Sewn Shut Lyrics


Fleeing persecution

Sanctify our morality

Penal Institutions

Parsimonious our amnesty

Sewn shut our lips against mendacity

Sewn shut our eyes to this catastrophe

Perpetual retribution

Obscure cruelling legality

Writ of execution

Our satellites have reached apogee

Sewn shut our ears in callous apathy

Sewn shut bespeaks our inhumanity

Brutality Depravity Finality Calamity

Our obdurate refusal to call out this insanity

Breathes life tacit approval into this needless tragedy