© 2023 Pantomime Riot

Jump on in and read the latest story
High definition keeps it nice and gory
Kim Jong Un is cool he wears Armani
And uses kittens when he trains his army
Global warming has us all scared shitless
I think they fixed it with the carbon process
Out in China every one is equal
think I seen it in a Star Wars sequel

Mind poppin with the deep deception
Can’t see through that thought correction
A Sweet mix of truth and lie
Eat it up like an apple pie
Scrolling through the constant drip feed
Well informed it’s all that you’ll need
Was it on the X Factor or in the Ukraine
Perhaps the Russian guy is really Bruce Wayne

MP’s breaking the official secrets
Call James Bond I don’t think he’ll be impressed
Naughty Boris in hasta la vista
Opens up on the west end next Easter
Think they're striking at the fire station
There's a new plan gonna beat inflation
Demonstrators chain themselves to fences
Superman said there’ll be consequences

Mind poppin with the deep deception
Can’t see through the thought correction
A Sweet mix of truth and lie
Eat it up like an apple pie
Scrolling through the constant drip feed
Well informed it’s all that you’ll need
Was it on the X Factor or in the Ukraine
Perhaps the Russian guy is really Bruce Wayne

The final act is on we’re all invited
get a front-row seat and be delighted
Get some fizzy drinks and sugar donuts
Log on later and watch all the out-cuts
It’s gonna be one best top-ten hits
Add in HD and save it to favorites
Just one thing that you maybe wanna know
This grim reality is not a TV show

Mind poppin with the deep deception
Can’t see through the thought correction
A Sweet mix of truth and lie
Eat it up like an apple pie
Scrolling through the constant drip feed
Well  informed it’s all that you’ll need
Was it on the X Factor or in the Ukraine
Perhaps the Russian guy is really Bruce Wayne

New Wave Function

DRIP FEED

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Token bullshit
No one cares
Eyes closed head down
Say your prayers
Evening blackout
Sirens cry
Slow death falling
Out the sky

Inside out roundabout
Can’t stand still the knives are out
Shifters switch up in the dark
Hooded up run through the park
Dirty rain is pissing down
flooded passage into town
Fists are clenched and axes grind
reality will soon unwind

Doors are all barred
Streets been closed
Local leaders
Been deposed
Long coat kids all
talk in code
Empty caps lie
in the road

Inside out roundabout
Can’t stand still the knives are out
Shifters switch up in the dark
Hooded up run through the park
Dirty rain is pissing down
flooding passage into town
Fists are clenched and axes grind
reality will soon unwind

Broken unit
Splinter cell
Someone’s heaven
Someone’s hell
Retouched picture
Different Frame
Planet spinning
Same old game

Inside out roundabout
Can’t stand still the knives are out
Shifters switch up in the dark
Hooded up run through the park
Dirty rain is pissing down
flooding passage into town
Fists are clenched and axes grind
reality will soon unwind

Flipside

FLIPSIDE

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Trade my time in  every day
Got spawn to feed and bills to pay
Can’t let no one lead me astray
Just stuff myself on life’s buffet
Spotlight on no place to hide
My head right down just stay onside
Elbow grease and grit applied
Stand up straight and dignified

Take my soul out from this cell
The walls close in feels like hell
Where has community gone
The days just seem to all drag on

Numb that skull with tins of ale
Them lines of beak will help you sail
To this weekend's oblivion
Back to Monday start again
Morning meeting daily whinge
Dogshit banter makes you cringe
Head is spinning patience gone
Feel that sick note coming on

Take my soul out from this cell
The walls close in feels like hell
Where has community gone
The days just seem to all drag on

I can’t stop staring at my phone
This place no longer feels like home
Follow orders like a sheep
Just twist and turn can’t fucking sleep
Head is banging make it stop
Slow this ride I’m getting off
Is anybody feeling free
And is this our true destiny

Take my soul out from this cell
The walls close in feels like hell
Where has community gone
The days just seem to all drag on

Realitorium

REALITORIUM

© 2023 Pantomime Riot

Heres the first and here’s the last
Answers hidden in the past
Power passing from hand to hand
Indoctrinated smothered land
Perceive the twisted history
Through your platinum wall TV
Truth and fiction merge as one
Decieptful webs so finely spun

It's not safe at Chernobyl
My video's gone viral
Photo-filtered image tweaks
I’ve not been out for thirteen weeks

