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Beating the Machine is a verse I wrote in 2020 challenging the increasing trend of public shaming on social platforms. And a frank narrative as to how the tabloid media, in particular, are acting as attack force. In a sense, it is an open letter to mankind. Saying, quite simply, please be kind. This arrangement pays homage to Waiting To Die by (Hed) P.E.

Listen to Beating The Machine by Richard Charles Stevens (Waiting Suite)

Love is fluid

Hate is bile

Love runs through it

Hate defiles

.

Love is fluid

Hate is bile

Let’s run through it

Break disguise

.

Do we not see

That we are feeding the machine

Hating others openly

Is needlessly obscene

Do we not appreciate the weakness of our schemes

We live to be facetious

It’s as heedless as it seems

.

Making crude assumption based on reams of skewed pretence

Screaming bloody murder when we muse the need to vent

Every hateful word is one much later we’ll repent

For thirty silver pieces are fictitious when they’re spent

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All the while

The media are pulling all the strings

Growing ever seedier and clipping all our wings

They create the narrative

Each time the songbird sings

Anything to get us good and riled

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Love is fluid

Hate is bile

Love runs through it

Hate defiles

.

Love is fluid

Hate is bile

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