They tell you what they want you to believe
And then they kick you out
And tax you with a guilty conscience
If you're thinking for yourself.
Oh, we're all a bunch of whiners,
Cry-babies that are doomed to Hell.
Maybe I'm a loser,
But at least I love myself.
Well, all the old people are dying,
But somehow their vote is relevant,
Like they have any idea
What it's like to see this kind of debt.
I'd like to see them take our place,
And, for a minute, bear our weight.
The world around us is fucked,
And they're to blame.
If they would listen for a second,
Then maybe they would see
That there's nothing wrong with loving everybody equally.
We all came from a uterus,
And now everybody's pissed
That a woman wants to choose what to do with her body.
And if life is at conception,
Then misery's a blessing,
Depression is a gift from God,
And we all get to Heaven.
Their pride is just so blinding
That they will never see
That there's nothing wrong, at all, with you or me.
You can run & run & run & run
As far from them as you can go,
But you'll never get away
From the ideas that they'll shove down our throats,
So forget what you believe,
And slap a Swastika on your coat
'Cause there's only one way that this could go,
Unless you raise your fist
And shove all their bullshit back down their throats,
And say,
"We're better than this, and no.
No, we won't let it go."
credits
from Commonwealth,
released April 1, 2017
Produced by Nathan Barnes at Osmosis Studios in Meridian, ID.
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