Get yourself off down into town
And find out where the shit goes down
Perhaps there’s others who think this way
And won't wear it for another day
Egotistical caricatures
Fake news and media whores
All drinking from the same shit soup
Then going round in circles like a monkey troop 

It's not safe at Chernobyl
My video's gone viral
Photo-filtered image tweaks
Av not been out for thirteen weeks

Someone's hacked into the phone
Red light on the police drone
Take me off the electoral role
Twisted up on a curtain patrol
Frontal lobotomy is all I get
Can’t unplug from the internet
A think a might go underground
Poetic words sound so profound

It's not safe at Chernobyl
My video's gone viral
Photo-filtered image tweaks
Av not been out for thirteen weeks

Gone Viral

GONE VIRAL

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Youths living out of sleeping bags
Gaunt faces mostly dressed in rags
Bods passing for the evening show
Feed their conscience as they sling some dough
Heads down as the sights remind
Exactly why they do their daily grind
Making sure that they watch their back
Dog eat dog and I’m alright Jack

Lost souls are roaming with their eyes all glazed
Too many people living on the streets these days

She flinches to avoid that kick
Spit flying from some drunken dick
Laughs ringing as they torch his tent
Back  sleeping on the cold cement
Rows of bodies all their souls broken
Learn to sleep with an eye open
Pushed further down the waiting list
Stats buried like they don’t exist

Lost souls are roaming with their eyes all glazed
Too many people living on the streets these days

False promises from fancy suits
Noble claims about their own grassroots
Silky words help the election
Empty shit with no direction
Have some B&B please we insist
So we can take you off the housing list
Stick a plaster on a broken leg
Not a soul should ever have to beg

Lost souls are roaming with their eyes all glazed
Too many people living on the streets these days

New wave Function

Homeless

HOMELESS

© 2023 Pantomime Riot

Drop down from the city walls
Hack the camera protocols
The Five 0 making blue light turns
Just hold your breath as the rubber burns
Tread quiet on the broken glass
I Heard your pals turned midnight mass
Shots fired on the 18th floor
Statistic in a post-code war

Feds clocking is your cover blown
Texts buzzin from a spare trap phone
New wheels in the aunties name
Another year and then your out the game

Slide quiet through the underpass
Dirty spikes lying in the grass
Jump the bar on the wooden fence
Swerve the crew near the off-license
Same bullshit from a bunch of clowns
Won’t know what’s hit em when the beef goes down
New stash an a trusty Glock
Another package moves onto the block

Feds clocking is your cover blown
Texts buzzin from a spare trap phone
New wheels in your aunties name
Another year and then your out the game

Big doggy has the yungaz sling
Low profile but he’s caked in bling
He don’t know that his time has come
Jacks parking as they scope his drum
Missed the player in his own backyard
Empire falling like a house of cards
Door sledged on a dawn arrest
step on up because it’s your turn next

Feds clocking is your cover blown
Texts buzzin from a spare trap phone
New wheels in your aunties name
Another year and then your out the game

City Walls

CITY WALLS

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Check them windows house arrest
Cargo pants and combat vest
Scopes and drones and NME
Dark airborne paparazzi
Filthy pavement glasses on
Undercover liaison
Faceless sneak will never tire
Serial info falsifier

Blue rag correspondent
Hiding in that rubbish bin
Fingers twitch upon the keys
Concoct your filthy spin

Something old or something new
Telescopic HD view
Twist and cover just one side
Populations on a ride
Doped up tranquillized by fear
Could be New York or New Year
Arguments are folded flat
Comic tales and tin foil hats   

Blue rag correspondent
Hiding in that rubbish bin
Fingers twitch upon the keys
Concoct your filthy spin

Pace and place the narrative
Target dropped over a cliff
Victim footage hideous
Feeding the vicarious
Remotely tap into the phone
Data fed back to a clone
Dig the dirt and build the cage
Guaranteed to cause outrage

Blue rag correspondent
Hiding in that rubbish bin
Fingers twitch upon the keys
Concoct your  filthy spin

HACK

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Slipping through darkness with her master key
Patsy takes a book from the depository
Her fingers twitch as she turns the page
And bites right through her lip to conceal the rage

Deep State’s moving in and out
No one knows their names or their whereabouts
Flags are false as the fog surrounds 
and viewers feel and find another coup’s gone down

Hands in the cap feel the greenback grease 
And a dark gentle squeeze that will never cease
Defected elected dropping off the range 
Will slip out through the traffic on the interchange

Deep State moving in and out
No one knows their names or their whereabouts
Flags are false as the fog surrounds 
and viewers feel and find another coup’s gone down

