Ignoreland (slant harp)

by R.E.M.

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(These) bastards stole their power
 
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from the victims of the Us v. Them years,
 
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Wrecking all things virtuous and tru-e
 
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The undermining social democratic downhill slide into   abysmal
 
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lost lamb off the precipice into the trickle down runoff pool
 
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They hypnotized the summer, nineteen seventy  nine
 
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Marched into the  capital brooding duplicitous,
 
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wicked and able, media-ready,
 
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Heartless, and labeled. Super U.S. citizen, super achiever,
 
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Mega  ultra  power doesn't relax.
 
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Defense, defense, defense, defense. Yeah, yeah, yeah
 
 
 
CHORUS:
 
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, ignoreland. Yeah, yeah, yeah, ignoreland
 
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Yeah, yeah, yeah
 
 
 
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The information nation took their clues
 
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from all the sound-bite gluttons
 
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1980, eighty four, eighty eight, ninety two too, too
 
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How to be what you can be, jump, jam junking your energies
 
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How to walk in dignity with throw up on your shoes
 
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They amplified the autumn, nineteen seventy  nine
 
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Calculate the capital, up the republic my skinny ass
 
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TV tells a million lies. The paper's terrified to report
 
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Anything that isn't handed on a presidential spoon,
 
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I'm just profoundly frustrated by all this.
 
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So fuck you, man 
 
 
 
[REPEAT CHORUS]
 
 
 
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If they wasn't there we would have created them. Maybe it's true,
 
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But I'm resentful all the same. Someone's got to take the blame
 
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I know that this is vitriol. No solution, spleen venting,
 
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But I feel better having screamed. Don't y-o-u?
 
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They desecrate the winter, nineteen seventy nine
 
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  Capital collateral. Brooding duplicitous, wicked and able, 
 
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media-ready,
 
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Heartless, and labeled. Super US citizen, super achiever,
 
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Mega ultra power doesn't relax.
 
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Defense, defense, defense, defense. Yeah, yeah, yeah
 
 
 
[REPEAT CHORUS]