Surveillance Theater

from A Mnemonic Awakening by Porcelain Lovecraft

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Gone was the average family man
With the teeth crushed by his hands
We hope this sordid tale alludes
To the agents watching over you

Frozen by the innocent cool calm collected message of my child
She's got a lot nerve to stage such a grand escape
Captured by the insolent impertinent rebellious ghost of denial
The mirror reviles a face that i've grown to hate

Under the glass and mahogany frame
Tracking my daughter and how she behaves
Voyeuristic reconnaissance eye
Selling her privacy under a guise
Calculating the demise of some son of a bitch advocated by clemency

The serial prints and paints the hand
(Holding the wheel of a neighbor's van)
But it wasn't
It was just a lone predator
(Looking for game at the watering hole)
Violence captures the law of civilized man
(Hatches the scheme he gleans from Pan)
Nature is red in tooth and claw
(As they descend on the throat of the fawn)

Privacy's for sale
(Hoist the suspensors)
Agencies terrorizing the citizens
(Fasten restraints
Lower him down)
That they're infantilizing
(On the chevalet)
Data's (the) Holy Grail
(Bellowing sounds)
For companies subsidizing
(As you add the weights
Hear his affliction)
Subconscious media that they're sexualizing
(As you mutilate)

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from A Mnemonic Awakening, released March 22, 2021

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