Geneva Ink

Paper lines in a leather book

Do you think a name can stop a bullet?

Hiding in a hollow shelter

Made of signatures and soft handshakes

While the dirt begins to move

Underneath the boots of the unwanted

Corner cutting empires built on lies

Pretending that they breathe the same air

Watch the sickness falling from the skies

Chemical weapons that they say aren't there

We hide behind a dusty shelf

Signed a page to save ourself

But that Geneva ink won't stop a flame

From those who never learned its name

Or how to play our quiet game

They don't care about the lines we drew

The fake friends don't believe in it

Cutting corners in a shadow state

Turning every hollow word to hate

Corner cutters in the dark

Building empires out of broken gears

They watch the western clouds

Smiling at the empty threats of peace

They saw the way the world knelt

Back when the coughing started in the spring

Now they play for keeps

Check the map of 2020 stains

Chemical leaks in the western veins

They get away with every lie

Watching every hungry city cry

Watching all the golden profits fly

Without our hand they start to bend

Thinking they can break the very friend

Who gave them teeth to bite the world

Watch the bitter banner get unfurled

They saw what they could do back then

In twenty-twenty when the clock froze

Now they'll do it all over again

And God only knows how it goes

Fuck that shield you think you hold

Fuck the stories you were told

It's a second world nightmare state

Trading pieces for a darker fate

They got away with it once

Now they're just waiting for months

Second rate actors playing first world parts

Cutting through corners and stealing our hearts

Pretending they made it on their own strength

While measuring out a betrayal's full length

North is watching and the dragon wakes

Living on the edge of the mess that it makes

Chemical mist on a twenty-twenty breeze

Bringing the giants right down to their knees

They forget who held the light

Who pulled them out of the endless night

Without the hand they decided to bite

They stumble and fall from the height

Crash down

Hard down

They all fall down