Subject:  Power 

POWER LINES 

Lines divide, lines connect

Lines expose, lines protect

Lines contract, lines expand

Lines supply, lines demand


chorus: 

Lines—– dividing us 

All these lines—– one-siding us 

All these lines––––— are guiding us 

All these lines 


Lines unite, lines exclude

Lines are right, lines are rude

Lines withdraw, lines engage

Lines entice, lines enrage


chorus: 

Lines—– restraining us 

All these lines—– containing us 

All these lines––––— sustaining us 

All these lines 

Lines—– protecting us 

All these lines—– redirecting us 

All these lines––––— disconnecting us 

All these lines  


Lines enforce, lines erode

Lines encrypt, lines decode

Lines entrench, lines command

Lines advance, lines withstand


chorus: 

Lines—– instructing us 

All these lines—– corrupting us 

All these lines––––— obstructing us 

All these lines 

Lines—– refusing us 

All these lines—– excusing us 

All these lines––––— amusing us 

All these lines 


Lines are walked, lines are skipped

Lines are chalked, lines are sniffed

Lines are straight, lines are curved

Lines are clear, lines are blurred


chorus: 

Lines—– excluding us 

All these lines—– including us 

All these lines––––— deluding us 

All these lines 

Lines—– inciting us 

All these lines—– keep fighting us 

All these lines––––— uniting us—––– 

All these lines 


Lines are traced, lines are signed

Lines inform, lines will find

Lines are spiked, lines are flat

Lines persuade, lines combat

Lines are drawn, lines are read

Lines feed life, lines go dead


POWER LINES 2 

A division of labor, a division of power

Societies advance from the Age to the hour

We pride ourselves on our high-end skills

As if it didn't count on a multitude of wills

In robotic cooperation


chorus: 

 It's a line of power, it's a clash of forces 

It's a knock down, drag-out war for resources 

It's a battle to define a society 

As a tool for the few or all humanity 

It's a matter of remuneration for a measure of participation 

An exchange of optimal health, a functional degree of comfort and wealth 

For a modern mass population 


From competitive species to insidious rival

Cooperation rose igniting our survival

                                                                                                                                                                                                              They scoff at the cries of the "wage slave slobs"

Who freed up the time for the specialized jobs

And modern mass organization

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                               CARBON  COPIE

Carbon copies, carbon, carbon copies...

Carbon copies, carbon, carbon copies...


Born with all the spit and polish

The family name could muster

Casting shadows in the light

Of the neighboring star cluster


The cobwebs of connections

Old money fuels that big head start

Your pick of prized professions

From corporate law to modern art


chorus: 

Carbon copies, carbon, carbon copies and the numbers don't drop 

Error, error, error upon error and the printer won't stop 

Carbon copies, carbon, carbon copies pages black & white 

Terror, terror, terror upon terror with no end in sight 


bridge:

Carbon copy socialite

Imprinted with its pretty face

Such are the perks of taking breaths

At the right moment in time and space


Carbon copy business suit

Brain-dead brute gets a clothing line

Tailor-made to market the brand

Pushing hand-me-down white collar crime


Carbon copies, carbon, carbon copies...

Carbon copies, carbon, carbon copies...


Deep in all the grime and gravel

History's neglected kid

Playing catch up all your life

With Maslow's lofty pyramid


A mine field of directions

Sideline big plans for making good

Adult-like obligations

Weighing down a stolen childhood


(chorus)


bridge:

Carbon copy service job

Young lives fettered in retail chains

The nameless, faceless worker drone 

Cheap labour as your life blood drains


Carbon copy shooting spree

A copycat case of life gone wrong

Trials summed up in a sentence

To run consecutive life-terms long


(chorus)


fade out:

Carbon copies, carbon, carbon copies...

Error, error, error upon error...

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