There once was a time
In this land of the free
Where the victor authored our history
But progress gave pens to the loudest of men
And a static enveloped our vast land
Shrill wavelengths colliding
To a soundscape contriving our end
On fractures we crawl
In tragedy’s wake we fixate upon points
That never address true concern
Innocence spent in a shell casing
Yet we tear at skin till the next
Victims’ turn
Advancing communication
Dramatizes the values of all
Engineering opinions
To hold us apart while our columns fall
For all of this we should ask ourselves
What have we amassed?
A house divided
And youth misguided
By broken maxims of a working class
Reality threaded in webs of dissent
Where pattern cannot be discerned
Will be the harbinger of our undoing
Along with those lessons we never learned.
credits
from Loiterer,
released August 12, 2016
Music by Jonny Rhodes and Connor Sharpless
Lyrics by Jonny Rhodes
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