Idiocracy

Self identifiable

Divisive undeniable

You say you are so you must be

Politics as personality

Is our newfound reality

So much for the land of the free

When I watched the movie Idiocracy

I didn’t think that it would be a prophecy

Of the world we live in

That will slowly, surely give in

Underneath the weight of all of your hypocrisy

The tolerant won’t tolerate

And peace dreamers the first to hate

Fight a war to end a war. Makes sense.

Meanwhile the youth are carried on

Without knowing what’s going on.

The hyperbolic news has made them dense.

America the beautiful

America the fruitful

America the worst place you could be

How awful you must have it

To think everything’s so bad

Here in this place where you have always been so free

To burn a flag in effigy

And yell out fuck all the police

And not get jailed or hung or stoned to death

We used to have the strong belief

That anything could be achieved

If we put our minds up to the test

Did we just get lazy

Or have morals become hazy

To the point where right and wrong just don’t exist?

Now it’s left or right

Either agree or start a fight

Our harmless words are answered with closed fists

Sticks and stones

Will break our bones

But words will start a war

Your opinion’s my opinion’s

Wrong unless its yours

We were built upon the blood

of patriots who fought through mud

so you could take a knee

oh say can you see

Every hand they lend you

Comes attached with an agenda

Those are strings, Pinocchio, watch out

Don’t trust in the media

And don’t eat what they’re feeding you

Their fruit is always grown in poisoned ground

Our house was built with solid brick

No outsider could fuck with it

Our demise would have to come within

Cherry pick the past, delete

Our history doomed to repeat

The ties that somehow bind us

Growing thin

Where do we begin?