Under Lyrics

Abdicate, a house of plunders

Bite the hand that holds you under

Smiling like a clown

Over, under, upside down

Terrified in terrycloth

Carrying the flame to the moth

Every piece is worth the same

Identity without a name

When you can't speak at night

Maybe you're tucked in too tight

Words are bought and sold

Indemnity is paved in gold

You took it from the starving man and gave it to the king

You called upon an angel and cut off both its wings

So you could stand above it and look at what you'd done

And when the night grew dark, you blamed it on the sun

Integrate and instigate

Have your fill but clean your plate

Crashing to the ground

Over, under, upside down

Sensitized, incentivized

Feed upon the feasting flies

Dig yourself a hole

And fill it up with wayward souls

Advertised and ostracized

Learned to live between the lines

Climb the valley's peak

Feigning strength among the weak

And you held the pieces under, over someone's head

Laying glass in patterns across every step they tread

Intricate, a tourniquet, a tool to prolong

A one-sided coin to distinguish right from wrong

You can give a man a vest or teach him how to drown

Or teach him how to stand before you knock him down

You watch them spin in circles, watch them flail around

Deep beneath the ground, over, under, upside down