The Agency (known as Mind Games on video) is a 1980 Canadian dramatic/thriller film. It was directed by George Kaczender, with a screenplay by Noel Hynd.
Based on a novel by Paul Gottlieb, it is a political thriller involving advertising copywriter Philip Morgan (Lee Majors) who discovers the agency he works for, run by Ted Quinn (Robert Mitchum), is using subliminal advertising to manipulate a presidential election. It features appearances by Canadian actors Saul Rubinek as an audio technician (earning a "Best Supporting Actor" Genie nomination),Jonathan Welsh as a police detective, and familiar supporting players Michael Kirby and Gary Reineke as hitmen.
The film was shot on locations in Montréal and rural Québec.
There's only one man you can count on when the final countdown begins.
Sigh as the world dies in one dayAs I was sleeping I
helped them dig the grave
I heard the bombs break in a daze
When I awoke I found the world ablaze
And I've been waking up to no one
The emptiness arrives with the sun
There seems to be nowhere I can run
I only escape it in dream
Some days it's hard to believe
But the empty buildings reign and stain
They're all that remain in a world that begs for rain
To wash away the pain
I'm still waking up to no one
Each day I hope that I'll find someone
I search for signs of life and find none
This life is shadowed and bleak
I can't run, I can't hide
From the loneliness welling inside
And when the tear drops in the night it awakes a fire
inside
I can't live, I can't die
I will lose my mind
Some say the world should dieSome favour dark to light
Some lose their guiding light
Have and to hold
The fires they set are burning like the flags
And we're lying in the ashes
Our lights inside are dying to a spark
As we're smothered by the darkness
Billboards, TV's
Are feeding on the flames and they're filling up the
caskets
It's time, it's time we let them know
And still they keep the right
And still they justify
Gone in a flash of light
Have and to hold
Fresh lies dirt cheap
The children are the price
And we feed them to the machine
The sky turns red
The flame engulfs the flag
The politician needs aspirin
So tired
Can't sleep
Too much TV
Can't take the fear it breeds in me
From person to person to me
The gun passes over me
It makes it way back to me
One flag
One state
Too much
Too late
Let's stop this burning disaster before it gets too
I'm talking right backI'm fighting right back
Save yourself
Sound the attack to take our lives back
I shouldn't have stayed so long
We're on the right track
I still don't know right from wrong
Sound the attack to take our lives back now
Take my time I go when I go, now know I don't know
I just start and stall
These buildings will crumble and fall
So say good bye, it's time to go
And where we go I still don't know
'Cause by the time I am done falling in line
There won't be time
We'll burn this place down
Just watch as I tear it down
I'll tear it brick by brick
I know I have been here before
I must run for the door
Oh the seasons they changeAnd the girls they take them
all away
And the boys that remain are just like flowers in the
spring
I see no reason to not let boys be boys be girls
But you say it once now kick him in the face again
Her idea of free is not one that her parents can concieve
The life she leads is not okay with her family
She wants a girlfriend
She can't pretend to want a man
But you say it twice
She pays the price again and again
So punch 'em in the eyes again!
Punch 'em in the eyes cause these kids will never pretend
They're not safe out here in the den
So say it again
'Til you're covered head to toe in your blood stain
These kids are gay
Stop calling them a dyke or a fag
We won't play your game
And we think it's time to act your age
But you say it twice
Now kick him in the face
His face can't take much more of this
All right, all right
Tonight's the night we win the fight with words and minds
I give you choices and you still can't decideI hear these
voices in the back of my mind
Let's let your soul sister try to explain
No one else is going to get what's going on in your brain
The demon thrives and takes control in good time
I hurt myself to make sure I'm alive
My frustration keeps me, it keeps me in line
Spread gasoline
Let's start feeding the fire
Look in my eyes and see the funeral pyre
I'm not your fool sister, I won't explain
Now you're in checkmate
Now it's too late you're knocked out of the game
I watch this structure burning, systems churning
Get down, I can't believe this
I'm burning you out
I'm not here, I'm not there
I'm not sure that I even care
Alive, that's what I aim forBut my shoes are glued to the
floor
A change is deep inside me
I need this dope to paralyze me
Because my disease is so easy
I tell myself what life's about
But then I watch life get away
I scream and shout to burn these lies inside my mouth
It's time to move right now, today
Agreed, I'm not a moron but I don't have much to build on
A chance to be inspired
But change won't come without desire Because my disease
is just so easy
Scream I'm alive
I'll wait around until the world caves inI'll try to say
something that's bittersweet Return to the days
Remember the part I played
Slaying the old vines
How could I know?
