i steal the notes from other bands i fill their shoes with wet cement i make you think of certain things and when you talk the things you ll say i m pretty sure of what you want i bet you want the same as me you want to think of something smart something someone would repeat but i m giving up on all that fuss i m gonna tell you how it is then when you get your turn to talk i hope your microphone is off and the critics go whoa yeah yeah they ll go whoa yeah shotgun but for now just watch the screen let me control the things you think you d like to think you could resist but you re being hypnotised by this think of the clock you thought up how it s wagging back and forth how you re hypnotised by us are you studying my pores when my hand snaps you ll wake up to your daily concerns i m counting backwards in your head you re letting me do all the work you re under my thumb yeah yeah you re under my thumb yeah how bout that boys 