Let Them Eat Thomas Payne - Dillinger Four

It’s a simple as fear, just as stupid as hate

It’s as fragile as humility

It’s the way that we deal, what we truly feel

About everything we see

Rally 'round a cage or act your age

I gauge old messages scratched forever in a prison wall

We know what we’re capable of but don’t seem to care at all

Rally 'round a cage and don’t make a fuss

Rally 'round a cage

Who am I if I’m not aware that I’m one of us

It’s a question of trust

Rally 'round a cage, cringe at the paper then place the blame on «these days»

As if we don’t know what we’ve seen 'til we view it on the big screen

Understand it’s not getting any better and it’s growing outside

A price paid in full for the conscience that lied

All the billboards in the world can’t cover our eyes

I don’t understand

Don’t tread on me

But we act like we didn’t know, then kids shoot kids or community defies its

role

Then of course it’s everyone’s fault except anyone we might know

Tell me are the colors of the flag much prettier to see

When viewed from the requisite comfort of the knees

We’re the loyal little still singing out «please»

I can’t understand

Don’t tread on me

One little, two little, three little pink slips, four

Where «family values» are a value most can’t afford

Rally 'round a cage, to the new hit song

Rally 'round a cage, called «how could we be wrong»

Rally 'round a cage, c’mon do the goose step to a state-subsidized sing-along

With one side yanking a line called damage control

While groaning cuz they feel that the national razor went dull

But the other is a place I call home

Where solidarity is seldom shown

Where taxes paid is like spade to a dog with a thrift-store bone

This isn’t me, it couldn’t be, this isn’t me

It will never be