One Step Away - Trial

Facing brutality i struggle with morality

I don’t think that i can take it anymore

Indoctrinated into cultural norms functionless forms:

«dominate and bleed infect with greed» and we succumb…

I aggressive inherently am the illegitmate child

Of the gun intertwined with the dollar sign

And now as i walk through the valley of the shadow of death

I have become your evil and your hate is within me

For the rod and the staff have taught me all to well

These hands would drip with blood

If i traded truth for certainty

Power beckons to the unsure and afraid

The atavists of ignorance who initiate

Our bodies cast the shadow of everyone who has ever lived

And all the gods all the demons all the heavens

And all the hells are within us…

But that i privilaged revolutionary could prescribe rites

Of passage for all?

in preparing bloody defenses

Let our lineage remain clear: Armenia, Nanking, East Timor

Cambodia, Rwanda, Iraq, Kosovo the shattered lives

And battered wives, underscored by forceful lies

Are inside of us, inside of me

I aggressive inherently could destroy humanity

I’m only one step away

One single blow unjustified

I’m only one step away

Caught between rule or be ruled

Want or want not

With no easy way out