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CHORUS:  I miss the future.  I miss the future.  I miss the future.  Bring back the future.  

They used to say that believers were preaching doom and gloom.  Now 'the system' is teaching that our days are numbered and destruction is imminent.  This kind of world, tell me, who want’s to live in it?

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Chicken Little thought the sky was falling; looking for shelter, heard a voice calling: "I got you covered, here, get into this box" ...didn't know it was the Sly Old Fox.

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So people run and they hide in their vices—whatever drug makes them feel the nicest 

—be it movies or games or junk food or sex.  "Live for the moment. Ain't no telling what comes next."

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We got to see beyond the smoke and the mirrors.  ...opportunists, trying to play on our fears.  Poison your vision—is the plan of attack, stealing tomorrow.  Let’s determine to take it back.

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One night, as I lay in my room, there, in the darkness, arrived an harbinger of doom.  And I pled for my life, proposing, as a child might do (for I was still young then): "Spare me and I will side with you."  So says every fool.

CHORUS:  ...doing what ya tell me.  Tell me, what you doing?  Don’t hate the hater.  Wait a minute, I’m doing what ya tell me.  Tell me, what ya doing?  Don’t hate the hater.  Wait a minute.

We’re gonna stick it to the man—'cause he’s got it coming—once we agree upon a plan, my anarchist friend.  You and I both want the same thing: death to the system.  Is there not honor, among thieves?  Don’t point that thing at me.

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I thought we were on the same team: Red White and Blue, baby.  Now it just feels like a bad dream.  Ooh, that American dream...  You said that tolerance is key.  It’s a free country, right up ’til someone disagrees.  "Destroy your enemy."

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You’ve made it clear what you’re against (just about everything).  And I suppose it does make sense, in a nihilistic way.  The world is tainted to the eye, yellow with jaundice.  ...livers infected with the lie that "there’s no reason why."

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I’m writing you from Patmos—my prison cell.  Wherever your home, if you feel alone, I know it all so very well.  But—a stranger to our sorrow—one sits a Queen, saying “Come to me now, relinquish your vow and live deliciously.”

CHORUS:  She’s making me shiver.  My heart’s all aquiver.  She’s making me shiver.  How can I resist her deadly charms?

I marveled at her beauty; her flesh adorned with jewels and gold her lovers have sold to lay down with the whore and and whisper their confessions into lusty ears.  But soon the relief transforms into grief and plays upon their fears.

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She rides upon a beast of ruling powers—asking her prayers and rendering shares of all that it devours.  Absolving her crusaders, she bids them Roam.  "Go conquer the land, the feast will be grand, upon your return home."

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"Just set aside your scruples," I hear say.  "Come lay down with me, to eat and to drink.  Then we’ll arise and play."  But the chalice that she offers is filled with wine made from the blood of those who withstood her claim to be divine.

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Your hocus pocus is bogus

CHORUS:  Living on the edge of the Earth... living at the end of my rope.  I just smile, when it hurts.  Living at the edge of this Earth, I look into outer space... no escaping the Curse.

Yes, our world is flat—leaking through a hole.  You can patch it up, but that won't mend a soul.

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...escaping the Curse

Coming like a meteor, exploding through atmosphere: the stone that crushes everything the worldly-wise were holding dear.  Everybody panic, like this wasn't how we planned it.  When the heavens posted notice, all the "higher critics" panned it.

CHORUS:  The last blast is coming in fast... gonna be a big bash; then nothing but ash.

Fireballs are falling and the macho men are bawling.  Now they wish would’ve answered when the voice of God was calling.  The people at the podium can’t stop the pandemonium.  With all that’s going down, might wanna stock up Imodium.

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All the eating and the drinking may have clouded-up our thinking.  Now, like Belshazzar in Babylon, the ship we’re on is sinking.  Amid the flotsam and the jetsam, now the the truth is hard (to get some).  But to those who want it bad enough, the Holy Spirit lets ‘em.

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But the party’s just beginning, for the ones who gave up sinning.  In the battle with the beast, it’s the commandment-keepers winning.  The saints are caught into the air (you see, it is much safer there), while those remaining in the world never really had a prayer.

The last blast...

CHORUS:  You had your shot and didn’t leave much here for me.  You had your shot and blew at the party.  You had your shot and now there’s not much left for me.  You had your shot.  Move over, now it’s my turn.  (It’s time for something different)

I’ll admit it, I’m a sucker. Like a trailer to the trucker, I followed you so blindly.  Our Lady, get behind me.  I’ma take it from here.

