Hey There Medusa

Lyrics

[Verse 1] This is how we face the future Roll down the window And let the wind blow through your snakes Medusa The night's busted open like a suture Hold me like pressure on the wound These two lanes will take us anywhere but home We're already there Ghosts in the music Heavy in the cemetery air I breathe it in, as I see your claws Reach up and snap the rearview off [Hook] Pitchforks to the right Monsters to the left And we are not stuck in the middle There is no neutral on a moving missile We don't ride the fence Pitchforks to the right Monsters to the left And we are not moderate We call every day the apocalypse And haven't been wrong yet [Verse 2] And every threat is full of promise Like a sabotaged pipeline Like a precinct set ablaze Like a fully funded library Like sex ed that actually educates Like mutual aid Like standing in a school board meeting In the reddest town in the reddest state And telling the truth anyway Wrenches in the system 'Cause all they need to win is our cynicism And all we need to win is each other We gather like dust Like tiny specks of dust And turn the music up 'Cause despair is for suckers Big Cats back with an uppercut Another tubthumper Run for cover Medusa at the wheel And I'm hanging out the passenger side Wearing scrubs and an N95 Let the new world take its first breath tonight [Hook] Pitchforks to the right Monsters to the left And we are not stuck in the middle There is no neutral on a moving missile We don't ride the fence We ride out into chaos And finally arrive at the seance [Verse 3] For the next 65 seconds We claim this space for the dead For the circle Always breaking, never broken Let the doors open, if only for a breath With this offering of sweat Let the flesh in this room Be reminded of just how thin the line is Between music and silence Refusal and compliance Between our skin and the lightning behind it We claim this space for the dead For every ancestor and those who just left Saying tend to your grief like a garden Tend to your grief like a fire Either way It's a harvest, a reminder Of everything that still grows in the darkness Let it rise higher This love is not immortal It's fleeting So we are not going back to normal Tell that to the rich man powerless To buy an antidote to his cowardice The status quo is already monstrous So when these fascists call you a monster Show 'em what a monster is My poisoned hope My battered heart (When the night has come) And the land is dark And the moon's the only light you see It isn't much But the dead whisper: It's enough