Walking Away
They’re walking away From the promise we let decay From the leader of the free Who forgot what freedom means
[Verse 1]
We built the bridge in blood and fire
Seventy years of standing guard
Now the signal’s breaking on the wire
And the silence hits too hard
They’re packing up the satellites
Pulling plugs we thought were steel
Turning off the American lights
Teaching themselves not to feel
[Pre-Chorus]
No tanks rolling through the night
No bombs falling from the sky
Just a door closing slow and tight
While we don’t even ask why
[Chorus]
They’re walking away
Step by step down Independence Day
Not with anger — not with rage
Just the look of trust that slipped away
No shots fired
No flags burned in the rain
Just allies turning their shoulders
And walking away
[Verse 2]
Article Five was iron once
Now it trembles when he speaks
A single man can shake the trust
It took generations to keep
From Berlin’s streets to Paris stone
They’re learning how to stand alone
[Bridge]
Putin doesn’t have to try
History’s bending on a sigh
The fracture isn’t drawn in red
It’s drawn in doubt instead
[Final Chorus]
They’re walking away
From the promise we let decay
From the leader of the free
Who forgot what freedom means
No invasion
No mushroom cloud in the sky
Just the slow sound of the West
Saying goodbye
[Outro ]
We were the lighthouse once…
Now they’re building their own.
My fear is that we devolve to the one percent owning 95%, the rest of us sharing that last 5%; at first with some order but not for long.
Any group of 3 to 100 strong people can form a new gang, take what they want from what is leftover, and claim legitimacy by calling themselves a Tribe.
When the ruling class finds them inconvenient they will hire twice their number to eliminate them as a group (as if they were Native Americans) or in small groups.
Two to five here, another six to seven there, as if they were black folks taken off the street for 30years for the crime of possession of a drug the DHS sold on the street.
Then the small number of Cracker teens and 20-something’s that want to protest but stay non- violent will be the other targets. They use a new breed of Pot that has not yet been legalized, so that will be the DHS excuse for jailing them.
And God help the Hispanic groups. Tales of past better times began. With Cesar Romero and the farmworkers union but they too were economically crushed.
This is my nightmare future … but in some ways it sounds like an oversimplified version of Western History…without the whitewashing found in our 20th Century textbooks.