The Honor System - Nails lyrics

See the buildings rising up

See the buildings crumble down

Hear a million voices scream for silence

Automated tasks, Repetition beat into the ground

All these great things that we've made

Sewn with rotten string

Destined for defeat right from the beginning

You can't learn from past mistakes

unless you admit they're made

There's more to history

than the Cliff Notes we all read in second grade

The biggest criminals in town

can be spotted fairly quick

They like to dress in dark blue suits

and carry nightsticks

Make people feel warm and safe

Intimidate and isolate

The elegant sip chardonnay, Put on a happy face

Days filled with consumption and desolate space

You can hire one thousand slaves

to build this house for you

Or you can utilize your own tools

These nails can build anything we want them to

Let's build a place where we can choose

the lives we're living