Chris Orbach: Songs

Secession

(Chris Orbach)

“Secession”

Music and Lyrics (C) 2007 Chris Orbach

Bolted down to the floor by everything that came before
As if it’s predetermined, preselected
Patterns rising up in you, things you swore you’d never do
Coming out in traces, undetected
And when you see this in yourself, you wish that you were someone else
Or hide away the truth by being clever
It always seems to big to fight, but I’ve learned that you’ve got the right
To cut the rope and fall away forever

It seems to me -- the past is a tyranny
A code not worth living by, and I’d rather die, than eat that lie again

‘Cause all I wanna be is free
From My own history
All I wanna be is me -- Secession

“The people rule” -- that’s what they say -- but you know it’s never been that way
The truth is they can never ever trust us
But we bow to them, “exalted ones” ‘cause they’ve got the guys and they’ve got the guns
To force this peace and maintain this injustice
And whenever someone comes along to make a change and right a wrong
With something that can help us and preserve us
They’ll just knock ‘em down again, but will they still be smiling when
There’s no one left alive to buy the service

It seems to me -- it’s guilt by complicity
This madness has got to end -- good-bye my friends
I won’t go down with you

‘Cause all I wanna be is free
From this sick destiny
All I wanna be is me -- Secession

It seems to me -- both inside and out, I see
This madness has got to end -- good-bye my friends
I won’t go down with you

All I wanna be is free
From my own history
All I wanna be is me -- Secession
All I wanna be is free
From this sick destiny
All I wanna be is me -- Secession
All I wanna be is free
In a world for you and me
Let’s make our own country -- Secession