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Dystopiates (prod. by Kill The Inventors)

from Stone Soup For The Soul by AllOne

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about

Fellow Long Islanders Eddie Hi-Q and Mark Biv some years ago sharing a bill in Saint James in summer of 2013 when I also met KNife, Miggs and ContraVerse who were on tour playing at Comiskey Park and we clicked pretty immediately as I was playing with AllOne & The Room and they were also a live music hip hop act who shared an affinity for Eyedea & Abilities (which AllOne & The Room was covering "Junk" at that show) and a cypher went off and Hi-Q loves to freestyle. It was a blast. When the guys were working on their "Symptoms" Beattape and told me I was not only going to feature but be the only vocal presence on the project more or less I was stunned and pleased. The instrumental and the overall abrasive nature of the beats on the tape pushed me and encouraged me to write and deliver some of the most cynical/aggressive lyrics of my discography to date. I'm very pleased with this wall of sound, which I think rewards repeated listens.

lyrics

Dystopiates (KTI collaboration)
Stifle awareness to avoid a coup
employing use of coyly cute decoys seducing
an idle and careless hoi polloi's confused,
devoid of views, deem freedom's annoying,
soon we enjoy abuse from boys in blue
when the royal few deploy their troops
"SMH TMI teeny minds language is dulled,
Like/follow everything until passion is null,
Nil still we'll exhibit enthusiasm until adverts condone
or don't endorse it of course then its unfashionable
Wire side chats with a glow that is cast in your home
taken for granted gradually the gadgets control
warm posters storm shoulders:
social-climate uninhabitable
in a habit of bull, having a ball
handy to pull out a hazardous pill
at a happening boldly and have it until
having to bawl, haggard and young,
haggling junk hocking for bucks hawking for drugs
any substance used and abused to be imbued with a buzz
soon to stoop to stupor to substitute for elusive human love

We're diseases, fleas, a nuisance
(we will be replaced)
she needs to be relieved of humans
(we will be erased)
she will be so pleased to do it
(given our species' evil ways)
it seems we mean to beat her to it.
(will it even be a waste?)
Speed to reach a bleak conclusion
(will it even be a waste?)
See the inconvenient truth is
(we will be replaced)
we're sheep that heed the wolves' whims
(we will be erased)
we feed and seed and breed pollution
(given our species evil ways)
mean and meek indeed and stupid
(will it even be a waste?)
speed to reach a bleak conclusion
(will it even be a waste?)

Time is priceless but this time the price is timeless!
Life is tied in to writing by Michael Crichton
we're there scared how self-aware AI gets!
Uprising of Skynet's just on the horizon
we've transitioned to Transcendence
transformed into hybrids
blinded by iPads no desire to fight it!
Viruses spread tireless as we spread like viruses.
Economic crises as ISIS terrorizes
eco-threatened tide shift ice drips
sea level rises like gas prices,
religious mindsets despising science.
Stem cell research but what of Splice said?
It is less a moral issue, consider repercussions
if we're hoarding tissue for artificial reproduction…
It's a Godsend!
Our involvement devastates
we “evolve” and Overpopulate,
while we starve and perpetuate…
Tension escalates every day to protect our space as
Vonnegut's Galapagos proposed
we may benefit from a lesser brain!
So we trip, heads decay,
opiates entertain,
Seize today to “seize the day”
Brave New World Orders center stage!
Orwellian/Aldous thoughts...
This is an Asimov Anti- Babylon
locust swarm of nanobots with
TiVo / Jibo / Eagle Eyes
and Blue-tooth Fangs that gnash upon
catatonic Adam/Eves in with hacker mods
in analog Eden eating Apple products
underneath shadows cast by Atom Bombs
on cancer causing fire-Wailing-walls

We're diseases, fleas, a nuisance
(we will be replaced)
she needs to be relieved of humans
(we will be erased)
she would be so pleased to do it
(given our species' evil ways)
it seems we mean to beat her to it
(will it even be a waste?)
speed to reach a bleak conclusion
(will it even be a waste?)

See the inconvenient truth is
(we will be replaced)
we're sheep that heed the wolves' whims
(we will be erased)
we feed and seed and breed pollution
(given our species' evil ways)
mean and meek indeed and stupid
(will it even be a waste?)
speed to reach a bleak conclusion
(will it even be a waste?)

We celebrate the calm before the storm,
hurdle headstrong headlong, ignore the course
like heading to freshwater puts the cart before the horse
harmful in our hordes, we're harbingers of war
karma's getting coarse, nature's harshness is enforced,
arctics getting warm, no known noahs ark will form
darkest 'fore the dawn, if we don't see the light...
sunrise just might be a bomb that comes at morn.
To be a decent leader, keep your finger on the people's pulse
to seize control, squeeze and hold to guarantee you reap results.
These dolts argue global warming if it's freezing cold,
glacial ice is changing size and shape,
volcanic eruptions at record highs of late,
recognize the dire straits wild fires, climate changes,
we go from perfect day to hurricane,
ask Haiti, Japan, Nepal and similar sites if they feel secure and safe?
Ladies and gentleman, regrettably I spread the message,
we're potentially ended when I end this sentence,
Extra extra...that describes the time wish was ours.
This just in: the world's gonna kick us out
Patient Zero hour bio-chemical weapons
threaten to kill us now
It's only a matter of time... look at the figures…
Note the warnings global warming soon to be cinders…
Spring to action bombs fall Indian summers nuclear winter…
Fleeing fleas our species' screams don't even accrue to a whisper

We're diseases, fleas, a nuisance
(we will be replaced)
she needs to be relieved of humans
(we will be erased)
she will be so pleased to do it
(given our species' evil ways)
it seems we mean to beat her to it.
(will it even be a waste?)
Speed to reach a bleak conclusion
(will it even be a waste?)

credits

from Stone Soup For The Soul, released March 26, 2017
Lyrics written and performed by Bruce "AllOne" Pandolfo
Beat by Kill The Inventors
Recorded, mixed and mastered by Paul Fakatselis
Follow them at
killtheinventors.bandcamp.com
www.soundcloud.com/killtheinventors

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Left-field rapper, slam poet, singer/songwriter, and author Bruce Pandolfo from Long Island.
Creating to connect. Obsessively exploring and creating art as healing and growing.

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