I don’t remember it ever looking this bleak
Remember when we rallied and we took to the streets?
Those days are long gone
He used to raise a fist and now his arm’s gone
Got him with a smart bomb
And he’s lucky to be alive
Isn’t he?
Sometimes I wonder when I think of all the misery we endure
What’s killing me even more, you can’t envision what you’ve never seen before
So, we explore ways to describe the time we were free
Prisoners cinema playin in my mind on repeat
I find freedom in my dreams, so I’m trying to sleep
Writing songs in my head and imagine the beats
Its hard to cope with the havoc they wreak
These new devices make the madness complete
They can see what I’m thinking when they pass on the street
Thought police making sure the masses are sheep

I’m trying to write, forgot what it’s like, I do it inside my head
The days went by, I came to find that our endangered pride was dead


The other day I had a thought I felt I oughta say,
instead I swallowed it,
it burned a hole in me
and as the hole was smoldering I fear that they knew I’d thought of it at all,
it’s hard to know how close were monitored, I think honest word and you’re a goner,
let alone a lofty sonnet,
shot up and lifeless body tossed over a thoughtless comment,
in the grasp of fascism the option is adapt to it
or nap forever on a cot of worms down in a cold ravine
The other day I had a thought I felt I oughta say,
but I’ve adapted quick,
choke on the truth enough
The aftertaste is saccharine it smoothens and says he chew it up,
The smoldering of matches and your gullet’s just a nuisance, fuck your two cents, homie loosen up,
What does it matter if it’s fact?
liberty was such a useless institution,
the new solution is smoother than shooting Novocain, or so I’d say in the face of death if the soldiers came.