ฟังเพลงThe Last Act of Defiance

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