One Step Away Lyrics

facing brutality I struggle with morality
I don't think that I can take it anymore

indoctrinated into c**tural norms functionless forms:
"dominate and bleed infect with greed" and we succumb...
I aggressively inherently
am the illegitimate child of the gun intertwined with the dollar sign
and now as I walk through the valley of the shadow of death
I have become your evil and your hate is within me
for the rod and the staff have taught me all too well

these hands would drip with blood if I traded truth for certainty
power beckons to the unsure and afraid
the atavists of ignorance who initiate
our bodies cast the shadow of everyone who has ever lived and
all the gods all the demons all the heavens and all the hells are
within us...but that I, privileged revolutionary could prescribe rites
of passage for all? in preparing b***** defenses let our lineage
remain clear: Armenia, Nanking, East Timor, Cambodia, Rwanda,
Iraq, Kosovo the shattered lives and battered wives, underscored by forceful
lies are inside of us, inside of me
I aggressively inherently could destroy humanity
I'm only one step away

with one single blow unjustified I'm only one step away
caught between rule or be ruled
want or want not
with no easy way out