No control / no surprise
Tossed the keys to the kingdom down that hole in my eye
I'm my own / casualty
I've fucked up everything I see / fighting in futility

(We start the) final war
Tell me what's worth fighting for / when we know there's nothing more
We take the hand or fist
Just to sell ourselves for this / the path we least resist

No control / no surprise
Tossed the keys to the kingdom down that hole in my eye
I'm my own / casualty
I've fucked up everything I see / fighting in futility

Uh / I give you what you came for / this is not the same, though
Got a different method but I still can bring the pain
So / y'all all got that same flow / I got that insane flow
Yes, I'm half-Anglo / half-fried panko
All prime-time rhymer / let the bass bang low
All you fuckin' lames go / aimin' at my name
Know / careful what you shoot because you might hit what you aim for

Careful what you shoot because you might hit what you aim for

No control / no surprise
Tossed the keys to the kingdom down that hole in my eye
I'm my own / casualty
I've fucked up everything I see / fighting in futility

No control / no surprise
Tossed the keys to the kingdom down that hole in my eye
I'm my own / casualty
I'm my own / casualty

Yeah

Uh / so what you waitin' for? / Anticipatin' more
While you debate what it could take to instigate a war
Yeah, I been hated more than time I wasn’t hated for
There's nothin' they can fuckin' say they didn't say before
(But) you could never see it / your battle's not mine
Wanna skate and play it safe but this is take-a-shot time
While you're waitin' for a purpose, I already got mine
While you tell me, step to it, like, one, two,three, four

And, if I do what you demand / (you say) you'll let me understand
(You say) you're gonna hold me to your word
And, if I sell myself away / (you say) I'll have no debt to pay
(You say) I'm gonna get what I deserve / whoa

Your word / obeyed
My debt / repaid
Our trust / betrayed
All for nothing / all for nothing

Kick back / there's no other way to say it
So let me break this fucker down for you / I really don't know you
You talk but let me show you were to put your paranoia
You're jokin' / I don't have a half-a-sucker bone to throw you
I'm disgusted / wonder what could've made you tuck your tail below you
And, no / I'm not your soldier / I ain't takin' any orders
I'm a five-star general / infantry controller
Need a lesson? / Let me show you / have you checkin' your composure
While I make you step to it, like, one, two,three, four

And, if I do what you demand / (you say) you'll let me understand
(You say) you're gonna hold me to your word
And, if I sell myself away / (you say) I'll have no debt to pay
(You say) I'm gonna get what I deserve / whoa

And, if I do what you demand / you'll let me understand

Your word / obeyed
My debt / repaid
Our trust / betrayed
All for nothing / all for nothing
All for nothing / oh

Tell us all again / what you think we should be
What the answers are / what it is we can't see
Tell us all again / how to do what you say
How to fall in line / how there's no other way
But, oh / we all know

You're guilty all the same / too sick to be ashamed
You want to point your finger / but there's no-one else to blame
You're guilty all the same / too sick to be ashamed
You want to point your finger / but there's no-one else to blame
You're guilty all the same

Show us all again / that our hands are unclean
That we're unprepared / that you have what we need
Show us all again / 'cause we cannot be saved
'Cause the end is near / now, there's no other way
And, oh / you will know

You're guilty all the same / too sick to be ashamed
You want to point your finger / but there's no-one else to blame
You're guilty all the same / too sick to be ashamed
You want to point your finger / but there's no-one else to blame
There's no-one else to blame / guilty all the same

Guilty all the same / you're guilty all the same

Yeah / you already know what it is

Can y'all explain, what kind of land is this
When a man has plans of bein' rich / but the bosses' plans is wealthy?
Dirty money scheme / a clean split
Nonsense / it's insane / even corporate hands is filthy
They talk team and take the paper route
All they think about is bank accounts, assets and realty
At anybody's expense / no shame with a clear conscience
No regrets and guilt-free
They claim that ain't the way that they built me
Smokescreen before the flame
Knowin' soon as the dough or the deal peak
Say it's time for things to change
Rearrange like good product rebuilt cheap
Anything if it's more to gain
Drained / manipulated like artists
It's real deep / until no more remain
But I'm still me / like authentic hip-hop and rock
'Til pop and radio / and record companies killed me
Tried to force me to stray and obey
And got the gall to say, yo, how real can real be?
You feel me? / Well, we'll see / that green could be to blame
Greedy for the fame / TV or a name
Media, the game / to me, you're all the same / you're guilty

