Don't Tread On Me

from Some Songs by Half Mast

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I got the flag in black and white
With one blue stripe I fight the good fight
I know Obama's coming to take my guns
I ignore that cops are paid with public funds
Obama himself is gonna knock on my door
It won't be a scared cop of this I'm sure
After every shooting my arsenal gets bigger
And I'm waiting for the liberals with my finger on the trigger

The only lives that matter are the ones that follow laws
Cops are not infallible your theory's got flaws
If he didn't wanna die he shouldn't have jaywalked
Thank God our public servant was loaded and locked

Don't Tread on Me Don't Tread on Me
I fancy myself revolutionary
I support the troops and the boys in blue
So when the revolution comes I won't know what to do
In my head I was shooting the IRS
And I love the ones who put the public under duress
Cops uphold law and order for us all
Laws put upon us by a liberal state that must fall

The only lives that matter are the ones that follow laws
Cops are not infallible your theory's got flaws
If he didn't wanna die he shouldn't have jaywalked
Thank God our public servant was loaded and locked

Stockholm Syndrome you're in love with your aggressor
You say you hate oppression but you love your oppressor
You say you hate Big Government's repressive hand
Got a public love affair with Downpresser Man
Stockholm Syndrome you're in love with your aggressor
You say you hate oppression but you love your oppressor
You say you hate Big Government's repressive hand
Got a public love affair with Downpresser Man

The only lives that matter are the ones that follow laws
Cops are not infallible your theory's got flaws
If he didn't wanna die he shouldn't have jaywalked
Thank God our public servant was loaded and locked

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from Some Songs, released September 3, 2017

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Half Mast Amherst, Massachusetts

Four Lovecraftian monsters drinking the blood of the Ancient Ones atop a throne of auditory onslaught.
p.s. first band on Mars

Electric Skeleton Records

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YHVH Blotter

Feb 2022
Dead Sun

Dec 2020
Confusion is Your God

Dec 2020
ANTITHESIS

Oct 2020
Who Killed the World?

Aug 2020
EVENT 201

Feb 2020
Self Satire

Aug 2018
Some Songs

Sep 2017

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