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Living in Reality (extended edition)

by American Thought Criminal

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    The definitive American Thought Criminal release, this touches up and compiles all of ATC's previous efforts into a sardonic middle finger pointed directly at Davos, DC, and the demented depopulationists of the New World Order. Who says punk forgot how to stand up to the establishment just because the establishment went left-wing?

    Sixteen songs ranging from hardcore to ska punk to reggae and pop punk, American Thought Criminal vows to Make Punk Anti-Establishment Again and remain "Living In Reality" in a world gone mad.

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Tune into World War 3 Live on your iPhone screen, Ain't got no friendship anymore, Why are we fussing and fighting in a virtual world? Am I really, am I really, Am I really me? Are we really, are we really, Where we're s'possed to be? Are you really, are you really, Are you really free? Are we really, are we really, Living in reality? Tune into another civil war, It's what we're all on Twitter for, Ain't got no country anymore, We left it all behind in the virtual world Tune into World War 4 In high-def video, Ain't got no family anymore, I'm tired of living and dying in a virtual world Maybe it's not so bad, Even if we've forsaken Heaven, They say when we're all dead our avatars will play forever Tune out from the end of the Earth I'm safe in the Metaverse, Ain't got no worries anymore, Cuz now I'm fading away to a virtual world
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You wore a patch, "Death or Glory", Irony is I read it when you turned your back, So bold shouting "Fuck Authority", So meek when Authority fucked you back, Back then when you had your dignity, Way back when you called me crazy, Well try to tell me you're an anarchist, baby, When the diaper's on your face…. And a skirt's around your waist! I don't wanna hear your anthems, (No no no) Don't wanna hear you lecturing, No posturing, Don't tell me what to do I don't wanna be the asshole, (No no no) But I've got no empathy, Just apathy Toward hypocrites like you It's kinda funny all the silence I'm hearing Now that Hellnation's really come true, It's fun to sing about War Profiteering, 'til the profits go to you You wanna laugh about American Idiots? They're taking orders from the CDC, Rebel Girls and Digital Boys bending over for the pedophiles in DC Now they say "politics don't concern me" Let's see, they… Talk like a commie, Act like a Nazi, They run in packs and they live with their mommies Braindead zombies, Statist doggies, One-on-one They're origami Looks like a duck, Walks like a duck, Goose-stepping from a government truck Blackshirt punks, Dumber than fuck, Say nothing but they never shut up
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Opened up the paper yesterday, I spent all afternoon trying to find just one thing that rang true Everything's editorialized, Hyperbolized, or just pure fucking lies, They're manipulating you Closed down the shop the other day, Can't find no customers when everybody's locked down and afraid We've all got bills going unpaid, But they're still propping up the politician liars on TV…. But what about you and me? Whatever happened to the radio? I remember not long ago When everybody had a memory And the media wasn't an enemy Of truth What happened to the magazines? And what the hell's on my movie screen? Propaganda everywhere, And everyone is raining lies on you Back in my class at 10 years old, Teacher's preaching 'bout the ozone hole, and claiming that the planet got too cold I read a book at 17, Guess they couldn't keep the story straight, Now they say we're turning up the heat Watched a film at 25, Tried to tell me that the ice was melting, That the end was surely nigh It seems that somehow we survived Just like that filmmaker Lying in his beachfront mansion every night…. Doesn’t seem right Whatever happened to the history books? I remember how good it looked When everybody had a memory And the teacher wasn't the enemy of youth What happened to the scientists? Is this really how good it gets? Propaganda everywhere, And everyone is raining lies on you Some thug got shot the other day, He had the right skin color so some editor is cracking a big grin He had a pistol in his hand, Gunned down robbing a liquor store, But the newspaper says he was some great man They'll torch your city in a blaze, Make sure you take a knee or they'll peacefully throw a brick right through your face Watch your whole world go up in flames, Don't reach for the law to save you, They've already been replaced Just like you and me Whatever happened to society? I remember community with- out plastic animosity And your neighbor wasn't an enemy to you What happened to reality? Remember objectivity? Propaganda everywhere And everyone is raining lies on you What happened to America? I remember a city on a hill, When the future looked so bright Before everything went straight to Hell What happened to the world today? I remember a human race, When mankind was a family And not another animal to cull
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No one speak! Nobody gets heard, Nobody speaks and nobody leaves the herd, No one speak, nobody gets hurt, Open your mouth and you'll get what you deserve Hands up, it's the Thought Police, Shut your mouth and drop to your knees, Shut your eyes, shut your mind, Fall in line or prepare to ­die Round 'em up, line 'em up against the wall, Shoot 'em up with slander, a Party when they fall, Line the pockets of the compromised press, who trade their pens in for a gun to your head Our subject thought he was a free man Social media, they don't understand that, He ran his mouth, so we put him on the watch list, One wrong move and we'll blast him with a rocket A journalist, at least that's what he claimed to be, The Deep State, they wouldn't clear his name to me, Final story, left unread, Shot himself three times in the back of the head Hands up, cuz we're back again, Farewell to your family and friends, And forget about your damn phone call, We break the rules cuz we make the law Doctors, staffers, heads of state, And all the bastards who speculate, Any one of you can end up in the crosshairs You think you got rights but we just don't care
