The Numbers

Album: Nowhere Generation (2021)
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  • We're biding time as we wait for the signal
    Sharpening blades
    While we wait out the storm
    These cold nights are almost unbearable
    But purpose keeps us warm

    Pledge allegiance
    While crossing our fingers
    A bark with no bite
    No teeth just a roar
    You're not a thorn in our side
    You're a splinter
    We are ready but we're bored
    Just holding our place in line
    And everything moves too slow now
    Breaking away in time

    They have the power
    But we have the numbers now
    It's all just a constant illusion
    Of control
    They break us like horses
    How long will we drag their plow?
    What will continue to be
    Is what we allow, oh

    And still we worship at altars so empty
    Consumption of something we don't need at all
    Holes we can't fill
    A never-ending song
    "Again, from the top now"

    Textbook cases, we all fit the profile
    Mass surveillance, we opened the door
    Prey on the fears
    Blurred lines of right and wrong
    Sped up 'til we can't slow down
    And at this velocity
    One wrong move and we go down
    Brace for the reckoning

    Though they have the power
    But we have the numbers now
    It's all just a constant illusion
    Of control
    They break us like horses
    How long will we drag their plow?
    What will continue to be
    Is what we allow, oh

    And heavy are the chains
    We fasten to ourselves
    Gathering the thorns
    To shape into a crown

    Is this saddle comfortable?
    Do these reigns feel tight enough?
    Will you gallop when you're kicked?
    Or throw the rider off

    Are you the willing and the able
    Or are you spoken for?
    Destined to serve what you abhor
    Until it all gives out

    Listen
    Fuck what you call normal
    This pressure to conform (break free)
    It's your trail to blaze
    Or your bridge to burn
    Your bridge to burn

    Yeah, they have the power
    We have the numbers now
    It's all just a constant illusion
    Of control
    They break us like horses
    How long will we drag their plow?
    What will continue to be
    Is what we allow

    What will we allow? Writer/s: Brandon Barnes, Joseph Principe, Timothy McIlrath, Zach Blair
    Publisher: BMG Rights Management
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

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