We Have Always Lived In The Compound

("We rolling?")

("Okay.")

The trucks arrive

The cameras roll

We give a little tour

Of our home

From the workshop to the kitchen

Where we bake our bread

To the part of the yard where we bury our dead

We have always lived

We have always lived

We have always lived in the compound

Brother tells us stories

About the world outside

Of the murders and the rapes

Thе arsons and the suicides

But herе behind our wall

That's nearly 20 feet high

We are free to follow the words

Of our Father in the sky

We have always lived

We have always lived

We have always lived in the compound

And every night we gather

In the common room

To discuss the day's events

And give thanks for our food

And every day we gather

In the common room

To read stories from the book

While we await our doom

We have always lived here

We have always lived here

We have always lived here

We have always lived here

The elders, they remind us

To fear heretics and imposters

They say "The monsters cannot get us

If we are the monsters"

We have always lived here

We have always lived here

We have always lived here

We have always lived here

The trucks arrive

The cameras roll

We give a little tour

Of our home

From the only window we can see the sky

To the part of the yard where our bones will lie

We have always lived here

We have always lived here

We have always lived here

We have always lived here

We have always lived here

We have always lived here

We have always lived here

And we cannot escape here