EFFIGY (Demo) Lyrics

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Heresy

Effigy

Burned in kerosene

For factual

Rational

Constitutional

Nonconforming conversing

In the Union's sad state

They confiscate

Confabulates

That generate ideas they can't easily

Asphyxiate

Suffocate

Strangulate

But we the people won't bend the knee

To a dastardly

Technocracy

That seems too keen to deem themselves the

Cream of the crop

Better than the pops

That built the country with the moms in lock

Step, but the elite

Want to see the scenes

Of their fever dream become reality

Damning the

Eternal verities

And propagating their divisive creed

For profit

Stop it

Enough's enough

This cannot continue this cannot corrupt

Anymore souls

Anymore minds

Anymore children they pretend to find

A solution for

For the disease they sold at our doors

For the bill of goods they made us pay for

For the skeletons they stuffed in our drawers

For the hearts they've stolen broken and torn

Hurts to see the hurt that we disperse through the population because we each believe

We know what is right

We know what is wrong

But what if right and wrong's what they've deceived

Us to perceive unknowingly through a dopamine screen each day subliminally

Seems to me the American dream has been laid sieged upon while we were fast asleep

Wake up

We're under attack

Those before us gave up too much to just sit back

And watch

And twiddle our thumbs

As the war wages on and we're left with the crumbs

Fight for you

Fight for truth

Fight for what gets you through the days hope seems too

Out of reach

Much of a niche

That's a lie they've concocted in a laboratory

I refuse to accept defeat when I dream of one day with a family

Of my own that relies on me to leave the world in a better state than when I came to be

I can't retreat six feet underneath and rest in peace knowing the land of the free

Is fumbling the opportunity to be something worth saving

Hypocritical

I don't wanna be

I'm at fault too, that's clear to see

Many a time

I shut my eyes

Zipped my mouth tight and waited for the rise

Of a another voice

That never came

That never stood with no fear of shame

Plenty of blame

That's fair to say

But today's the day I make a change

Thus is the genesis of these lines

I use to speak to those like mind

In hopes I can galvanize

Those who don't condone the fast decline

Of a land, a nation, once on the climb

Almost at the peak, almost sublime

Maybe we flew too close to the sunshine

Didn't trust Icarus and the warning signs

Didn't anticipate the fall from grace

The fall of a culture that once set the pace

I know we can get back in the race

But it's gonna take us all to come face to face

With our demons

What we hold true

Where we went wrong

What we value

With our blessings

What we remiss

What we hate

What we cherish

What we take

What we know

What we give

What we don't

Where we need conviction

Where we need redemption

Where we need work

Where we need a vision