What We Have Here, Is a Failure to Communicate

California 1978
 two men down letters piercing skin to intimidate
 Sneaking weapons through the window
 ignorance disguised as insult
 shovels shit onto their names
 The damage isn't fleeting
 when hate rips into veins
 these are people you're demeaning
 No, I won't get over this one
 troubled stains won't wash away
 take this as appeal to reason
 When those words fire out of mouths
 the smell of venom on their breath
 the bottom of the barrel's been found
 bullets fueled by smoking hopelessness
 Here's a screaming wake-up call
 in-equal is a concept designed to make the sufferer small
 Everyone was equal until we hunted human difference
 now we're dragging bodies to the landfill
 Triggers click, shatter monuments in heads
 a cultural nosedive in intelligence
 It's in the space between a nation's teeth
 you don't have to listen carefully
 it keeps going
 Overlooked, hidden in undertones
 passed on and handed off in simple jokes
 it keeps growing
 Don't underestimate the power of the things you say
 it's been too many years and far too little change