Orange Julius Assange is written from three points of view: the mythmakers in the corporate media; the disoriented public mind dispossessed of critical awareness of the world beyond consumer culture; and the Spirit of Truth and Freedom who wonders aloud what the nation has become with its perpetual wars. The song is a gesture of gratitude to truth tellers who risk all to preserve the universal spirit of freedom and liberty.
Players:
Daniel: lead vocals, backing vocals, snaps
Robert: backing vocals, piano, drum programming, drums, melodica, sampling, sound engineering, snaps
Pedro: bass
Megaciph: rhymes | Website:
https://www.megaciph.com/Tina: backing vocals | Website:
https://www.coastalgrooveinc.comDerek: visuals and images
(Additional thanks to Roger Waters, for the eloquent preface rant, and to Zach Gold & Co., for creating the preface's "thought police" sequence.)
Lyrics:
if you don’t come to democracy
it will surely come to you
with its laser-guided love
delivered from the barrels
of our Gatling guns
resistance now is futile
to the order of the world
with its newly-minted chicken hawks hatching terror wars
Orange Julius Assange
(we never let on)
that we cared to be free
(from major network fakery)
since we’re so happy to live
(in our wealthy bubbles)
safe and sound from
(cognitive dissonance)
if you don’t buy what we’re selling here
the agenda for a coming earth
with its need for mass obedience
delivered from the channels
of our overlords
we just may need to delete you
from the ranks of the working poor
with our newly-formed controls
in the Ministry of Truth
we’re all ashamed to say
(with our caramel lattes)
we didn’t give a shit
(about those Reuters journalists)
“when we talk about war
(we just want you to know)
that we really mean peace”
(how compelling was that lie?)
oh, Lady Liberty
what have you become?
a great aggressor?
obsessive oppressor?
a desperate dispossessor
of civil liberties?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7qQ2IaoVY_s