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Insufficient facts
make up for a frail foundation
Breeding the obscene
for the opinion customized
insight null and substance void
upon these wheels our world will roll
Let it be decided
who will take the blame?
Another soul to drain
What is it that we see?
One thought bringing it down
Original sinners
One thought bringing it down
Switch it off
Has it come to this?
enjoying things by proxy
live through others
die just like the rest
We all end up screaming a little louder
to cover up another piece of silence
Punch another hole through media
Turn it off
One thought bringing it down
Original sinners
One thought bringing it down
Switch it off
Brace for impact
to once a greater vision
our lives now stand to fall
This tyranny of fear
a stranglehold on us
stronger day by day
time to turn it off
One thought bringing it down
Original sinners
One thought bringing it down
Switch it off
make up for a frail foundation
Breeding the obscene
for the opinion customized
insight null and substance void
upon these wheels our world will roll
Let it be decided
who will take the blame?
Another soul to drain
What is it that we see?
Original sinners
One thought bringing it down
Switch it off
enjoying things by proxy
live through others
die just like the rest
We all end up screaming a little louder
to cover up another piece of silence
Turn it off
One thought bringing it down
Original sinners
One thought bringing it down
Switch it off
to once a greater vision
our lives now stand to fall
a stranglehold on us
stronger day by day
time to turn it off
Original sinners
One thought bringing it down
Switch it off
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I agree with BE POS.
"Insufficient facts make up for a frail foundation Breeding the obscene for the opinion customized" ->The media don't always tell the truth, but rather what people want to hear. Or what they want people to hear.
"Has it come to this? enjoying things by proxy live through others die just like the rest" ->We don't live our own life. We live through what we see on TV. But we die anyway, withoiut even having lived.
"One thought bringing it down" -> You only need to think a little ("one thought") to realize that the media are feeding you nonsense, and "switch it off".
This song is urging us to free ourselves from the brainwashing, and think by ourselves.
This songs about the media and how they twist our thoughts, its urging us to' turn it off'
It could be only about the media, but I can see traces of a broader critique.The verse "One thought bringing it down, original sinners" seems to refer to "the original sin of humanity", that is, to eat from the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, [1] which suggests that the concept of the lyrics is actually a criticism of the a denial of the acquisition of knowledge that some interpretations of the Christian religion have as a doctrine, which may also extend to the false knowledge that many other religions represent in general.
The denial of knowledge is what keeps the faithful ignorant and dependent of religion. There is a reference to this in this verse:
"Has it come to this Enjoying things by proxy Live through others, just die like the rest"
... which is exactly what most religions do, makes you dependent on a "guide" who theoretically has the wisdom of life and will help you, but with that you don't live your own life, which on the other hand links to the other interpretation of the role of the media, which in this sense has the same effect.
This interpretation is confirmed by other verses such as: "Insufficient facts Make up for a frail foundation"
Which is one aspect of modern life, people always know only part of reality, do not have a broader view, and this leaves a person's intellectual foundation fragile.
In the end the lyrics seem to give us an incentive to "dare to know", losing our fear of the unknown:
"This tyranny of fear, a stranglehold on us Stronger day by day time to turn it off"
In this case the lyrics message could be summarized in one sentence: "Ignorance is not a virtue"
[1]About the reference to the bible, more can be read on this wikipedia’s article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_of_the_knowledge_of_good_and_evil#Meaning_of_good_and_evil
PS:sorry for any spelling mistakes, english is not my primary language