BANANASUTRA

Baloney Brain

One-click clickbait, ducky-dick schemes... If honesty’s a souvenir, Screw normalcy, pass me the beer.

Beep-beep goes my baloney brain, / Singing louder than the fear campaign.

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
They got loudspeakers and newspeak dreams,
One-click clickbait, ducky-dick schemes,
Holy hashtags, doomsday feeds,
Hella dirtbag creeds, deeds of greed…

Biased headlines grin, “Choose a side!”
Rent-a-rage, discounted pride,
But I’m no dick, lost in lust,
Not bamboozled… in truth I trust.

[Chorus]
Beep-beep goes my baloney brain,
When you sell me thunder praising pain.
I’m not cynical, I’m just free;
I believe in doubt and decency.

[Verse 2]
Piffle! Paffle! Pomp and prattle,
Baffle with a culture battle.
Smirk merchants, slogan surgeons,
Mining mayhem, farming urgings.

FOTUS flexes, flex gets floppy;
Egos echo, roger, copy.
Patriot pageants, plastic pride,
Truth keeps hitchhiking off to the side.

Bluster, blinker, blinkered bunch,
Crunching conscience, just a hunch…
Smoke-and-mirror merry-go-round,
Pricks high on roar, loud gets found.

[Dub Toaster Bridge]
Babble bubble, bubba babble,
Boil the kettle, stir the rabble.
Hocus-FOTUS, pokus hokey,
Deadly serious… looking pokey.

Bananasutra, conscience spinning,
Side-eye tripping, still not sinning.
I don’t pickle my peace for panic,
Or trade my giggle for the great titanic.

I sip my thoughts, I tune my string,
Question almost everything.
If honesty’s a souvenir,
Screw normalcy, pass me the beer.

[Final Chorus]
Beep-beep goes my baloney brain,
Dodging every dopamine train.
No shame-plated puppet show
Gets to tell my soul where to go.

Beep-beep goes my baloney brain,
Singing louder than the fear campaign.
If that’s bonkers… well, maybe, friend…
But baloney’s where baloney ends.

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