DESCRIPTION:
Deaf By Arms - "Burn Alive", Track 9 from the 2010 debut "Makeshifting the Arts"; 2010 LaRock Inc Records, Cleveland, Ohio.

Music: Deaf By Arms
Lyrics: Sugarballs

"Burn Alive"

Where will you be when you grow old?
Will your government leave you out in the cold?
Fighting for a piece of your 20%.
Working jobs you hate just to pay the rent.

And I work, and I work, and I work all day
so the money hungry mongrels can take it away.
I don't want, I don't want, I don't want to live
in a place where you just don't get what you give.
And those thieves and those thieves on Capitol Hill,
if they wanna help themselves they'll just pass another bill.
And I think, and I think, and I think it's a crime,
no matter how hard I try I'll never get what's mine.

We're sent to burn, burn, burn alive.

These shoes that I wear have been worn to their soles.
Working day and night to fill the greediest of bowls.
Can I live, can I live, can I live another hour
to stand the same fucking people that I deal with in power?
In this mirror, in this mirror, in this mirror in front of me
I see the reflection of a man who will never be free.
And this song, and this song, and this song that I sing
sings of dreams that only death will be sweet enough to bring.

We're sent to burn, burn, burn alive!