Gang of Youths Atlas Drowned song lyrics

I'm not leaving tonight

Cram the armour and chains where the sun will not shine

And who's to say they won't bitch out and shoot me on sight?

Get that thing out my face

I don't care what it says, this is my goddamned place

A traitor to country and glad, 'cause my country's disgraced

I'm not bleeding tonight

In the shadow of truncheons with smoke in my eyes

You will close in on madness and madness is not civilised

There's no reason now

I'm not dumb and you people can't dick me around

And the whole institution is rigged and the ship's going down

I'm cool to let Atlas drown

Galt, you can shake

You can cry, you can quake

You can rot in your sleep

You can shrug, you can weep

And I'll watch as you bleed

Hey, you jackbooted sheep with your elephant caps

I have come for my shit and I won't take less than that

Why believe you are full

When you still get your meals from the trash?

To you bells in the curve

I will love you but love not the powers you serve

Do not grow complacent and take less than what you deserve

I'm cool to watch Atlas burn

Galt, you can shake

You can cry, you can quake

You can rot in your sleep

You can shrug, you can weep

And I'll watch Atlas bleed

And we'll laugh as he shakes

And we'll go off and breed

And we'll spit on his grave

In the heart of redemption, there's some furious song

And the herd is no place for the brave and the strong

But I bear no contempt for the ones who just want to belong

And these chosen whites are anaemic and small

And are truly the lowliest sheep of them all

And their eminence is fixed upon things we could burn in one go

I'mma let Atlas fall

I'mma watch Atlas fall