[00:00.00]Mean Machine - The Last Poets [00:00.93]Driving me nuts bolts screws [00:03.23]I got the blues from paying dues [00:06.15]For programmed news of honeycoated lies [00:08.86] [00:09.40]Your eyes can't believe [00:11.04]That weave the devil's magic with the latest gadget [00:14.30]From the mean machine [00:16.14]A'running the same game with another name [00:19.03]Down to your brain blowing your mind [00:21.70]Stealing your time smooth and slick [00:24.16]With the latest trick to get rich quick [00:26.43]From nonsense at your mind's expense [00:29.46]As your mind digs the scene [00:31.44]From the mean machine [00:33.13]Designed to drive your brain insane [00:35.81]Loudspeakers blasting inside your head [00:39.52]Saying what someone else said [00:41.22]For you to do what they want you to [00:43.19]No go fast slow [00:45.51]Getting you high off the latest lie [00:48.21]Telling you when where how and why [00:50.32]As your mind digs the scene [00:52.13]From the mean machine [00:53.85]A'running the same game with another name [00:57.10]Factories of insanity playing on your vanity [01:00.14]As they distort your sense of self [01:02.19]Telling you what you need and how to succeed [01:04.88]As they steal all of your wealth [01:06.77]Probing your mind trying to find [01:09.58]How to scheme on you best [01:11.13]From programmed schools with devilish rules [01:14.43]Putting you to the test [01:15.89]Death dealing devices sold at high prices [01:19.27]Designed with you in mind to buy [01:21.27]As they kill you slow and some of y'all don't even know [01:24.42]Y'all paying the machine to die [01:26.74]Mechanized lies dressed up in disguise [01:30.50]In forms of various kinds [01:32.65]Treachery and deceit the people must defeat [01:34.95]In the battle for free men's minds [01:37.24]For complete domination is the goal of this nation [01:40.25]Of all free thinking thought [01:41.81]And those who oppose will be killed by their foes [01:44.93]The flunkies whose souls have been bought [01:47.05]Transplants to revive the living dead [01:50.02]Replacing the truth with lies instead [01:52.53]Newspapers radios tvs [01:54.45]Spreading lies across seven seas [01:56.91]Robot men with computers for brains [01:59.02]Space ships cars trains and planes [02:01.34]All calculated to blow your mind [02:03.82]Moving faster than your sense of time [02:06.25]Living luxuriously soft while the people slave hard [02:09.43]For the devil would have you believe he is god [02:11.66] [02:12.17]Chemical *** that keep you high [02:14.66]While the mean machine creates another lie [02:16.93]For power and glory and world wide fame [02:19.58]While running the same game with another name [02:22.51]It's the computer's equation for world wide invasion [02:25.26]That comes in the name of peace and goodwill [02:27.16]But all of them are lying as they keep on trying [02:29.50]To set the people up for the kill [02:31.44]Population control of the people with soul [02:33.99]All over the planet earth [02:35.32]Manipulating their will with a tiny white pill [02:37.91]To control their natural birth [02:39.66]Behind the scene schemes furthering the mean machine's [02:43.14]Dreams [02:44.13]Of conquest and world domination [02:46.63]From the farthest depths of the universe [02:48.72]To the smallest earthly nation [02:50.79]Radar sonar laser beams [02:52.83]Jets tanks submarines [02:54.98]Megathons h-bombs napalm gas [02:58.40]All this ** will kill you fast [03:00.21]All products of the mean machine [03:02.28]The devil disguised as a human being [03:05.02]And he will even preach that god is dead [03:07.13]And some of y'all will believe what the devil has said [03:09.64]And he will then act as the world's police [03:12.08]And the sun will rise up in the west [03:13.90]And set down in the east [03:15.05]And when it came time for the end [03:16.81]And when it came time for the end [03:18.53]And when it came time for the end [03:20.13]The men will look like the women [03:21.79]And the women like the men [03:23.12]And some will dance in a hypnotic trance [03:25.87] [03:26.42]Like as if they have no care [03:27.94]But these will be signs of the changing times [03:30.70]That the end is drawing near [03:32.72]For it was prophesized many centuries past [03:35.33]That the end will come in a fiery holocaust [03:37.86]And only the righteous people will survive the blast [03:40.48]And the devil's machine will bring about his own end [03:43.37]And peace love and joy will reign once again [03:45.92]And man will understand man [03:48.01]And man will understand man [03:49.56]And man will understand man [03:51.08]And man will understand man [03:52.61]And man will understand man [03:54.25]And man will understand man [03:55.90]And live in harmony and peace [03:57.14]And the sun will once again [03:58.44]Rise up in the east