[Verse 1] The marble halls stink of purchased favors Paid with gold and crypto, and false praises They wrap themselves in crosses and in flags While decency bleeds out in body bags [Verse 2] The faithful cheer every new excess Appointees scrape and genuflect A party of principle stands mute As cross and cult pervert the truth [Chorus 1] When the reckoning comes, their burden high Our children will ask why all we did is comply Why in weakness their future we betrayed And shame became the debt we could not evade [Verse 3] They'll blame the left's self-righteous pose Their virtue signaled, problems ignored While selling dogma as common sense They opened the door to Trump's ascent [Verse 4] Uncouth sprinkled with some truth Beat fiction at the polling booth And crassness that bordered on obscene Somehow rang more genuine [Chorus 2] The reckoning will come in our children's time 'How could you let the pillars fall?' Is the questions they will ask Our shame the debt we cannot mask [instrumental[ [Bridge] Every empire told itself it's righteous Every fall began with "not here, not us" Every book is burned by those who claim They're only cleansing lies from truth [Verse 5] The cross becomes a weapon in their hands The Constitution just another prop While reasoned voices keep their counsel low The lies told loud catch and hold [Final Chorus] History has patience, keeps its time It records every coward, every stand not taken For every principle betrayed The debt of silence must be paid [Outro] So let the dirge play loudly as death knell For the republic that we chose to sell For the left that lost its mind For the right that lost its soul For the center that didn't hold [Instrumental] [Outro] So let the dirge play loudly as death knell For the republic that we chose to sell For the left that lost its mind For the right that lost its soul For the center that didn't hold
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