Lying In State

Album: Dystopia (2016)
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  • What we are witnessing is the decline of western civilization
    Crushing our potential and piling it on, how will history portray us?
    Attack the family, attack their faith and dreams
    Attack the body and the head will fall

    A lasting legacy or ruin brought in haste?
    The enemy of truth is lying there in state

    Another day, another manufactured crisis keeping the people distracted
    There's no one playing by the rules anymore, how will history portray us?
    A broken backbone with nothing left to lose?
    That hate the sight of all the ones that do?

    A lasting legacy or ruin brought in haste?
    The enemy of truth is lying there in state

    A shiny new agenda, birthed from a depraved mind
    Of failing us on purpose, to culturally sanitize
    Its opiates for the masses under cloak as hope and change
    The new normal or just more of the same?

    The perfect plan
    Must have an alibi
    And the perfect pawn
    To spew the party line
    Of the perfect falsehood
    Spoke a thousand times
    The perfect words
    Cover the greatest crime

    Hell is turning itself inside out
    To lead its path up to meet us
    And we deliberately take
    A step, one foot closer to the grace Writer/s: DAVE MUSTAINE
    Publisher: Warner Chappell Music, Inc.
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