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Can't Fool Me!

from Four Songs About Freedom by The Rebel Spell

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Can't Fool Me

This place is a trap.
The outside has been choked off and the brilliance of it is we can’t seem to tell.
Put bars up around me, I’ll see them right now, trap me with words, I’ll swear I built it myself

Manufactured consent through passive means.
A pervasive and constant lullaby
about choice but this can’t be true cause there’s only one side.
You’re gonna have to do better cause I won‘t lose my mind

They say love these walls cause without them we’d fall.
But this thinking’s so small we only live despite them all.
Your cages won’t save us; they’re no help at all.
We know you’re fucking wrong

Please save me she says and looks to the sky but the sky doesn’t answer and the girl doesn’t fly.
But she crosses herself sits back on the floor and rocks while she cries still believing the stories

There is nothing worth saving that can’t be taken away
this tyranny is fuckin smooth the old methods are gone.
You think your voice is getting through cause you can vote or wave a sign
but you’re gonna have to do better if you intend to keep your mind.

They say love these walls cause without them we’d fall
but this thinking is so small we only live despite them all.
Your cages won’t save us, they’re no help at all,
we know you’re fucking wrong
We can see it cruel
we resent it.
Relentless, invasive you can’t fool me.

I’m confused by rules they’re never precise enough for me
and it doesn’t matter how far you take them they’re never gonna be.
I need a place where everyone can see but I’m not kidding myself I know it’s just a dream.
Right now is all I’ve got so I won’t be caught.
You can fuck yourself you can’t fool me

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from Four Songs About Freedom, released August 27, 2007

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