Subtract Detractors! Subvert Disaster!

from Pax Americana by Bad Optics

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lyrics

Do you think about power
When you're talking to your friends?
Do you jealously guard it
As a means to an end?
Do you hold it up?
Break it down?
Put it to the test?
Pull it out
Or keep it close to your chest?

Is it right
(Deploy your last words
to burn it faster!)
To feel wrong
(Destroy the casters!
The idle bastards!)
When you've burned
(Avoid distractors
and sneering actors!)
For so long?
(Subtract detractors!
Subvert disaster!)

Five five five five
It's reclamation time
Is your god alive
in your mind?

Higher! Higher! Higher!
We're always climbing, but the
Ladder! Ladder! Ladder!
Never stops
If you flex your weight
On to someone you love
Then the people you hate
Will always sit above

Five five five five
It's reclamation time
Is your god alive
in your mind?

Five five five five
When does it come to us?
Step into night
It's alright

credits

from Pax Americana, released January 21, 2022
Music by BAD OPTICS
Lyrics by J. HIDELL

J. Hidell - Guitar/Vocals
Max Stephens - Guitar/Vocals
Stephanie Jones - Bass/Vocals
Joshua Ihler - Drums/Percussion/Vocals

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Bad Optics Seattle, Washington

Bad Optics is an art punk band that creates music for the encroaching singularity.

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