1984 Overture

We strip war down to essentials

We don't waste no time with flesh

Beautiful is our destruction

Breed and retch

You don't have to follow leaders

You don't have to choose your side

No opinions balloted by the millions

Who died

Don't feel you're apart or private

You can be the wreck you choose

Not that it makes any difference

You lose

Someone up there doesn't like me

Doesn't want this girl alive

I've done what is most forbidden

Survive

I don't know who moves the counters

Deals the cards or makes the rules

Gives the orders, pulls the levers

Playing wars

I'm a peaceful soul, I swear it

I don't wish no human ill

But let me at those warring players

I'd kill

Someone up there doesn't like me

Doesn't want this girl alive

I've done what is most forbidden

Survive

I don't know who moves the counters

Deals the cards or makes the rules

Gives the orders, pulls the levers

Playing wars

Got me wanting to kill

I want to hate

Wanting to kill

Corruption it's there, want to kill

Got me wanting to kill

I want to hate

Someone up there doesn't like me

Doesn't want this girl alive

All I've done is survive