You're guilty all the same / too sick to be ashamed
You want to point your finger / but there's no-one else to blame
You're guilty all the same / too sick to be ashamed
You want to point your finger / but there's no-one else to blame
There's no-one else to blame / guilty all the same

Guilty all the same / guilty all the same

(One, two / one, two, thank-you)

There's no peace / only war
Victory decides who's wrong or right
It will not cease / only grow
You better be prepared to fight

And it will not apologise
For laying down your life

War

There's no pain / it will spare
Fear has become your only right
And, once you're lost / in your despair
Forever back, eternal night

And it will not apologise
For laying down your life

War / destroyer
War / destroyer

It needs no side to justify
Laying down your life

War / destroyer
War

This is war with no weapons / marchin' with no steppin'
Murder with no killin' / illin' every direction
First / no sequel / do the math / no equal
John with no Yoko / more power / less people
And, no / I'm not afraid of that / print it in your paperback
Every rap is made, in fact, to act as a delayed attack
every phrase a razorblade that's saved until they play it back
To slay and leave 'em layin' on the pavement / bang / fade to black

In the wastelands of today
Where there’s nothing left to lose
And there's nothing more to take
But you force yourself to choose

In the wastelands of today
Where tomorrow disappears
While the future slips away
And your hope turns into fear

In the wastelands of today

Roll credits / you get it? / The show's done
They're talkin' for just talkin', but, meanin'? They got none
None of 'em come proper / they talk like a shotgun
But how many got bred with integrity? / Not one
So, no / I'm not afraid to see you suckers hold a blade to me
Ain't a way to shake the ground I built before you came to be
Take it how you take it / I'm the opposite of vacancy
And this is not negotiation / y'all can hate and wait and see

In the wastelands of today
Where there’s nothing left to lose
And there's nothing more to take
But you force yourself to choose

In the wastelands of today
Where tomorrow disappears
While the future slips away
And your hope turns into fear
And your hope turns into fear

In the wastelands of today

In the wastelands of today
Where there’s nothing left to lose
And there's nothing more to take
But you force yourself to choose

In the wastelands of today
Where tomorrow disappears
While the future slips away
And your hope turns into fear
And your hope turns into fear

In the wastelands of today
In the wastelands of today
In the wastelands of today

A fire needs a space to burn
A breath to build a glow
I've heard it said a thousand times
But, now, I know

That you don't know what you've got
Oh, you don't know what you've got
No, you don't know what you've got

Until it's gone / until it's gone / until it's gone

I thought I kept you safe and sound
I thought I made you strong
But something made me realise
That I was wrong

'Cause finding what you've got, sometimes
Means finding it alone
And I can finally see your light
When I let go

'Cause you don't know what you've got / until it's gone

Until it's gone / until it's gone

Until it's gone / until it's gone
Until it's gone / until it's / gone

Until it's gone

'Cause you don't know what you've got
Oh, you don't know what you've got
No, you don't know what you've got
It's your battle to be fought

No, you don't know what you've got / until it's gone

'Til it's gone / 'til it's gone

I've seen the blood / I've seen the broken
The lost and the sights unseen
I want a flood / I want an ocean
To wash my confusion clean

I can't resolve this empty story
I can't repair the damage done

We are the fortunate ones
Who've never faced / oppression's gun
We are the fortunate ones
Imitations of / rebellion

We act it out / we wear the colours
Confined by the things we own
We're not without / we're like each other
Pretending we're here alone

