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It's the morning of November 2nd, I'm heading to my record store because I know the new A Perfect Circle is out today. Yeah, there are also elections in the United States today... the whole world seems to have mobilized for these elections, with P. Diddy and DiCaprio sporting Vote or Die shirts, Bon Jovi and R.E.M. on tour pro-Kerry (or rather ANTI-bush), and even Bruce Springsteen, the "American hero," who was apolitical until yesterday, now embracing the Democratic candidate. On the other side, you have four Republican country dummies and the likes of Britney and Ricky Martin backing the hated bush.
It's done, I think. "eMOTIVe, Songs Of War And Peace," features on its cover a city ablaze, destroyed by bombings. And with a huge worn-out peace symbol. Indeed.
"All I am saying is just to give peace a chance" said John Lennon 30 years ago, recalled in this album through a dark version of Imagine, transformed from a message of hope into a resigned dream of peace. I spend the day in bed, carried away by the atmospheres and quotes from this album. "What's Going on?" Maynard asks in the stunning reinterpretation of the classic Gaye, while Howerdel asserts "I can't understand what makes a man hate another man..." in People Are People by the famous Depeche Mode. MJK then lets the darkest human side emerge in Let's Start A War, another gem in which he transforms into a waters/wall-style dictator, and in Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie, true anthems to greed and the thirst for power.
The text messages, meanwhile, disturb me.
The only two new tracks, Passive and Counting Bodies Like Sheep On The War Drums, the first being a true APC gem, featuring guest Reznor and Lohner (credited in the APC line-up alongside Paz Lechantin returning after the Zwan fiasco) from NIN, while the second is a hypnotic reinterpretation of Pet (featured on "Thirteen Step") transformed into a true war march (the video is great). "Relax, everything is fine" reads a propaganda poster inside the booklet. "Freedom Of Joice" invoke the Devo through A Perfect Circle.
I wake up at night, turn on the TV. I can't believe it. The sheep have won.
GO BACK TO SLEEP... shhhh sleep tight...
Tracklist Lyrics and Videos
01 Annihilation (02:13)
From dehumanization to arms production,
For the benefit of the nation or its destruction
Power, power, the law of the land,
Those living for death will die by their own hand,
Life's no ordeal if you come to terms,
Reject the system dictating the norms
From dehumanization to arms production,
To hasten the nation towards its destruction
Power, power, the law of the land,
Those living for death will die by their own hand,
Life's no ordeal if you come to terms,
Reject the system dictating the norms
From dehumanization to arms production,
To hasten the nation towards its destruction
Power, power, the law of the land,
Those living for death will die by their own hand,
Life's no ordeal if you come to terms,
Reject the system dictating the norms
From dehumanization to arms production,
To hasten this nation towards its destruction,
It's your choice, your choice, your choice, your choice,
Peace or annihilation
02 Imagine (04:48)
Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today...
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one
Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...
You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one
05 Passive (04:10)
"Dead as dead can be", my doctor tells me
But I just can't believe him, ever the optimistic one
I'm sure of your ability to become my perfect enemy
Wake up and face me,
don't play dead 'cause maybe
Someday I will walk away and say,
"You disappoint me",
Maybe you're better off this way
Leaning over you here, cold and catatonic
I catch a brief reflection of what you could and might have been
It's your right and your ability
To become my perfect enemy
Wake up (we'll catch you) and face me (come one now),
Don't play dead (don't play dead) 'cause maybe ('cause maybe)
Someday I will (someday I'll) walk away and say,
"You disappoint me",
Maybe you're better off this way
Maybe you're better off this way
Maybe you're better off this way
Maybe you're better off this way
You're better of this... you're better off this...
Maybe you're better off!
Wake up (why can't you?) and face me (come on now),
Don't play dead (don't play dead) 'cause maybe ('cause maybe)
Someday I will (someday I'll) walk away and say,
"You fucking disappoint me!"
Maybe you're better off this way
Go ahead and play dead
I know that you can hear this
Go ahead and play dead
Why can't you turn and face me?
Why can't you turn and face me?
Why can't you turn and face me?
Why can't you turn and face me?
You fucking disappoint me!
Passive aggressive bullshit
06 Gimmie Gimmie Gimmie (02:18)
Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme
I need more, I need more
Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimmie
Don't ask what for, don't ask what for
Sitting here like a loaded gun
I'm waiting to go off
I've got nothing to do but
Shoot my mouth off
Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme
I need more, I need more
Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme
Don't ask what for, don't ask what for
I know the worlds got problems
I've got problems of my own
They ain't the kind that can be solved with an
Atom bomb
Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme
I need more, I need more
Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme
Don't ask what for, don't ask what for
You know I gotta go out
Get something for my head
If I keep on doing this
I'm gonna end up dead
Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme
I need more, I need more
Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme
Don't ask what for, don't ask what for
Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme
I need more, I need more
Gimme, gimme, gimme, gimme
Don't ask what for, dont ask what for
08 Freedom of Choice (02:59)
We're victims of sedition on an open sea
No one ever said life was free
Sink, swim, go down with the ship
Just use your freedom of choice
I'll say it again, in the land of the free
Use your freedom of choice, freedom of choice
In ancient Rome, there was a pawn
Who fallowed along, and watched it fall
He cast a stone, he felt secure
He felt that he would never be heard
Freedom of choice
Is what you've got
Freedom of choice
Giving it a voice, you don't want it
Seems to be the rule of thumb
But don't be tricked by what you see
You've got two ways to go
I'll say it again, in the land of the free
Use your freedom of choice, freedom of choice
Freedom of choice
Is what you've got
Freedom of choice
In ancient Rome, there was a pawn
Who fallowed along, and watched it fall
He cast a stone, he felt secure
He felt that his voice would never be heard
Freedom of choice
Is what you've got
Freedom from choice
Is what you want
Freedom of choice
Is what you've got
Freedom from choice
Is what you want
Freedom from choice
Is what you want
Freedom from choice
10 Counting Bodies Like Sheep to the Rhythm of the War Drums (05:36)
Don't fret precious, I'm here
Step away from the window
And go back to sleep
Safe from pain, and truth, and choice
And other poison devils
See they don't give a fuck about you
Like I do
Countin' bodies like sheep
Countin' bodies like sheep
Countin' bodies like sheep to the rhythm of the war drums
Countin' bodies like sheep
Go back to sleep
Go back to sleep
Go back to sleep
Countin' bodies like sheep to the rhythm of the war drums
Go back to sleep
Go back to sleep
Countin' bodies like sheep to the rhythm of the war drums
Go back to sleep
Go back to sleep
Countin' bodies like sheep
Go back to sl...
Go back to sleep
Go back to sleep
Go back to sleep
Go back to sleep
Countin' bodies like sheep
Go back to sleep
Go back to sleep
Countin' bodies like sheep
Go back to sleep
Go back to sleep
Countin' bodies like sheep to the rhythm of the war drums
Go back to sleep
Go back to sleep
Countin' bodies like sheep to the rhythm of the war drums
Go back to sleep
Go back to sleep
Countin' bodies like sheep to the rhythm of the war drums
Just sleep, just sleep, just sleep
Go back to sleep
I'll be the one to protect you from
Your enemies and all your demons
I'll be the one to protect you from
A will to survive, and a voice of reason
I'll be the one to protect you from
Your enemies and your choices, son
One in the same I must isolate you
Isolate and save you from yourself
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