2006@yesvirginia “stripped of your equipment”

MODERN MOONLIGHT by Dresden Dolls 

 Testo di Modern Moonlight di The Dresden Dolls

Presenting modern moonlight just as advertised

Coke and Pepsi finally found a compromise

How can they complain that we′re all fucked up kids

When they keep on changing who our mother is?

Like it all you want it's fruitless

Night is in the way of progress

Retinas are bleeding for the enterprise

Surgically wired into paradise

Yesterday I dropped in at the mkb

Everyone was messaging like it was going out of style

It was just the cynic in me

God, I love communicating!

I just hate the shit we′re missing

Everybody join in the magnificence

Yes! Everything is absolutely making sense

Every time you turn around your soul gets sold

To the highest bidder

Then they turn around and merger and they merger

And the merger and they murder and they murder

The one who murders most will take it all

Fight it all you want it's useless

Night is in the way of progress

We're gonna take your cities one by one

Catch your cables cut your cords and spoil all your fun

We′re gonna make your lite a living hell

Cause stripped of your equipment you′ll be forced to face yourself

Wire cutters of the world

You know what to use it for

Spread the word to all the tightrope walker boys and girls

Brace yourself for miracles

You're in for a nasty shock

When the war is over

You can read the paper

When the war is over

You can read the paper

Writer(s): Amanda Palmer

Remember! 

Reflect no thing new… 

This song is from 20 years ago 

2006

Ahhh, fruition, modern moonlight 

Coming home to roost ? 

came karma when when? 

come big data overlords Palantirs 

Sir Veil Ants? 

Watch watch Tik Tok 

I’ll be click clocking ewe

Police poll ICE collecting tick ITs 

Tik Tok take downs 

fake books & instant grams 

META lies LLM 

of more lies more lines inn lush minds 

lost two screaming screes 

screens glass ceilings sanitized 

As tech facists now exploit 

owning stealing souls 

Yours key bored 

Cage you rage you click bait ewe

Trumpeting robbers 

tortures ICE baby 

Magna Carta ewe off two Fanta see 

Dar tar centres prism prisons 

zero one zero won

Quay strokes quantities 

quantify 

gobble swallow ewe life hole 

Gobble 

hobble fresh turkey necks yours 

chop chop chips chip would chip 

Deforested delusional @inter net 

Cafe crocodile rolls of relentless 

Capitalism extract steal take ova 

Cap it all handy cap small white balls 

pills potions vile age villages 

Screens screams scree scripts 

attached “terms & conditions” 

Ewe did not even read ✅

No know no know self ignorance 

Is a curse do ewe no? Or know? 

Greenwich mean time? 

Mean time mean time Alan watts? 

For inn the mean time 

timings capitalism rapacious extractive 

Destructive billion airs n fake graces 

People pleading people pleasing 

Obedience complicit follow 

Buy bleating sheep 

Shorn fleeced slaughtered 

House 5? Fahrenheit 454? 

Brave New World? Huxley? 

Razor blade Everglades 

chop chop 

turgid tight roped walkers know net 

Minimal waging wars eye ran aff Ghan 

Mid hell east? Is rail? Bomb bomb aim

With screens ai extract kill morph 

Dee fence Dee light Dee Donald Duck 

Drip drip drip dip shit stick 

Inter faced inter laced 

lucid comp pute her key bored 

Games my sex play butt ons pushed 

Bye creatives 

just meekly magic mighty rise n raw 

Creatives fresh now 

hoping to make a difference? 

Open eyes open hearts open minds 

Swiped? Right? More passive screens 

Tinder tender hook ups 

Maid inn heaven 

Glass dates glass faces 

shards sharp splintered over share 

Still let ho! Hi heals… spiritual by passe 

Sword play quay bored tap tap tap 

Query qwerty 

zero wons dated data centres 

Cells mobiles inter nets attached 

Raise her gangs 

razor bangs like a dunny

Door 

adored Red backs spiders 

congregate congressional 

con grass con test con troll 

Club land zombies 

Cunt tree clubs & presidents 

knights of the living dead 

gods greens 18 wholes drip drip drip 

Putt putt putt screens app pull a daze 

Keeps the dock tour aweigh? 

