2020 - The Herd

It’s not as if you didn’t get the warnings

You got the transcripts and recordings

History was a way of sunning herself in the morning

But you’re a late starter make it easier to ignore it

Later not recall it, yo

You had unfettered access to the facts

But the fact is your back was turned to the atlas

Nothing like not being in the crash test

To help you make your mind up

Unknowingly the young sign up

The enemy of our enemy is still our enemy

So why are we arming them?

Is this insanity?

That’s how the Taliban began

Watch em as they turn around and aim their weapons at Americans

How’s it feel to be a widowmaker?

Taker of the father of the family

Your tragedy is fate, that’s the stakes

So scoff at the Saigon link

Flash those pearlies take us way past the brink

And we knew you were frauds

But onwards we went to war

Nothing could be said to convince you

We’ve already see it before

Someone could’ve told you it would end like this

We did, you didn’t listen you can’t take a trick

Lookin back 2020 mistakes I got many

And the truth is that I’ll probably do it again

No one could’ve ever hoped to sway your mind

We’ve been there before but it’s not that time

Lookin back 2020 mistakes I got many

And the truth is that I’ll probably do it again

There’s something familiar about the story you told me

The way that you mouthed it was not what you sold me

Well yes I’m one of many yet you ignored the signs

You made it personal don’t spin me that line

You can’t relax, cause it occurred on your watch

History will judge you cause you’re all that we’ve got

Is anyone listening?

Are you fucking insane?

Am I to sit watching as it plays out again?

The truth is we knew this, people aren’t stupid

You play the innocent because you think we let you do it

If we think you’re too ruthless

Show you where the point of the boot is

It’s all about where the fuck your proof is

Keen an eye on that new kid

He’s liable to do shit

If you don’t keep a check on it, beyond your electorate

Peace in Iraq, man stay in Afghanistan

Looking for Osama, getting killed by the Taliban

War on drugs?

War on terror, 9−11?

We knew where Johnny stood, where’s Kevin?

Don’t get me wrong, alarm clocks from heaven

Going off when the country woke up in '07

But there’s no letting up

Yo we’re just getting up off the canvas

That very fact demands that

We stay as vigilant as can be, transparency?

Another AWB, well let’s see

Even as we applaud

And we show them the door

Thought we’d warn you that we’re wary

Cause we’ve already seen it before