Public Enemy No. 1 Lyrics

Dear society, do you remember me?

Tell me why we suddenly must live in enmity

Guilty by default, no discussion at all

Just get in line, boy, drop a knee and sing along

Dear society, we all have been deceived

What we're dealing with goes deeper than the flesh we see

No policy or law from right or left will solve

A broken system treating symptoms but never the cause

We have some commonality

There is a light that offers hope for both you and me

We're cogs inside the same machine

Programmed for conformity

We're being engineered to live with hate inside us

We bought into the scheme they peddled to divide us

We bleed the same red blood no matter where we're from

We're walking side by side but we got blinders on

They'd rather keep you victimized than build you up

They want you blinded, vitriolic, deaf and dumb

I hope you know the truth when it's all said and done

Sincerely, public enemy number one

Dear society, am I allowed to speak?

There is a conversation no one wants to have with me

I know what you've been told, but you've been bought and sold

Yeah there's a liar in the fire and he wants your soul

Dear society, we don't have to agree

There was a time not long ago when that's what made us free

But now that order's gone, there is no right or wrong

This isn't freedom or a kingdom it's a free-for-all

We fall under the same decree

We owe a debt for all the darkness in our history

But neither platitudes nor principalities

Have the power to set us free

We're being engineered to live with hate inside us

We bought into the scheme they peddled to divide us

We bleed the same red blood no matter where we're from

We're walking side by side but we got blinders on

They'd rather keep you victimized than build you up

They want you blinded, vitriolic, deaf and dumb

I hope you know the truth when it's all said and done

Sincerely, public enemy number one