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Automatons with business suits clinging black boxes,
Sequestering the blueprints of daily life
Contented, free of care, they rejoice in morning ritual
As they file like drone ant colonies to their office in the sky
I don't ask questions, don't promote demonstrations,
Don't look for new consensus, don't stray from constitution
If I pierce the complexity I won't find salvation
Just the bald and over truth
Of the evil and deception
There is an inner logic,
And we're taught to stay far from it
It is simple and elegant,
But it's cruel and antithetic
And there's no effort to reveal it
Graduated mentors stroll in marbled brick porticos
In sagacious dialog they despise their average ways
Displaying pomp and discipline, they mold their institution
Where they practice exclusion on the masses every day
Decorated warriors drill harmless kids on pavement
Simulating tyranny under red alert
Protecting the opulent and staging moral standard
They expect redemption of character and self-growth
(no equality, no opportunity,
No tolerance for the progressive alternative)
Sequestering the blueprints of daily life
Contented, free of care, they rejoice in morning ritual
As they file like drone ant colonies to their office in the sky
I don't ask questions, don't promote demonstrations,
Don't look for new consensus, don't stray from constitution
If I pierce the complexity I won't find salvation
Just the bald and over truth
Of the evil and deception
There is an inner logic,
And we're taught to stay far from it
It is simple and elegant,
But it's cruel and antithetic
And there's no effort to reveal it
Graduated mentors stroll in marbled brick porticos
In sagacious dialog they despise their average ways
Displaying pomp and discipline, they mold their institution
Where they practice exclusion on the masses every day
Decorated warriors drill harmless kids on pavement
Simulating tyranny under red alert
Protecting the opulent and staging moral standard
They expect redemption of character and self-growth
(no equality, no opportunity,
No tolerance for the progressive alternative)
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I believe that this song is about the small group of opulent people that control most of what happens to us. Lobbyists, bankers, oil executives, these people have far greater power and I think this song refers to the possibility that they form a sort of oligarchy or an "inner logic" similar to the term "inner party" in the book 1984.
If I pierce the complexity I won't find salvation Just the bald and overt truth of the evil and deception There is an inner logic"
The complexity is the events that take place behind closed doors among the world most powerful individuals that potentially affect laws and human treatment, and the term inner logic refers to the knowledge possessed by these inner circles of society. The words "content and free of care, they rejoice in morning ritual" refers to the fact that these super-rich oligarchs still engage and require basic human desires such as breakfast with the family etc. and yet they somehow justify manipulating the world to their bidding.
"Decorated warriors drill harmless kids on pavement Simulating tyranny under red alert Protecting the opulent and staging moral standard They expect redemption of character and self-growth"
This refers to the iron-grip the military holds on its employees. They recruit children in highschool and other people to fight needless wars to perpetuate our perpetual war economy, protecting the opulent.
"Graduated mentors stroll in marbled brick porticos In sagacious dialog they despise their average ways Displaying pomp and discipline, they mold their institution Where they practice exclusion on the masses every day"
This I believe is about people who spend their whole lives dedicated to scholarly pursuits, speaking in sagacious dialog and despising the fact that they aren't in on the closed-door proceedings even though they are mentally astute enough to deserve access. They become snobby, "displaying pomp" and create their own inner circles where they attempt to practice their own exclusion.
I'd be interested in hearing if anyone agrees\disagrees with me.