Dictatorship Lyrics

We're going up, up, up and up, up, up, up

We're slowly continuing our ascent

On this floor, a very, very important meeting

To decide of the outcome of an entire nation

They were silenced under a dictatorship

Their freedom escaped from their grip

They found their rights all but stripped

With only one idol to worship

The taste of blood on their lips

The hands of God guiding them to sleep

As they were blindfolded

They had a final look at the light unfolding

As their heart rate exploded

They had a final taste of their veins pulsing

Ready to accept defeat

Powerless, all they can do is submit

No more ways to build an opposite

To this destiny-hijacking injustice

Powerless, all they can do is submit

No more ways to build an opposite

To this destiny-hijacking injustice

Have some sympathy for murderers, for murderers

Fetch some water, fetch some water for body burners

Draw some blood for the body healers, body healers

Hit your head hard, hit your head hard for painkillers

Take off the bandage

Now take advantage!

Take off the bandage

Now take advantage!

Of my power shortage

Your only advantage

Take off the bandage

Now take advantage!

They pick up their gods from the gutter

Down which they threw up their guts

Nearly choked on the prayers they uttered

Every last crumb came gushing, gushing out

Empty stomach craving for anything to fill it back

As they were blindfolded

They had a final look at lives unfolding

As their eyelids exploded

They had a final taste of their blood coursing

Through the faithless streets

Now at the hands of a power they can never beat

No more prayers for gods of mercy to meet

Another ideology has taken over the city

Now at the hands of a power they can never beat

No more prayers for gods of mercy to meet

Another ideology has taken over the city

Have some sympathy for murderers, for murderers

Fetch some water, fetch some water for body burners

Draw some blood for the body healers, body healers

Hit your head hard, hit your head hard for painkillers

Take off the bandage

Now take advantage!

Take off the bandage

Now take advantage!

Of my power shortage

Your only advantage

Take off the bandage

Now take advantage!

They knew their value and worth

Would not meet dignity at their hands

Yet they never forgot the humanity they bore

They never forgot that life ends in sacrifice

And although they worked hard to overwrite them

They never did ignore the signs

They had to make room for them in their thoughts

Although the only outcome meant

They still fought and fought and fought and fought