A nation polarized primed for a civil war
Where is this going now?
Black or white, no gray
No reasonable people left anymore

Economic calamity is knocking at your door
But you don’t answer it.
Sooner or later he’ll be breaking down the door
And it is you that he has come to get

Basket cases run the town, run the news, and run us down

Institutional disincentive stimulates an
Inefficient allocation
While your confidence in cancer-causing governmental intervention
Manifests as regulation

While the host dies of parasites
Never knowing what the hell is going on
A country in demise, empire paralyzed
Dying should not be prolonged.

Basket cases run the town, run the news, and run us down

There’s a stew of poison brewin’,
Without knowin’ you are lining up to wine and dine
You take a sniff, you take a whiff, you look around you,
Thinking something isn’t smelling right

Determined to be learning what’s burning behind the curtain,
Certain it’s a crock of shit
Step out of line to investigate and implicate the shadows
Who are serving it.