This collaboration between the filthy politicians and Drew Wadden provides a concise summary of the trajectory of civilization, then challenges the listener with a fundamental moral question: what are you going to do about it?
Listen to “142 Years” from the album Modern Man and read the lyrics below, and hear more songs at the filthy politicians on bandcamp and at the filthy politicians on soundcloud.
do you believe that you will die at the end of your life?
what do you think that you will do when nobody can find you?
shit- if we leave here just like this
the way it is now right now
it’s a crime scene past time we quit
we’ve filled paradise full of maggots and shit
which when left to their own are a part of the cycle
but that’s blown sky high by a psycho
cancer of a culture that conquered the world with agriculture
we ain’t been right with the world for awhile now
rocks, rivers, plants, and animals in exile
we killed the tribes in due course
and turned relationships into resource
extractors – manufacturers
turn the living world into plastic we’re
drownin in a sea of loneliness
flailin about for a long lost home it gets
hard to listen to the screams
when you wake up and take in the scene
people take up the meaningless memes
to disconnect is how we cope it seems
if he who dies with the most toys wins
mother earth cries but it’s lost in the din
does that man get to join the elders?
or does he wander the depths of hell?
if you sold your soul every time you
took a bite of the torture behind you
hid the light from the torch inside you
do you really think in the end we could find you?
if you sold your soul every time you
took a bite of the torture behind you
hid the light from the torch inside you
do you really think in the end we could find you?
you gotta wake up
you gotta wake up
we tear apart the world for what?
we’re still not happy – time to give it up
there’s always other ways – old ways – waitin
fight back why are we hesitatin?
we got zombie hearts with the brain rot
take a look inside – what do you got?