What we need is to see The refraction of history Through a lens free of abject Denial and the presence of fantasy Men of science who put us to sleep Standing post at the secrets that they keep We've gone too far to turn back now And the question becomes how When everything we've learned is wrong Lest we forget all we've lost Have we wasted our best years For the sanctified traditions that we pray Lest we forget honestly Does it make you sick inside That we approximate democracy that way Break the will of the young Through restraint of the pen and tongue Bringing doctrine inside of our schools Prospectus as curriculum Now the system is running on fumes There's an outcome that we can't assume Tear dissent and our choices away To recreate the American way Where everything we learn is wrong With empires built on fantasies Through patriotic reveries Can the sacrifice be absolute When the opposite is true And now we see the world through blinkered eyes With beautiful for spacious skies And the animus we realize is finally dawning on you