Against The Republic

They dress fear up in a flag

Sell us comfort

Call it chains

Smiles painted on their posters

While they tighten up the reins

Town halls turned to courtrooms

Every question

Labeled threat

They toast to our compliance

On a table of our debt

Against the republic

When it's them or the truth

I'm siding with the broken

I'm marching with the youth

If this is their "order"

Built on silence and abuse

Then I stand

I stand

Against the republic they abuse (hey!)

They redraw the dotted lines

'Til our voices fall outside

Call it "law

" call it "tradition"

Just a mask for wounded pride

Grand halls full of portraits

Of the ones who never paid

We're the ink in every ledger

But our names all fade to grey

Against the republic

When it's them or the truth

I'm siding with the broken

I'm marching with the youth

If this is their "order"

Built on silence and abuse

Then I stand

I stand

Against the republic they abuse

Not against the people

Against the deal they wrote

Where power eats the helpless

Smiles as they choke

We are not their property

We are not their proof

We are here

We are the fault line

Cracking through their "truth"

Against the republic

When it's them or the truth

I'm siding with the broken

I'm marching with the youth

If this is their "order"

Built on fear they call excuse

Then I stand

I stand

Against the republic they abuse (oh)

Yeah I stand

I stand

Against the republic they abuse