Thousand Oaks - Conspire

These reasons, they aren’t so deep

These seasons, they’re changing, they’re changing me

Cause truth be told, the money speaks

But this great divide is nothing that love can’t breach

But what’s it matter to me?

Have I lost sight of a college degree?

An abstract noun doesn’t set me free

It only binds the bondage of war that apparently only I can see

Only I, only I, only I, only I can see

Only I, only I, only I, only I can see

The right say I’m wrong, I’ve got no clue

Everything I’ve been taught, I thought it points to you

But I steered myself around and around, and around, and around

We abuse your name

Just like a lover that can only feel their own pain, pain, pain

You get used to getting used

We abuse your name

We abuse your name

Yeah

The uniforms need stitches, the plane tickets need printed

The missiles, computer systems, the targets investigated

Tuition gets more expensive, the churches need more donations

The system is all-inclusive, you’re nothing if you escape it

Slip through the cracks to God knows where

God knows, God knows, God knows where

Slip through the cracks to God knows where

God knows, God knows, God knows where

So how’s it come to be the church and the army got so intertwined?

You praise us all for ending up face down in the dirt

And scorn us if we ask why

The right say I’m wrong, I’ve got no clue

Everything I’ve been taught, I thought it points to you

Now I don’t even know who you are

But at least we have something in common

The military needed both of us to change who we are

In support of the occupation

We abuse your name

Just like a lover that can only feel their own pain, pain, pain

You get used to getting used

We abuse your name

We abuse your name

I got out, I got out, I got out

I got out while I could

I got out, I got out, I got out

I got out

I got out, I got out, I got out

I got out while I could

I got out, I got out, I got out

I got out