LYRICS TO ORDO AB CHAO Written and performed by MAX AXIOM
players of the game (players of the game)
always ends the same (always ends the same)
at the end of days (at the end of days)
we are all the same (we are all the same)
I had a dream
and it became my theme
to take esteem from corrupt regimes.
who work in a team on agenda extreme.
together they scheme because they supreme.
treat us like fools because they set the rules.
holding all the jewels. running all the schools.
the merchants of cool have us wound like a spool.
rode us like a mule and treat us like a tool!
Followed the clues, and thought that I could choose,
but any way I play I’m always going to lose.
the media confuse with doom saying views.
a bad attitude is how we conclude.
the planet isn’t ending like you’re recommending.
I see it replenishing and your mindset is menacing.
Its only end of days for the players of the game.
nothing ever changes that never stays the same.
Alex Jones (from Waking Life): 'I want freedom, that's what I want, and what's what you should want! What a bunch of garbage, liberal, Democratic, conservative, Republican, it's all there to control you, two sides of the same coin! Two management teams, bidding for control of the CEO job of Slavery Incorporated! The truth is out there in front of you, but they lay out this buffet of lies! I'm sick of it, and I'm not gonna take a bite out of it, do ya got me?
'The 21st Century's gonna be a new century! Not the century of slavery, not the century of lies and issues of no significance, of classism and statism, and all the rest of the modes of control... it's gonna be the age of humankind, standing up for something pure and something right! We have got to realize we're being conditioned on a mass scale. Start challenging this corporate slave state!'
I'm not what you think, the geek on the street.
I'm a freak when our cheeks
meet the pleats of the sheets.
Say yo DJ drop those pistol poppin' beats
so my words get grip and my mouth get cleats.
please remove your head from the clouds.
listen to this and prepare to be wowed.
hear it, declare it, and form a crowd.
do it to make the veterans proud.
the vets who really fought for freedom
back when that word still had any meaning.
downing street memo: quite revealing.
Patriot Act: needs repealing.
aren't you sick of their wheelin deallin?
verdict is in, there's no appealing.
better get down, proceed with kneeling.
Bush: 'the advance of human freedom, the great achievement of our time...'
Bush:'
'freedom and fear are at war...'
Wallace: '...and tell our enemies that they man take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!' x2
Crowd: '9/11 was an inside job!'
Bush: '...by sacrificing human life to serve their radical visions, by abandoning every value except the will to power, they follow in the path of fascism, nazi-ism, and totalitarianism, and they will follow that path all the way to where it ends, in history's unmarked grave of discarded lies.'
you will shut up and lose your grip. put your hands up for the pistol whip.
3000 died. it was just a pretense
so war could war at the proper sequence.
tore at your core. was total non sense.
welcome terror for war to commence!
if you want to know the true attacker
of the 9-1-1-oh-1 disaster
take a look a the benefactors,
or march to war and obey your masters.
you will shut up and lose your grip. put your hands up for the pistol whip.
John F Kennedy: 'for we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covet means for expanding its sphere of influence, on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of election, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. it is a system that has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific, and political operations.'
Eisenhower: 'In the councils of government we must guard against the acquistion of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military industrial complex ... we must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes.'
carbon based lifeforms must repent.
all my components are made of hemp.
always shut down each year for lent.
idle your car I get I’m sure to get bent
out of shape and I replay the tape
that its not a debate
its environmental rape.
I'm corduroy cyborg
wearing comfy threads.
I'm filled with dread
at all the books I read.
wept in bed
for trees that bled.
god is dead
my iPod said.
surgical c p u embed
inside my head,
from A to Zed.
I’m very well read. that’s how I get ahead.
I’m very well read. that’s how I get ahead.
I’m very well read. that’s how I get ahead.
stay home instead and fear the dead.
my villain lives in my room.
he is the source of my doom.
he is the one to consume.
clearly. I can see insanity that embodies me but the villain is inside of me.
i am equip to steer my ship
i have the range to change.
i wont be problem ill be solution.
