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Spooks (In Your Mind)
03:20
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Spooks (In Your Mind)
As Abstractions
Becomes fixed
in our mind
These Illusions
influence
how we think
How we see
How we act
Hierarchies
Are anchored
in our own mind
And refined
by how we
see the world
Authority
Is rooted
in your alienation
From the world
From yourself
Your ego
Driven by your self interest
Is the root of every action
There is no altruism
You are everything to yourself
You do everything for you
For me
you are nothing
but my food
Even as I am
And eventually
will be fed upon
We have only one
relation to each other
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Ego and My Own
03:36
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Ego and My Own
If property manifests through might
To those who know how to take,
You belong to them
Your power,
is your own.
So Assert yourself
As the holder
of your own deed
You are the sole proprietor
Of your enterprise
So do not step back shyly
from your domain
There are some
Who knowing the world
and everything in it,
including others
Is available
to one's taking or use
without moral constraint
For them rights do not exist
Their Corporations
are corporeal
There is no rationality
in taking on
the enlightened
self-interests of others
unless doing so furthers yours
Individuals unite
It is in your self-interest to do so
Free yourself from property
The monopoly of monarchs,
Governments and industrialists
Stop being ruled by others
Disregard their moral claims
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Create Nothing
02:33
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Create Nothing
Truths are material, like vegetables and weeds;
as to whether you are a vegetable or weed,
the decision lies in you
In place of such systems of beliefs,
Be detached
Live a life of non-dogmatic,
open-minded engagement
with the world "as it is"
Live unpolluted by "faith" of any kind,
Be it Christian or humanist
I am all in all,
An abstraction and nothing
I am not a mere thought,
but am full of thoughts,
The self is "nothing"
one is said to "own the world"
"all things are nothing to me"
Our révolution is aimed
at new arrangements;
insurrection leads us no longer
to let ourselves be arranged,
but to arrange ourselves,
my purpose and deed
are not political or social but
as directed toward myself
and my own ness alone
an egoistic purpose indeed
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I Am I Said
03:44
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I am, I said
"I am"... I said
To no one there
And no one heard at all
Not even the chair
"I am"... I cried
"I am"... said I
And I am lost and I can't
Even say why
Leavin' me lonely still
The story is the same one
But I got an emptiness
deep inside
And I've tried
But it won't let me go
And I'm not a man who likes to swear
But I never cared
For the sound of being alone
"I am"... I said
To no one there
"I am"... I cried
"I am"... said I
And I am lost and I can't
Even say why
"I am"... I said
"I am"... I cried
"I am"... I said
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Liberate You
04:30
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Liberate You
I say
liberate yourself
Go as far as you can go
Then and only then
you will have done your part;
Consequently,
do not tire yourself
with toiling
at the limits of others;
Tear down your walls
To show others the way
Do not fear
nothingness
Give voice
to the "unutterable"
Name
the "unnamable"
Speak
the "unspeakable"
You are more
than "a mere word"
You are not your name
You are free
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6. |
Things Create Regimes
04:43
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Things Create Regimes
To those who defend property
As a natural right
Yet oppose theft and taxation
As a violation
I condemn you
Inequity is only possible
As long as we all worship
At this shrine
This shared sacred
civic sense
Results in the majority
Ending up with nothing
Free is not free
The game is rigged
The field is slanted
Those who possess
Oppress
Your exploitation
And continued theft
of time disguised
as labor forms the
Yoke around our neck
And the blinders that shield your eyes
Only you can be free over yourself
You are your own only when
You master yourself
Without lordship and servitude
The state is unthinkable
My liberty sets me free
Not the liberty defined by those
who hold the power
and create the rules
They subjugate me
The despot remains free
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A Union of A
04:03
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A Union Of A
Imagine
if you will
An understanding
That lies Outside
The systemic associations
You have been trained to accept
Imagine
if you can
Strangers once united by lies
Applying their collective force of will
To dissolve the ties that once bound us
Manifest
in your mind
A new Union where
all parties participate
With complicity and without silence.
To make this idea to come to fruition
You must see that authority
Is not above a person’s will
Concepts should not rule people,
but that people should rule concepts.
When Individuals
self-realize
This new union
rests on your desire
to fulfill your ego
Be willing
To freely
choose your actions,
Embrace
fulfilling your desires.
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No Gods, No Masters
02:51
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No Gods, No Masters
As you are
in each instant
you are your own
a higher being
than you think you are
Surpass yourself
Recognize
your 'higher essence'
This means that
All of your accepted
Notions
Of social institutions
The existence of the State
Property as a right,
Even of society
as we know it
Are illusions
Ghosts in our mind
Abolish the state
Get rid of your master
Dismantle the institutions
responsible for illusions
What is real you ask?
It is You
You in this moment
With the breath you just stole
The shit you just evacuated
Into the impression your weight
Just made into this earth
That Is real
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My Flesh My Mind
02:27
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My Flesh, My Mind
Love is selfish
Because it makes
you happy
Only pleasing
yourself
Freedom
Must exist
in the interests
of all
It is attained
Through self-fulfillment
For individuals to enjoy
My flesh is not your flesh
My mind is not your mind
I will not reject or deny
my uniqueness
You are more
than a part,
cog or gear
Be more
Beyond your
current conception
Transcending
the limits of perception
Look after your own
Serve your fresh
Be your own master
Earthly labors will not satisfy you
Only make you tired
Nothing is complete in another’s hands
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The End Point of Language
What are words?
Words come from thoughts
Thoughts that attempt
to make meaning
Of the experience
Derived from the here and now
And what is past
My thoughts are nothing more
than echoes in my mind
Incomplete fragments
Composed of emotions
and impressions left by experiences
That resonate and attenuate
And keep me awake
These remnants
That have long slipped away
Form my faulty foundation
That manifests my reality
And becomes my words
No thought, no concept - Is real
What I say is not what I meant
And what I mean is unsayable
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I do, because I love to do it. I understand that I am a hack musician, a terrible vocalist and a sloppy graphic artist. I don’t care about achieving perfection, because I am happiest while being engaged in the exalted messiness of my creative process. I don’t worry about capturing the perfect take. I am satisfied by the pure joy I derive from expressing myself without filter or restraint. ... more
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