A.L.A. W.A.T. U. S.O.D.

What is up with America, now? It seems like Mike Judge is a prophet. His movie Idiocracy is right on point.
Is it just me?
Because...

I see a nation of individuality
with finger tip convenience for you and me
information screams availability
the rich use it for the things they need
they post pictures of the food they eat
and our attention span will never be
focused on our fraudulent society

Every moment is spent with your phone some way
With your eyes locked tight on your screen display
You need a GPS to drive a mile away
who keeps cryin' 'bout the teacher's pay
yeah no one listens to them anyway
cuz everybody's gotta text to make
while the need for education just fades away

They keep you distracted disabled and numb
They manifest reasons we need all these guns
A shell game of blame in a world which is run
By the folks who work hard each day
As they believe they should all get payed
To keep us guessing in a way that we all just stay dumb

As long as we all just stay dumb

and it's A.L.A.. W.A.T. U. S.O.D. now

Every headline speaks to your hostility
until you lose your mind and all your empathy
every glass is full of negativity
The middle class doesn't whine to be
Between a rock and all the irony
So far away from that money tree
But a little too close to the poverty

Every day is spent with your phone some way
With your eyes locked tight on your screen display
You need a GPS to walk a side walk straight
and who was cryin' about the teacher's pay
no one listens to them anyway
cuz everybody's gotta text to make
while the need for education just drifts away

They want you distracted disabled and numb
They manifest reasons we need all these guns
A shell game of blame in a world which is run
By the folks who work hard each day
As they believe they should all get payed
To keep us guessing in a way that we all just stay dumb

As long as we all just stay dumb

and it's A.L.A.. W.A.T. U. S.O.D. now

We Got A Scapegoat Now!

President?

Politics?

Elections?

Pay no attention to the fool on the hill trying to hide his disguise
Haze and smoke behind the mirrors as the years burn red in your eyes
Pass that buck like a flame and we'll know who to blame next time
Ask that man in the hot seat sweatin' through the cracks of his mind

We got a scapegoat now, we knew he'd turn up somehow
So take your problems on down for the man with the two horned crown
We got him now! We got him now yeah...we got a scapegoat now
We got him now yeah!

Bend right over til your back starts to break from the weight in your arms
Send your burdens to the top because they never seem to do him harm
He was made to take a punch we just never had a hunch who he was
See him wobble back and forth at the podium of promises

We got a scapegoat now, we knew he'd turn up somehow
So take your problems on down for the man with the two horned crown
We got him now! We got him now yeah...we got a scapegoat now
We got him now yeah!

Hold your laughter at the bank til you're sure that you're walking away
Spend your money on a steak while you talk about the good old days
Who could have guessed at the price that you're payin' for your gasoline
But you'll never have to think twice if you don't have a clue what it means

To have a scapegoat now, we knew he'd turn up somehow
So take your problems on down for the man with the two horned crown
We got him now! We got him now yeah...we got a scapegoat now
We got him now yeah!

(written during the G.W. Bush era)
words and music by Musashi Lethridge

a.k.a.

your friendly cyberhood

Uncle Samurai