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Apr 11th 2020!⃝This song is about how the government/media/corporations manufacture/exploit whatever “crisis” they need to in order to trick the public into behaving the way they want. When the song was written, it was about how the W administration essentially shredded the constitution in order to save the public from the “boogeyman” Bin Laden. The public was so sure they were about to die in a terrorist attack, they were more than willing to allow us go to war with countries who had little or nothing to do with the SAUDI terrorists of 9/11. All in the name of saving their pet (the “sheeple”) from questioning the war profiteering that was going on.
Pay no mind to the rabble - the dissenting voices who didn’t want to rush into another endless middle eastern quagmire that would cost innocent American Soldiers and Iraqi/Afghan civilian lives (500,000 children dead was acceptable according to Madeline Albright in regards to the First Gulf War).
This situation can be applied to any administration - Democratic or Republican - as it happens every cycle. Obama was also a master of exploiting crises to eviscerate civil liberties in the name of saving the citizens from the scary boogeymen he created as well.
This song was incredibly profound before the coronavirus outbreak but if you go through line by line you can see that this cycle of problem reaction solution can be applied so explicitly now that it’s downright scary.
Don’t fret precious citizen, big daddy government is here to save you, step away from the window so you don’t see what’s actually happening. Go back to sleep (being “awake” to what the government does is commonly used by the so called conspiracy theorist crowd.). They need you asleep to carry out their mission to exploit everyone and enrich themselves/get more power and wealth on the backs of the plebs. Lay your head down child, the government and very ethical big corporations (sarcasm) won’t let the scary boogieman come. (Coronavirus!!)
Counting bodies like sheep to the rhythm of the war drums - this applied more to the middle eastern conflicts but is still valid in our current crisis. Counting the bodies like sheep (because you are a sheep but you also count sheep to go to sleep - a brilliant lyric with more than one meaning) the way they tell us exactly how many die of the boogeyman virus in order to stoke fear and elicit their intended reaction - FEAR as the war drum beats on - don’t think we won’t be fighting China in one way or another eventually.
Pay no mind to the rabble - anyone who doesn’t go along with the official story or questions why we should be locked down over a virus that will kill fewer than so many other things that are actual problems (veteran suicide, so many other things). Listen to the very trustworthy media as you should.
I’ll be the one to protect you from a will to survive and voice of reason - self explanatory.
At this point you get what I am saying. I’m not going to spell it out for you. I have to go hoard toilet paper and cower in fear and wait for big daddy government to keep me isolated and save me from myself.
Swaying to the rhythm of the new world order - to deny this exists at this point is almost intentionally ignorant.
The government and media and corporations love us and wound never do us wrong. They never have.
Go back to sleep.
