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The Meninblack (Waiting for 'Em)

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We're not here to destroy
We are here to employ

We have come to make you function
So we can eat you at our functions

We are the meninblack
We are the meninblack
We are the meninblack

Information can destroy
So we'll treat you just like toys

Healthy livestock so we can eat
Human flesh is porky meat hee hee heeeeeeeeeeeeeee ...

We are the meninblack
We are the meninblack
We are the meninblack
We don't approve of artificial food
We grow you for our own good

First we gave you the wheel
Then we made you live to kill

So the best stock will survive
We eat you all alive

We are the meninblack
We are the meninblack
We are the meninblack

We are the meninblack
We are the meninblack
We are the meninblack
We are the meninblack
We are the meninblack
We are the meninblack
We are the meninblack

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boss Man On Aug 31, 2005

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by imrazor

16y ago

The Meninblack phenomenon is well known - but the cannibalism element seems to be a figment of JJ's imagination.

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by Suilebhain

13y ago

It's not cannibalism if, as some UFOlogists believe, the Meninblack are actually aliens. There is one lyric I disagree with here (and in every version I found). Where it says "so the best stock will survive, we eat you all alive", I have always heard it as "we KEEP you all alive", which would lead one to believe that perceived altruism on the part of government agencies and world organizations is really just a way to support the aliens' effort to produce a better food stock. It ties in with the idea that they "make us function" toward this end. While this could be argued in the light of the line "we made you live to kill", this is more of a "divide and conquer" strategy and not a contradiction to the idea that groups like WHO and the CDC are backed by aliens. Not that I believe that, heheh. after all, the song is a very paranoid piece, one of its attractions.

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