They told us to dream so big/All those years ago/But look at us now so broke/Where did it all go?/Working paycheck to paycheck ain't it sweet/Clinging forever to this nothing dream
Friend I've been alive just long enough now/To see and learn how it all goes down
Look at all that blood soaking in their hands/Aren't you just a little sick of these shifting sands?/There ain't a one who's ever met demands/And where are all of those who used to claim/To stand oh so proud each as a true man?
Work's as dried up as housing and look/The real world ain't the same as the books/News'll tell you everything to hear/Just as long as it inspires fear
Friend I've been alive just long enough now/To see and learn how it all goes down
Look at all that blood soaking in their hands/Aren't you just a little sick of these shifting sands?/There ain't a one who's ever met demands/And where are all of those who used to claim/To stand oh so proud each as a true man?
I remember no time before this way/When politicians do nothing they say/But I'll tell you one thing clear as day/It may be public now but it's here to stay/Behind closed doors it's always been this way
Friend I've been alive just long enough now/To see and learn how it all goes down
Look at all that blood soaking in their hands/Aren't you just a little sick of these shifting sands?/There ain't a one who's ever met demands/And where are all of those who used to claim/To stand oh so proud each as a true man?/Oh just look at all that blood on your hands
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I've been watching it for so long now/Started when they told the men to bow/Continued well into our roots and skin/Then to our identities deep within
Oh it's never enough at all/They do want us all so to fall/And as the leaves change their colors/So do they shift to be other
When will it be enough/As my brother fights to keep his walls/When will it be enough/As my mother too works just to stall/An inevitable end to the lives they know/As the chameleons try to bring death row
Yuri came and warned us so long ago/Now his words spread too late in false bites slow/Mice broke of courage and numb in mind/Continue to echo screams so blind
Oh it's never enough at all/They do want us all so to fall/And as the leaves change their colors/So do they shift to be other
When will it be enough/As my brother fights to keep his walls/When will it be enough/As my mother too works just to stall/An inevitable end to the lives they know/As the chameleons try to bring death row
And oh do we weep so soft for my useless dreams/And oh do we weep so pained for the future's dreams/Limping as we do on the ankles we did break/Crying wolf and biting down on the wrong stake/And I watch this smolder now of the ashes come/The burning of my nation whole by petty scum/Who once called her bosom home before in youth/Who grew to seek fratricide in ways uncouth/You are not my countrymen now nor ever again/You are rotted soulless things screaming for deadly sins
Oh it's never enough at all/They do want us all so to fall/And as the leaves change their colors/So do they shift to be other
When will it be enough/As my brother fights to keep his walls/When will it be enough/As my mother too works just to stall/An inevitable end to the lives they know/As the chameleons try to bring death row?
