Ways to Lose a Country

Beware of movements that arise Painting heaven in the skies Telling you that they alone have the solution On the right, on the left Many roads lead to theft And they're one of the ways to lose your country Beware of the new rationale That boosts popular morale And schizophrenic logic terrorises There's a distorted narrative Where the truth will never live It's just one of the ways to lose your country Beware of brazen shamelessness It's a nasty business When people are acting up with immorality Not humble or humane Then chaos is soon to rein And it's one of the ways to lose your country Beware of appointments and dilutions And attacks on institutions When the judiciaries replaced with their own followers A superfluous state Will sign and seal fate Another of the ways to lose your country Beware of model citizens Who are anointed as the ones To follow and emulate cos they are perfect While the rest of us are left To feel second class at best It's just one of the ways to lose your country Beware of laughter in the streets As they mock their new elites The only self-defence left is their humour Some say it's just sequential And at best inconsequential But it's one of the ways to lose your country