New Salem - Misery Index

Sharpen up the guillotine as fashionistas clean the scene

You’re socially bewitched with narrative affixed

Tried and executed with no due process

Do you fight the good fight?

Or instigate the fighting?

It’s a fucking witch hunt

Somebody’s head’s gotta roll

In New Salem

Burn the books, rename the streets

Nothing is safe, suppress the speech

A virtual conflict, binary logic

Who the fuck is the straw man now?

Do you fight the good fight?

Or instigate the fighting?

It’s a fucking witch hunt

Co-opted activists divide and conquer us

Somebody’s head’s gotta roll

New Salem

New Salem

New Salem

Co-opted activists, somebody’s head’s gotta roll

New Salem

New Salem

New Salem

Co-opted activists divide and conquer us

Somebody’s head’s gotta roll

In a pacified endemic state, it’s another echo-chamber slave

Addicted to extremes of ideologies

Where left and right amalgamate and hang us from their tallest trees

Do you fight the good fight?

Or instigate the fighting?

It’s a fucking witch hunt

Somebody’s head’s gotta roll

In an echo chamber no one can hear you scream

Burning the straw man in this knee-jerk nightmare

Roiling in all your virtue valor, awakening as a victim martyr

Freedom fighter, or bald-faced instigator?

Do you fight the good fight?

Or instigate the fighting?

It’s a fucking witch hunt

Somebody’s head’s gotta roll

New Salem

New Salem

New salem

Somebody’s head’s gotta roll

New Salem

New Salem

New Salem

Co-opted activists divide and conquer us

Somebody’s head’s gotta roll