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All your rulers, They want disorder, And if you don't believe me Take a trip down to the border Mainstream, Media reporters, They won’t break the story Cuz they're only taking orders It’s a New World, But sure ain’t what you Ordered, The wolves are wearin’ wool, And they’re leading you to slaughter Poverty, disease, Robbery and murder, Feces on the streets and there’s junkies on the corner And they’re all surfin' on the wave to Hell How long can you follow 'em until you're gonna drop? I don't know but I know, You probably shoulda stopped long ago You're all worn thin, and now you're gettin' closer to the edge It's the - same thing, I tried to warn ya, Thought it couldn't happen here But it did to California Call me insane, Or you could charge your motor, Take a ride around the Bay It looks like Sodom and Gomorrah And what the hell happened to the Northeast corridor? Why's every New Yorker on a U-Haul truck to Florida? They’re all runnin’ away from the chaos they supported But their minds are rotted out And their body’s full of poison So they’re still surfin' on the wave to Hell How long can you fall 'til the day you give it up? I don't know But I know, You're really gettin' close to overload, You're almost dead And no one's gonna miss you in the end my friend What's with all these Priuses stalling on the highway? And why can't all these geniuses stop calling it a freeway? They say: "Be a vegan, transhuman, a global citizen with pets instead of children", "Hail Satan", "BLM", "No person's illegal" and "Marvel's my religion" "Girls have penises", "vote for Bernie", "Save the planet by murdering your baby", "Tolerate everything", "Give me your equity", "Wear a mask, get injected or you are my enemy" Why can't they just go home? They made themselves at home It's amazing, How things devolved so quickly, But I don't have no pity For the slums inside the city You can hate me, Even try to kill me, They'll just kill you too, Take a good long look at Philly Sex in the classroom, Violence in the streets, And nothing in the kitchen ‘cuz there’s nothing left to eat But they keep going, Playin’ on repeat, The locusts and the lemmings And the self-proclaimed elite Now we're all surfin' all the way to Hell
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Pink hair, no cares, Prance in women's underwear (What the hell is wrong with you?) No brain, no shame, Hatred for the human race (What the hell is wrong with you?) 20 years ago you were anti-war, These days you want more, more, more, You're a spineless, senseless, Silent menace Hypocrite, limp-dick, Such a useful idiot But your usefulness runs out I don't care what the papers say, I don't care about the CIA, And I don't care about the FBI, Cuz I don't wanna see their false flag lies, I know they're tracking everything I say, So I don't listen to the NSA, And I don't care 'bout you… Low T, dope fiend, Dying from a “vaxscene” (What the hell is wrong with you?) No balls, know-it-all, Hooked on pharmaceuticals (What the hell is wrong with you?) Five years ago you were natural, Now your body's full of corporate chemicals You're a lab rat, dumbass, Test dummy, jabfag, Total hypochondriac, Medicinal maniac That needle stabbed you in the back I don't listen to the NIH, Cuz I don't wanna get an early grave, And I don't care about the FDA, I know they all wanna murder me I don't care 'bout the WEF Cuz they're nothing but a cult of death And I don't care about you… Doormat, whorebag, Selling smut to scumbags (What the hell is wrong with you?) No path, no past, A future like a heart attack (What the hell is wrong with you?) I remember when you called yourself a feminist, These days you can't define what a woman is, You're defined by your followers and pay pigs but genuflect for lunatics who tuck it in a sundress And I don't wanna tell you how to live… but that's embarrassing! I don't care about the latest fad, And I don't wanna see the latest flag, I don't care about the latest trend, I'm not gonna help you play pretend, And if you call this song misogyny but make your living from pornography Then I don't care about you I care about dignity, I care about sanity, I care about honesty, I care about integrity, I care about liberty, I care about autonomy, but I don't care about you
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Arrested! For what he doesn't understand, Raided in the dead of night, An enemy in his native land Blacklisted! Everybody's shunning him, Left to die inside a cage, 'Cuz freedom's un-American Government says you have a right to redress Grievances before your Congress Media says you have a voice so use it, But only if you're someone they agree with! Blasted! In public and in cold blood, Shot right in the neck by a coward in a uniform Detested! By power-mad degenerates, They call her insurrectionist She was the true American! Government says you have a right to redress Grievances before your Congress Politicians say you have a voice so use it, But only if you're someone they agree with! Gaslit! On every screen at every time, By treasonous revisionists Duplicitous fifth-columnists Redacted! Unpersonned for his insolence, Question their authority They'll end your whole existence Government says you have a right to redress Grievances before your Congress Internet says you have a voice so use it, But only if you're someone they agree with! Do you see your enemy? Do you see your enemy? DC is your enemy!
