Coercive Aggression

Ideological dictator Imposed ignorance Through coercive aggression Contradicted recompense Propagandized nullification Of pragmatic thought A prison of the mind We are over-wrought I have dreamed a dream But now that dream is gone from me The world that I once knew Just a fading memory The power-hungry manipulation The weakness of their minds Intimidated into submission They've left it all behind Ideological dictator Imposed ignorance Through coercive aggression Contradicted recompense Propagandized nullification Of pragmatic thought A prison of the mind We are over-wrought Why can't they see? The lessons of our history Why can't they see? How this world has come to be Why can't they see? The lessons of our history Why can't they see? How this world has come to be