Barricades

Life lived with blinders on
 Only looking out for number one
 Radio's skewed to his point of view
 Of the good old days when the good ol' boys ruled
 Winter came, the workplace changed
 They're not allowed to pontificate
 Hate speech used to be "shootin' the shit"
 'Til the snowflakes covered their bully pulpit
 Trapped in the ignorance
 We're living in our own prison system
 Walls up, keep the wolves at bay
 Barricades
 Barricades
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 White flight, a new estate
 They gotta keep their little princess safe
 Up in the hills with a long commute
 No boogeyman to ruin their gorgeous purview
 Round the clock surveillance
 Keep an eye on seedy elements
 You built a fortress to keep us out
 Could you ever be convinced that it's keeping you in?
 Tear down entitlement
 Superiority's a prison complex
 Privilege was cooked up by the rich — oh, prisoner
 Been a long time on the inside
 Been a long time locked in our own minds
 This is denial, this is our bliss, to live as prisoners
 Been a long time on the inside
 Been a long time locked in our own minds
 This is denial, this is our bliss, to live —
 I don't know how to break out
 I was a middle class kid from the middle west
 I was the quintessential, sheltered innocent
 I didn't know what segregation meant —
 I didn't have to know — the world I knew
 Was white as snow
 And so I look back now at these severed towns
 All the hate they spread, simply not spreading out
 Fuck this denial, fuck their ignorant bliss
 Barricades
 Barricades