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You trust a broken machine To fix a broken machine Then you wonder why you're ruled by a broken machine You’re ruled by the mob Overruled by the bots Or by a pack of morons Who don’t give you any thought Did you really, did you really Think they wouldn't do the whole damn thing again? Did you really, did you really Think they wouldn't pull the same old rotten scam? You don't have a choice, You don't have a voice, You won’t have no freedom if you're making any noise But without a voice, We don't have a choice If we want our freedom Than we better make some noise 3 am they're pulling out ballots in boxes…. They cover up the count with pizza boxes Red to blue, Blue blood to red Diaper babies with an empty head Stand beside ‘em As you stand in line But you won’t get counted ‘Til you fall in line Did you really, did you really Think they wouldn't do the same old thing again? Did you really, did you really Think they wouldn't pull the same old rotten scam? We don’t have a say, We just take the blame, We just watch and suffer As we’re going down in flames They don’t have a name, They don’t have no shame, Treating us like pawns in a loaded game Half the voters rotten in coffin boxes…. Soap box, jury box Almost outta boxes Outta boxes (Soap box, ballot box, jury box, ammo box) From '76 to '60 on Rigged and tampered and suppression Well they took your tongue But you’ve still got guns Like ‘76 And ‘61 Do they really, do they really Think we'll never do the same old thing again? Do they really, do they really Think we'll cower to lesser pathetic men? You don't have a choice, You don't have a voice, You won’t have no freedom if you're making any noise But without a voice, We don't have a choice If we want our freedom Than we better make some noise Midnight we’re pulling out ammo boxes Soap box, jury box Almost outta boxes We’re outta boxes
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Information War criminals, MSM tells me that they're sinister, Methods of suppression Are banks, courts and rigged elections, But ain't it funny how the truth keeps spreading? Back in college when I Went to J-school Marxist professors would Always tell you That speech is free and that the Press is sacred But nowadays your free speech Costs a billion-dollar payment Cuz Information War criminals Judges say their words are indefensible Methods of deception Are fact-checkers and censors But ain't it funny how the truth keeps spreading? I heard they found one Down in Austin, Raving and ranting About the Bohemian On CNN they call him A tinfoil hatter, But Alex Jones was right again And they just lie and slander him Information War general, All-American thought criminal, Methods of suppression Are newsrooms and TV stations But ain't it funny how the truth keeps spreading? Whistleblowers thrown in Secret prisons Or get murdered like Breitbart, Cooper and Hastings, They'll force broadcasters from The War Rooms into their courtrooms But no Stones, Shroyers or Bannons Work in Ukrainian gas boardrooms Like The real villains at the capital, Launching wars and killing innocent people From "Weapons of Destruction" To claiming "Safe and Effective" It's kinda funny how they think We're stupid Information War criminals, MSM tells me that they're pitiful, Methods of suppression Are banks, courts and rigged elections, But ain't it funny how the truth keeps spreading? Information War criminals (Big Tech) Information War criminals (Mainstream) Information War criminals (DC) Information War criminals (Fuck you!)