Streets are littered and the walls all scorched
Silent figures look out from the porch
The schools are empty all the children gone
And no one can remember where it all began

Deep State moving in and out
No one knows their names or their whereabouts
Flags are false as the fog surrounds 
And viewers feel and find another coup’s gone down

DEEP STATE

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Eyes wide open room pitch black
You certified insomniac
Bow your head and dull your gleam
Pop more amitriptyline
Hands above the cracked ashtray
Can’t distinguish night from day
Childhood picture ripped in two
Your Sanity is black and blue

Mindfield
Exits concealed
Thoughts are unpeeled
Glitches revealed

Scribble thoughts into your phone
Skin ideas down to the bone
Twisted darkness never-ending
Down that spiraled path descending
Into sorrows cold embrace
Your heart and soul cannot be traced
Check the window streets pulsating
Confidence disintegrating

Mindfield
Exit concealed
Thoughts are unpeeled
Glitches revealed

Troll the curtains crouching low
God forbid the door might go
Flick through Insta one last time
Your alter ego so sublime
Flout and pout and misbehave
Your dinners in the microwave
Wipe the mirror move your hair
Is there anybody there?

Mindfield
Exit concealed
Thoughts are unpeeled
Glitches revealed

EARLY BRIGHT

MINDFIELD

MINDFIELD ft. NotyoBabby

© 2023 Pantomime Riot

Oh my god it’s kicking right off
Country’s all gone fucking west
Break that back around the mill-house
Pull some scratch and feed your nest
Milly won down at the races
John-Jo crashed his old man’s ride
Headphones on and lights all turned off
Kids get high on suicide.

Welcome to the holy shit show
Punch that ticket eat your meal
Don’t forget to like and subscribe
Zip that hood and grab your steel

Jimmy just ran out of lecky
Becky’s fridge is looking bare
Keaton just done all his tank in
Pulled some sort down at the fair
Can they really hold the fortress
When the lid comes off the blocks
Feel ignition in the suburbs
Sparking like a tinder box

Welcome to the holy shit show
Punch that ticket eat your meal
Don’t forget to like and subscribe
Zip that hood and grab your steel

Bailiffs banging on the window
Bounce over the neighbor's yard
Just enough to get a sandwich
Still four quid left on the card
Armored cars are in the city
Curfew starts at half past eight
Bobby’s just run down to Tesco
Grabbed some tins to celebrate

Welcome to the holy shit show
Punch that ticket eat your meal
Don’t forget to like and subscribe
Zip that hood and grab your steel

SHIT SHOW

© 2023 Pantomime Riot

Control systemic
Social pandemic
Connections are mailing
Your senses all failing
Input serrated
And automated
Plastic transistors
Pretend resistors
The what the why
Ingest the lie
Uncertain new borders
Hide civil disorders
The disinformation
Two digit inflation
Newsreels keep looping
Night drones still snooping

And then you feel your keeper
Starting to push you deeper
Thoughts and beliefs all spinning
The honest side is winning
Foretold events enacted
 edge of truth abstracted
The game now clearly seen
A slave who thinks their free

A Landscape of concrete
Community obsolete
The nightly incursions
And media diversions
Supply lines are tested
Development arrested
Segregation
Unified nation
The needle digs in
Absolving all sin
Continue the story
Of power and glory
The Facts and the fictions
Corrupted depictions
All Bridges now blown
Doves have all flown

And then you feel your keeper
Starting to push you deeper
Thoughts and beliefs all spinning
The honest side is winning
Foretold events enacted
The edge of truth abstracted
The game now clearly seen
A slave who thinks their free

Preventing subversion
A covert insertion
The fields all turned barren
A screeching air siren
The patterns are merging
The frontlines all surging
Delay deploy
Search and destroy
False flags now planted
Asylum is granted
The towns all on fire
The profits fly higher
Supply and demand
New chain of command
A picture so clear
No lilies grow here

And then you feel your keeper
Starting to push you deeper
Thoughts and beliefs all spinning
The honest side is winning
Foretold events enacted
The edge of truth abstracted
The game now clearly seen
A slave who thinks their free

THE GRID

© 2023 Pantomime Riot

Black leather and a six-inch wedge
Cold wind at the scraper's edge
Deny your program as the vortex rolls
Laughing at the closets in their pigeonholes
Insane they’ll twist inside out
Scared faces that begin to shout
They never got it and they never will
Waiting mouths open for a media fill

