Picket Signs and Protest Lines

from Sometimes It's Us by DeclarationAD

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Shut your mouth, speaker of falsehoods
Celebrating a soldier’s fate
Put away your signs and slogans
Your unyielding need to spread your hate

You trade the cross for the sword

The embodiment of selfless love
Stamped upon a banner of malice
Abuse horrific, against the message
I despair you claim to represent us

They see your venom
They turn away
And I wouldn’t blame them
I feel the same

And at the death of the hateful man
More hatred spewed in eulogy
The cycle continues unabated
No-one will love their enemy

You trade the cross for the sword

It catches me as much as you
Wanting to see some punishment
I lower myself down to his level
And I fail to love my enemy

I know that I should
Love my enemy
But it’s so damn hard
I’m failing every day

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from Sometimes It's Us, released June 18, 2015

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