History Is Rotten Lyrics - Singles - Misery Index

Sleepwalking through our spoon-fed lives 

As evidence of times before 

In chapters long forgotten 

The rotting tombs of history are written by the victors 

Empty words are staring back as paragraphs of power leave 

No traces of the toiler's fate (just one massacre to many, and none too late) 

All glory comes from death 

Desensitized in unreal fiction forms 

Our leaders never die, it's the working poor that fight their wars 

It is written? It is rotten, their truth is dead and rotting 

With decades passing and nothing changing 

The hourglass grows empty again 

Tunnel visions and career clowns 

Send ivory towers crumbling down 

The pulse is fading 

The axe is falling 

Another tragedy unfolds 

The moral standard 

The status quote 

The carcasses of millions left in their wake 

The paper bound in books that glorify the acts of murderers will burn just 

Like all empires that have come before 

Five hundred years dead, cold and efficient they carry out their plan, indoctrinate 

The youth to the textbook wasteland 

As patriots empowered 

They coronate themselves 

Breed us on their lies 

And they feed us to the wolves