Intro5pect - Conditioned Reaction Lyrics

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Give up, dumb down
forgetting all your dreams
so buy in, take out,
and grabbing all you see
you sold out your ideals
when they got in your way
forgot about compassion
when it affected your pay
so 1..2..3..and all i want to know
is money all you see
when you let your eyes close?

so go, and sell it, your life is what you make of it
so go, and sell it, this is the only life ive got and im not gunna waste it.

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go..fight..know your rights..demand your society provide a better life

nice house, nice car, nice life, nice yard
pre-planned outline, its not that fucking hard
well everyone can do it if you follow all the rules
be tough, believe in god, and graduate school.
something for nothing?
well look at whose paying
something for nothing?
well look at whose paying
your freedom is the currency
and you spend it so fast
with an artificial urgency, cause you know it

so go, and sell it, your life is what you make of it
so go, and sell it, this is the only life ive got and im not gunna waste it.

[Chorus]



This is human condition
of resource scarcity
we've always been fighting
to sustain our needs
life is beautiful
but we're outside our means
and with another generation
the stresses won't recede

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your birthright brings...complacency
position in life...bourgeosie
you cannot interpret...what you see
your vision is clouded...by prosperity

population rising
just like the morning sun
life for lineage
from the father to the son
this is the whole world fighting
cultures mass appeal
sustainable break point
thou shall not kill

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6 a.m. the clock goes off,
the cycle is started and it never ever stops
until your useful life is gone
you get up for school, you get up for work
you sit there in your desk as the minutes jerk
until your youthful life is gone

I don't have the time (to give to)
I don't have the time (to give to)
I don't have the time (to give to you..)

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No more time...for petty insecurity
No more time...for social inequality
No more time...for being who we want to be

No more time is the time we're gunna give to you (waste of time)

Clock hands wind, and life is spent
the minutes seconds hours
all counting down your death
but you still act like you don't care
you can work your way up, and pin it down
but we all end up lying in the same ground
regardless of your salary

I don't have the time (to give to)
I don't have the time (to give to)
I don't have the time (to give to you..)
..(to you!)..(to you!)

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working for your freedom
is the best way to get trapped
you can't call it independence
if it needs to be paid back

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Without alarm, destruction creeps
and silently takes apart our ability to see
everything we, we say we stand for
and everything we, everything we hold dear
and if this is just the beginning
then I don't think i ever want to see the end
cause it looks so much like it's slipping away
like a tall tree as it's roots...

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Decay
like a heartland union town
Decay
like the leftwing underground
Decay
as another man hits the ground
and his life is brought right out from under him

Big business is gonna be the end
Big business is gonna be the end
Big business is gonna be the end
of everything we thought we knew so well

Big business is gonna be the end
Big business is gonna be the end
Big business is gonna be the end
of everything we thought we knew and loved

You think we have a soul,
you think we have a choice?
It's a material world
and convenience is the goal
and i fell it in me, the need for more
born to want, and consumer to the core
and if this is just the beginning
then I don't think i ever want to see the end
cause it looks so much like it's slipping away
like a tall tree as it's roots...

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I raise my hand cause
I've got another question
Teacher can you tell me
why the cops harass me
when I only wanted their protection

Why do I have to work for the rest of my life
face to the grind at a job i never liked
who created this convention

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Take it all back, turn it around
the medium is the message
and it's more than just
sound.

Take it all back, turn it around

I raise my hand cause I'm still confused
never understood why we still make use
of a system that's founded upon greed

You can explain away but I can't believe
I'll never agree with the way that you see
cause its leaving people sleeping in the streets

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Winds of charge are blowing
harder than you've ever seen before
they're pushing and they're pulling
straight to the company door
It's like a blank page under white light
the contrast is so high it's like day versus night
it's so easy to follow when it's all so clear
outline is set and the deadline is here

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Presented like a product,
placed in a black box
the promise of salvation,
is enough to make us watch
there is no thought,
and there is no concern
we can't retrace our steps
across the bridges that we burn
but were content to be
getting what we're getting for free
so we lock our chains
and we throw away the key
but the free comes at a price
that we'd rather not think about
the free comes at a price
we'd rather not think about.
well we don' think much
about much these days
so the chance of that happening
quickly fades away
into another haze of emotion,
another blur of product
far from any pretense
and removed from any context
but nothing really seems
to be in context anymore
we sold our integrity
and now we are the whores
with our blue plastic checking cards
and silicone implants
our pre-constructed world
that has all us trapped

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(and) All we are...
is a tool to be used to pay
for someone else's rent
a profit gain of 23%

(and) All we are...
Pieces of paper to be torn into shreds
a small piece of capital to be worked until our death

salvation in consumption
is an absurd way to live
products as religion
is too much to give
so we fill our lives with useless items
to make up for ourselves
and we fill our heads with excuses
to justify our wealth
but the greed that fuels our consumption
seems to be accepted
and not just as a fault,
but as a trait to be respected
how we got to this point
is a question without answer
we can blame it on TV,
but we set the standard
all of this hypocricy
just leaves me more confused
expecting something more
when i should just be amuzed
at the pettiness, the irony,
the ignorance, and abuse
the individual twines we braid
into one collective noose
cause at the age of 24
you can't expect me to accept
that the standards of humanity
coul possibly be less
all we ever wanted
was to be something more than this
all we ever wanted
was to be something more than this!

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Hey mr. public, what you gunna do?
when the third world starts starts starts starts
looking for you
gonna claim you saw the light
and it turned you to the right
and it made an honest man of you

Hey mr. public, what you gonna say
when the third world starts starts
asking you to pay
gonna claim you saw the light
and it turned you to the right
and it made an honest man of you

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No more, listen to yourself
Everything comes from someone else
No more, listen to yourself
Everything comes from someone else
No more, listen to yourself
Everything comes from someone else
This is not yours to give

break it all down, spread it around
do it all just as fast as you can
break it all down, spread it around
if it's done right then we won't hear a sound

as traditional cultures are slowly
but surely replaced
with the methods
and machines that the business men embrace
with your hand on the pot
and your finger in the stew
thousands of lives are relying on you
so please do what you know is right

Hey mr. business man what do you have to say
cause the world can't just keep look, look,
looking
away
as you take what isn't yours
and you sell what you don't own
and you profit from the pain that others endure

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Like a rock through a mosque in Jerusalem
a bullet through the head in Vietnam
a cannon through the wall at Antietam
or the army through the people in Tiananmen
well our history is rife (that's right)
with examples of our disregard for human life
so we imitate what we see (TV)
and we follow this culture
right down to our knees
and I don't see it getting any better today
until we replace our priorities over our pay
and the only world that we ever seem to know
is based on aquaintances and TV shows
another degredation, self revelation,
rocks through the veil of one antoher liberation

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Response...to action
Trigger...synapses
Conditioned...reaction

Is this what you call free?

Like a rock through a mosque in Jerusalem
a bullet through the head in Vietnam
a cannon through the wall at Antietam
or the army through the people in Tiananmen
well our history is rife (that's right)
with examples of our disregard for human life
so we imitate what we see (TV)
and we follow this culture
right down to our knees
and I don't see it getting any better today
until we replace our priorities over our pay
and the only world that we ever seem to know
is based on aquaintances and TV shows
another degredation, self revelation,
rocks through the veil of one antoher liberation

[Chorus]

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