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One by oneThe stars grow dimAnd fall out of the skyAnd we gather round our shiny screensTo say the last goodbyeIn communion with a bunch of folksThat we don't know or seeIn the hope that we might feel somethingIn place of empathyAnd so it goes…Sure gonna miss themIs it wrong to cling to the past when life comes at you sofast?And the sleep of reason produces monstersAnd the sleep of reason produces monstersLies ride in style on a big red busWhile you walk into townAnd surrogates keep their cap locks onTo shout each other downAnd the levies that protected truthCan no longer hold the floodAnd expertise and experienceGet trampled in the mudAnd so it goes…Guess they had it comingSongtexteNow there's nothing that you can doTo convince them that it's trueAnd the sleep of reason produces monstersAnd the sleep of reason produces monstersIt's over now, you lost my friendMove on, just let it goSays a man who flies a confederate flagOn his profile just for showAnd when he hears someone point out that thingsAre much too male and whiteHe eases of the safety catchOn his second amendment rightsAnd so it goes…And the kids are alt-rightGiving license to all this hateIs gonna make our country greatAnd the sleep of reason produces monstersAnd the sleep of reason produces monstersIn this constant state of what the heckJust happened, you feel wokeBut through it all you treat it likeIt's just some kind of jokeAnd in the end, the greatest threat faced by democracy isn'tfascism or fanaticismBut our own complacencyAnd so it goes…Best pay attentionFor there's simply no guaranteeOf a happy ending to historyAnd the sleep of reason produces monstersAnd the sleep of reason produces monsters, producesmonsters, produces monsters Aus Songtexte Mania