Listen to my siren song!
Everyone! Look over here! Look over here!
I’ll say who makes your life so badly suck!
You need to know who takes your share.
No, no, NO! Don’t ever look over there!
Don’t see the rich who pay no tax!
Don’t ever, ever look at facts!
Listen to my siren song!
Engage your rage!
I’ll build your cage!
I will help you cop a feel!
I will teach you how to steal!
I will tell you who is wrong!
Just listen to my siren song!
A pain in the ass to think it through!
And, there’s no need; believe my creed!
I’ll show you now a real good time!
What I do cannot be crime!
See my flag of “FREEDOM!” red?
I must care a lot! Just like I said!
If it’s all just part of my rant
What more to do? You can’t!
Just listen to my siren song!
Hate the people not like you.
Hate the folks of different hue.
Hate the folks who eat strange things.
Hate everyone I tell you to!
A different accent, different song,
I’ll teach you that these things are wrong!
Give me the power to fix it all.
Democracy’s no longer cool!
Once it’s gone we’ll have a ball!
(Oh, my God, you’re easy to fool!)
By twenty thirty, air’ll be dirty.
By twenty forty, water too.
But what care we
For ecology?!
A habitable world’s for liberal wussies!
Caring for others is just for pussies!
Just listen to my siren song!
I’ll get rich if you send me money!
If we kill the bees, eat plastic honey!
It’s just as good; I can’t be wrong!
Just listen to my siren song!
Legitimate voters vote for me!
That’s the way to victory!
We’ll have a country white as snow!
And if I steal, you’ll never know!
A perfect system for all who matter.
And that’s just me so I’ll get fatter!
Just listen to my siren song!
You can’t go wrong; my lie’s so strong!
Just listen to my siren song!
Just listen to my siren song!
Just listen to my siren song.
And when your freedom’s finally dead.
Don’t worry at all your pretty head.
If you can’t eat or pay the rents
I might just let you live in tents.
Just listen to my siren song!
Just listen to my siren song!
You’ll never have to think again!
You’ll never have to right a wrong!
You need not care if sins are sin.
You’ll become my little puppet.
I’ll open a tube; you’ll go up it.
Jump on command and drink what I say;
Don’t think at all beyond today.
Just listen to my siren song.
Such tasty Kool-aid can’t be wrong!
Don’t take a look at history!
Just swallow my miracle mystery!
Just follow my nice little siren song.
Your life’s now mine! And, how divine!
You listened to my siren song.
I own your brain; you’ll need no spine.
That spark divine was such a pain;
You had to take responsibility.
So much easier when I own your brain.
No need to feed your creativity.
You only need to sing my siren song.
Every day from morn till night.
And if you ever come to see it’s wrong?
My troops will come and douse your light.
Don’t go thinking far ahead.
You shouldn’t care if you’re live or dead.
So long as you can help me rule!
You deserve to play the fool.
And keep on singing my siren song.
Insisting that you’re never wrong.
Dwelling on the sound of every word.
You play the clown; all thought abjured.
Singing still my siren song.
Just listen to my siren song.
You’ll soon believe that right is wrong.
You’ll soon believe that weak is strong.
Listen to my siren song.
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Essays on America: The Stopping Rule
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