| Liquid crystals beaming brands
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| Against a skyline scraped by buildings and
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| A strand of sand moistened by the gentle hand
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| Of the waves that slowly cleanse the land
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| Of sins forgotten
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| Some say this place is rotten
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| But it’s the only home that I’ve ever known
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| Basked in washed-out neon tones
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| Structures of stone shall mask the unknown
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| Graphite colored streets gridded neatly
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| Edged by walls of grease and graffiti
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| Plots of land of where the palm trees sway
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| Next to the alleyways in decay
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| Reflected screens in serene puddles
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| Disturbed by trucks, exiting tunnels
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| Splashing pedestrians of the evening
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| My city stays living and breathing (breathing)
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| San Secuestro: where the dregs and best go
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| To seek fortunes in escrow
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| Most rob, cheat and steal for their nest, though
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| The rest process the echo (echo)
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| I process the system, the network
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| Propagating data for hire — a true expert
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| Corporate interests keep the lights on
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| Coding up the dirt in Python (Python)
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| Well its another balmy evening in San Secuestro, 78°
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| With another light drizzle expected tomorrow morning
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| In business news the five major telecom carriers have successfully petitioned
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| for their merger
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| Electing to go under the name «The Syndicate»
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| The CEO of the newly-formed entity, Nice Guiman, has personally ensured his
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| company’s pledge to unregulated and unrestricted Internet
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| Even though his company now has an effective monopoly
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| Controlling over 85% of wired and wireless communications in the country
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| One can only hope the hard-fought battle for this merger
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| Which required extensive lobbying by multiple telecommunication and special
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| interest groups
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| Will not adversely affect the average consumer in pricing and usage
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| Here’s Brandon with sports
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| Beneath this silicon paradise
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| Is an underground that we founded on rights
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| Cryptographic ciphertexts
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| And undernets in this wild-wild west
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| Keeping the faucet of information
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| Unobstructed by most complications
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| Swapping source code data methods
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| Keeping our trade extra-protected
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| While this city sleeps we defend
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| Every bit of these bits that we send
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| Behind benign hosting we run blind
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| Anonymous VPNs and cold lines
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| Hit paths and tumbled reassembled
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| Shot back through our data temples
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| Catastrophe is not coming, its here
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| San Secuestro: the point of the spear
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| Welcome to San Secuestro |