Survival
Held a sodden breath
Every muscle tensed
Shower running cold
Over aching shoulders
'Til the dread lets up
And you buckle forward
Then you're slipping out
Through the ash and smoke
Slow leak siphoning the engine oil
Trace a crude path everywhere you go
Everything you do
Everything you touch
Everyone you love
Gets used up
It's a brutal business
And it lays you low
Like a condom wrapper
On a service road
A face you can't forget
The nineteenth honorable grifter skid
Treaty eight burns a tarry lung
The king and the land are one
Burn with all your might
Against a pipeline's civil rights
A coughing fit, a motion to buy in
While blaming us for fostering
A hostile climate?
Everything they do
Everything they touch
A disposable mindset
We may never survive it
Fight like a dying species
Rejecting parasitic scum
Before everyone you love
Gets used up
In a capital sick with greed
It can already feel too late, I know
But we can't falter now
This fight's not ours to postpone
Everything they do
Everything they touch
A disposable mindset
May they never survive it
Fight like a dying species
Rejecting parasitic scum
Before everyone you love
Gets used up
Writer/s: Cassia Hardy, Jamie McLean, Matthew Gooding, Holly Greaves, Mason Pitzel