I am to blame always the same.
no time to blame just change.
clearly I can see insanity that embodies me but the villain is inside of me.
mission is incision of division.
villain made decision.
inclusion of confusion.
abusing and amusing.
proving that i’m losing.
position of my choosing.
seducing a solution.
producin a musician on a mission.
wishin for sedition.
conviction of eviction of villain.
assumption of a function.
function of a nothin.
production a my stuff in
to something that I can mention.
get this nemesis off my premises.
villain! go! repent-of-this,
just not meant-for-this.
get this nemesis off my premises.
you-can-be-content-with-this
does-not-fit and thus I must acquit.
i am equip to steer my ship
i have the range to change.
i wont be problem.
i'll be solution.
i am to blame.
always the same.
no time to blame.
just change.
clearly I can see insanity that embodies me but the villian is inside of me.
a thin membrane
contains two sides of the brain.
not insane i’m just detained.
contained in my pain.
my ego retained my name,
but he and I are not the same.
i found my nemesis ubiquitous.
i found my enemies were my fantasies.
i
t comes with ease
when you believe
as many enemies
as I please
only feeds the needs
of an ego that bleeds
for identity
and there's plenty of enemies
in the inventory
I write my own story
provide my own villains.
if reasons to hate, i can think of millions.
if others are to blame, i can pick from billions.
adults and children
cities and buildings
floors and ceilings
can hurt my feelings
from top to bottom
its all the same
lost if you’re caught
in the ego-maniacal
game.
things people do includes deceiving.
the thing to do is stop believing.
you know its true but it bears repeating:
the thing to do is stop believing.
like a test my destiny manifest.
quest of the best suggests
i request a yes.
make a festival of the vestibule
infinitesimal
interval
down to the decimal.
expected i'm a fool.
its bull.
in this world you become a decoder.
you lift yourself up and try to get over
ugh.
that smell of the new world odour.
tearing down culture and erasing the border.
i've been confused by the best intelligence.
i've been amused at my lack of relevance.
i've been consumed by a pack of supplements.
i've been assumed to be the one to circumvent.
turn my resentment into contentment.
i couldn’t repent - I just paid my rent, man,
because that's where money gets spent,
but it doesn't make a dent on my commitment.
as its written, my mission:
envision a a conviction of the system.
exactly the same (but better for me).
wont cause anxiety when you lie to me.
i will try and see reality in spite of thee.
don't get confused.
don't get confused.
show me your darkness
to see if i'm blind.
mess with my head
to test out my mind.
it happens all the time.
they wont stop lying.
don't blame em for trying,
I blame myself for buyin’
into the institution bent on producing
problems! reactions! solutions!
life is kinda hectic
inside a dialectic,
too much invested,
as expected I’m bested,
but never arrested
because I attested:
the bigger deception
the bigger the lesson.
maybe i should check in
on
some important questions
or maybe i deserve to
continue to be lied to.
won't cause anxiety when you lie to me.
i will try and see reality inspite of thee.
dont get confused.
dont get confused.
I am inside the system. the system's inside me.
i have no fixed position. I see to infinity.
a virtual reality built in and out of me.
the nothing to see but the things that you can be.
forever always the same distance away.
no matter what i do, or think or say expanse extends forever
i reach it never ever.
no matter where I go, there's always somewhere else to go.
my mind is replaced inside a digital space:
similar form and taste, but my time is wasted.
i might as well face it. displaced. encased in it. embraced.
dues ex machina. persona non grata.
there is no sum because n equals n puls 1.
no limits to choice inside the infinite void.
that spreads forever between me and my reality,
my motion stationary.
nothings getting closer.
opaque. unknown. never to be seen.
beyond my senses only is a dream: a theme i conceive; a belief i believe.
as i please, it fits my needs. seeds for my beats.
