k**ing Floor - Twelve.Ten.Forty-Eight lyrics

To reason with a gun Surround the prison, eyes look up To stick and stain, expression turned to dust Not now to drive away, oppress The world betrayed again The key is thrown aside, he stands in chains He spoke too loud and cried out Cried out for life again The bars will shadow lines Drawn taut for crossing wire fence Stops skin and bone gone silent Forward in a cell, no reason Given thought, the cost in lives Destroyed for what? we ask, law gives emptiness Rise instead to change For the people far away in mind Temperament brought down Worn away like so much sand Bread and bone to mend the mind Hands reach out and take away Everything they have to give Again a tear spreads hate Nothing lies below the pain Treason with a gun Rope strains above to ground Will sway against everything That they say will bring About some change Live inside the law of those who work To cut the line to float away On seas of sorrows so sad Is the one who tried but failed