Irony. Utility. Pretext. chords by
Algiers

Verse 2
Yeah, it's a noise just to drown us out
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But when your time has come
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We'll all be there
Just to watch you fall
And then one by one

Verse 3
All the parasites will just fall off
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You put your vote in a ballot box
This one's marked UNDP
Inscribe your tyrant's name in blood
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Choice is the guillotine

Verse 4
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We'll put our faith into Afro Pop
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In a decolonized context
Espouse the aesthetes
Contempt for ethos
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Irony, utility, pretext
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But all you just say

Verse 5
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Embrace primitive man
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(You say) destroy primitive man
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(You say) embrace primitive
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man
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(You say) with our art,
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we'll transcend again
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(You say) destroy primitive
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man
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(You say) embrace primitive
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man
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man
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(You say) with our art,
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we'll transcend again

Interlude 1

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Verse 6
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You put your hand out to shake
Then they export you in chains
You fought for centuries for change
And they gave you more of the same
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Verse 7
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They swapped the dogs and the cross
For sublimated forestalling
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They changed the names of the boss
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Until you forgot who it was
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Interlude 2

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Verse 8
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Find your favorite color
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So you can wash it out in your hymns
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Correcting primitive cracks
into straight lines
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Superiority is born again

Verse 9
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We'll put our faith into Afro Pop
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In a   decolonized context
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Espouse the aesthetes
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Contempt for ethos
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Irony, utility, pretext
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But all you can say is Embrace

Verse 10
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primitive man
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(You say) destroy prim
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itive man
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(You say) embrace prim
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itive man
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we'll transcend again
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(You say) destroy primitive man
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(You say) embrace prim
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itive man
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(You say) destroy primitive man
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(You say) with our art,
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we'll transcend again