National Disease

Lyrics: Red hats, dead eyes, white lies on repeat Whole damn country got a goddamn disease NATIONAL DISEASE [VERSE] Stars on the flag, got blood in the seams Land of the free with a slaveholder's dreams Liberty's a slogan they sell to the crowd While the truth gets buried and the bigots get loud White hoods in the history, new suits in the hall Same old hatred, just a fresh coat of gold They don't burn crosses, they just burn the facts Put a flag on the coffin, then they call it an act Fear in the suburbs, hate on the screen Every fucking headline feeds the machine Point at the stranger, tell the mob who's to blame While the suits in the tower keep profiting from pain You built your whole empire on a carefully spun lie Sell 'em back their anger, then you sell 'em a side Got a nation full of ghosts and a king with a grin And the only thing he's winning is the rot settling in [PRE-HOOK] Can you hear that sound? That's the cracks in the floor That's the ghosts of your history pounding the door You can paint it gold, put a crown on the lie But a rotten foundation won't survive It won't survive... [HOOK] NATIONAL DISEASE - LET THE WHOLE THING BLEED! Red, white, blue, but there's rot underneath! NATIONAL DISEASE - GOT THE NATION ON ITS KNEES! Selling hate to the masses like a goddamn dream! LIE! LIE! - That's the national creed! BUY! BUY! - That's the American dream! NATIONAL DISEASE - CAN'T YOU FUCKING SEE? The greatest trick the devil pulled was selling you the king! [VERSE] Yo, Donnie, you're a showman with a secondhand crown Big orange mouth, but the truth brings you down Playing tough guy while you're begging for praise Building your throne in a hall full of rage You ain't no savior, you're a salesman in red Selling golden-age fantasies to the walking dead Every rally, same script, every speech, same trick Make a lie sound holy if you scream that shit quick You got the crowd chanting, fists in the air Blaming everybody while you pretend that you care You're a brand in a suit with a cult for a base Put a flag in the frame, put a grin on your face You talk about greatness, but your vision's a cage Wrap a leash around freedom, call it turning the page You don't want a nation, you want an audience to feed Every ego needs a kingdom, every tyrant needs a creed And your loyal little chorus keeps on singing your song Even when the facts show everything's wrong You can twist every headline, you can scream at the press But a fragile man's authority ain't greatness - it's stress You're a symptom of a sickness that was here before Now the infection's got a podium and a hand on the door [HOOK] NATIONAL DISEASE - LET THE WHOLE THING BLEED! Red, white, blue, but there's rot underneath! NATIONAL DISEASE - GOT THE NATION ON ITS KNEES! Selling hate to the masses like a goddamn dream! LIE! LIE! - That's the national creed! BUY! BUY! - That's the American dream! NATIONAL DISEASE - CAN'T YOU FUCKING SEE? The greatest trick the devil pulled was selling you the king! [VERSE] Welcome to the nightmare, population: blind Where the truth gets buried and the dead get redesigned Every screen's a sermon, every lie's a prayer Every monster wears a suit and pretends that he's fair There's a ghost in the Capitol, a wolf in the pews A million different ways to manufacture the news The past ain't dead, it's just wearing new clothes Same old poison with a different dosage They teach you who's inferior, teach you who to hate Then they sell you an enemy to keep you at the gate Make you fight your neighbor while they empty out the vault Then they call it your freedom when you swallow every fault This ain't about the color of the skin you were born in It's the hate you keep feeding, it's the world you're performing It's the moment you decide that some lives count less When a flag becomes a shield for a fascist's mess No savior in the skyline, no messiah in gold, Just a million broken promises and a story getting old And the scariest damn monster ain't the one beneath your bed, It's the one you put in power when you let him rule your head [BRIDGE] One lie... One crowd... One throne... One nation... WHO PROFITS FROM THE HATE? WHO PROFITS FROM THE FEAR? WHO GETS TO CALL IT FREEDOM? WHEN THE ENEMY IS ALWAYS HERE? The sickness ain't the people... It's the poison that they feed [FINAL HOOK] NATIONAL DISEASE - LET THE WHOLE THING BLEED! Red, white, blue, but there's rot underneath! NATIONAL DISEASE - GOT THE NATION ON ITS KNEES! Selling hate to the masses like a goddamn dream! LIE! LIE! - That's the national creed! BUY! BUY! - That's the American dream! NATIONAL DISEASE - NOW THE WORLD CAN SEE! YOU CAN'T MAKE A NATION GREAT BY TEACHING IT TO HATE! NATIONAL! (DISEASE!) NATIONAL! (DISEASE!) NATIONAL! (DISEASE!) [OUTRO] "Make America great again..." You can't go back to a dream... That was never real ---------------------------------------------------------- Add me on Instagram:   / koenichkrank