Antifa (Salvage Your Souls)

my brothers and sisters
my brothers and sisters, breathe
you are needed here with us
please breathe my dearest, breathe
my brothers and sisters, please
find a way to put your heart at ease
breathe, take in all that you need
I see you united, if only against the nazi,
on which we can agree
my brothers and sisters
I know that you're in need
I know you're stuck staring at their greed
I know peace did not come when it was declared
all men were freed
my brothers and sisters I plead, breathe
the moment calls for calmer minds
prevailing will require critical thought
not inaction, not reaction
action in step with each moving part
I wonder at your ability to conspire
now conspirare, breathe together
a moment to calm your minds
consider your futures, build a lifeline
for future generations to be a part of
our tempers are high, we've blown our top
will it cost us this moment
or determine our cell block?
be smart, we need leaders with strategy
and heart
destruction and chaos leaves us more broken
and torn apart
Unite us,
I implore you to use art
my brothers and sisters
together we can win
with peaceful resistance
our nation can mend
what's been broken from the start

 

Salvage Your Souls 

I tried to understand,
Play the good guy,
I spoke real nice,
I asked you politely
To consider your vice,
But I'm tired
Of people dying
At the hands of
Insignificant "anti-fascist" lice.
What's wrong with you?!
Savages!
That's what you look like
That's how you act
Uncivilized!
Like you weren't spoon-fed!
Like you hunted for your last meal,
Waited all day in line for bread?
Ungrateful for the opportunities
Others laid the groundwork
For you to have.
Rage baited,
You've been caught up
Got twisted in the head,
Turned violent—
The reason people are dead.
Your own ignorance,
Your own crap.
It's no one's fault
But your fingers.
Those are the hands
That determined the way you live.
Those are the hands
That mold and shape
The outcomes
Resulting in hatred.
You're creeps!
Wanting in our locker rooms,
To walk naked in the streets?
You're freaks!
The heart that's tainted?
Is stuck in your chest.
Silenced by the poison
You let seep in,
That you sleep with
In your bed.
What you've done,
What you choose to do next,
The repercussions
Are what you have to deal with.
If you can't handle a disagreement
It's a you issue!
The greatest novelty in America
Is the discourse you eschew!
Be you.
Do you.
But don't expect
That I like you.
You lucky little ingrate.
Born in a country
Where your differences
Are valued!
You sniveling little shit.
Grow a spine.
Rigorously research
Before experiment.
You don't get a free pass
Not in life,
Not to take one.
We are all out here
Working our asses off.
Man the fuck up bitches,
Grow the fuck up!
Welcome to the real world.
It's hard as fuck!
But no one wants
To unalive you.
They value their freedoms too much.
Unlike some of you
Shriveled up two bits.
Sending children
To the gates of heaven,
Expediting your entrance;
This is hell...
...and you think it's hot now.