Death, Lies and Videotape

Open your eyes
 To the lies
 Read the signs
 Intertwined inside the headlines
 Open your mind
 You went blind
 In this era of diversion
 For the sake of mankind
 You gotta open your eyes
 To the lies
 Read the signs
 Intertwined inside the headlines
 Open your mind
 You went blind
 In this era of diversion (yo)
 For the sake of mankind
 Open your eyes and let go of the hive
 Of worker bees whose purpose seems
 To be control 'til they die
 Never knowing the why
 Or how it went down
 All they know is it happened
 At some point they became another victim of
 Multimedia distraction
 Stay rush, stay ahead of the game
 Television and radio wired
 Direct to your brain
 While your attention is trained
 To following them other visuals
 Skull and bone, sleight of hand, political rituals
 In a system of government where the Republicans take information as integral
 The level of lies the media tries to sell us is unequivocal
 Habitual tactics made to distract
 You away from the issue
 Ignore the war
 Watch Paris wipe her ass with a tissue (that's hot)
 While you were looking at Anna Nicole
 Soldiers we love went to war leaving families at home
 As we watched the smoke screen of corporate news shows freedom died
 This song is the bell's death toll
 Open your eyes
 To the lies
 Read the signs
 Intertwined inside the headlines
 Open your mind
 You went blind
 In this era of diversion
 For the sake of mankind
 You gotta open your eyes
 To the lies
 Read the signs
 Intertwined inside the headlines
 Open your mind
 You went blind
 In this era of diversion
 For the sake of mankind
 Let go of the notions you chose to suppose
 Locate your own way to stay in the know
 If you don't pay attention I suggest you listen close
 cause folks won't get it if I don't spit it slow
 Since Hoover and Nixon mixed up the system
 We've been on a crash course with collision
 No trust and division of the country we live in
 All praise to the buck, hands up for the bidding
 Never take what they give over to me at face value
 Base your info on everything around you
 Speak the truth even when everyone doubt you
 From me to you I got a letter going out to
 Flag waving nationalists, grass saving naturalists
 And tax paying families with kids
 Cash craving capitalists keep facts fading past the abyss
 This cat's past waiting pass me a fist
 That's what flips a pacifist into a terrorist for certain
 Filming massacres and then they air a different version
 Beware of false assertions
 Prepare for the incursion
 Let's tear apart the curtain on this era of diversion
 Open your eyes
 To the lies
 Read the signs
 Intertwined inside the headlines
 Open your mind
 You went blind
 In this era of diversion
 For the sake of mankind
 You gotta open your eyes
 To the lies
 Read the signs
 Intertwined inside the headlines
 Open your mind
 You went blind
 In this era of diversion
 For the sake of Mankind