《The Last Act of Defiance》歌词

歌曲： The Last Act of Defiance

所属专辑：Fabulous Disaster

歌手： Exodus

时长： 04:43

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The Last Act of Defiance - Exodus[00:00:00]

The prison system[00:00:01]

Inherently unjust and inhumane[00:00:03]

Is the ultimate expression of injustice[00:00:07]

And inhumanity in the society at large[00:00:10]

Those of us on the outside do not like[00:00:14]

To think of wardens and guards[00:00:17]

As our surrogates yet they are[00:00:20]

And they are intimately[00:00:24]

Locked in a deadly embrace[00:00:25]

With their human captives[00:00:28]

Behind prison walls[00:00:31]

By extension so are we[00:00:34]

The terrible double[00:00:37]

Meaning is thus imparted[00:00:39]

To the original question of human ethics[00:00:40]

Am I my brother's keeper[00:00:45]

The second of February 1980[00:01:15]

Began three days of misery[00:01:16]

A scene of retaliation[00:01:19]

Epitomizing violence[00:01:21]

Horror and vindication[00:01:23]

Thieves murderers and rapists[00:01:24]

Inundated their prison[00:01:25]

Like homicidal sadists[00:01:26]

Guards and convicts alike[00:01:28]

Would pay the price[00:01:29]

To them the electric chair[00:01:30]

Would look like paradise[00:01:32]

Only degradation torture[00:01:35]

And cremation would suffice[00:01:36]

A sea of agony rolled in like[00:01:39]

The coming of the tide[00:01:41]

The more fortunate escaped[00:01:43]

The insanity through suicide[00:01:45]

The screams of the dying would[00:01:48]

Haunt the living to the grave[00:01:49]

Survivors of the riot relive[00:01:52]

The nightmare every day[00:01:53]

The last act of defiance[00:01:57]

With a never-ending appetite[00:02:06]

Barbiturates set them off like dynamite[00:02:07]

Eradicating informants[00:02:10]

Acetylene torches dealt the punishment[00:02:12]

Melted from skin to bone[00:02:14]

The fire silenced their screams to moans[00:02:16]

Smoke filled the air from bodies set aflame[00:02:19]

Begging for mercy[00:02:21]

But their words were spoken in vain[00:02:22]

They weren't allowed[00:02:25]

To perish until they cherished all the pain[00:02:26]

A sea of agony rolled in like[00:02:30]

The coming of the tide[00:02:32]

The more fortunate escaped[00:02:34]

The insanity through suicide[00:02:36]

The screams of the dying would[00:02:39]

Haunt the living to the grave[00:02:40]

Survivors of the riot relive[00:02:43]

The nightmare every day[00:02:44]

The last act of defiance[00:02:48]

The last act of defiance[00:02:52]

Guards they had taken hostage[00:03:51]

Were to blame for[00:03:53]

Pushing them over the edge[00:03:54]

Their brutality would be their demise[00:03:56]

Like sharks in a frenzy[00:03:58]

They lashed out at their prize[00:03:59]

When the madness had ended[00:04:00]

The gore was too[00:04:02]

Intense to be comprehended[00:04:03]

No one explained the real reason why[00:04:05]

For cruelty of a few so many should die[00:04:07]

They knew of the flaws[00:04:11]

But still insist the 'cause was justified[00:04:12]

A sea of agony rolled in like[00:04:15]

The coming of the tide[00:04:18]

The more fortunate escaped[00:04:20]

The insanity through suicide[00:04:21]

The screams of the dying would[00:04:25]

Haunt the living to the grave[00:04:26]

Survivors of the riot relive[00:04:29]

The nightmare every day[00:04:30]

The last act of defiance[00:04:34]

The last act of defiance[00:04:38]