[Introduction]

Do you remember David Frost and Richard Nixon?

We’re not that powerless

There was a time when a president could be taken down by a working journalist

In a world where a Facebook status can result in the obstruction of justice, the age of information becomes a weapon of mass instruction

[Verse 1]

Do you know that everything fades, your dreams, passions and fates and that this whole place is in a perpetual state of change?

The state of play remains the same until the changing waves create a tidal wave that can deface an entire race

The chemistry appears to rearrange the fear in your brain

Society dictates your behaviors ’til you're contained and restrained

I can’t explain this terrain that I don’t understand why everybody’s running around tryna get the upper hand

Who am I to stand and rant? Another angry man

My brain dry from drugs, hanging with a lively band

Remember that to give revenge a chance to stand in the street and protest with a V For Vendetta mask

Don’t think I’ll get the chance to dance in that revolution

Even if I love the idea of communion, I know

After the march, we’ll all just go home

And then by mobile phone, talk about the principle, another sword in the stone

[Chorus]

We need

A technological intervention

This world’s demanding our attention

Dishonesty, authority we follow dishonorably

Oh how long will we continue to devolve in monotony?

We need

A technological intervention

This world’s demanding our attention

Dishonesty, authority we follow dishonorably

Oh how long will we continue to devolve in monotony?

[Verse 2]

[?] marching [?] wouldn’t let us do it

What about organizing online? Isn’t that an improvement?

Well yeah if we can do it by moving past our own amusement

Maybe we can draw the blueprint for a legitimate global movement

The protests are experimental

Would it not be more effective if the student body had a sense that they were transcendental?

Instead of protecting our numbers in politics with art

Maybe we can try to write a song from the fucking heart

I wanna keep moving forward, [?] I can handle

Don’t hold me back for too long, I think I [?] my ankle

In my silence, what’s the application of violence?

Against this army in city and there'd be no [?]

Deep in my generation, this level of hatred is blatant

Blatant distaste of my making from all of my rage and frustration

Beginning to wear on my patience

A level of misinformation spread to my generation on a daily basis

I hear the video, makes me sick, it’s so ugly

Why are we letting all these immigrants into the country?

Pass me over the sun and sharp a bit politics

You only live once, John, try to stay positive

But [?] talkative, governmental incompetence

Makes me wonder who’s been causing this Islamic apocalypse

We’re too busy paying our mortgages, it’s pandemonium

Meanwhile Great Britain is gripped by Islamophobia

And it doesn’t take a doctor to spot the hysteria that has been created by the mainstream media

The needy get needier, the greedy get greedier

There’s a growing demand for interactive multimedia

What’s that? That’s a surer fact of jet life

Imagine an election where no one could ever tell lies

On set, investigate a journalist credited to the internet and causing all kinds of turbulence

We know that change comes from outside of the structure

It’s as simple and as profound as that

We need a global access to the internet, people connected at last

National boundaries becoming another thing of the past

My violence defined or just by the lack of an act

But vow to never hit back when you are under attack

It’s not about turning the cheek, suffering in silence

It’s about using any and every method other than violence

We are at war with ourself and most of us are slumbering

Ignorance isn’t bliss, it’s the cause of our suffering

Income inequality’s a major league priority and yet the conversation is avoided periodically

And if everybody had the balls to mention it in policies, they’re accused of starting a class war in a democracy

Ha

[Chorus]

We need

A technological intervention

This world’s demanding our attention

Dishonesty, authority we follow dishonorably

Oh how long will we continue to devolve in monotony?

We need

A technological intervention

This world’s demanding our attention

Dishonesty, authority we follow dishonorably

Oh how long will we continue to devolve in monotony?

We need

A technological intervention

This world’s demanding our attention

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