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Track 3

lyrics

These amber waves of grain are stained with shame
The bloodshed that runs red and paved the way
A long shadow languishin' over the dawn's early light
Blackin' it out, but swarms o' TIKI torches are still burnin' bright
I don't believe in the devil, but if I did
He'd be a narcissistic super villain with a wig
A king with a crown that's red with white letterin'
Assaults women and flirts with alt-right rhetoric
Overly confident even though he's incompetent
And surrounds himself with grovelin' yes men who follow him
And Congressmen are worthless and turnin' into invertebrates
Ain't got a spine, beholden to dollar signs
How the gun lobbyists profit and help their bottom line
They don't care about Stoneman Douglas or Columbine
Demonize the poor but ignore white collar crime
And leave everybody fucked like concubines
No middle ground when morality's compromised
'Specially when the mess we're in is senseless and there's loss of lives
And the U.S. military budget's on the rise
It's greater than the next eleven countries all combined
A nation that's as mixed up as its priorities
Claim exceptionalism while shittin' on minorities
History repeatin' itself, screams are echoing
Fights under stars and stripes, due for a reckoning

'Cause it's a cold day in hell again
Unsettlin', feel it in your skeleton
So look alive, look alive
There's a war goin' on outside, no where to hide
I'm wakin' up to this cold day in hell again
Unsettlin', feel it in your skeleton
So look alive, look alive
There's a war goin' on outside, who will survive?

In this land of casualties, dyin' out like batteries
Frackin' every fragment of these purple mountains majesties
Oil's up inside of it and poison is the side effect
Leakin' into reservoirs, destroyin' the environment
Everything is burnin' down, goin' up in smoke, geez
While they sell it with a smile, hidin' behind smoke screens
Oppression goes beyond the surface, institutional
Another day in America, business as usual
I'm from the state where the cops murdered Philando
And then let his killer walk free, a perfect example
Police kill the innocent 'cause they have an irrational black fear
So fuck a pig like Black Mirror
This is a nation based on immigration
That still will try to vilify attempts at integration
Intimidation, trivializin' tribulations
Tear apart families and stick 'em with stipulations
Some hide in churches, livin' in the basement
So ICE agents don't raid 'em and then displace them
'Cause some aren't privy to privilege of pigmentation
That comes when you're white and they lighten the litigation
They fertilize minds, plant misinformation
And normalize lies by constant reiteration
Hilarious narratives, inserted in the teleprompter
Tellin' all their bullshit through manufactured melodrama

'Cause it's a cold day in hell again
Unsettlin', feel it in your skeleton
So look alive, look alive
There's a war goin' on outside, no where to hide
I'm wakin' up to this cold day in hell again
Unsettlin', feel it in your skeleton
So look alive, look alive
There's a war goin' on outside, who will survive?

credits

from Joy, Void, Destroy EP, released June 28, 2019
Written and performed by Christopher Michael Jensen

Produced by Infinity ~ Suite

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