The concept of this song is how we as people seem to have glorified ideas as to the direction our lives are going based on false information provided to us via propoganda, and programmed into us throughout our developmental period as children and how this concept or meme has been unfairly proliferated in our society. In our attempts to gain status we stomp on others toes, this is the whole ideal of capitalism whether it wants to admit it or not. The narrator of the song has just been exposed to a harsh truth that all their longing and waiting for the state to take care of them is all for naught and is furiously questioning the government's agenda-which is to keep us all segregated by means of economic stratification, and superficial bullshit. The narrator wishes to hold the government accountable for it's malfeasance but the large state structure just keeps trying to divert the narrator's attention to trifles such as entertainment and superficial styles. Ironically the song itself aspires to be entertaining and in some weird accordance does fulfill that diversion, which becomes the "joke that isn't funny" in the song. In the end we damn ourselves, what's the point?
lyrics
Sifting through my days with every notion that is far and that is fleeting
Trying, though in vain, to find reason-to find semblance, of a day
Circumvention is all the resides inside my longing
Shackled to the sickness we try and break out with a tool of our dismay, but all the while there's a ringing in my ears that says:
Just go back, forget about it, you'll never make it, it's a waste of time
There is no weakest link in the chains that we built this time
You're crazy, you're stupid, you fuckin' fool go fall in line
Just go back, everything's perfect, stop trying to rabble rouse within the ranks, you owe us an apology and a thanks
But it was you that said that joke was funny
You said that wheels where turning
You said you'd pay off all yearning in small faint doses of a processed smile
Small faint doses of a processed smile
Ask me to laugh? It might take a while
I'm not even smiling, this joke isn't funny.
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