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The Last Act of Defiance

Exodus2015年6月29日

The Last Act of Defiance 歌詞

The Last Act of Defiance - Exodus

The prison system

 

Inherently unjust and inhumane

 

Is the ultimate expression of injustice

And inhumanity in the society at large

 

Those of us on the outside do not like

To think of wardens and guards

As our surrogates yet they are

 

And they are intimately

Locked in a deadly embrace

With their human captives

 

Behind prison walls

 

By extension so are we

 

The terrible double

Meaning is thus imparted

To the original question of human ethics

 

Am I my brother's keeper

 

The second of February 1980

Began three days of misery

 

A scene of retaliation

 

Epitomizing violence

Horror and vindication

Thieves murderers and rapists

Inundated their prison

Like homicidal sadists

Guards and convicts alike

Would pay the price

To them the electric chair

Would look like paradise

 

Only degradation torture

And cremation would suffice

 

A sea of agony rolled in like

The coming of the tide

 

The more fortunate escaped

The insanity through suicide

 

The screams of the dying would

Haunt the living to the grave

 

Survivors of the riot relive

The nightmare every day

 

The last act of defiance

 

With a never-ending appetite

Barbiturates set them off like dynamite

Eradicating informants

 

Acetylene torches dealt the punishment

Melted from skin to bone

 

The fire silenced their screams to moans

Smoke filled the air from bodies set aflame

Begging for mercy

But their words were spoken in vain

 

They weren't allowed

To perish until they cherished all the pain

 

A sea of agony rolled in like

The coming of the tide

 

The more fortunate escaped

The insanity through suicide

 

The screams of the dying would

Haunt the living to the grave

 

Survivors of the riot relive

The nightmare every day

 

The last act of defiance

 

The last act of defiance

 

Guards they had taken hostage

Were to blame for

Pushing them over the edge

Their brutality would be their demise

 

Like sharks in a frenzy

They lashed out at their prize

When the madness had ended

The gore was too

Intense to be comprehended

No one explained the real reason why

For cruelty of a few so many should die

 

They knew of the flaws

But still insist the 'cause was justified

 

A sea of agony rolled in like

The coming of the tide

 

The more fortunate escaped

The insanity through suicide

 

The screams of the dying would

Haunt the living to the grave

 

Survivors of the riot relive

The nightmare every day

 

The last act of defiance

 

 

The last act of defiance