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You really tried my patience, with all your fornication.  I need a faithful partner.  I'll get a brand new start, when you’re thrown in the pit.  That’s it.

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I did a little study and learnt you’re not my buddy.  Claiming to be the Vicar, your prayers made me sicker than I was to begin with.

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Like a flood, you sent your armies.  They killed, but could not harm me.  Now I’m taking off the shackles, beneath your tabernacles—where you bury the dead.  I said...

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Your red and purple robes ...gonna toss ‘em in the stove, 'cause the kingdom is delivered.  And the one who made us shiver, will be out in the cold.

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Na na na na na na…

CHORUS:  We’re the new breed, born with the best things money can buy.  Everything we need falls from the sky.

Don’t expect from us much lenience.  We cannot be inconvenienced.

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Seen it, done it, got the body tag.  Throw it in your face, without feeling bad.

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Thou destroyer of my mental health, now take over.  I can’t control myself.

What if it’s a lie; the sky isn’t falling after all?  Neither here nor there, look for the narrow way around it all.

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Told our fathers ruined everything; filled with rage beyond all reasoning: we’re the new breed, born to oppress our fellow man.  Anyone who’s free must be born again.

You can harm my body.  You can freeze my assets.  You can hurt my family.  You can't stop my mission.  No.  

Stain my reputation. Turn my friends against me.  Try to isolate me.  But you can't stop my missions.  No, it shall prevail.  

You can tap my phone line.  You can hack my PC.  You can get me fired.  But you can't stop my mission.  No.  

You can taint my water.  You can slash my tires.  Track my every footstep.  But can't stop my mission.  No, it shall prevail.

And don't you see the irony?  It's not me that you're fighting.

You can take your best shot.  You can knock yourself out.  You can count on one thing: you can't stop my mission.

CHORUS:  Do the right thing, even if it hurts.  You won't regret it.

I remember Chelsea; I remember Tom.  I remember uniforms that took them by the arm.  First, they came for misfits.  I was doing swell.  Then they came for average Joes.  That didn't go so well.  ...shoulda spoke up

Despots, taking measures, call for desperate times.  Rattling those chains, they watch the people fall in line.  All this looks familiar.  We've seen it before.  There is no excusing what we're willing to ignore.  "Oh well..."  So do the right thing.

Everything is relative.  That is, until it's your own neck.

Click right here.  This special offer won’t last long.  Go on and hit that button.  Quick, before our stock is gone.

CHORUS:  It’s easy, so easy: just swipe that finger; tap those keys

We’ll pop right over, just as fast you please.  It’s easy.  

Don’t leave home.  You’re better off, right where your at.  Work that system.   Play victim and pass the hat.

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We’ll get you on the dole, just as fast you please.  It’s easy.

Love.com:  Let’s maximize your search results.  Put your best foot forward.  Never mind those glaring faults.

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Find a new lover, just as fast you please.  It’s easy.

Chat room trash... You’d never say that to my face.  Tough guy, long distance... Your IP address can be traced.

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...SWAT Team’s there as fast you please.  It’s easy.

Kick the dust up.  Make some noise.  Scare the people and steal their joy.  Steal their joy.

CHORUS:  Double double, toil and trouble...

Tell the children, "All is lost."  Make the parents pay the cost.  Pay the cost.

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Run the table.  Rig the game.  Dupe the masses and feel no shame.  Feel no shame.

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Rescue efforts must be foiled.  Bring the kettle to a boil.  ...to a boil

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If somebody dares to ask what we’re doing, take them to task.  Take 'em to task.

Please, I think I’ve earned it.  I have the permits.  They’re up-to-date.  The tax is paid.  I’m legal.  Yes, I’ve got my papers.  Don’t make me wait here.  I’ve stood in line; put in my time.  For Pete’s sake...

CHORUS:  Let me go about my business

You seem like a nice guy; would not make me cry.  The tear gas isn’t really necessary.  I’m just passing through, here.  Would you be a dear and step aside, so I can make my way now?

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Judging from those muscles, you like to tussle.  But let’s assume wouldn’t hit a guy with glasses.  Yes, I’m quit a reader.  In fact, I see here: according to the law, you can’t detain me.

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Maybe be you mistook me for a troublemaker.  Oh no, no: I’m your brother; just another pilgrim on his journey home.

Thank you for your kindness.  I hope you find this most important job very rewarding.  Some just want the power, to make us cower.  But clearly this is not the case, as you have...

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