Afternoon Matinee: Protest - There's A War Going On For Your Mind

Performed by Flobots

There is a war going on for your mind

Media mavens mount surgical strikes

From Trapper Keeper collages

And online magazine racks

Cover girl cutouts throw up pop-up ads

Infecting victims with silicone shrapnel

Worldwide passenger pigeons deploy paratroopers

Now, it's raining pornography, lovers take shelter

Post-production debutantes

Pursue you in NASCAR chariots

They construct ransom letters from biblical passages

And bleed mascara into the holy water supplies

There is a war going on for your mind

Industry insiders slang test tube babies

To corporate crack heads

They flash logos and blast ghettos

Their embroidered neckties say, "Stop snitchin'"

Conscious rappers and whistleblowers get stitches

Made of acupuncture needles

And marionette strings

There is a war going on for your mind

Professional wrestlers and vice presidents

Want you to believe them

The desert sky is their blue screen

They superimpose explosions, they shout at you

Pay no attention to the men behind the barbed curtain

Nor the craters beneath the draped flags

Those hoods are there for your protection

And meteors these days are the size of corpses

There's a war going on for your mind

We are the insurgents

~ from Lyric Wiki ~