I am inside the system. the systems inside me.
i have no fixed position. I see to infinity.
a virtual reality built in and out of me.
the nothing to see but the things that you can be.
you know the empire's get me down.
its always gettin' me down.
i woke up outta focus.
hocus pocus! the joke is evoking my choking
sociable non-negotiable
soaking in emotional social codes,
dropin pay loads onto innocents citizens.
in't it exquisite,
implicit the betterment of intelligence
is relative to fidelity of the wealthy.
developing without or me,
society guiding me believe
what they say and not what I see.
technology has freed me,
connected me to infinity,
instantly calamity is upon me; alarming me
of far away catastrophe.
and masking it is a cast of politics:
actors tasked to distract.
you know the empire's get me down
its always gettin' me down.
Gordon Brown: 'these are not just a single collection of actions: this is collective action, people working together, at their best. I think the new world order is emerging, and with it, the foundations of a new and progressive era of co-operation. we have resolved, from today, we will together manage the process of globalisation, to secure responsibility from all and fairness to all, and we've agreed that in doing so, we will build a more sustainable, and more open, and a fairer global society.'
is no prose to fix the woes.
ebbs and flows is just how it goes.
Im one of those who followed my nose!
I neva chose to take this pose.
I've thought about the spiritual.
I've thought about the literal.
I write my thoughts lyrical.
I live my life spherical.
no (sharp edges sticking out).
no (contempt or thoughts of doubt).
no (ill will comes from my mouth).
know (nobody but myself).
know nobody but my spirit inside of me
healed that which divided me.
confined in me. divined me to find me that
its fine to opine but my mind found a sign
that it is time to decline from denying the rhyme.
is no prose to fix the woes.
ebbs and flows is just how it goes.
Im one of those who follows my nose!
I neva chose to take this pose.
I've thought about the spirtual.
I've thought about the literal.
I write my thoughts lyrical.
I live my life spherical.
no (sharp edges sticking out).
no (contempt or thoughts of doubt).
no (ill will comes from my mouth).
know (nobody but myself).
spirit inside of me healed that which divided me.
confined in me. divined me to find me .
its fine to opine but my mind found a sign
that it is time to decline from denying the rhyme.
is no prose to fix the woes.
ebbs and flows is just how it goes.
Speed Levitch (from Waking Life) : 'And so many think because then happened, now isn't. But didn't I mention the ongoing 'wow' is happening right now. We are all co-authors of this dancing exuberance where evening our inabilities are having a roast. we are the authors of ourselves, co-authoring a gigantic Dostoevsky novels staring clowns!'
everyone spinnin our wheels
while the government steals
and big business gets deals and no one cares how I feel.
turn the dial and sit back for a while
it’s time to smile because lifes more than a pile.
I could write rap about how the world is crap
but I think it’s a trap like that post man who snapped.
spending my days obsessin, second guessin my blessins
because the lesson was less than expected.
teachers schoolmates playgrounds and chums,
a lifetime of memories, I’m no longer a part of them.
shame to say
that I can’t come out to play today
but I’ve got a way around my destiny.
I do more than they expect of me.
I give my self goals and I try to achieve them,
you gave me a god and I tried to believe in him.
he makes our nation divisible and miserable
for a man who’s invisible his achievement abysmal.
Speed Levitch: 'the world is an exam, to see if we can rise into the direct experiences. our eyesight is here as a test to see if we can see beyond it. matter is here is here as a test for our curiosity. doubt is here as an exam for our vitality.'
hard to build a life in a world of lies
hard to plant seeds in soil you despise
and it’s hard to make right in a world of wrong
and sometimes the best I can do is write a rap song
about how I feel, that the world has flaws,
and the powers that be they flaunt the laws,
and danger follows like the theme from jaws,
and if I had a choice I’d be the first to head for the escape pods.
socio-political issues ooze from my tissues.
power mis-uses. domestic abuses,
but this shit consumes you,
tick tick kabooms you.
zoom into gloom and stay locked in your room.
google what the president said,
compare the pile of lies to the pile of dead.