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Hey, excuse me, Don't you think you fooled me, I remember everything you said You tried to use me, Thought you could abuse me, Now you think you'll get me to forget Booted me, muted me, Looted me, uprooted me, I remember everything you did Howdya act so cruel to me, Attack so brutally, And think I ever could forgive? No! The answer is no! No! Hell no, My answer's still no You lost all my trust When you auctioned off your soul Case closed, I'll always say no, No repentance for the unforgivable And it's so cold, How you made us miserable But we still never broke And we clawed back what you stole I suppose You might have some remorse But I've been burned before So I'll never let it go No! The answer is no! For the nursing home victims, Traumatized children, And advocates of freedom Rotting in your prisons, Stomping on protesters, Dragging off the pastors, Heart attacks in high schoolers And babies full of tumors, Cancer patients Dead from lack of treatment Shut down businesses and Suffocating infants Nurses making double time Dancing in a conga line Addicts dead of suicide And hospitalized homicide Won't get no amnesty, no amnesty from me (ad infinitum)
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Color revolutions, Painted by the USSA, Cultural immolation, Self-directed hate and rage Penetrated cabinets, Feast upon the native lands, Coveting the planet, Crushing it in cold dead hands You might call it dystopian, but… it's such a peaceful way to go Euthanasia's good for Manitoba, Prairie lebensraum for the youth of Central Asia You can save 'em, Just let ‘em replace ya, Depopulate your nation for the good of Mother Nature Or they'll make ya! "I don't wanna take a poison jab" (You're crazy!) "I don't want my food grown in a lab" (You're bad!) "I don't think my daughter is a man" (You're sexist!) Death is made in Canada Mechanical coffins, Eco-friendly death machines, Suicide solution, From Nova Scotia to BC They say humanity's survival needs you sterilized and maimed, Doesn't need to make sense, Just needs to make you go away They might call it a healthcare plan but… it’s lethal! Euthanasia's useful in Alberta, Puppets up in Ottawa want youth from Southeast Asia Who can blame ‘em? You let ‘em replace ya, Traded out your nation for an artificial savior And they’ll break ya! "I don't wanna pop another pill" (Outrageous!) "I don't want my babies getting killed" (Too bad!) "I'm not gonna lock down for a cold" (That’s baseless!) Death is made in Canada Your sadness and anxiety, Your guilt and pain and fear, Are finally gone in the True North, Press a button and they disappear (forever) Genocidal nation, Never strong and hardly free, Standing guard for Satan, Preying on the young and weak If you protest your prime minister, He'll have you trampled in the street, If you’re a useless eater he’ll send a suicide machine The Star'll call it a conspiracy but… it’s True Though! Euthanasia's perfect for Regina, Gotta make some room for the shock troops from Red China You won't mind 'em, Just line up behind ‘em, Give 'em your possessions and go kill yourself in silence It’s a monopoly on violence! 'I don't want my kid to wear a mask" (That’s dangerous!) "I don't want a drag queen in the class" (You’re dead!) "I don’t wanna smoke a bunch of grass” (That’s racist!) Die! You're made in Canada "I don't wanna start a global war" (You're lazy!) "I don't think the climate's getting warm" (You're mad!) “Don't believe in voting anymore" (That's hate speech!) Die! For M.A.I.D. in Canada
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Socrates, Diogenes, Puck and Mephistopheles, We're gonna get what we deserve Shunning our mortality, Threats to civil liberties, We're gonna get what we deserve Gluttony and vanity, Hedonist philosophy, We're gonna get what we deserve Reveling in fallacies, Quantum immorality, We're gonna get what we deserve Click click, Gun to our head, Bang bang, The culture’s dead, Tick tock, The vultures said, 15-second attention span Engels, Marx and Nietchke, Weimar, FARC and Vichy, We're gonna get what we deserve Tiananmen and DC, FBI, NKVD, We're gonna get what we deserve Zionists, Zelensky, Scientism, Fauci, We’re gonna get what we deserve UN, Ukraine, Haiti, Turned into a laundry, We're gonna get what we deserve Fentanyl, amphetamines, Psychopath psychiatry, We're gonna get what we deserve Avarice and entropy, Child hysterectomies, We're gonna get what we deserve Kleptocrat economy, Broken fake democracy We're gonna get what we deserve Decimating history, Deifying sodomy, We're gonna get what we deserve
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Bodyguard 03:47
Every time you meet the public You get scared and you start to panic Who made a post? And who aired a show? And who's not a clone? Who's coming for your throne? So-called leaders, with deceitful faces Corruption in the highest places Your hands full of bribes Mouth pours out lies Cause of all oppression now Running for protection Bodyguard I wouldn't like your job Snakes in the grass and they think they're God Politicians drinking human blood Concrete heart can hold no love I just can't stand your little bodyguards Just can't stand your little bodyguards Big Tech and the press keeps you protected Although all their stories don't add up Cuz you got the guns And you got the bomb You got the jets You are the terrorist Are we staying home? Are we saying no? Are we standing by Or are we standing for our rights? Puppet president (You - are the terrorist) Global government (You - look like Satanists) Hand-picked apparatchiks, (You - are all communists) I just can't stand your little bodyguards All that fretting All that sweatin' All that threatenin' to take our weapons All that stoking Fires of hatred All these bastards Are illegitimate
