American Carnage Lyrics

Captured people and stolen land

Built this nation and helped it expand

We now cast our eyes

To the next frontier

To abandon this Earth and its atmosphere

Coagulate wealth

Will never last

Without circulation

By the natural caste

At war with ourselves

The disenfranchised

Capital's cancer

Metastasized

The framers they warned us

Of tyrants and kings

But could they have ever expected these things?

An arsenal assured by ideological faith

Our absolute right to annihilate

American carnage

Habitualized suffering

A flame in the darkness

Flickering, guttering

What about separation of power?

What about balance or checks?

What about the INFOSEC PARAMIL industrial complex?

What about bureaucracy that cultivates recidivism?

What about cultural structures that sustain racism?

How come radicalized privilege is the state of affairs?

Why is the best we can offer merely thoughts and prayers?

American carnage

Habitualized suffering

A flame in the darkness

Flickering, guttering

The others aren't people

They're abnormal and weird

Exotic desires

Or thugs to be feared

And when they show pride

In their beautiful face

They need to be taught

To be put in their place

Our exceptional precept

Of Aquinas's law

The patriot's doctrine

Of pure shock and awe

Is all that remains adversity?

Willful ignorance or uncertainty?

Survival depends on struggle and strife

And civil discourse has been weaponized