"art versus industry" genre: Hardcore Punk
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	CD: demo Credits: written, recorded, and performed by parwana
	Story Behind the Song first song completed in full by parwana Lyrics The GEARS are in motion They’re working over time Turning out the best to forget the rest While throwing us aside I’m perfect and clumsy Say the flesh-covered hands Interlaced in toil-stained marriage To be replaced by better brands Our homes and our hearts have become small white dots Scattered among others on blue printed charts Connected through networks of coveted cash flow When does possession meet its end? Our species doesn’t know Soon we’ll be bar-coding our babies And selling them on ebay Because everything that matters Might be worth a penny Which leads us to the question Of art and industry When all our souls are taken What art forms will there be? I’m not talking silk-screened soup cans Those are more like prophecies Of when atom bombs and oil drums Become our masterpiece Because art is only as personal Personal as a price tag And we’ll sell ourselves for what For what we can get Like swimming pools and Ferraris On mtv cribs I can see it all from my From my tv set For animality fails to realize That in labor we are free The cerebrum is your canvas Your extremities hold the key Embedded there is value In mental faculty Appreciation fostered For somatic dexterity Our organs laced with metal With soldered circuit board Through pacemakers and implants We’ve become a secondary form Of life on this planet Just you wait and see Your motor skills take a back seat To mechanical efficiency Because in theoretical conjecture Skin and steal are one Connected by wire and ligaments And equidistantly run I’m not talking silk-screened soup cans Those are more like prophecies Of when atom bombs and oil drums Become our masterpiece Because art is only as personal Personal as a price tag And we’ll sell ourselves for what For what we can get

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