You never know until it hits close range
The dark aroma sends the kids deranged
White knuckles on the feris wheel
The jagged razor cuts have all congealed

East escalates as West demands
Grey suits clap and rub their hands
Did you see it on the news at ten
Mad Billy climbed the electronic tower again.
Head back as the rain pours down
Blood pissing from a barbed wire crown
Close sources say it's not that deep
Then climb under their duvets for some beauty sleep

You never know until it hits close range
The dark aroma sends the kids deranged
White knuckles on the feris wheel
The jagged razor cuts have all congealed

Cars scorch through the narrow streets
Smoke rises as they overheat
But no one listens to the rider's joys
Pushing in their silver earbuds to avoid the noise
Chaos renders and the waves collapse
Walls tremble as the mantle cracks
Crowds travel to the northern lights
To fly their tired banners and defend their rights

You never know until it hits close range
The dark aroma sends the kids deranged
White knuckles on the feris wheel
The jagged razor cuts have all congealed

Phone hangs from an android’s arm
Firewalls keep you safe from harm
Creeps smiling coz they think they’ll win
As they push another chip under your fragile skin
An angel swings from the hangman's noose
Armed response let the jackals loose
But if they hurry there will just be time
To turn their fucking script into a pantomime

You never know until it hits close range
The dark aroma sends the kids deranged
White knuckles on the feris wheel
The jagged razor cuts have all congealed

CLOSE RANGE

© 2023 Pantomime Riot

Scrolling on your Z phone and out the adverts pop
Your algorithmic AI friend will lead you as you shop
You ain’t quite got the dollar an it’s almost broke you're heart
Till you spot the handy option where you pay back in three parts

Strap on up for Christmas and watch your pocket bleed
Buy some ugly plastic shit that no one really needs
March into the New Year financially on your knees
If mortgage rates keep going up you're handing back the keys

Kids all need new trainers them Nikes look rather neat
Can’t have them walking out the door with cheap shit on their feet
Time to do the MOT your clutch is feeling lame
The neighbour’s bought that SUV you’ll need to up your game.

Strap on up for Christmas and watch your pocket bleed
Buy some ugly plastic shit that no one really needs
March into the New Year financially on your knees
If mortgage rates keep going up you're handing back the keys

Not to worry don’t feel down you can always grab that loan
Consolidate the other five you're almost halfway home
Is it any wonder the world is in such pain
All chasing around in circles of materialistic gain

Strap on up for Christmas and watch your pocket bleed
Buy some ugly plastic shit that no one really needs
March into the New Year financially on your knees
If mortgage rates keep going up you're handing back the keys

STRAP UP

© 2023 Pantomime Riot

Fire drops walls can’t  protect
Filthy water that will infect
Bleached bones in the midday sun
Shots rattle from a distant gun
Into the trailer single file
Another misplaced juvenile
Stench is strong as heads are bowed
Tightly packed no bags allowed

Dark waters to a better path
Slide away from the aftermath
Heard tales of a promised land
Can’t be far now close at hand.

Dipping under rusted wire
Leaving the frying pan for the fire
Slip down to the rugged shore
Face pressed to the salty floor
Push against the currents force
Whispering voices plot a course
Waves crashing as you start to slide
There’s no sign of the other side

Dark waters to a better path
Slide away from the aftermath
Heard tales of a promised land
Can’t be far now close at hand

Dirty bandage fallen slack.
Hands burnt from the last attack.
Biometrics have been destroyed.
The guard looks tired and seems annoyed.
Status can’t be verified
Documents won’t be supplied.
Ushered off to the holding cell.
Your latest twisted living hell.

Dark waters to a better path
Slide away from the aftermath
Heard tales of a promised land
Can’t be far now close at hand.

PROMISED LAND

© 2023 Van Crynes & Pantomime Riot

CATCH ME

Can’t even talk to the doc no more
She don’t listen man
She got her own s**t going on
Throw a load of them pills at ya
Knock ya f*****g sideways, can’t move for days
Had to stay off work
Went to town.
You see em all on the streets down there?
There's thousands of em
Gets worse every f*****g day man
People stepping over other people
It’s f*****g madness!

