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[Intro: Ceriser, p-ink]
(What do we want? HEALTHCARE!)
(When do we want it? NOW!)
Welcome to METACORP!
Due to recent legislation,
all employee benefits have been suspended.
Please tap your card on the reader-...
Good morning, Chairman!
Your first meeting is in 20 minutes,
stock prices are up 37 percent.
Employee protests continue at all METACORP locations.
Attention! There is an intruder-...
There is an emergency bullet-- (oh, my!)
Urgent message for the motherfucker in charge...
what's up, Metacorp?
This is p-kill,
here to fulfill a contract from your beloved workers
have a seat and enjoy this sick beat
for you to eat shit to!
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[Verse 1: p-kill, Ceriser]
Mirror-spec, I run the 'net (who?)
I stack the deck with flechette casettes (who?)
I'm bringin' heck to your megaplex (who?)
inject the tech debt with a pinky-flex (oooh!)
you're infected
call your mom up, dejected (call your mom up!)
your console's red-ringed disconnected (get her on up!)
got a new respect for the lord of tech (respect the tech)
bow down or get wrecked where you stand corrected (or get wrecked!)
I'm gonna take
I'm gonna break
everything in my way
leave flames in my wake
I'm but a meme,
ghost in a screen,
watching your dreams,
I'll feed you screams 'til you wake
Fuck your bots,
I'll fill your thoughts with cinderblocks
so stop the clock and call the doc 'cause
every damn line I hock at these jocks
got 'em locked in heap of plastic and plate
[Chorus: Ceriser]
Intanetto! Kiken'na casetto!
Intanetto! Haiite kuru kansen!
Okasan ni, denwa suru!
Respect the tech, or get wrecked!
[Verse 2: Ceriser, p-kill]
You got one move
and it's not giving two shits
you roll deuces,
we survived two crits
You got the funds, and
you got the guns, but
we got your son, so
here comes the fun bit
boots so thick, your steps become thunder
took to much, we took your boy wonder
sic illegitimi carborundum
hayaku, kid, get the fuck in the gundam!
[Bridge: Ceriser]
You take our very breath away
you take until your soul decays
you take our lives, so now you're gonna pay
you take 'til your heart is
plastic and plate
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LYRICS
Mirror-spec, I run the 'net
I stack the deck with flechette casettes
I'm bringin' heck to your megaplex
inject the tech debt with a pinky-flex
you're infected,
call your mom up, dejected
your console's red-ringed, disconnected
got a new respect for the lord of tech,
bow down or get wrecked while you stand corrected
I'm gonna take,
I'm gonna break,
everything in my way
leave flames in my wake
I'm but a meme,
ghost in a screen,
watching your dreams,
I'll feed you screams 'til you wake
Fuck your bots,
I'll fill your thoughts with cinderblocks
stop the clock and call the doc,
'cause every damn line I hock at these jocks
got 'em locked in heap of plastic and plate
You got one move and it's not giving two shits
you roll deuces, we survived two crits
You got the funds,
and you got the guns,
but we got your son
so here comes the fun bit
suit so rich, your steps become thunder
took to much, we took your boy wonder
sic illegitimi carborundum
hayaku, kid, get the fuck in the gundam!
You take our very breath away
you take until your soul decays
you take our lives, so now you're gonna pay
you take 'til your heart is plastic and plate
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PLASTIC & PLATE is the music track for the opening cinematic of GLEAMPUNK, a non-existent action game set in a near-future where corporations hold all the power and laborers get worked to death. (Wait, what year is it?)
The original track was made in 48 hours, and won first place in the OST JAM CRUNCHTIME 2: CYBERPUNK:
itch.io/jam/ost-composing-jam-crunchtime-02/rate/1780024
In it, rapper-hacker-activist `pkill` traps the Metacorp CEO in the elevator on the way to his office, and serves him up a beat-down that he'll never forget.
The track focuses around flamboyant anti-corporatism, and touches on themes of income inequality, corporate greed, transhumanism, and collective action.
Cyberpunk isn't just about technology -- it's about the ways that technology changes society. The lyrics draw heavily from communal cyberpunk lore -- mirrorshades, deckers, cyborgs, and daredevil shadowrunners -- but also highlights how technological advances, when left to their own devices, only serve to empower the already-powerful.
Oops, the cyberpunk future is the one we're living in right now.
released February 24, 2023
