The Normalisation of Lies

Intro

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Ha

Ha-ha

Mm

Verse 1

Silver hair hides a habit of habituation

Flicking through the ledgers while they wait for transportation

Calculated cruelty in a very quiet room

Bespoke suits walking through a synthetic gloom

Trading your attention for a little digital grain

Watching every movement

Feeding every brain

Pre-Chorus

Wait for the spin

Let the story begin

Check the small print on the box

Change the passcodes on the locks

Chorus

The normalisation of lies

Comes with a wink and a prize

Wrapped in a patriotic bow

Everything we think we know

The normalisation of lies

Heavy blinkers on the eyes

Building up the cyber cage

Living for a center stage

Oh the normalisation

Lies lies lies

Verse 2

Oligarchs sipping from a hollowed out trophy

Found another sucker in a crypto catastrophe

Shiny new technocrat with a vision of the void

Keeping every peasant feeling very underemployed

Count the ghost money in the ledger on the cloud

Keeping us compliant

Keeping us proud

Pre-Chorus

Wait for the spin

Let the story begin

Check the small print on the box

Change the passcodes on the locks

Chorus

The normalisation of lies

Comes with a wink and a prize

Wrapped in a patriotic bow

Everything we think we know

The normalisation of lies

Heavy blinkers on the eyes

Building up the cyber cage

Living for a center stage

Oh the normalisation

Lies lies lies

Bridge

They sold the sun

They sold the rain

Then they rented back the pain

A thousand cuts

A million clicks

Caught between the dirty tricks

Chorus

The normalisation of lies

Comes with a wink and a prize

Wrapped in a patriotic bow

Everything we think we know

The normalisation of lies

Heavy blinkers on the eyes

Building up the cyber cage

Living for a center stage

Oh the normalisation

Lies lies lies

Post-Chorus

Ha ha ha

Selling the cage

Ha ha ha

Setting the stage

Lies

Lies

Lies