Stagnant Waters

[Verse 1]

Corner blocks unlocked

Mysteries they not

Men and women shed tears when our peoples get shot

Multiply fears turns person to flock

Gospel don't read to let no man walk

Water stays wet and less we forget

Inept failures of corrupt government

Child wonders where and why her mother went

Whole communities not fed

Declared Marshal Law instead

Derailed all progress

Inaction of congress costs lives

Tide rise

Tore through Leadbelly's levy

A saturated heart stays heavy

Can't help but wonder if my masses stand ready

Revolutions cost lives

But an idle mind's deadly

[Chorus]

Barefoot exodus

Where's that plateau?

Thrown to wolves by our own

Can't trust a single soul

Should have known

Carcass lays prone in stagnant waters

Epitaphs have no authors

Patient paupers

My nation of martyrs

Turned mourners

We all lead to slaughter

Last breath on street (corner)

[Verse 2]

Surmise ill situations devised to kill neighbors

Separated families back when they enslaved us

Made refugees of taxpayers

Truth's layered

Lies burn like paper

Our soul's bare

Yo i need my peoples

(We right here!)

Got to fight tanks with fists son

(We don't care!)

[Chorus]

Barefoot exodus

Where's that plateau?

Thrown to wolves by our own

Can't trust a single soul

Should have known

Carcass lays prone in stagnant waters

Epitaphs have no authors

Patient paupers

My nation of martyrs

Turned mourners

We all lead to slaughter

Last breath on street corner

[Verse 3]

Coroners crept in same corridors

Fear of death left once you slept with the poor

Mathematics once taught to men by the Moors

Lost to Spanish eyes viewing Mayans as whores

Corps of Engineers slice throat of 9 wards

Suggest you hold breath for 9 more

Divine swords chop neck of the wicked

Wounds self inflicted

Felt the Earth's plates shifting

Cracks in foundations of system

Watch the sunrise from a distance

Defines what we missing