We're Rome, Aztec Mexico, Easter Island par adigm
We are followers of Jimmy Jones, cutting in the kool-aid l ine
We are Animal Farm Pigs, we are a Terry Gilliam film
We are fear Oliga rchy, we are wolves in wolves' clothing, we are this
planet's kidney stones
In the process of getting passed,
metamorphosis from first to last
A system breaking down beyond repair
A product of three million millio naires
and 100 million easy marks
We are Marie A ntoinette, we are Joseph McCar thy
We've finally become the divided st ates
A nation built on freedoms, fears, and hates, the denotation of I rony
(Instrumental)
We all want a Hollywood end, but we're getting a foreign one
The script has already been penned, and titled, "the epitaph of a drowning
nat ion