And, far away / they burn their buildings
Right in the face of the damage done

We are the fortunate ones
Who've never faced / oppression's gun
We are the fortunate ones
Imitations of / rebellion

Rebellion / rebellion / rebellion

Rebellion / rebellion
We lost before the start
Rebellion / rebellion
One by one, we fall apart

We fall apart / we fall apart
We fall apart

We are the fortunate ones
Who've never faced / oppression's gun
We are the fortunate ones
Imitations of / imitations of

We are the fortunate ones
Who've never faced / oppression's gun
We are the fortunate ones
Imitations of / rebellion

Rebellion / rebellion (rebellion) / rebellion (rebellion)

There's a fragile game we play / with the ghosts of yesterday
If we can't let go, we'll never say goodbye
No trace of what remains / no stones to mark the graves
Only memories we thought we could deny

There was so much more to lose / than the pain I put you through
In my carelessness, I left you in the dark
And the blood may wash away / but the scars will never fade
At least I know, somehow, I made a mark

In the dark / in the light
Nothing left / nothing right
In the dark (the dark) / in the light (the light)
Nothing left (nothing left) / nothing right (nothing right)

(In the) dark / in the light
Nothing left / nothing right

In the dark / in the light
Nothing left / nothing right
In the dark (the dark) / in the light (the light)
Nothing left (nothing left) / nothing right (nothing right)

Nothing right / nothing right

Tearing me apart with words you wouldn't say
And, suddenly, tomorrow's a moment washed away
'Cause I don't have a reason / and you don't have the time
But we both keep on waiting / for something we won't find

The light on the horizon / was brighter yesterday
With shadows floating over / the scars began to fade
We said it was forever / but, then, it slipped away
Standing at the end of the final masquerade / the final masquerade

All I ever wanted / the secrets that you keep
All you ever wanted / the truth I couldn't speak
'Cause I can't see forgiveness / and you can't see the crime
But we both keep on waiting / for what we left behind

The light on the horizon / was brighter yesterday
With shadows floating over / the scars began to fade
We said it was forever / but, then, it slipped away
Standing at the end of the final masquerade / the final masquerade

The final masquerade
Standing at the end of the final masquerade

The light on the horizon / was brighter yesterday
With shadows floating over / the scars began to fade
We said it was forever / but, then, it slipped away
Standing at the end of the final masquerade / (oh)

Standing at the end of the final masquerade / (oh)

Standing at the end of the final masquerade / the final masquerade

Today / we stood on the wall
We laughed at the sun / we laughed at the guns
We laughed at it all

And, when they / they told us to go
We paid them no mind / like every other time
But, little did we know

Today / I looked for a sign
With flames in my hands / a line in the sand
Between your's and mine

And it came / like fire from below
Your greed lead the call / my flag had to fall
But, little did you know

Another day / your truth will come
You're gonna pay for what you've / pay for what you've done
You'll get what's your's / and face your crime
You'll tell them, give me back what's mine / give me back what's mine

I'd never been a coward / I'd never seen blood
You had sold me an ocean / and I was lost in the flood
We were countin' on a leader / and we were driven by need
But couldn't take temptation / and we were blinded by greed
You were steady as a sniper / we were waitin' on a wire
So we never saw it comin' / when you ran from the fire
You can try intimidation / and you can to try to ignore
But, when the time comes callin' / yeah, you are gonna get your's

Another day / your truth will come
You're gonna pay for what you've / pay for what you've done
You'll get what's your's / and face your crime
You'll tell them, give me back what's mine / give me back what's mine

And, so, today / your truth has come
You're gonna pay for what you've / pay for what you've done
You'll get what's your's / you're out of time
And you will give me back what's mine / give me back what's mine

Give me / give me back what's mine

Give me / give me back what's mine / what's mine

Give me / give me back what's mine
What's mine / what's mine
What's mine / give me back what's mine

Today / we stood on the wall
We laughed at the sun / we laughed at the guns
We laughed at it all

And, when they / they told us to go
We paid them no mind / like every other time
But, little did we know