[Verse] Twentieth century truth grew teeth Pulled the curtain burned the sheet Every buried file every quiet scream Came up dripping out the machine We said "knowledge saves" like a little prayer But it sharpened fangs on the open air All that evidence every broken word Made the devil worse made the poison heard We televised sin gave it time to talk Put a price on pain sold it by the block Now it's headlines, hot takes cold hearts, cheap tricks I look left, look right hard to tell which is which [Chorus] When the general of hell says "trust me" crowd leans in just to hear him preach When the liar sounds kind and the kind sound weak Tell me who is who tell me what to believe When the general of hell says "follow" we march in step just to feel complete If the truth made the devil worse in the last dark century Now it's hard to tell which is which and which ain't me [Verse 2] We got saints with stains wrapped in perfect brands Smiles like sermons blood on their hands We got crooks in ties quoting sacred lines Turn a garden law to a border sign Every tongue split every word bent Turned confession booths to a circus tent We used to fear horns now we cheer the grin If it looks like power we just call it "win" So the general of hell says "Relax, I'm you" Same taste, same clothes same point of view Says "Everything's gray so nothing's wrong" Hands us a script calls it our own song [Chorus] When the general of hell says "trust me" crowd leans in just to hear him preach When the liar sounds kind and the kind sound weak Tell me who is who tell 'em what to believe [interlude] You ever seen an angel with the devil wings? The real ones never sing Screamin' at the top of my lungs, "This is not what I want" I've been out in the front, runnin' out of the funds You ever seen an angel with the devil wings? I'm the realest figure I knew, and that's on everything I'm sayin', "That's on everything" Gotta get it In the 20th century, the truth made the devil worse Since the last century, hard to tell which is which The thing I know for sure is that only one exists... When the general of hell says "follow" we march in step just to feel complete If the truth made the devil worse in the last dark century Now it's hard to tell which is which and which one is me [Bridge] So if every mask got welded to skin If every small lie got filed as "win" If the devil took notes every time we spoke Did we hand him the script did we share the joke? When the general of hell says "Stand for what's right" (hey) And it sounds like us on a louder mic I stare in the mirror til the edges twitch Trying to see the line where I end it begins and which is which
