Текст песни: What We Have Here, Is a Failure to Communicate + перевод

California 1978

two men down letters piercing skin to intimidate

Sneaking weapons through the window

ignorance disguised as insult

shovels shit onto their names

The damage isn’t fleeting

when hate rips into veins

these are people you’re demeaning

No, I won’t get over this one

troubled stains won’t wash away

take this as appeal to reason

When those words fire out of mouths

the smell of venom on their breath

the bottom of the barrel’s been found

bullets fueled by smoking hopelessness

Here’s a screaming wake-up call

in-equal is a concept designed to make the sufferer small

Everyone was equal until we hunted human difference

now we’re dragging bodies to the landfill

Triggers click, shatter monuments in heads

a cultural nosedive in intelligence

It’s in the space between a nation’s teeth

you don’t have to listen carefully

it keeps going

Overlooked, hidden in undertones

passed on and handed off in simple jokes

it keeps growing

Don’t underestimate the power of the things you say

it’s been too many years and far too little change

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