Corporate mercenaries, clandestine working class, patriotic dogma, trodden peasant caste.
Be all that you can be: Traumatized or six feet deep!
From our early years, they warped our growing minds.
Devoid of opportunities, they robbed us fucking blind.
Be all that you can be: Traumatized or six feet deep!
But don't adhere to their fucking lies!
We don't exist to kill and die!
Now we must defy!
We don't exist to kill and die in some horrendous way to ensure successful stocks, just to return a hero in a flag-draped box.
A Yankee-doodle soldier, another corporate martyr shot; a fucking life cut short in a flag-draped box!
Poverty is the draft!
We're not fucking free, we were given lives sans opportunity;
just to pledge allegiance and question not our roles; pillage for our captors who defile our tattered souls!
No securing freedoms or rights of any kind!
Just a hired gun for sadistic, wealthy swine!
Not securing freedoms or rights of any kind!
Just a hired gun for sadistic, wealthy swine!
Corporate mercenaries, clandestine working class, patriotic dogma, trodden peasant class.
Be all that you can be: Traumatized or six feet deep!
From our early years, they warped our growing minds.
Devoid of opportunities, they robbed us fucking blind.
Be all that you can be: Traumatized or six feet deep!
But don't adhere to their fucking lies!
We don't exist to kill and die!
Now we must defy!
We don't exist to kill and die!
credits
from Colony Collapse,
released April 9, 2020
Engineered and Recorded by Martin Black
Mixed and Mastered by Matt Taylor at Bungalow Studios
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