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To Serve Man 03:39
Maybe I should eat my dog, Maybe you should eat your cat, Maybe we should feed 'em our children first, Nothing as Swift as that Cuz they say we're runnin’ outta time, I say they're runnin’ outta breath, When they say if we’re not served to each other Then one day soon there won’t be nothin’ left So maybe we should love the Bomb, Maybe we should hate ourselves, Maybe none of it is worth it, Or maybe they can go to Hell Don’t pretend you don’t know where it’s going, Don’t pretend that you don’t understand, That even though everyone’s served at the slaughter, It doesn’t mean they wanna serve man Just give me something to believe, Something credible, I wanna live in reality But I'm not giving up my humanity to you Just give me something I can see, Something relevant, I wanna keep all my sanity But I don't wanna become a casualty of truth So maybe I should eat the bugs, And maybe you should take your meds, Maybe we're all really heating up the planet, So now we gotta freeze to death Maybe we should turn against our fathers And maybe we should euthanize our moms, Maybe if you wanna vision of the future, You're either wearin’ boots or gettin’ stomped But maybe it’s all too late, Maybe it’s all our fault, Maybe if we don’t stand up to the menace They’ll crush us in the weight of the assault Don’t pretend we don’t deserve it Don’t pretend we never had a chance And if you find yourself sittin’ at the table Don’t pretend you ever served man Rage-filled, blackpilled, Sad, mad and hateful Sometimes it all seems so futile Shake up, break down, Stand up, sit down, Who's John Galt and is he real? Take a stand or take it in, No heroes but there's heroin And now they've taken all your friends Giving up and giving in, They’re going back to sleep again, Wake them up when November ends… We’ll end it! Just give me something to believe, Nothing relative, I wanna live objectively So I'm not giving up my reality to you They just want something more to sleep Calming sedative I face the world with my open eyes Cuz the nightmare isn't confined to my dreams
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Jenny can you sell me? Jeanie can you sell me? I want to start a brand-new war Boris can you tell me? Joey can you tell me? Will it be bigger than before? Vladdy are you hungry? Nancy can you fund me? I want it to go nuclear TV spin me harder, Cellphone win me over, It's time to fumigate the world! I don't wanna be in lockdown anymore, Don't wanna be retreating from the rising of the ocean shores, I don't wanna eat these insects anymore, I’m tired of hiding from the Racist, sexist, homophohic hordes Won't someone lend me some mercy? A hypersonic missile to end my suffering Can't someone give this world some peace? Just nuke me please NATO can you help me? Say the word and down me, Before the carbon kills us all Azov can you shell me? Maybe even scalp me, Don't let me catch a scary cold Facebook can you tell me If I'm going crazy? I think a blast could solve it all Take us all to safety, Make it quick and pain-free, Go gently in a mushroom cloud I don't wanna be a podperson no more, Don't wanna be a Soylent boosted, dopesick, beta pharmavore I don't wanna live in terror anymore, Don't wanna be a slave to Chryons, feeds and trending news reports Won't someone lend me some mercy? A hypersonic missile to end my suffering Can't someone give this world some peace? Just nuke me please Everybody's gotta go Somehow, someday, Why not make it all together? They say we're doomed to die in flood, disease or warming weather I say atom bombs are better Or at least a little faster I don't wanna be a parasite no more, I know there's only so much room out there for robot polishers, I don't wanna be embarrassed anymore, Don't wanna be a useless eating, Resource-draining, VR game player Won't someone lend me some mercy? A hypersonic missile to end my suffering Can't someone give this world some peace? Just nuke me please
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I was born in a strange land, In 1984, On the edge of eternity Or thermonuclear war Maybe I'll live forever But if it's the last days, You'll see the truth is written on my face So… Line us up, And shoot us full of lies, Unlike the faithless we are not afraid to die, and when they Dig us up, And stare into our graves, They'll know the truth was written on our face Conceived in dissidence, Seventeen seventy-six, Soon dead by her own hand, Cut down by politics No one holds on forever, But even when when displaced, I say the truth was written on her face Left to die in a wasteland In Twenty thirty-one, No graves nor eulogies, And nowhere left to run, But even left for dead we'll never be erased, Because the truth is written on our face

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The definitive American Thought Criminal release, this touches up and compiles all of ATC's previous efforts into a sardonic middle finger pointed directly at Davos, DC, and the demented depopulationists of the New World Order. Who says punk forgot how to stand up to authority just because authority went left-wing?

Sixteen songs ranging from hardcore to ska punk to reggae and pop punk, American Thought Criminal vows to Make Punk Anti-Establishment Again and remain "Living In Reality" in a world gone mad.

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Dissident music from a punk band that leaves the distortion to the amplifiers and not in the lyrics. Pro-human, anti-globalist rock.

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