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bob avakian - all played out lyrics

[intro]
all played out
we must broadly unite
to carry out the fight
to resist the crimes
of this system
but on the real revolution
is the only solution
so we need to call out
things whose time has run out
which keep people in chains
suffering unbearable pain
these things are:
all played out!

[verse 1]
capitalist vultures++
big+time and world+wide exploiters++
preaching
about “personal responsibility,”
ranting
about “predators” and criminality
terrorizing the youth
in the inner cities
while you loot
everywhere you see
slaughter pеople and rain destruction
through crimes untold++
all to еnforce your rule
and amass your gold
on the backs of billions
chaining them in slavery
new and old
your time in history++
it’s gone++it’s:
all played out!
[verse 2]
this puffed+up
stuff
about “the land of the free
and the home of the brave”++
a country that built itself on bodies
of slaves
and ruthless, genocidal robbery
that spreads its empire
through plunder
driving countless people
under
with its bl++dy
red+white+and+blue rag
unfurled++
all this pompous
nonsense
about “the leader
of the free world”++
that’s:
all played out!

[verse 3]
vicious politicians and mindless mobs
screaming and threatening
hounding people
driven from their homelands++
growling and howling: “speak english!…
or go home!”
these fools aren’t saying anything
worthwhile
in any tongue++
it’s the same old song
they’ve always sung:
“fade deeper in the shadows
suffer in silence
while you slave
to create wealth
we crave++
it’s our way
backed up by violence.”
this garbage is:
all played out!
[verse 4]
people of privilege, demanding their “right”
to be a parasite
whining about how things aren’t good
like they used to be
back in the day
when things were done
in an even worse way++
look you in the face
say it’s not about race
or keeping half of humanity down
but want you in “your place,”
if you’re a woman
or black, or brown
what this is++it’s:
all played out!

[verse 5]
“n+gga”++a homicidal epithet:
from days of slave ship
nightmare
plantation overseers with whips
lynch mobs
racist whites on power trips++
repeated still now by far too many
openly racist or hyped
as “hip” and “cool”++
fratboys blasting rap
who do they think they fool?”
“n+gga”: a word that bites
deeper than a frothing rabid beast
that shouts the horror
of centuries
cruelty
and brutality++
a word n0body should want to use++
a word that just can’t be made good
even if a “shout out”
to homies in the hood
this word
and everything it stands for++
it’s long past time it be:
all played out!
[verse 6]
modern+day uncle toms
“respectable negroes,”
who squawk out poison
parrot
lies
of powers+that+be
package slander
as the “truth,”
never fail to blame the youth++
even slam them as “our worst enemy.”
oh, you bootl!cking
wannabe
second class bourgeoisie++
you’re:
all played out!

[verse 7]
reverends and the rest++
not ones who really stand with the oppressed
but those who strut and preach
to keep the people down
on their knees
suffering
indignities;
who put the blame on those un+free
for ways that they are kept in misery;
pompous, self+righteous asses
who breathe contempt for the masses
fools who worship
the powers+that+be
insisting that things stay locked
within the bounds
of bargains
with the bourgeoisie:
all played out!

[verse 8]
backward+ass athletes and entertainers
wearing a cross
slavish
symbol of submission
never making it their mission
to use their position
to help people rise up
never raise
a fist
but point a foolish finger to the sky
“giving praise”++
helping to spread the lie
that in this system
“you can make it if you try,”
so if you’re poor and beaten down
it’s you to blame
never demanding to know why
if some supposed god controls all this
so many suffer needlessly
shame
should be on such a god
if it existed
but all this god+talk
is just twisted
“it’s all in god’s hands
leave it to the lord”
just helps this system stay in power
when bowing to lords and masters
should be over
all this too, it’s:
all played out!

[verse 9]
falling for that game
caught up in those lies
about obama++
how he’s bringing peace
and something really new++
when he does the same
as done before:
still using torture
no better than john yoo
and that whole crew;
waging unjust wars
that never cease
you look the other way
time after time
day after day
at all the crimes
against humanity
under obama’s command
and with his decree
he talks
about getting beyond race
his is just a different face
that covers
all too familiar murder
and brutality
by sneering pigs
who hunt down youth
in inner cities
you should know, this game is:
all played out!

