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Burned Alive

from Garbage by Stephen Harper

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The film reel twists and burns
The movie is over
The credits are rolling
You don't get a happy ending
All you get are names
Names without faces
Faces with price tags
Price tags with no value
Somewhere out there in the world
A mother is crying for her baby
But her body is roadkill on the highway
And that's your legacy, are you happy?

Isn't this great?
20 dollar bill rolled up to snort
Flying high at the landfill
Society lays in ashes
I'll be on my knees ready to suck from the hand that feeds
Don't chew but remember to swallow
Remember to do what you're told

They're always watching
81 eyes on you at any given time
81 eyes that don't need to blink
81 eyes that never dry out
81 eyes strung up real eye
81 eyes connected to mouths that lie
81 eyes that look inside
81 eyes that pierce the mind

Snorting the misery of the hungry and the poor
Dig my boots in the mud
Swatting flies off his tie
Strip me down to the bone
Burn my body, rape my soul
Snort my ashes off your throne
Supremacy's your final goal

Lifeless bodies dragged across the gravel
Torn apart and elongated cadavers
Without dignity without hope
Bones crushed to dust under the weight of the ruling class

The human race should be erased

Somewhere out there, a mother is crying for her baby
Your inactivity, your ignorance
She's lost forever, are you happy?

I'll shatter the fucking stone
Slam my knuckles to the bone
I'll make myself known
You reap what you have sewn

In the black of night
No energy left to fight
Beaten like a fucking animal
Ripped apart by cannibals

Somewhere out there, a mother is crying for her baby
Raped and slaughtered, tattered and torn
And that's your legacy, are you fucking happy?

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from Garbage, released July 28, 2016
Elijah Hennig, Jesse R.

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