Poster Child

from Everything's Bad And I'm Angry by Sam Gleason

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Decent men leaving while they still have a chance
Empires falling for the good and the bad
Both the blue and the red will fight till they're dead
But not till long after the world's gone mad
The kings cannot stop all the spilling of blood
No leader comes out with hands clean of the mud
Desire for the house of white inspires all these mindless fights
Everyone can sense the impending flood

Who appointed deities
To decide what gets released
Who gets the bigger piece
And what nobody sees?

CHORUS:
Three giants with their armies behind them
Struggle to find a reasonable alliance
Everything's political
Everyone's so critical
Everyone's condemned for a different defiance
The greatest threat we are forced to face
Is not angry protesters with cans of mace
Should we continue this brawl
Divided we fall
And our home will become a desolate place

Using fear or oppression or the right to the throne
Skeletons in closets that may not be known
With the words that drive people out of their minds
Everyone speaking in a desperate tone
You can cater to visions of reality
To different ways of seeing what it means to be free
But if the actual change is within your range
Well, that's something everyone would like to see

CHORUS

Who's the poster child
For a life worthwhile?

CHORUS

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from Everything's Bad And I'm Angry, released September 1, 2016
Written by Sam Gleason
Produced by Sean Kelly, Brendan Kelly, and Sam Gleason

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