Just like in "The Wizard of Oz", the "man beind the curtain" pulls the strings and runs the show in politics and big business. Target selected; then dead-headed like a flower. We are manipulated. We are kept out in the dark.

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The world of politics and of big business is about marketing, about selling people an image, not providing a reality. Politicians are groomed and controled by their "handlers", and business act without any ethics at all - mostly for power and money. Behind it all are the power brokers, the people behind the curtain who control it all.

Verse 1
Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
he's pulling all the strings and it's his words that you hear.
Pay no attention. If you look then it is certain.
You wont like what it brings, when you understand and fear.

Verse 2
Silk suits of mammon, line the corridors of power
The deals are cruel deeds, done in boardrooms cold and stark.
Target selected; then dead-headed like a flower.
We are manipulated. We are kept out in the dark.

Chorus

Things are not what they would seem. sheeple walking in a dream.
They pretend that things are fine. Drunk on propaganda's wine.

Verse 3
Don't be distressed by all the suffering you are seeing.
It isn't really real. Close your eyes it won't be there.
It's entertainment. Watch the news and see them fleeing.
Just swallow all our lies, turn to ice and do not care.

Chorus

Things are not what they would seem. sheeple walking in a dream.
They pretend that things are fine. Drunk on propaganda's wine.

Verse 1

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.
he's pulling all the strings and it's his words that you hear.
Pay no attention. If you look then it is certain.
You wont like what it brings, when you understand and fear.

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