UnRevolution (feat. Meg Morgan & Marcello Vieira)

Tanks are rolling through the streets Tracks mulching the asphalt Past the playground and the park While through the open windows of Apartment buildings up above Your neighbors are staring down The only sound is the squeal Of steel on steel as turrets turn Frightened eighteen-year-olds inside The tanks are desperately trying To get that fucking tank to turn Without hitting a streetlight Their ammunition is live A sense of lawlessness about Of giddy carnival despair Time ran out for debate All sides are issuing demands The city sizzling with hate Time for building barricades Burning tires downtown Time for looting banks and stores Bringing flags and statues down The column rattles as it crawls It is mid-August. Buildings sweat TV and radio are dead Communications are down A radio hobbyist somewhere Somehow got onto the air Excited, nervous, out of breath An unprofessional voice broadcasts Which neighborhoods the tanks have passed Loud whispers bounce off the walls Familiar streets appear strange Anticipation of change Anticipation of death A sense of national suicide The column nears a tunnel and stalls Time ran out for debate All sides are issuing demands The city sizzling with hate Time for building barricades Burning tires downtown Time for looting banks and stores Bringing flags and statues down Down by the tunnel frantic moms Are trying to reason with their sons To stop, to turn those tanks around But those boys are under oath They cannot disobey commands The column exhales and proceeds Their armor molten from the heat The tanks come rolling up the street And line up, guns trained on the crowd Theatrical pause. No one moves Until someone behind you shouts Get down, there're snipers on the roofs The crowd breaks and starts to run The only sound is your heart beat Arthritic coughing of the gun Time ran out for debate All sides are issuing demands The city sizzling with hate Time for building barricades Burning tires downtown Time for looting banks and stores Bringing flags and statues down The world that you once knew is lost Tanks are rolling down the streets Tanks are rolling down the streets Tanks are rolling down the streets