//clear our debt

we’ll stand on top of these rooves
reconnoiter the city’s expanse
plunge head first into hell
and leave all our cares at our backs

we’ll strive to improve our lot
untie our hands from our backs
relish calm before the storm
prepare our walls for attack

but why do we deserve
protection for ourselves
we all have so much

and now we do decree
that this is the time for change
but we don’t hang up the pumps

none of us will change
the standards of our lives
the onus is on us

and now you can prove me wrong
i see no other way
but to hope for the fall of us all

now our avarice and greed
has come to reclaim its lot
clear off all of our charge
shave more time off the clock

no longer can we afford
academic prose void of plan
we’ve now reaped what we have sown
and must now reinvent ourselves

you’ll mix a salve for my wounds
retrace this scar on my chest
we’ll triage and fortify the camp
and you’ll see me for all that i have left

by the end of the day
when our lives have come to an end
i will look back on it all
and gaze upon all that is left...

why have we not realized
the path we have chose

my in-grained actions
are all that i know

this dream
in which i have chosen to live

is the the pill
that is making me sick

sick.
sick.
i'm sick.

and now,
our avarice and greed
has come back
to reclaim its lot
clear off all of our charge
and shave more time off the clock

[sample from No Country For Old Men]

clear our debt.

//renounce

consider who you really are
and how far you have come
what has influenced you
and your identity

your masculinty
rethink for yourself
who you have become
and who you want to be

redefine yourself.
defy everyone’s standards

ownership of your own body and mind
decide who you really are
not some macho clone
or a selfish mindless drone

renounce and reclaim
renounce and reclaim
re-think for yourself

//lets get selfish with capitalism

setup to be spoiled - to have freedom
setup to be spoiled - "to have it all"
setup to be spoiled - the american dream
setup to be spoiled - by a manifest destiny

always wanting more of everything
more of everything
always wanting more of everything
more of everything

you never have enough!
to never have enough
to never be satisfied
lets take it a step further

everything you wanted, when you want it
everything you've wanted, when you want it

can't have enough
can't have enough
can't have enough
they wont take it away

can't have enough
can't have enough
can't have enough
you wont take it away from me

we can play this capitalism game
with our rights

take everything we want
and then we’ll take some more

//haunted by the dead

you have forgotten where you descend from
who died for you to hold claim to your land
you take it for granted

imagine if your land was haunted by the dead
and now you're the target.

i want to see you flee
i want to see you flee
i want to see you flee

[i want to see you] as a refugee

i want to see you scared
i want to see you denied:

running scared
or illegal

running scared
illegal

//living the american dream

somehow manage to sleep well at night
think you have it all figured out
but the value of human life
the value of human life.....

like in this war for oil
the selfish chasing the green
like in this war for oil
or living the american dream

can you look at yourself in the mirror? [or in the eye] can you look yourself in the eye?

You’re not a psychopath!
You’re not a psychopath.

you know exactly what you have done,
exactly what you have failed to do

concious
complicit
and I stand aside

//anwr

another ‘sacred place where life begins’
every inch of every acre is fair game…

all the while, we wait to consume
on the backs of the natives
Their impending doom
our coveted oil fields
are their homelands
selfishly thirsting
their fate in our hands

drilling holes into the veins [of our mother]
sucking dry all there is to offer
natives and animals hang in our hands
our coveted oil fields are their homelands

another ‘sacred place where life begins’
every inch of every acre is fair game
all the while we wait to consume
on the backs of the natives
Their impending doom

our coveted oil fields
are their homelands
until the last drop [of oil]
on the face of the earth
is gone.!

until the last drop...

they will scratch
they will claw
they will gouge

at the eyes
at the heart
at the throat

they will scratch
they will claw
they will gouge

at the eyes
at the heart
anything!

let every tree be spiked
let every animal taste human flesh
let every tree be spiked
…extinguished in arctic snow

//not my garden

Protectorate, protectorate
high upon this throne i sit
but what i am i hide but awaiting eyes
until you surrender

eradicate, eradicate
worn and forced. capitulate.
leeched of life and taken right
you lose in total.

but why,
since when?
could my>
should my helping hands
determine the will
or the heart of another
i hold no tower
nor the will to keep you there

you are not my garden
soil for me to tend
and in the end,
your heart is your and yours alone

you are not my garden
soil for me to taste
and lay to waste,
leaving salted earth in my wake

//These Colors Don’t Run

We protect you, while you're sleeping in your beds
Protection from communists by the feds
Have no fear, that so many hold the keys
Our pledge of allegiance is the oath that keeps you free

With stars in their eyes from the rockets red glare
These men can be bought by none,
for these colors don't run.