dead above the neck  84bpm

Intro:

They take all our jobs and eat all the fish in our sea
And we stare blankly at the page knowing mainly what we used to be

Verse 1
A man can only take so much
To hear those lines delivered like truth up upon the stage
Tell ‘em what they wanna hear
And mix in a little fear, lies like blood
Dripping off the page
Words have meaning they keep laws intact
Death to reason and fact the masses react
A man can only take so much
 
Nows the time to cut the body from…the head of the snake

‘Cause your dead above the neck
Why should you get a piece of me?
Why should you ?

Chorus 1
Your logic flew over me
Swimming against the tide, on our little island
These reasons for uncertainty
Now we can breath, free from the influence of others
Majesty cover me, now we are free
Theres no regrets we made our stand
On our terms, but with our heads in the sand


Verse 2
A man can only fake so much 
To see those images of liars up on the screens
Tell em what they wanna see mix in a little fear
L.E.D - and LCD
Images lie and thats a fact
Death to reason and truth the masses retract
A man can only take so much
  
A lamb in a pack of wolves is not a dove
we will live on what we make

They take all our jobs and eat all the fish in our sea   

Chorus 2
Angleland I pledge to thee, 
they will take us from these shores in boats abound 
These reasons for insanity, 
across the marche to a foreign and distant land
There pushing us into the sea, 
we would have been flooded on our little island, 
I’ve no regrets we put out our stand 
It’s Tommy and me, Its war don’t you see ?

A man can only stand up for so much
Like a grain of sand against the desert
Tell em what they wanna hear mix in a little fear
Who am I - to alter this course?
Words have meaning and they keep laws intact
deaf to reason and fact the masses react
A man can only say so much

dead above the neck

You bleed us, reject us
Cut budget and projections
Its really gonna hurt you when the tables turn
You told us, then sold us
down the river of austerity
I hope you can breath ‘cause the tables turned.

I can’t touch you (the virus)
I can’t see you     (Is inside us)

But I can feel you
pass right through me

under the cover of stay inside
They redefine us all

Under the mask we can’t hide inside
Listen to the siren call

Am I dreaming
Where have the people gone
Stay inside and let
Angels sing their song

Under the mask we can’t hide inside
Visions of death on the sidewalk outside
Nothing else matters let this be a sign
Let’s dive for cover and stay inside

The sun will shine when I am let outside
This too will pass just give it time

Under the mask we can’t hide inside
Listen to the sirens call

We are dreaming
Where have our leaders gone? (Missing)
Off camera the scene is set
The people sing their song

Under the mask we can’t hide inside
With doctors and nurses dying on the front line
Nothing else matters let this be a sign
Let’s dive for cover and stay inside


What now for the notion of society
This too will pass just give it time

tpolr