Ticket 2 Ride

Brave, pushing the courage out

Surrounded in a hostile crowd

Alone, no one feels any clout

Silently screaming out loud

—

Awaken from hibernation

A towering giant thumb

Pushing us toward salvation

Brother, I am not dumb

—

Don’t look at me

My years left are few

I still believe in destiny

But woke up in this zoo

—

So many deluded faces

Emptiness in their hearts

Fear of emerging races

Obsessed with our body parts

—

The battle is for impressionable souls

Weary, heartened mugwump

Weathering the latest polls

Avoiding the caustic callathump

—

The battering moral storms

Of riots and self-proclaimed patriots

Their preachy media misinforms

Ideologues and just plain idiots

—

The enduring foundation shatters

Your beliefs must now be mine

Casting fear on everything that matters

You cheat to cross the goal line

—

The stakes are incalculably real

Sewing the seeds of doubt

You boost the lie about the big steal

Rotting from the inside out

—

A country of impossible divide

Gaming the system to gain clout

To create a culture of just one side

By tearing the inside out