MTV rage click bait a hoary chest nut 

A Weighting room purgatory 

Bee four ewe depart 

customs my dear dears 

Clear ants clearance 

Roger Roger 

Take off holding patterns 

inn flight Hopes are up 

for Myall high stakes 

Relax take a load off, 

screens there their two 

Plug in ears 

sigh lents block alt delete 

Noise can sell cult Ture 

head muffs heads stuffed 

Ear ear blocked drains 

where’s ya buccaneers! 

On my buckin’ head 

Fred said 

Pyre rats skulls n cross bones 

Walk the thick short plank 

Scream screen SCREAM! 

The dross goss spells bib

Lick all pro portions? 

Hagar’s club land 

zombies knight 

cave man app pull 

Poise n app pull 

pull a dam & eve of

Destruction 

little boxes little boxes 

Smart phones home ET 

gamble game bull

Poke her machine 

slot grab cash 

Pay out Lott err Rhee? 

Keen oh? 

Crap table spin top doll ore? 

Mining 

Magnate oil coal gas gas fascist gas 

Corp rot tonne corp pour rates 

Strangling stones 

strikes punch data drunk 

Computer games 

mi sex one nein Seventy nine 

computer games 

horror Move he’s 

write their on My tv 

Shocking me right out of my 

Brain 

The revolution will not be televised… 

Gaming games gormless 

Tv tv tv snacks 1975

Lit all boxes little boxes box divvy lick it literature 

Then modern moonlight 

2006 comes a gain 

Moonlight serenade knot 

Corporate flux 

click bait lux 

Off off off to your open plan cubicle 

Produce orifice productivity 

Pricey mechanic 

Spew con 

Tent? 

Shylock pound of flesh 

Shakes spear

Merch tent of VEN 

Ice? 

No thing real he has changed 

Ka Ching ka Ching 

Mine moan he makes the 

World go a round the 

World go a round 

Liza with a zee 

Cabaret punk 

Dresden 

Dolls 

Moonlight modems modern love 

The Cubicle as a Content Farm

The song frames the office not as a place of productivity, but as a digital cage where real human connection goes to die.

• The Line: "Everyone was messaging like it was going out of style"
• The Satire: Palmer mocks the illusion of "collaboration."
• The Reality: Employees sit inches apart but choose to communicate through screens.
• The Result: Interpersonal relationships are reduced to instant messages and ping notifications.

The Myth of Corporate Wellness

The lyrics target how corporations use trendy, "holistic" buzzwords to mask exploitative, high-pressure environments.

• The Line: "And the management is selling tickets to the moon / To avoid the situation"
• The Satire: "Tickets to the moon" represents empty promises, toxic positivity, and shiny distractions.
• The Reality: Leadership offers superficial perks—like meditation apps or office ping-pong tables.
• The Result: These perks distract workers from stagnant wages, burnout, and systemic executive failures.

The Commodification of Art and Subculture

The Dresden Dolls critique how capitalism swallows authentic artistic movements, sanitizes them, and sells them back to the public as a product.

• The Line: "They are selling revolutions by the carton / At the hyper-mega-mart"
• The Satire: Rebellion is packaged as a consumer good.
• The Reality: True counter-culture is stripped of its danger.
• The Result: It is turned into a safe, mass-produced corporate aesthetic designed to increase quarterly profit margins.

The "Always-On" Productivity Trap

The core irony of the track rests on the exhaustion of the modern worker who must perform happiness while being drained by the machine.

• The Line: "God, I love communicating! I just hate the shit we're missing."
• The Satire: This line acts as a sarcastic corporate press release.
• The Reality: Workers are forced to celebrate the tools that enslave their time.
• The Result: The constant demand for digital availability destroys the boundary between life and labor.