The Medicine Doesn’t Work Here

By Double Negative

On Krackatoa

Released on February 17, 2016

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"Nothing works here, the medications don't work. I hate this place, I've been here for 7 years....."

"Hello? Can you hear me at all? Can you tell us anything else that might be helpful to you?"


[Tabs]

Get you titled stripped by a veteran team

The likes of which have never been seen

We're twice as sick as a heroin fiend

Like making a microchip the American dream

I have seen the evidence, the medicine doesn't work here

Got my stomach turning cuz it's confirming my worst fears

In a violent rage so I will raise the first spear

Until this dirt smeared, earth is cleared of these perverse queers

Been disturbed for years by everything the devil brings

Turning my calm days into Dante's Seventh Ring

I'll never get to see my brethren or heavens king

Cuz I was cursed with cement feathers on these heavy wings

Can't avoid the fate of grace being destroyed in this void of hate

Can't take a breath nauseated by the scent of spoiled faith

It turns my innards to sinners simmer in a boiling lake

Attach the great shackles that rattle like a coiled snake

Til the break of dawn the make us adorn a massive weight

But anger appears in wave form in its natural state

We were made as pawns but rage forms and the shackles break then slaves storm the castle gates to take on the magistrate

I'm a basket case and my heart pumps rocket fuel

When my back's against the wall I'm having a ball like pocket pool

Once you realize we got the tools to stop you fools

You'll learn the lesson that we are the exception and not the rule


[Coal Cash]

Ready to fight for our country that our leaders betrayed

We're living life under teetering blades

Now you're being enslaved

Feeding the grave while your freedom decays

I'll bleed the way, I ain't being afraid

So I lead a brigade and stay sickened by the system's array

You ain't a victim if you chose to obey

Better pray the eviction of conviction won't be switching your stay

Salute the future but polluted the way

Got a lucrid display

Not convoluted with a putrid dismay

One day I'll do it but you threw it away

Stay imbued with a rage

Chewing the cage, ain't confused by the maze

And won't be stayed by the walls that I raze

After all that I gave, I made more now I'm more than amazed

That you ain't made for the walk that I pave

You can talk it for days but swayed off it til you lost it in trade

Now you paid just to forfeit your wage

Now you're forced to engage, so raid the fortress with a thoughtless parade

Being slayed by what you thought you would save

Got you caught in a blaze

Tased remorseless, you're the officers prey

You should evade from the course that you made

You'll be tortured for days and made nauseous when they toss their grenades

Caustic Haze got you lost in a daze

If you thought you were brave, you're way off it cuz your mortgage was made

To keep you slaves to a coffin you praise

"Destruction...all across the world...We all die the same...Destruction...all across the world...I didn't make the rules I just play the game...Destruction...all across the world...Is there a chance that you'll survive...Destruction...all across the world...For this what it takes to stay alive..." [sampled at the end]