Burn

The flag is a faded tired joke

Hangs in tatters, breathing smoke

They feed us lines from paper scripts

With practiced smiles on hollow lips

Telling tales of how they care

While they sell the poisoned air

Building walls we pay to raise

Lost inside a concrete maze

They took the future, took the light

Left us shaking in the night

So find the anger, find the stone

And smash the screens that sell the lie

Yeah, let's watch the static die

They paint the targets on the young

A patriotic ballad sung

Send them off with a medals gleam

To die for someone else's dream

While they auction off what's left behind

Our pockets thin, our futures signed

Away to friends who pull the strings

Beneath the shade of vulture wings

They took the future, took the light

Left us shaking in the night

So find the anger, find the stone

And smash the screens that sell the lie

Yeah, let's watch the static die

They sit on thrones of polished steel

And talk of wounds they'll never feel

They trade our futures, buy our trust

Then turn our golden dreams to dust

A static hum on every screen

To keep the truth from being seen

They took the future, took the light

Left us shaking in the night

So find the anger, find the stone

And smash the screens that sell the lie

Yeah, let's watch the static die

But the water's rising at your door

You can't buy silence anymore

This bitter tide is gonna turn

And we'll be there to watch you burn

We'll watch you burn

Yeah, we'll watch you burn