45 - Intellectual

[Verse]

You’re throwing rocks at a hornet's nest

Except the hornets have arsenals of nuclear weaponry

You’re pestering a sleeping dog

Except the dog believes himself to be heir apparent to God

And God has an army

Even the carrier pigeon did her part and bore an olive branch

Woah woah woah woah

“It was such a tragedy! No one could have predicted this!”

Except a decade of our ethos: apathy and negligence

History teachеrs will ask their students how this happenеd

With their history books painted on cave walls

We sleep in the palms of giants

Like a game of Russian Roulette

Except played between a mad man and an angry 45

We spin the bottle

Now satellites are swinging

The kiss, a mushroom cloud, hormones are raging

Even the carrier pigeon asked the dove to clip her spreading wings

Woah woah woah woah

“This is such a travesty! How did we let it come to this?”

We carve into the padded walls of our mental institutions

Sleep eludes us when the toddler throws a temper tantrum

But the baby has his bottle and likes the sound of his own voice

We left these billionaires unchecked, laughed, and bolstered their ratings

Posing for their monuments, they cursed us for their failings

And now they sit behind their desks with trigger fingers ready

To be remembered, whether right or wrong

Awaken! A nation of wolves!