Checkmate lyrics

Watch the gears grind off their teeth

The screeching halt machine digging heels in disbelief

Two reactional identities, opposing policies

A bait and switch routine.

Double takes and double speak

Still scripting the facade

Asphyxiate and choke the truth

All hail the money God

Repeat, echo, refrain

It’s all the same, so deafening

Repeat, echo, refrain

A consequence, we asked for this

Repeat, echo, refrain

No, never again

The American scream.

A coup de tat on full display, a liar’s sick charade

A traitor’s grand parade

Narcissistic masquerades for those without a say

Systematic disarray.

Divide and conquer and close them in and bury secrets deep

Make America hate again and bleed the sheep to sleep.

Repeat, echo, refrain

It’s all the same, so deafening

Repeat, echo, refrain

A consequence, we asked for this

Repeat, echo, refrain

No, never again

The American scream.

You try to pick the lesser of

But evil doesn’t come in twos

Bellicose and balkanized

A sinking ship of fools

So kiss the hangman as you drop

The rotting corpse of decency

Just another casualty of the American scream.

• Artist:Lamb of God
• Album:Checkmate (2020)