Lyrics Just Following Orders - Stockades

Just Following Orders

Just following orders, hold the line
They’re drawn in blood, hide behind
Shield eyes, badges covered, justice blind
Evictions violence;
the only crime
Enough force, securing, choking out
Bent knees, bowed heads, remain calm
Reaction compels breathless shout
Of freedoms threat;
police terror
Lose trust, coated weary clout
Propaganda’s perseverant psalm
They won´t excuse your reasoned doubt
Paid for with bodies that paid for arms
Sit staring drenched indirections flux
Together memories unfold
Futures seem present in the past
Insurmountable woes
A helpless plea becomes a rasp
Question ability to cope
Find a reality to grasp
Convolutions blinking hope
Stranded on the beaches of pollutions dead coastline, not celestial design
What might have been obscured by indifference wasn´t seen, still hides in plain
sight
What might have been obscured by omission wasn´t said, knotted throats leak
heavy sighs
Mandatory violence
Malevolent views
Mandatory silence
Powers abused
Trials we’re presented
Wars we all lose
Screaming for changes
Hierarchies removed
Drops in a river (Swim disillusion)
Tears in the rain (Drown in seclusion)
Waving a fan at a hurricane
Mapping the world, a journey escape where we
Freely reside, a nice place to share and to thrive