Accidents Don’t Happen

By El-P

On Fantastic Damage

Released on May 14, 2002

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[Sample]

[O'Brien: How does one man assert power over another?

Winston: By making him suffer

O'Brien: Exactly]


[Intro: El-P]

BK!

Live wire, live wire, live wire, live wire

Live wire, live wire, live wire, live wire


[Verse 1: El-P]

Yo, I touch with rusted clutch spun out of the dust

And careen into the temples of automated destruct

Nanotech bugs in the blood get unplugged

Fishing for the fly shit hybrid

I run among the mudskipper swarms through warnings in Good Morning Beirut

Little BillyBlunderbuss looking for more recruits

City life is practice, casket truancy

That's the rule of you and me, brash unmasked lunacy

Friends used to laugh fast, grasped little truth from me

Now they check their bags with a staff claspin' Uzis

Who deserves a wrath without warning?

The same sky for the martyr with a spork

Scorch, New York forfeit

Run among the poppy fields order some more clips

Store trips are weird but the fear is forceless

Bloomey bought the city of Lego and shitty metal hull

Jitters to the floor boards, burned, almost aborted

Flight of the accidental tourist: morbid

The advertising Gods so oddly court shit

Godly corporate squads plot these tortures

Holiness is hard and it's costing God fortunes

(Guess he took a second job on the force to afford it)

I don't want a part of these self-fulfilled prophecies

Man it's too much for my stubbornness, I hate the people runnin' shit

Now if you sleep at ground o below, wishing you peaceful sleep

Where horror on the surface emerges less frequently

Metal bars of ancient Rome dissolved from the scenery (now what the fuck)

I'll take a hostage and walk through the mosh pit

Pristine untouched, NB703's unscuffed

Trust is a commodity crushed by Pol Pottery

Your cookie cutter laws contain flaws in philosophy

Toppling down a flight of Escher/Bach steps: delight

Cause the man who raped my sister won't sleep right tonight

Suppose the pretty horses in fours could love more

But I'm exhausted by the scope of this dark God on opiates

Breakfast for dystopia and ruthless hope movements

Seasonal infest of the butchery's lookin' good

And now writer's block is a prison camp where free press regress

Now we can hypnotize the herd

I'm alive with fly visions

That attack like Alfred Hitchcock raising rabid carrier pigeons

True the only form of com not tapped is trapped strong

In the cranium of future rebel infants whistling song

I know you're listening, get down with this bitch, whistle along


[Sample]


[O'Brien: ...Power is inflicting pain and humiliation. Otherwise, you can't be certain. Power is tearing human minds apart and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing]


[Verse 2: Cage]

It's like the Bilderberg's came to dinner with filthy birds

They pussy all infected I'm lookin' for milky words

They pulled my third eye out, then they let it dry out

Had to pawn my belief in Christ to find out (I don't believe in)

What I look like with no skin

The movement faded while the back of my paper is stilluminated

Even your no flipped Egyptian Euro

Got my website shut down by the Bureau

Can't kick it with the dead until my life stop

But Bush got a Ouija to talk to Adam Weishaupt

I breath martyrs, turn fans to artists

Put a couple G's together before harvest light

I'll take all this, the hell I'm doin'?

Dippin' this whole fuckin' pound in enbalmin' fluids

You think I rhyme to do it? If it's on point, then try is

If you can't help but sleep peel off your eyelids


[Sample]

If you want a vision of the future...imagine a boot stamping on a human face


[Verse 3: Camu Tao]

It's the year 2010, you can say what you want

But I bet if you light this blunt, dummy, the feds'll come runnin'

Lock you up, lock you out, you ain't tryin' to listen

Cameras in your food, dude, look they're trying to listen

Lock you up, lock you out, we got bugs in the house

We're being monitored, they know we got thugs in the house

Don't light your blunt, bitch, they'll hit you with a switch

Hit you with a beam, hit you in the brain, make you go totally insane

Wildin' out, guns in the spot, flippin' on you niggas

They take you out, then the Feds push guns on the roof

They take 'em out, snuffed you out cause you know too much

After that you know your ho's get touched

Look, then the meeting starts, they download your chick to a memory card

Give her chips and send her to a city job


[Sample]

Power is not a means, it is an end. In our world, there will only be triumph and self-effacement. Everything else we shall destroy