Imitation of Silence

Lyrics

How is it that these days The guilty ones come off so clean? A demon is godly and praised By the poor and the meek We plot and we dream and lose sleep Over the vulgar and ugly But they're immune to it all, they don't falter or fall It's ungodly Never tell them enough Make as if your mouth's shut We're the wolves, they're the sheep Just pretend that you're weak An imitation of silence We'll pretend that we're tired and beaten Just cry and play possum Rock them to slumber like children, then strike And they won't know what hit them A license to hate and to kill and to rape And a birthright to privilege and easy escape With intimations of violence Despotic old criminals eager to rule us to pieces The Trumps and the Bushes, the Reagans, the right-winged fascists The bigots and racists that shit where we eat We'll just keep a safe distance, rope-a-dope them to sleep An imitation of silence An imitation of silence An imitation of silence An imitation of silence