see
Or into it, what you read
You can do it your own way
If it's done just how I say

Independence limited
Freedom of choice is made for you my friend
Freedom of speech is words that they will bend
Freedom with their exception

Do you know what I know?
Your money and your wealth
You silence just to hear yourself

Do you want what I want?
Desire not a thing
I hunger after independence
Lengthen freedom's ring

Doesn't matter what you see
Or into it, what you read
You can do it your own way
If it's done just how I say

Independence limited
Freedom of choice is made for you my friend
Freedom of speech is words that they will bend
Freedom no longer frees you

Doesn't matter what you see
Or into it, what you read
You can do it your own way
If it's done just how I say