Running on Fumes - Good Riddance

What we need is to see

the refraction of history

Through a lens free of abject

denial and the presence of fantasy

Men of science who put us to sleep

standing post at the secrets that they keep

We’ve gone too far to turn back now

and the question becomes how

When everything we’ve learned is wrong

Lest we forget all we’ve lost

have we wasted our best years

For the sanctified traditions that we pray

Lest we forget honestly

does it make you sick inside

That we approximate democracy that way

Break the will of the young

through restraint of the pen and tongue

Bringing doctrine inside of our schools

prospectus as curriculum

Now the system is running on fumes

there’s an outcome that we can’t assume

Tear dissent and our choices away

to recreate the American way

Where everything we learn is wrong

With empires built on fantasies

through patriotic reveries

Can the sacrifice be absolute

when the opposite is true

And now we see the world through blinkered eyes

With beautiful for spacious skies

And the animus we realize is finally dawning on you