Crouched here,

In my missile, defenseless

Comfortable,

Watching bullets wash over my metal

From my standpoint,

It’s not at all like Hell

Cuz I’m numb to it now,

And there’s no telling how

It came to this

This anti-bliss,

I can’t even make a fist but I’m restless as hell

So get me outta this chamber ring the bells and glory glory

I’ll tell you a story, fairly boring and barely starting:

How I made it past the parting, past the thwarting waves to save my life.



(I was in a bad place, terrifically deep below the surface of what people call “reality”, don’t mind if I mix my metaphors sometimes it’s called for.)



Get up now,

Jump on top of the ones who keep you down



Get up now,

Jump on top of the ones who keep you down



And if you don’t know how,

Just watch the ones who know how to get it done



Cuz broadly speaking, sometimes fighting back can be a lot of fun



I promise not to give you any specific information about my life,

While I quite generically wax over a few of my most intense gripes

On second thought, I pledge not to wax at all

I’ll just hand it over, all my frustration in a hardened little ball

No specifics: just the absolute escape of scream

Not so angry now, just toss it out there, remember we’re a team

I’ll catch your rage, play hot potato, just lettin off some steam

It’s never a cliche when my baby gets mad at the machine



Get up now,

Jump on top of the ones who keep you down



Get up now,

Jump on top of the ones who keep you down



And if you don’t know how,

Just watch the ones who know how to get it done



Cuz broadly speaking, sometimes fighting back can be a lot of fun



So listen here, my ecstasy is a kind of rageful empowerment

It’s all rather generic, when you’re a general heretic

What’ve you got for me to stand against, I’m fenced in

And I wanna make broad, sweeping rebellion just to make sure that I’m tellin him

About the furious merriment sentiment, dadaistic blissful ballistics

And if I had to pin it down, I think I’d mostly blame the clown

Who drugged me up in such high doses, contributed to my psychosis

Which cost me a job as the economy tanked, which was especially thanks

To the lunatistically capitalistic, deregulatedly financially fascistic

False derivative-deriving selfish and conniving economic mystics

And in the midst of this, I’m unemployed with a sickness



So I thought, louder and louder, till I whispered louder and louder, till I mumbled louder and louder, till I spoke, louder and louder, till I affirmed, louder and louder, till I yelled, louder and louder, till I shouted, louder and louder, till I screamed, louder and louder, till I lost my voice a hundred billion times, and it was just the sound of prison bars struck like chimes



Get up now

Jump on top of the ones who keep you

Jump on top of the ones who keep you down

Get up now

Jump on top of the ones who keep you

Jump on top of the ones who keep you down