Surrender Under Protest

[Verse 1]

From the comfort zone of history

On the lips of trusted loved ones

To the wounded fragile minds of angry youth

No sooner was it over

Than the memory made it nobler

A selective means by which to point the view

[Chorus]

Compelled but not defeated

Surrender under protest if you must

Compelled but not defeated

[Verse 2]

If it's all you can remember

Then it's been that way forever

And for six long generations it's been told

That among the fallen was tradition

That tradition was the mission

And that the wrongness of the sin was not the goal

[Chorus]

Compelled but not defeated

Surrender under protest if you must

Compelled but not defeated

[Verse 3]

Does the color really matter

On the face you blame for failure?

On the shamin' for a battle's losing cause?

If the victims and aggressors

Just remain each others' others

And the instigators never fight their own

[Chorus]

Compelled but not defeated

Surrender under protest if you must

Compelled but not defeated

Surrender under protest if you must

Surrender under protest if you must