Stavros Hughes - The Pledge of Allegiance

Oh Patience, see you've grown so thin
But you won't help yourself, so let the other one in, oh
Oh Fury, leave good grace behind
Give up the desperate quest to check this one-track mind, I'd say it's
Another minute 'fore you split this ship asunder
It's a tale of gods and monoliths who speak like rolling thunder, and I
I've played this game too long and lost with every step
Oh, it's with pride I'm cast aside under their shadows with the rest
Oh Mother, can't you see I'm spent?
But I'll be damned to Hell before my lips repent, no
Oh Father, can't you hear me knock?
Just open up and spare me from this taunting clock, salute your
Salute your soldiers 'fore you cast them to the fire
It's no shock to Lady Liberty that Uncle Sam's a liar, and they
They're breaking ground but you can't stand to hear them stomp
Bury the casualties in history and amplify the pomp, oh
Hold the door while we bolt yours
Kneel before we name this war
Gold-plated monuments in a torched town
Ten stolen childhoods in your ballgown
So it goes
Lord, I'm begging you, spare me a week
You've gotten me down on my knees
What sadist could rule thus and expect love to come from those below in return?
Oh love isn't something we learn
It's not something that cruelty will earn
Yet you call this thing love
Keeping your distance above
Oh Darling, see you're all I've got
I wake each day more grateful that love can't be bought, no
Oh Glory, are you gone for good?
Convince another soul to do what no one should, I'll keep it
I'll keep it brief cuz I know everybody's running
It won't for each of you to curse the kind and crown the cunning, and I
I've read this page before and not a soul survives
It grows hard to run too far when you're left buried half alive, oh
Hold the door while we bolt yours
Kneel before we name this war
Gold-plated monuments in a torched town
Ten stolen childhoods in your ballgown
Don't try to fight the feeling, the lives you're stealing are heard
And conmen call for justice, I'll never trust a word
So it goes

Written by:
Stavros Hughes

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