Ides of Merz Lyrics

Beware the Ides when power speaks

Of necessary sacrifice

Daggers hidden in their suits

Prepared to carve our social rights

The market's puppet takes the stage

To herald in a colder age

Each promise is a sharpened blade

That cuts through decades of progress made

Reform - their euphemism for decay

As safety nets are torn away

The senate floor runs black with ink

As social contracts start to sink

The Ides of Merz are drawing near

When welfare falls to corporate spears

The death of solidarity

The Ides of Merz are drawing near

In cloaks of false austerity

When cold ambition engineers

They speak of growth and liberty

While plotting our captivity

Not Caesar falls but common good

Slain by those who said they would

Where profit is the only law

Compassion's outlawed evermore

Each stab a program that will die

Each cut a family's desperate cry

Democracy bleeds on the floor

While business lords still ask for more

Their profit margins rise and rise

While hope within the masses dies

The knives are corporate manifestos

The wounds are budget cuts and vetoes

The poison's called efficiency

As millions fall to poverty

The Ides of Merz are drawing near

When welfare falls to corporate spears

The death of solidarity

The Ides of Merz are drawing near

In cloaks of false austerity

Our future fades into fear

But history's script is in our hands

The daggers glint, but here we stand

United strong against their games

Before our future burns in flames

The Ides of Merz won't seal our fate

Cause millions rise to set things straight