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This Chaos

from Found Ourselves by Joe Adhemar

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The first part of this song was written a decade ago. An obvious critique of the outlets of those who monopolise how we are informed. But when I returned to it in January 2021 a couple of days after the attempted coup in Washington DC it sounded disturbingly prophetic. Somehow I had penned “These creatures must meet us upon a chosen hill” a decade earlier as I started to sense a burgeoning fear of how the lurch to the right after the 2008 Financial Crisis would end up with insurrection. Affirmation still remains hollow despite my foresight. I would prefer to have been wrong on these observations

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Your regression to the mean your bias and your leaning

To support the hidden meaning

Whilst we fade to the final scene with our spectacles made of rose
These spectacles and shows

When everyone knows pretty well what’s pushed out from this citadel
Is a message without feeling

I keep wanting to tear the pages

I get ridiculed for my rages

Our views have no redeeming features

I guess these creatures must meet us upon a chosen hill yes they will
Have the will to find the treasure in our hearts

Will the soul be taking part?
Is the soul afraid to start?

Their flags are on the stage with shirts of fearful slogans
They’re triggered can’t you tell?

They scaled the hallowed walls but they cower in the basement
This history will never sell

I guess these creatures must meet us upon a chosen hill yes they will
Have the will to find the treasure in our hearts

Will the soul be taking part?
Is the soul afraid to start

It’s 1933 again and the boots are on the ground

The simple men are coming we can hear their angry sound

The sound of their angry whining (they got guns for your complaint)
They claim it’s about their freedom but dark is their intent
They whipped you to a frenzy they whipped you up real good
And moulded all your tiny minds to think they stole from you

I know that nothing’s perfect but you think we’re less than you
The shrinking of your privilege when equality steals from you

He hides inside his White House with his sycophantic men
Choose hate instead of love to enrage compliant men

I’m not sure how we’re going to soothe these stinging wounds

Keep trying to be kind

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from Found Ourselves, released January 28, 2021

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