social problems – Alternative Darkness

They come at me with pitchforks and torches
I guess I'm the monster they picked tonight
They don't give a fuck about you
That's why you're here and they're not
To them you're just another dollar sign, another follower for their ranks
Brainless and obedient, you don't care if they see you as flesh and bone
So go ahead and hunt me because you're disposable
I'll be you next week
They're going to send your children to war
Your subculture has become your religion
They don't need to be worried about getting to know you
You post it all online and your phones always listening
To focus better ads on you and your wallet
They're going to send your baby to war
And you'll let them because they hide behind military honor
When really there was never any
Tell me the glory in killing someone you've never met for the puppeteer
I'd love to hear how great you make mayhem and genocide sound
Sell me it, they've already sold me everything else
They want a return to the old days of yore before "corrupted youth"
But I see that vision riddled with killers
What's fashionable and trending?
Yesterday it's drugs, today it's guns
The special interest groups will sell you an agenda wrapped in change
But somethings not quite right
Even now you're in denial

We ain’t living in no time worth living in
 So modern so refined 
 But you still can’t read or tie your shoes 
 All you do is judge but you can’t even hate yourself
 So advanced so in demand 
 But you don’t have a fucking soul to your name 
 No one cares they just stare
 Dead eyed and compliant 
 This ain’t no dream I ever heard of 
 So why do they say American dream 
 I didn’t know dreams had citizenship, class, or race
 Don’t teach us that bullshit 
 Buddy you wouldn’t know wrong if they shot your son on your front lawn 
 So where do you get off preaching on what’s right 
 The ugliest of people is recorded in me 
 On film like out a cassette 
 So out of date but who could give a fuck 
 At least I can reflect and not just do 
 You do do do 
 But you should think think think
 Living in 2019, 20xx
 Ain’t a time worth living in 
 It hasn’t been since we made it so ugly 
 Wanna see bad 
 See what I remember 
 I’ll show you horror motherfucker
 These men in suits ain’t changing shit 
 They won’t till you wake up out of your job they chain you to
 To classify to restrict to mutilate 
 And bang your fist louder than their podium lies 
 Their altar praise and alter egos
 One day you’re gonna see your dumbass was wrong
 And it’ll be too late by then
 And I’ll laugh and laugh
 And keep laughing