The Fools Game

The cards they dealt behind closed doors

Rules smeared on bloodstained floors

Telling us to “play or be erased”

Laughing behind the masks of the disgraced

We’re the pawns in their charade

Dancing blind in a failed parade

It’s the fool’s game, played with loaded dice

Truth sold off at a discount price

They preach control, we scream disdain

No more moves in the fool’s game

Crowning their lies with holy light

Fed us fear, hoping we’d take flight

Throne built on broken backs

Then calling it order, after the fact

But I see the strings, I see the stage

The actors drunk on power and rage

I tear the script, I burn the frame

No more lines in the fool’s game

It’s the fool’s game, played with loaded dice

Truth sold off at a discount price

They preach control, we scream disdain

No more moves in the fool’s game

It’s the fool’s game, but I won’t play

I’d rather torch it all today