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The way history just happened in a way to give these words meaning — We grew up to believe in a Jesus , Were raised to want somebody , something to save us , To need that more than the confidence to save ourselves And then bombs killed the sun , And radio filled the sky with waves , God’s old realm become a vast ocean of voices and other sounds And we listened to the static for something with faith , Something like a Jesus , somebody to save us from a modern **** nation , Some note of some harmony in static And when some people started to sing and dance , We made them do a Jesus, spit cameras in Their faces and committed Them to celebrity , Painted Their faces on cities like graffiti written on the wall And then we made a box like a church to frame Their living image , Put it in our living rooms, arranged our thrones around it , Worked overtime at the pollution office so we could see Their faces in color And that box just got better , got sharper in vision , And we worshipped it like we’d finally found faith with a remote and a bag of potato chips , Always upgrading the box with Pandora trademarked on plastic And now we have that box in our ******* pockets , All the Jesus , facts , vileness , and worthlessness of life , All that is bad and maybe good for our species , the size of our palm And it recognizes our ******* face And we wanted it this way , We asked for it , voted for it , fought for it ******* paid for it
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Apr 27, 2019
Apr 27, 2019 at 2:06 AM UTC
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The way history just happened in a way to give these words meaning — We grew up to believe in a Jesus , Were raised to want somebody , something to save us , To need that more than the confidence to save ourselves And then bombs killed the sun , And radio filled the sky with waves , God’s old realm become a vast ocean of voices and other sounds And we listened to the static for something with faith , Something like a Jesus , somebody to save us from a modern **** nation , Some note of some harmony in static And when some people started to sing and dance , We made them do a Jesus, spit cameras in Their faces and committed Them to celebrity , Painted Their faces on cities like graffiti written on the wall And then we made a box like a church to frame Their living image , Put it in our living rooms, arranged our thrones around it , Worked overtime at the pollution office so we could see Their faces in color And that box just got better , got sharper in vision , And we worshipped it like we’d finally found faith with a remote and a bag of potato chips , Always upgrading the box with Pandora trademarked on plastic And now we have that box in our ******* pockets , All the Jesus , facts , vileness , and worthlessness of life , All that is bad and maybe good for our species , the size of our palm And it recognizes our ******* face And we wanted it this way , We asked for it , voted for it , fought for it ******* paid for it
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Apr 27, 2019
Apr 27, 2019 at 2:06 AM UTC
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