Shame In A Basket

I put my shame in a basket

Some of it cracked most of its pure hatred

I put my name on your casket

Signed my life away

How fantastic would it be to kill you all?

Be to kill you all

I put my shame in a basket

Some of it cracked most of its pure hatred

I put my name on your casket

Signed my life away

How fantastic would it

Be to kill you all up against the wall?

Be to kill you all up against the wall?

When the whole damn thing just falls apart

And the walls close in, no matter who you are

The right hand of God, strikes you down hard

Get on your knees and pray

Embrace the shame

Accept the blame

Image defamed

It's far too gone to ever be the same

It's not the victory we need

It's not the mercy that we seek

It's not the punishment that brings us to our knees again

Our souls are torn our blood runs deep

Our hands were tied, our tongues cut from our mouths when we were young

The sins we cast the stones we've thrown (Over and over and over and over again)

With every ounce of retribution

We manifest the pride we glamorize the vengeance

The sacrifice belies the monotony

As the doldrums of privilege set in

Can't let the world know, don't you ever let them in

Nearly gone now, to the memory of time

Year after year, desensitized

All empathy's been paralyzed

The final calm before the storm

Before their boots kick in your door

All that you've ever known

All that you've never shown

Into its horror

All that you ever loved

Gone, replaced and numb

Into its horror

All that you ever feared

No time, no place, no care, nowhere

No time, no place, no care, nowhere

Became all that was ever near

Feel the fading life

Feed into its horror

All that you ever feared

No time, no place, no care, nowhere

No time, no place, no care, nowhere

Became all that was ever near

Feel the fading life

Feed into its horror

Into its horror

Into its horror