Welcome To The Breakdown

Welcome To The Breakdown - Rise Against

Written by：Brandon Barnes/Zach Blair/Joseph Principe/Tim McIlrath

All hail the jester has landed

Defile the country he sings

Charmed like a snake in a basket

Should be coiled up and ready to spring

We're raising our cross just to burn it

The clergy are selling their souls

Clearing a path

Ignoring the facts

Intoxicated by the throne

We'll be standing here holding our ground come what may

Like a ghost haunts from beyond the grave

Welcome to the breakdown

Welcome to the end of the road

Welcome to the breakdown

We've got nowhere else to go

Will we all go deaf in the chamber of echoes

Cheering the missile parade

Agreeing to let all the banks rob the people

Together we circle the drain

We'll be standing here holding our ground come what may

Like a ghost haunts from beyond the grave

Welcome to the breakdown

Welcome to the end of the road

Welcome to the breakdown

We've got nowhere else to go

Welcome to the breakdown

Welcome to the end of the road

This is a breakdown

We've got nowhere else to go

It's a game you've been playing

It's a fragile machine

It's a pied-piper song that has lulled you to sleep

It's a lie and you fell for it hook line and sinker

A hand that you shook that then gave you the finger

A fraud and a fake

A cowardly king that lied to your face but you still kiss the ring

This is the breakdown

This is the breakdown

This is the breakdown

I'm standing here holding our ground come what may

Like a ghost haunts from beyond the grave

Welcome to the breakdown

Welcome to the end of the road

This is a breakdown

We've got nowhere else to go

Welcome to the breakdown

Welcome to the end of the road

This is a breakdown

We've got nowhere else to go

It's not much but this is home and there's

Nowhere else to go