terrorist (parts 1-3)

(part 1: anger is a lock pick)


Anger is a lock pick
With a burning wick
Slipping through customs
as unnoticed
As a man's clenched fist
And the havoc of its wreck
Doesn't show up in any baggage check
There is no defense against it
from the start
no real immunization
from having a terrorized heart


(part 2: easy followers)

Easy followers
for the make-believe strong
with a lack of belief
that revenge is wrong

They realize how easily
some follow the mood
whenever vengeance
and hatred are pursued

So they look for an enemy
and when its all done
They don't care who it is
Just as long as there is one

Because its all about power
And gaining the easy follower --
when anger or resentment
has diminished our sight
its so easy to believe
that "might makes right"

Blind rage listens to no one
Its like a puppet for evil
Hatred contaminates the heart
Undermining otherwise good people

And its not just what it does to the body
But what it does to the mind
If you raise a generation in hatred
You raise a generation blind

The love gone
from your eyes
The heart ache
you weaponize
The cold blood
you utilize
The love life
you terrorize

Your violence is
cutting into me
How can I say
it more simple ly

Your violence will
surely a way find
to eat its way
out of your mind...

Easy followers
for the make-believe strong
with a lack of belief
that revenge is wrong

They awaken the darker motives
of a population and assert
rationalized reasons to justify
means of inflicting hurt

Violence receives sanction
on both sides of the warring camps
From religious and state authority
with official seals and stamps

and so there's guns in hand
of every woman and man
Itchy fingers waiting for command
Bombs lined up for miles and miles
and innocent bodies dumped in piles

Its been said before
That there's no such thing
as a "winnable" war --
no military solution
that ever really settles the score

So much devastation -- it gets so insane
that eventually both sides end up so inhumane
War is not the answer to terrorism
its just another form of catchy fanaticism
The answer to terrorism is not war
It just brings about more...

The love gone
from your eyes
The heart ache
you weaponize
The cold blood
you utilize
The love life
you terrorize

Your violence is
cutting into me
How can I say
it more simple ly

Your violence will
surely a way find
to eat its way
out of your mind...

On both sides of the fence
they're not making any sense
they're too busy with their enemy
to get above it all
they're too busy waging war
to truly work for peace at all
They're tearing it all apart
They're terrorizing --
Terrorizing our heart

The love gone
from their eyes
The heart ache
they weaponize
The cold blood
they utilize
The love life
they terrorize

Their violence is
cutting into me
How can I say
it more simple ly

Their violence will
surely a way find
to eat its way
out of their mind...


(part 3: lock pick reprise)

Where institutions of law
are crumbling or ineffectual
or are just not believed in anymore,
When reason is overcome
By bayonets and guns
And everyone locks their door

Anger is a lock pick
With a burning wick
Slipping through customs
as unnoticed as a man's clenched fist
And the aftermath of its wreck
doesn't show up beforehand
in any baggage check
So there is no defense against it --
from the start
no real immunization
from having a terrorized heart.































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