System Fucked

[Intro: Spoken]
"Just, just... Fuck all that shit, right?
I'm going into the fucking Army"

"Man, what are you, a damn fool?
They don't tell you is that
You don't belong to you no more
You belong to them
The government
Like a slave or something"

[Verse 1: Jesse Michaels]
Religious lied, you're pledgified
The first day you're in school
The system grinds your fertile mind
Into an Army tool
They create injustice
Lies and inequality
"Be all that you can be"

[Verse 2: Scott Sturgeon]
The pitch is that you'll see the world
And pick up a degree
Avoid the threat of prison time
Well, hypothetically
They stick you in the jungle
In the desert of the world
And then their flag is unfurled

[Chorus 1]
Red, white, and blued, they lied to you
And devastate your home
They'll hook you, too
Line, sinker you into an Army drone

[Post-Chorus]
A pack of lies for fresh supplies!

[Verse 3: Michaels]
If you die so far away
A folded flag for kin
They ship you back
A secret that you fought but didn't win
Either way, you're changed today
You played pawn for what?
Profit—gluttons don't give a fuck!

[Verse 4: Sturgeon]
Abandoned when you return
From the war they had you fight
Dismissive, but assuring you
That what you did was "right"
PTSD, nightmares
On a brutal, callous whim
Greet your prosthetic limb!

[Chorus 2]
Youth in action, murder sanctioned
Medals for your kills
Life vs. meaning, sick you're weaning
Off prescription pills

[Post-Chorus]
You run away from this decay!

[Bridge]
It's another fleece again
Another dead American
Another spoil of war to spend
Another caustic feast begins
Another lie to spin the lost
In another foreign holocaust
Applause and flags wave all around
Another troop dies on the ground!

[Chorus 3]
The youth were plucked, and system fucked!
The rich hold checks all blank!
Red, white, and blued, contracts renewed
They're crying to the bank!

[Post-Chorus]
They cashed their chips, and you were it!

[Outro: Spoken]
"When you join that Army
You ain't gonna be nobody..."