I neva go to bed, its always stuck in my head.
stayin up late makes it tough to earn that daily bread.
but put the past in the past
to make your life last.
you have any questions
don't be afraid to ask.
put the past in the past
to make your life last.
Speed Levitch: 'and as one realizes that one is a dream figure in another persons dream, that is self awareness.'
time.
time keeps changing.
people
keep moving.
time keeps changing.
people keep moving.
can you reload?
can you reload?
codes and machines live from the scene.
information flowing in reams:
obscene themes that travel in memes,
teams of data berate the way ya created ordo ab chao.
militarism by the division
is not the system we are buildin
thats an anachronism.
yet we are in position
to secure our sedition.
new era of reason brings
an end of appeasing injustice.
i bust this,
cuss down the rusted,
encrusted
formerly trusted,
adjusted.
colossal. unstoppable.
undeniable.
exposure gets closer: disclosure in order.
gettin kind tough to pull off a cover up
because enough info shops pull out the stops.
broadcast the podcast fast pass the master's infotainment roster.
at no cost become the boss. of the coin toss
which nods to the monster while rejecting the sponsor
which is inspecting our contemplated, annotated, listed, and collated.
the whole place is infiltrated and i'm elated to state it.
i made a debate of it and wade my way through it
and found the way of it is a new way of faking it:
collectivist environmentalist
with a wish list like a Marxist
is the gist of it. I'm sick of it.
imprisoned with carbon footprints
and terrorist watch lists.
codes and machines live from the scene.
information flowing in reams:
obscene themes that travel in memes,
teams of data berate the way ya created ordo ab chao.
make a life. make it nice.
do it right, cant do it twice.
pay a price with every vice.
lose my voice for every choice.
pay the rent. pay my debt.
what do you expect to invent a precedent
which circumvents the circumstance?
big it up. fill my cup. (there’s only so much one man can do.)
tried my luck. ive had enough. (there’s only so much one man can do.)
multi-tasker. became disaster. (there’s only so much one man can do.)
pay a price. with every vice. (there’s only so much one man can do.)
I decide to override my side of pride
in which i hide. my eyes are wide.
i see inside to every lie i would deny
before I tried to divide
my destiny from the best of me;
of my humanity, or what's left of me,
as it ingests me, subjects me,
expects me to respect thee.
testing my dedication daily.
time is mine to design and I find I’m behind on mine.
tryin to be my own Einstein. i’m divine.
inclined to opine. creativity has its own relativity.
and i have proclivity stitched into me. inability
to see myself as ity bitty,
im humongous, if you could see my task list
of the master multi-tasker. who wants it all faster
amidst the disaster find time for laughter,
relationships that matter.
busy monday through sunday.
if my battery has the energy
I’ll be ready for you to see me.
I regret the disappointment
if you want to see me
gotta make an appointment.
i just got so much to do
and none of it involves you.
life is a trial.
don't wait a while.
you gotta dial
if you wanna smile.
the chaos and anarchy
that surrounds me
is hunky dory.
easy to ignore, G.
I've got the world at my finger tips.
pick up the phone. you can read my lips
we can communicate. I'm feeling electric.
operator please. i need an exit.
I'm down on my knees. now i can express it.
i
have all my needs and now what is expected
of a man? make his plan. understand
how the scams made of sand fade away.
implicate the way...
with my dial tone,
I'm never alone.
with my dial tone, I'm never alone.
sandcastles of the mind divine
from on high.
I try to deny the vision in my eye.
pride is a lie truth just vision.
I’m glad I’m alive: I made that decision.
the chaos and anarchy that surrounds me,
an open sea. easy to agree.
move like fluid. interrelated.
flow right through it.
becoming integrated
with my dial tone .
I'm never alone.
never alone.
never alone.
never alone.