Hostage Crisis (feat. Chris Hanna)

All I see is TV death, body bags, land mines

Pit against my fellow man, we call it a way of life

Entire generations bankrupt, mom was one

Cursing these heavens on earth, trust me, you don't want my job

Trust me, you don't want the fire in my gut to consume

Everything you've learned to love is a mirage

The desert is a place where mirages crystallize

And even crystals get revenge

We burn down the Whole Foods, we burn down our way of life

We send robot supervillains with eyes to wipe out a platoon

The chickens don't come home to roost, they're already here

Woe is us for not living in a far away land

Welcome to the grey area

Where if your neighborhood resource officer doesn't kill you

Or your second job doesn't kill you

I refuse to be a hostage in your crisis, dawg

You say it's us versus them, I say fuck you all

[Chorus: Mike & Mike (whispered)

We've been enlisted to wipe each other out

They won't be happy 'til the sky is black

Every forest cleared, every ocean a tomb

This is how it's always been

We've been enlisted to wipe each other out

They won't be happy 'til the sky is black

Every forest cleared, every ocean a tomb

This is how it's always been

We have always been at war with Eurasia

Always in some weep, begging bread from a savior

Time and time again, ugliness is winning

They keep talking heaven and they're bringing us with them

Kill ten thousand of them, they kill two thousand of us

It's business as usual, in God we trust

And our neighbor's not the same

Some bankers, sons of preachers

Some came here to escape war

United in the famine

From one place with no food

To another place where there's nowhere to drink

Where do the same people go and raise kids?

Not here, where the factories close

All we produce is death, welcome to the purgatory

Not quite a worker, not fully a slave

Wide open jail, and all your heroes are cops

From today's Andrew Jacksons to tomorrow's Trump

Nobody really rents, nobody really owns

They wanted a global village, but what's a village to a drone?

[Chorus: Mike & Mike (whispered)

We've been enlisted to wipe each other out

They won't be happy 'til the sky is black

Every forest cleared, every ocean a tomb

This is how it's always been

We've been enlisted to wipe each other out

They won't be happy 'til the sky is black

Every forest cleared, every ocean a tomb

This is how it's always been

It's our new reality, isn't it?

I mean, we're facing historic crisis from exploitative and destructive

Economic systems, corrupt governments, and civilization as we know it

Which are all causing disasters with many

Faces: economic, ecological, and war

We will never vote or buy our way out

Through political systems or corporations

Our time is now to find other paths

To rely on each other instead of them

Our futures are open to resist, rebel, create

And build our dreams on the ashes of theirs