This Protest Has Been Won (But Not By You)

from ...All Hail New Laser Cat by Dead Kings of Norway

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There’s an urgency in your voice
And a violence in the way we try
When it’s raging in the streets
Can we capture all the ways it dries out the heat
And every well-intended middle class boy claims he’s got the beat

Emotion’s running red
In the strangest way we seek the truth
From the safety of a lens
And the shadow of devoured youth
From the pages of a zine
Revolution in a broken beat
Behind curtains made of lead
And the image of a smiling child freedom fed
If every riot’s brought to you by the screen in time we’re having fun.

Imagine if you want my friends a rabble-rousing cynic on the stage
Imagine if you can my peers a poor excuse of citizen decay
Imagine all the trophies won and lives we lost pursuing our new state
Upon the internet where kings and queens aren’t born, they’re custom made

There’s a camera in your face
From a million points of view
While the protest’s gaining pace
There’s more reporters than there’s youth
And every well intended middle-class girl claims she’s got the beat.

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from ...All Hail New Laser Cat, released October 28, 2011

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