"decree" by Ani DiFranco

(Thanks Tonya, Richard, Jackie, Hope)
step up and forfeit your frontal lobe 
to the sexed up stroll of celebrity 
never mind that the nanoseconds in between
are some of the darkest darkness that you've ever seen
keep your eye on my finger
and listen to the sound of my voice 

get your subliminal decree
and your false security 
be all that you can be
be all that you can be

in hospitals and schools
airports and banks and bars 
big ones on street corners
little ones driving by in cars
and glowing through countless 
bedroom curtains at night 
that 30k tone 
and that pale blue light saying 

daddy knows best
yes, this is the news 
in 90 second segments officially produced 
and aired again and again and again 
by the little black and white pawns 
of the network yes men
while the stars are going out 
and the stripes are getting bent

and cancer, the great teacher 
has been opening schools
downstream from every factory 
still, everywhere fools are 
squinting into microscopes
researching cells 
trying to figure out a way
that we can all live in hell

well, step back, look up
you'll see i'm dimming the sun
but you won't, will you?
oh, that's a good little one 

'cause daddy knows best 
yes, this is the news 
in 90 second segments officially produced 
and aired again and again and again 
by the little black and white pawns 
of the network yes men
while the stars are going out 
and the stripes are getting bent

the stars are going out 
and the stripes are getting bent
 

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