The Other Side (no intro)

The water's gone black, or is that mold

I've got to clean my house with the only thing I own

I reach in to find the stench of mildew is strong

I start to scrub, nausea takes hold

I know it's too late

You can't separate

The water from the mold

Now slime is spreading

Across the surface

You can't just flip it over and try the other side

You can't keep cleaning the same old mess

With the other side of the same old dirty rag

That smell will never go away, streaks are going to stain

Better dry it out and light that trash on fire

A pick between two doesn't give me a voice

If we only draw one line that don't feel like choice

We'll always polarize if there's only two sides

I start to scrub, nausea takes hold

I know it's too late

You can't separate

The drama we are sold

Now crime is spreading

Throughout our cities

And you can't just start it over from the other side

We need something else, something less used

Not just pick a hand from the same old vampire

Who's been around for two hundred years

Just stake him in the chest, these tricks are growing tired

Why is it that so many people

Are only drawn by party lines

Not everything needs to be so political

It's shocking how every issue becomes so polarized

And simple conversations, now they feel so weaponized

Of course we have opinions

And yes, there'll always be different sides

But how they fit so neatly into left-right ideology

Starts to beg the question

Who really does decide

What we think and how we act

And where we should divide

You can't keep cleaning the same old mess

With the other side of the same old dirty rag

That smell will never go away, streaks are going to stain

Better dry it out and light that trash on fire

We need something else, something less used

Not just pick a hand from the same old vampire

Who's been around for two hundred years

Just stake him in the chest, these tricks are growing tired

If you insist on those same old shitty rules

I don't wanna play your game

That's it, fuck off, I'm done

If you insist on those same old shitty rules

I don't wanna play your game

That's it, fuck off, I'm done