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Lying in State Lyrics
What we are witnessing is the decline of western civilization
Crushing our potential and piling it on, how will history portray us?
Attack the family, attack their faith and dreams
Attack the body and the head will fall
A lasting legacy or ruin brought in haste?
The enemy of truth is lying there in state
Another day, another manufactured crisis keeping the people distracted
There's no one playing by the rules anymore, how will history portray us?
A broken backbone with nothing left to lose?
That hate the sight of all the ones that do?
A lasting legacy or ruin brought in haste?
The enemy of truth is lying there in state
A shiny new agenda, birthed from a depraved mind
Of failing us on purpose, to culturally sanitize
Its opiates for the masses under cloak as hope and change
The new normal or just more of the same?
The perfect plan
Must have an alibi
And the perfect pawn
To spew the party line
Of the perfect falsehood
Spoke a thousand times
The perfect words
Cover the greatest crime
Hell is turning itself inside out
To lead its path up to meet us
And we deliberately take
A step, one foot closer to the grave
Crushing our potential and piling it on, how will history portray us?
Attack the family, attack their faith and dreams
Attack the body and the head will fall
The enemy of truth is lying there in state
There's no one playing by the rules anymore, how will history portray us?
A broken backbone with nothing left to lose?
That hate the sight of all the ones that do?
The enemy of truth is lying there in state
Of failing us on purpose, to culturally sanitize
Its opiates for the masses under cloak as hope and change
The new normal or just more of the same?
Must have an alibi
And the perfect pawn
To spew the party line
Of the perfect falsehood
Spoke a thousand times
The perfect words
Cover the greatest crime
To lead its path up to meet us
And we deliberately take
A step, one foot closer to the grave
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Prescient lyrics based on the play on words of a state official's corpse being placed on display so the public can mourn. We are witnessing the decline of western civilization because politicians are lying or deceiving "in state." Mustaine the riffmaster is also a poignant wordsmith and both shine in this song, e.g. the last stanza, or "like a shiny new agenda, birthed from a depraved mind." So the perfect words like "hope and change" are in fact cloaks for pernicious plans spoke a thousand times in thousands of ways but they all come from the same source, exposed in the last stanza: hell. And our world is now deliberately taking one step closer to the grave. Masterpiece of word and song.