Half Mast Songtext

von Refused

When freedom is hiding from morality
When you finally scrubbed this great land clean of those values you held in such high esteem
When you finally divorced the numbers from the names we can return to your good old days
Bound and gagged by sex and race
Chained by family crazed by god while we

Raise the flag shout down the past
The stars and stripes stream by at half mast
Your eyes well up with tears and yeah so do mine

I never knew the high price of hypocrisy so pledge allegiance to death
Penalty believe in your drug
War bow down to the TV set
You need to cultivate that apathy that swells inside your throat

Raise the flag shout down the past
The stars and stripes stream by at half mast
Your eyes well up with tears and yeah so do mine

Half mast dehumanized
Half mast divided
Half mast overloaded
Half mast who the fuck cares
As long as you can sleep well under the iron fist