Deca - War Heads lyrics

As he stood on a hill
He saw the great serpent weaving
It's dusty coils far below
Notched an arrow, drew his bow, and let fly

Boss's son silver platter and a college fund
Throws rocks and calls the cops to come
All that venom that'll rot your gums
On the search for an edgewise word
And at a loss for one
Since we first stretched skins
Over hollow drums
Men have quarreled over spilled goats
Milk and piles of crumbs
Some keep a fortified base
To launch rockets from
Address it in the flesh
Cat's got their tongue
Set your pack down, dust off your soul
We shoulder more baggage than
A muskox can pull on the road I mistook the
Outer husk for the whole
Led astray as a circus of subplots unfold
The molehills of pharaohs and
Kings are perilous things
With mandates enforced by
The sheriff's regime
While Pavlov's cogs stare at a screen
Our downfall was foretold on the
Patterns of a seraphim's wings
American dreams
Bones for the buzzards to peck
Keep machine gears greased with your
Blood and your sweat
You load sixteen tons, what do ya get?
What you'd expect
Stuck in debt up to your neck

Oh, little birdy why can't I fly
Away from this sad place?
There was fear, awe, disbelief
Grow wings and fly like you
Way out into space
The basic law of history is the conflict
Between the exploiters and the exploited

Boss's guns patrol the atlas
The latest in autonomous tech
To roast cabbage
Fully automatics with beam scopes and gadgets
And super soldiers at it's
Disposal to go savage
Weaponize all their fears and their biases
Teach 'em how to love the chains
That you bind 'em with
Cajole the masses to support
Every tyrant's wish if and when that fails
Resort to the iron fist
The final frontier is colonized inner space
It's full speed ahead, disrupt and innovate
Science fiction now fact they disseminate
As altruistic aims for
Computer brain interface
I'm hearin' blind adherence'll set us free
But all their sound logic
Sounds suspect to me
You'll know a snake by the
Fallen fruit's of it's labors
You'll know the stakes when they call
The troops for your papers

Oh, little birdy why can't I fly
Away from this sad place?
There was fear, awe, disbelief
Grow wings and fly like you
Way out into space for the record
Every moment of this journey was monitored
Every one of his
Actions carefully scrutinized