Ghostlimb - Treason Fluently lyrics

How many ways to sell The tired packaged white man's burden From open arms of her majesty To the smoke of Santiago streets And at fifteen years Do you make a kid aware That their entire life Has been engulfed In factions and struggles and juntas devolving Without ever knowing Obscured in the open Ignored by definition Because it is somewhere else And one does not look beyond The branches of its own stunted elm Unless for resource So the roots dug deep into the mire Beneath the loamy skin tones Beneath the Tropic of Cancer At the crux of fruitlessness At the genesis To instability's foundation Where the chemotherapy offered Is the same essence as the infection "History does not repeat itself, but it delights in patterns and symmetries. When the stories of American "regime change" operations are taken together, they reveal much about why the United States overthrows foreign governments and what consequences it brings on itself by doing so. They also teach lessons for the future."¹