Is father tired of his life?
Remember kids we dress in black
And hide our eyes
So I pass through the fire
And now my arms have tired
From holding the whole world
I'm watching it fall
And this lesson's burning well worth learning
Please don't say this won't concern me now
This is my chance
Sigh as the world dies in one dayAs I was sleeping I
helped them dig the grave
I heard the bombs break in a daze
When I awoke I found the world ablaze
And I've been waking up to no one
The emptiness arrives with the sun
There seems to be nowhere I can run
I only escape it in dream
Some days it's hard to believe
But the empty buildings reign and stain
They're all that remain in a world that begs for rain
To wash away the pain
I'm still waking up to no one
Each day I hope that I'll find someone
I search for signs of life and find none
This life is shadowed and bleak
I can't run, I can't hide
From the loneliness welling inside
And when the tear drops in the night it awakes a fire
inside
I can't live, I can't die
Who's to say that you can't help anyone elseYou're
spewing lies as the bullshit runs out of your mouth
You walk around with the camera holding you down
You never cared till now
It's just a shot in the dark to hope that you'll do
what's right
We can live in denial or we can stand up and fight
We could try, we could save a life
Oh, sweet sacrifice
Keeps them down, keeps them out
Keeps them ready to work
They feed them lies all the time but it doesn't quench
the thirst
As if you care
I walk alone through the desert around meI cannot rest
until I know what's inside me
Perchance to sleep but this chance is still not to dream
Each day I fight and I struggle through my life
I cannot do this and I still can't do that right
Somehow I know that I can't do this all alone
I keep on throwing in my two cents
My lack of confidence keeps me right here standing where
I stand
I choke on change again but the door it was open
And you came walking on in
And this time I'll do this the right way
This time I don't think it's inside me I know
So now think of where it all might lead
It seems you are my key to feeling things inside of me
I never want to go to sleep
When I'm with you I feel I'm walking in dream
So as we stand here take my hand
And try to understand
That I can't expect to do anything better than the best I
can do
Room to breatheSo here I am with words never said
With all these words I should have said
These ones came out instead
But that's okay, words can't erase mistakes And every
time I think of you my heart it breaks
We had good times, the best of which were spent in
laughter
It's gone for good
I can't pretend that I didn't want what happened
I made it happen, now it's all gone
As time goes by I watch our friendship bleed
And say goodbye to strong desires and snuffed out
dreams
I'd state my love but I know it isn't true
But I still care about you so much my heart bleeds blue
It's that we've changed
Are we both different people?
Is it all that simple?
We both have agreed I'm not so sure
You say this way is so damn easy
I don't want easy it's just too hard and too dark
So brighten up heart
And now it seems we're breaking over
Time is lost, we can't start over
But I just want to talk this over
Why? I still don't want to say goodbye
Now she's so free, she'll forget me
And fade just like a dream
But we can take our time and sort this out
Go on with life without a doubt
But when we take our time
I forget where we stand
And then I open up my heart to see where I am
I watch our friendship fall apart inside my left hand
Hey now whatcha doin'?Ya got that gun in your hand so you
might as well us it
Just put both fingers on the trigger and funny it's you
who dies
I can't figure you in I can't figure you out
Your lies only breed doubt with a bad taste in the mouth
What's in your master plan to screw with our lives and
mess with heads?
Have you heard the news?
Have you heard Fallon's dead?
14 angry gangsters pumped her ass full of lead
Still got this burning desire here in my heart
Here in my head.
No reason
Fallon is dead
Work from 9 to 5
We just cant compromise
Along these starting stopping dead communications lines
Try to figure this out
Somehow I just can't decide
Why would she lie?
So how'd it feel when that building fell right on your
face?
So blind, it's how you live your life All the blame
that's yours you place on someone else Your lies are
cheap, they're never ending We know you're false so stop
pretending So blind, it's how you live your life All the
time you've wasted is fading with your health You're
bored with all the life you're taking Your life's not
real, you're fine with faking Drugs are great you're