Barricades - Cursive

Life lived with blinders on

Only looking out for number one

Radio’s skewed to his point of view

Of the good old days when the good ol' boys ruled

Winter came, the workplace changed

They’re not allowed to pontificate

Hate speech used to be «shootin' the shit»

'Til the snowflakes covered their bully pulpit

Trapped in the ignorance

We’re living in our own prison system

Walls up, keep the wolves at bay

Barricades

Barricades

White flight, a new estate

They gotta keep their little princess safe

Up in the hills with a long commute

No boogeyman to ruin their gorgeous purview

Round the clock surveillance

Keep an eye on seedy elements

You built a fortress to keep us out

Could you ever be convinced that it’s keeping you in?

Tear down entitlement

Superiority’s a prison complex

Privilege was cooked up by the rich — oh, prisoner

Been a long time on the inside

Been a long time locked in our own minds

This is denial, this is our bliss, to live as prisoners

Been a long time on the inside

Been a long time locked in our own minds

This is denial, this is our bliss, to live —

I don’t know how to break out

I was a middle class kid from the middle west

I was the quintessential, sheltered innocent

I didn’t know what segregation meant —

I didn’t have to know — the world I knew

Was white as snow

And so I look back now at these severed towns

All the hate they spread, simply not spreading out

Fuck this denial, fuck their ignorant bliss

Barricades

Barricades