Fairness died my birth year Rush in on the doctrine dead in ‘87
He was there in my childhood in my head in the basement. A segregated privileged shelter pulsing with champions of the overdog singin helter skelter

Drunk on myths of meritocratic supremacy
Committed to guns, god and security
A numbing solace found
In the maintenance of fantasies

The flag is our God
Our boys our saviors Christ
Our might and money sacraments our divine place and right
You’d take it all away from me
You’d hand it all out
If my freedom’s on your back I guess yours is in the ground

Terrified indignant
Swallowing regret
Filling up the void in me with whatever I can get
Take all that’s ugly and hidden on a shelf
Normal I’m so normal that I fuckin hate myself
Merry holy Christmas, nurturing a rage
I’m failing up and filling in my soul with lonely pain

Erect / Engaged (x4)

Tomorrow I will go out
I’m gonna buy a gun
Place the barrel in my mouth and let it slide along my tongue
I know that I am freed by a life of joyless toil
Heritage is truth it’s in the blood it’s in the soil
Master race of enterprise commodify all struggle sell a savage on a civil war develop on the rubble

Erect / Engaged (x4)

I’m a time bomb baby born and raised right ready in the boom in the red afterglow
Private education full suburbanization I wanted to be happy so I bought into the show
I was treated like shit and force-fed an identity what privilege do you think I know?
Hard work and rough times got me my prosperity to no legacy is my debt owed
There was access and property, resources and stability, wealth in my vicinity, freedom of mobility, capitol politically, considered financially, safety and security, justice undoubtedly

All hail the majority
Skin the color of normalcy
Work truly did set me free
My success my proof of my supremacy

I understand the overlords I hope to call them We
I’m unconcerned the game is rigged if it is rigged for me
Sorry I didn’t tell you about the truth of all our wounds
So raw and so fresh, so recent so soon
I was misled to feel nothing so deeply as we are right and true and uniquely free
Then I saw the cracks and thought we might be sinking and now I know we can’t afford accountability
Saw the cities burn and some heroes extinguished
Some laws got signed and it was done
To tell you the truth I wasn’t paying attention and as far as I’m concerned the day was won

I don’t know why you speak of vast far-reaching crimes when you’ve gotten all you wanted all that I can provide
Sorry that you took it so literally
All that liberty, justice and democracy

Can’t admit the whole thing is flawed or I risk breaking down that dam
Of a lifetimes emotion sunk down as deep as oceans held together by the myths I am
Been pushed around and manipulated far enough and now I’m telling you where I stand
My ground, my hill of blood and oil
My wrath My pride My land!
Tired of pretending and I’m fetishizing vengeance and there’s no end that I won’t be the one to bring
Haven’t seen the founding crumbling or found my hubris humbling I can’t hear you as the anthem is moving me to sing so

Please just let me fade away
A greased and happy cog in the comfort of my construct, my shelter

Lost champion of the overdog, singin helter skelter