Maybe the last of Propagandhi's new stuff that I've liked. It's damn good though, even if the music was beginning to sound like radio rock. 2001, Congress Theater Chicago.
The tangled webs they weave span from Pine to Ruby Ridge,
way back from Shay's defeat on up to Gustafsen
(now cue the ass parade of ditto-heads and commissars and pricks
to drown out this faintest threat of commie faggot heretics).
Conclusion: the nail that sticks up gets hammered down
and the master's finest tools are found
slack-jawed and placid amidst the cacophony
of screaming billboards and Disney-fied history.
Sometimes the ties that bind are strange:
no justice shines upon the cemetery plots marked Hampton, Weaver or Anna-Mae where
Federal Bureaus and Fraternal Orders
have cast their shadows; permanent features built into these borders.
But undercover of the customary gap we find between History and Truth, the Founding Fathers bask in the rocket's blinding red glare. The bombs bursting in air. One nation, Indivisible?
The truth is when the back-country learned of ratification the People had a coffin painted black and solemnly borne in funeral procession, they buried it deep in the earth as an emblem of the dissolution and internment of their Publick Liberty.
Someday, somewhere,
today's empires... tomorrow's ashes.
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