[verse 10]
elections where, if you’re looking for a better world
no matter how you choose++
yes, p.s., you lose++
you’re always left deflated
and frustrated
because the politicians
and elections
are cogs
in a machine
part of a system
that runs and rules by treating human beings
and the earth
as things to be exploited
and despoiled
believing the hype
putting your faith
in this bourgeois democracy
this lie of “people’s sovereignty”++
come on, it’s:
all played out!

[verse 11]
placing your hand over your heart
honoring the rag
of u.s. imperialism
doing your part
to prove you are “respectable”++
will do only what’s “acceptable”++
pledging allegiance to this flag
bowing down to this monstrosity
that causes so much horror
for humanity:
all played out!

[verse 12]
“i got my mind on my money
and my money on my mind”++
that craziness
about being like “scarface,”
acting without a trace
of humanity
plundering and violating
without remorse
k!lling and dying
for no good purpose
give it up++it’s:
all played out!

[verse 13]
men thinking it’s their right
to order women around
and misuse them
to degrade and abuse them
talking all that talk
about “b+tches and hoes”+
and if she’s pregnant
she can’t have an abortion
’cause “she shoulda kept her legs closed.”
assertion of “manhood”++
or talk of “protecting womanhood”++
which still means keeping women
subordinated
and dominated
all this garbage about woman being less
than man
less than fully human++
that’s:
all played out!

[verse 14]
disrespecting
people who love
someone of the same s+x++
treating them as objects
of contempt
d+gg+ng them, beating them down
for being “different.”
religious tradition
encoding oppression
authority invoked
to enforce suppression
of s+xuality
in forms
that are outside
the “norms”
that are proclaimed “natural”
and “god+ordained”++
“norms” that, in reality, enforce exploitation
perpetuate patriarchy
and male domination
all this, too, is:
all played out!

[verse 15]
“shop until you drop”++
buy, buy, buy!
“you are what you own”++
your worth
is what
you purchase
i, i, i
throngs gathering to scramble
for the latest “i+toy” rage
but not to resist injustice
and endless outrage:
all played out!

[verse 16]
tabloid addiction
and gossip slinging++
treating as prominent
what is really trivial
making what really matters
seem invisible
acting like mobs
in roman arena
sneering and “snarking”
with a vicious demeanor
building yourself up
by tearing other people down:
all played out!

[verse 17]
putting up with all this
madness
even though you know it’s wrong++
being passive++
thinking how they want you thinking
acting just to get along
singing that old song
that though the crimes are terrible
and massive
“nothing can be done about this
nothing can change++
because of `human nature’
things are bound to be this way
revolution++that was tried
and it failed
communism++voice dissent
and they’ll haul you off to jail;
with communism
they take away your freedom.”
we say that’s just wrong++
plus there’s a new synthesis++
there are speeches
books with deep +n+lysis
but you don’t read them
won’t hear them
or go near them++
you remain in paralysis
like that you’re:
all played out!

[verse 18]
a so+called “left” that, to tell the truth
finds it frightening
and distasteful
to change the world++
radically++
at its root++
disgraceful!
a “left” that is content
with posing
devoid of rage
or joy
its passion spent
deceiving mimic
miming what it claims to be opposing
rejects the path of revolution
insists there can be only one “solution”
that is viable
and desirable++
reform
within the confines of this system
change conforming
to the dictates of this brutal order
talks forever of “democracy”++
cover for dictatorship
of bourgeoisie
politics of “identity”
that really comes back down to
“me.”
if it speaks of “socialism,”
it is tired out
dried up dogma++
no reality++
lacking fire, ferment, and conviction
impoverished imagination
lowered vision
the change it talks about
is paltry fiction
lifeless
desiccated
can’t lead anyone
to be emanc+p+ted
a “left” like that is:
all played out!

[verse 19]
this whole d+mn system
root and source
of all this madness:
all played out!

[verse 20]
rupture, advance
beyond all that
no doubt++
putting an end
to this insanity++
working for revolution
to emanc+p+te all humanity:
that’s what we got to be all about
all the rest that poses
and opposes
what cries out to be done++
it needs to be over
and gone
it’s:
all played out!

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