Lyrics

Wasps to Honey

It takes a certain kind of measure,
Transforming genius into gold.
Like an orgasmic venal pleasure
That only leaves you cold.

Sweet, decadent sensation
Exists for nothing but itself
A suicidal situation
Profit over all else

Can you hear the swarm a comin’?
Sleek suits, red ties,
Fortune clinging like the truth to lies.
Like wasps to honey,
That swarm don’t care ‘bout who made their money.
Bright whites, glib eyes
What’s it take to forget those lies?
Like wasps to honey
Swarm after swarm, and they just keep on coming

It’s just an automatic gesture
When you train it from birth.
Reach in to apply pressure
And squeeze for all it’s worth.

Can you hear the hive a buzzin’?
Sleek suits, red ties
Fortune clinging like the truth to lies.
Like wasps to honey,
That swarm don’t care ‘bout who made their money.
Bright whites, glib eyes
What’s it take to forget those lies?
Like wasps to honey
Swarm after swarm, and they just keep on coming, yeah!

“Some of the most infamous human rights violations of this era, which have tended to be viewed as sadistic acts carried out by anti-democratic regimes, were in fact either committed with the intent of terrorising the public or actively harnessed to prepare the ground for radical free-market ‘reforms’.”
- Naomi Klein (The Shock Doctrine)

“…under capitalism, we can’t have democracy by definition. Capitalism is a system in which the central institutions of society are in principle under autocratic control. Thus, a corporation or an industry is, if we were to think of it in political terms, fascist; that is, it has tight control at the top and strict obedience has to be established at every level - there’s little bargaining, a little give and take, but the line of authority is perfectly straightforward. Just as I’m opposed to political fascism, I’m opposed to economic fascism. I think that until the major institutions of society are under the popular control of participants and communities, it’s pointless to talk about democracy.”
- Noam Chomsky

“Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self-interest backed by force…”
- George Bernard Shaw

(Marek Vermin)