Empire Falling

Fitting into your new jackboots

Off to work, your own worst enemy

Paint the streets black and blue

On your knees at the church of bigotry

Wear your pain like a new tattoo

They treat you rough, you treat them like royalty

It's like we don't ever think things through

Snatch defeat from the jaws of victory

And I get visions of my own kids

And it keeps me awake

When truth becomes the enemy

Awake

When no one is surrendering

And I can't feel anything

I can't feel

Round them up, beat them down

Sly winks been selling out stadiums

What's the point in reaching out

When all the love gets crushed by the medium

And I get visions of my own kids

And it keeps me awake

When truth becomes the enemy

Awake

When no one is surrendering

And I can't feel anything

I'm my own worst enemy

I wish I could change everything

The truth is I'm just lying here awake

Awake

When did we get so bad telling bad from good

When we settle for less than we know we should

When we're living a lie no one understands

When we hang on the words of a hollow man

When the poor fight the battles of the richest men

And the weak have to start watching out again

That's the sound of an empire falling

That's the sound of an empire falling

That's the sound of an empire falling

When did we get so bad telling bad from good

When we settle for less than we know we should

When did we get so bad telling bad from good

When we settle for less than we know we should