Prison Song is okay. But the lyrics are like they are straight out of a high school class project. Awful and cliche. Actually, their political songs all seem this way. I prefer their more goofy songs, rather than their Rage Against the Machine for idiots approach to politics. I mean, I am no expert on politics myself, I am not going to say I could write anything groundbreaking in that regard.. but I can still tell when it is bad... and that is bad.
I mean, 99% of the time Serj tries to go for these "oh, I am so abstract and oh so weird" type lyrics, that just usually come across as juvenile stupidity.
Plus, letting Darren near the mic should be a punishable by death act.
To me, the phone went away after the first album, and then it became a case of taking themselves too seriously... even though they try to hide it behind the cooky stuff.
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