REM - Ignoreland lyrics

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These bastards stole their power from the victims of the us v. them years,<br>Wrecking all things virtuous and true.<br>The undermining social democratic downhill slide into abysmal<br>Lost lamb off the precipice into the trickle down runoff pool.<br>They hypnotised the summer, nineteen seventy-nine.<br>Marched into the capital brooding duplicitous, wicked and able, media-ready,<br>Heartless, and labeled. super u.s. citizen, super achiever,<br>Mega ultra power dosing. relax.<br>Defense, defense, defense, defense. yeah, yeah, yeah.<br>Yeah, yeah, yeah. ignoreland. yeah, yeah, yeah. ignoreland.<br><br>The information nation took their clues from all the sound-bite gluttons.<br>Nineteen eighty, eighty-four, eighty-eight, ninety-two too, too.<br>How to be what you can be, jump jam junking your energies.<br>How to walk in dignity with throw-up on your shoes<br>They amplified the autumn, nineteen seventy-nine.<br>Calculate the capital, up the republic my skinny ass.<br>T.v. tells a million lies. the paper's terrified to report<br>Anything that isn't handed on a presidential spoon,<br>I'm just profoundly frustrated by all this. so, fuck you, man. (fuck 'm)<br>Yeah, yeah, yeah. ignoreland. yeah, yeah, yeah. ignoreland.<br><br>If they weren't there we would have created them. maybe, it's true,<br>But I'm resentful all the same. someone's got to take the blame.<br>I know that this is vitriol. no solution, spleen-venting,<br>But I feel better having screamed. don't you? <br>They desecrated winter, nineteen seventy-nine.<br>Capital collateral. brooding duplicitous, wicked and able, media-ready,<br>Heartless, and labeled. super u.s. citizen, super achiever,<br>Mega ultra power dosing. relax.<br>Defense, defense, defense, defense. yeah, yeah, yeah.<br>Yeah, yeah, yeah. ignoreland. yeah, yeah, yeah. ignoreland.<br>Yeah, yeah, yeah. ignoreland. yeah, yeah, yeah.