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Nothing Recedes Like Progress Lyrics
They’re sleeping between satin sheets while huddled masses sleep in streets
Tucked in at night they lay and dream of corporate state theocracy
Two steps ahead, three goose steps back
While the sheep sleep the wolf attacks
Nothing recedes
Nothing recedes like progress
Evil doesn’t stop to breathe
Bleed till nothing’s left to bleed
You’re contemplating middle ground while empire heads release the hounds
You’re dealing with a sick machine where there’s no heart, there’s no heart beat
Two steps ahead, three goose steps back
The masses sleep while their spine cracks
Nothing recedes
Nothing recedes like progress
Evil doesn’t stop to breathe
Bleed till nothing’s left to bleed
This is class war
What are you waiting for?
For them to buy and sell your soul?
They already did
No rest for the wicked, for the wicked never sleep
Tucked in at night they lay and dream of corporate state theocracy
Two steps ahead, three goose steps back
While the sheep sleep the wolf attacks
Nothing recedes like progress
Evil doesn’t stop to breathe
Bleed till nothing’s left to bleed
You’re dealing with a sick machine where there’s no heart, there’s no heart beat
Two steps ahead, three goose steps back
The masses sleep while their spine cracks
Nothing recedes like progress
Evil doesn’t stop to breathe
Bleed till nothing’s left to bleed
What are you waiting for?
For them to buy and sell your soul?
They already did
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Not voicing any opinion for the Occupy movement; but that's what this is about. This album came out I suppose near the end of the Occupy Wallstreet movement, which Anti-Flag certainly supported. They were even out there with their acoustics playing some songs. Anyways, for the title of the song I think it's kind of the idea that progress just digs us deeper into a hole; more regulation, less freedom. But I'm not knowledgeable enough to speak too much on it. Also I think "class war" is a big part of it, obviously. They kind of lay it out in an 'us vs them' mentality.
Sick machine should say "sick regime"