Anthem: 2025

[V1]
Almost 40
Have achieved nothing
Searching for something
Stuck in a daydream
25 years now
dead end career now
have to make a change
now I’m chasing the sound

[B1]
Is it time for me
they say that nothing is free
the only way that I am
Is the way I’ve chosen to be
Can’t keep making excuses
It’s not life that refuses
It’s my hand holding nooses
When will I finally see

[V1.2]
Death surrounding
Sit here waiting
Like my father before me
My body catatonic
Move one toe now
Can’t keep me down
Break the coffin
Dig to the surface

[B1.2]
Well it’s time to live
And I have so much to give
And if you don’t want me
Then I’ll find someone who will
I don’t need your approval
Cancer tumor removal
I’ll fly lighter without you
And wave down from above

[C]
Fuck this shit right now
You can’t keep me down
Fuck your opinion
Fuck you and the horse you rode in on
Fuck this world you built
Fuck your shame and guilt
Fuck your power structures
You will not enslave us

[V2]
Yeah you think we didn’t notice
The rotten under your roses
A pocket full of your posies
We’re tired of holding our noses
The generations held down
By boomeritic man-clowns
A legion of people without
Because of billionaire bailouts

[B2]
As the reaper draws closer
You didn’t do what you’re spose’d to
You took it all for yourself
No more for anyone else
Tell yourself you deserve it
Say “God knows that I’m worth it”
Your heart versus a feather?
Ammut’ll eat you for dinner.

[V2.2]
did you vote for Cheeto Jesus
or his south African prosthesis
thinking maybe they see us
a blind eye to the malfeasance
or maybe you liked the lady
the one who bypassed the primary
looking to lead with no vision
status quo indecision

[B2.2]
well the trash can be blue and the trash can be red
the colors are just a symbolic means to the end
they’ll take all that you give
leave you with nothing to live
unless you fight for yourself
and to protect everyone else

[C2]
Fuck this shit right now
You can’t keep us down
Fuck your stories about
Avocado toast, cuz we’re burned out
Fuck your greediness
Fuck your gaping maw
And it’s neediness
Take and take
What have you given back
Take and take
Try to fill up the soul you lack

[C]
Fuck this shit right now
You can’t keep me down
Fuck your opinion
Fuck you and the horse you rode in on
Fuck this world you built
Fuck your shame and guilt
Fuck your power structures
You will not enslave us