Cycle of Violence

Nobody's listening when they only want to be heard
Nobody's willing not to even hear a single word
And all the plastic people just want to live their lies
And only look up when the innocent dies

Peace doesn't sell, they don't want that kind of silence
They want to keep it going, that cycle of violence
So don't believe that they want to take your guns away
They want the rivers of blood to be in their news every day
They feed your children death on silver spoons
And teach them sex in the afternoons
They poison the flowers of innocence and show no aversion
They call it education to cover for their subversion
They are molding their pink brains into twisted shapes
Teaching them that the deceivers are the ones who wear capes
But mommy and daddy are dead behind their screens
When the child is hungry they don't hear its screams
So pray now baby, because it won't be much longer
Fear and hate will grow and become something stronger
And that reflection staring at you in the mirror
You will want to destroy
The monster you see on the news was once your little boy

Nobody's listening when they only want to be heard
Nobody's willing not to even hear a single word
And all the plastic people just want to live their lies
And only look up when the innocent dies

Little dead pink flowers in broken homes
Like non-linear verses in Rimbaud poems
Their pretty petals left to rot where they fell
In the insane quiet of a private hell
There is no escape from that which kills
When it's fed to you like prescription pills
Fear crawls through the damaged brain
Insect legs digging into the soft membrane
You can't scratch it away if it's on the inside
No, you just stay afraid and wish you had already died

Nobody's listening when they only want to be heard
Nobody's willing not to even hear a single word
And all the plastic people just want to live their lies
And only look up when the innocent dies