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Oh what to do
What to do when a city has run amuck
Can't tell the surviving from the dying
Can't tell the corrupt from the pure
The gutters are full of blood
From the sex, scum, politics, and whores
Like a beaten child, this city whimpers
Backed into a corner with no one to save it
But there are still few who believe in blocking the hand that bleeds this city dry
Suck it up for the ones that deserve to be alive
Justice is coming to all of us
No matter what the fuck we do
This is not a conquest of men
But of the evils that beset them
It's all so confusing
But yet so simple
The American Dream is condemned
And we're all going down
The gutters are full of blood
From the sex, scum, politics, and whores
Like a beaten child, this city whimpers
But there are still few who believe in blocking the hand that bleeds
That bleeds this city dry
Suck it up for the ones that deserve to be alive
Judgement will come not with a gavel
But with a nuclear blast
This utopia was built on horror
It's all so confusing
But yet so simple
The American Dream is condemned
And we're all going down
What to do when a city has run amuck
Can't tell the surviving from the dying
Can't tell the corrupt from the pure
From the sex, scum, politics, and whores
Like a beaten child, this city whimpers
Backed into a corner with no one to save it
Suck it up for the ones that deserve to be alive
No matter what the fuck we do
This is not a conquest of men
But of the evils that beset them
But yet so simple
The American Dream is condemned
And we're all going down
From the sex, scum, politics, and whores
Like a beaten child, this city whimpers
But there are still few who believe in blocking the hand that bleeds
That bleeds this city dry
Judgement will come not with a gavel
But with a nuclear blast
This utopia was built on horror
But yet so simple
The American Dream is condemned
And we're all going down
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Band stated in interview that each song is about a different comic book character(s), but that the lyrics are also written vaguely enough to be relateable.
Characters: '"I took a Sin City and Watchmen concept and tried to mash them together," Goergen says. "That was actually the last song I wrote for the album and is the strongest, lyrically, I would say."' Those who have read the Watchmen will recognize Rorschach's style of narration in this song (and direct reference in the "beaten child"), but there is definitely some Dwight and Marv from Sin City as well.
General message: Standing up against a broken system, but not even knowing how or where to begin.