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.
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.