Living in the nightmare.
View it from your armchair
Act as though we don’t care
Better say your last prayer

Wake up every day but
Never try an ask what
Happens if we do not
Take it like a robot

Can’t even move coz your f****d
Scrolling through your phone like a zombie
Might as well just be wired up to the fucking thing
Androids that’s what we are like C3P  Opeless
Slaves man
Twenty thousand f*****g snaps to get a shot you post
Happy family f*****g jokes
Living the dream
insanity
Vanity hilarity

Living in the nightmare
View it from your armchair
Act as though we don’t care
Better say your last prayer

Wake up every day but
Never try an ask what
Happens if we do not
Take it like a robot

Living in the nightmare
View it from your armchair
Act as though we don’t care
Better say your last prayer

It's like we in that movie man
Drop the red drop the blue
Ain’t got a clue.
Sitting in one big f*****g meat grinder
Get taxed for breathing soon
Communication's down the toilet
Wouldn’t give the time of day
Can’t talk to no f****r
ain’t got the patience for it
'Bought this! Bought that!'
Here’s a picture of my Sunday dinner
Seriously are you having a f*****g laugh?

Living in the nightmare
View it from your armchair
Act as though we don’t care
Better say your last prayer

Wake up every day but
Never try an ask what
Happens if we do not
Take it like a robot

CATCH ME

CATCH ME - Van Crynes & Pantomime Riot

NEVER

HEADS UP

© 2023 Pantomime Riot

Walls all dark now slide on past
Spinning dials adjust contrast
Bouncing pictures through the cast
Subscribe for the ever-last
Can we take it up a stage
Feed it through the landing page
Popularity engage
Measured through the traffic gauge

Plug into the screaming thoughts betrayed
Suck you up just feel your mind get flayed
Ain’t no fucking back door out of here
Drowning in that poisoned drench of fear

Smiling thumbs are collated
New statements automated
Opposition deflated
Arguments all truncated
Spinning through the copper wire
Let those passwords all expire
Open source intensifier
Burning in the cable fire

Plug into the screaming thoughts betrayed
Suck you up just feel your mind get flayed
Ain’t no fucking back door out of here
Drowning in that poisoned drench of fear

Open development tools
Scanning text let’s follow rules
Firewall the hacking fools
Ring-fencing the data pools
Pumping traffic hits the vein
Reach euphoria again
Inter stimulated brain
Slowly driven quite insane

Plug into the screaming thoughts betrayed
Suck you up just feel your mind get flayed
Ain’t no fucking back door out of here
Drowning in that poisoned drench of fear

FLAYED

© 2023 Pantomime Riot

Low vibration sonic fest
Didn’t pass the mushroom test
Shadows bounce around the walls
Panic climbs and darkness falls 
Interplanetary glide 
Silver tube now hide inside
Build a list the smash it down 
Even numbers break the frown

Murky strings sound alive
Drop the speed to seven five 
Frequency can now pulsate and
Has the shape to animate

Counting in reverse from ten
Spin the wheel and start again 
Keeping left around the maze 
Following the lunar blaze 
Silver shards of broken light
Penetrate the edge of night
Let them pass right through the skin
Feel the glory from within

Murky strings sound alive
Drop the speed to seven five 
Frequency can now pulsate and
Has the shape to animate

Concentrate don’t loose the edge
Till they freeze inside the hedge 
Reach inside and flip the hatch 
Turn that twenty second catch 
Run the game back through the air
Wave your banner to declare 
Chosen gems can now be spun 
Sitting neatly all at one

Murky strings sound alive
Drop the speed to seven five 
Frequency can now pulsate and
Has the shape to animate

FILTERED

© 2023 Pantomime Riot

Plastic bottles float around
Deadly solar rays inbound
Hellbent empire history
Oily fingers rub with glee
Bath within the silky slick
Murky airborne aesthetic
Peeling bark and dying roots
Sprawling concrete institutes

Forest ceilings landscaped clear
Greener mountains disappear 
Country rivers turning brown
Shelves of ice all crashing down
Pump your shit out live the dream
Just ignore the changing scene
Filthy grey polluted mix
Leave it for the kids to fix

Toxic plumes bleed into skies
Slowly fetching our demise
Darker clouds and ph rain
Now Corrupt the whole food chain
Point away it’s no one’s fault
Can’t contemplate the end result
Just bin off immediate gain
And focus on the word sustain

Forest ceilings landscaped clear
Greener mountains disappear 
Country rivers turning brown
Shelves of ice all crashing down
Pump your shit out live the dream
Just ignore the changing scene
Filthy grey polluted mix
Leave it for the kids to fix

Season’s unpredictable
Real progress fictional
Ocean edges creeping up
Mama nature's had enough
Greedy scumbags won’t desist
Another species off the list
Dirty fossils ever burn
Till our little globe don’t turn

PANTOMIME RIOT

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