System Fucked

Lyrics

[Intro: Spoken] "Just, just... Fuck all that shit, right? I'm going into the fucking Army" "Man, what are you, a damn fool? They don't tell you is that You don't belong to you no more You belong to them The government Like a slave or something" [Verse 1: Jesse Michaels] Religious lied, you're pledgified The first day you're in school The system grinds your fertile mind Into an Army tool They create injustice Lies and inequality "Be all that you can be" [Verse 2: Scott Sturgeon] The pitch is that you'll see the world And pick up a degree Avoid the threat of prison time Well, hypothetically They stick you in the jungle In the desert of the world And then their flag is unfurled [Chorus 1] Red, white, and blued, they lied to you And devastate your home They'll hook you, too Line, sinker you into an Army drone [Post-Chorus] A pack of lies for fresh supplies! [Verse 3: Michaels] If you die so far away A folded flag for kin They ship you back A secret that you fought but didn't win Either way, you're changed today You played pawn for what? Profit—gluttons don't give a fuck! [Verse 4: Sturgeon] Abandoned when you return From the war they had you fight Dismissive, but assuring you That what you did was "right" PTSD, nightmares On a brutal, callous whim Greet your prosthetic limb! [Chorus 2] Youth in action, murder sanctioned Medals for your kills Life vs. meaning, sick you're weaning Off prescription pills [Post-Chorus] You run away from this decay! [Bridge] It's another fleece again Another dead American Another spoil of war to spend Another caustic feast begins Another lie to spin the lost In another foreign holocaust Applause and flags wave all around Another troop dies on the ground! [Chorus 3] The youth were plucked, and system fucked! The rich hold checks all blank! Red, white, and blued, contracts renewed They're crying to the bank! [Post-Chorus] They cashed their chips, and you were it! [Outro: Spoken] "When you join that Army You ain't gonna be nobody..."