Surrender Under Protest Lyrics - Drive By Truckers

[Verse 1: Cooley] 

From the comfort zone of history 

On the lips of trusted loved ones 

To the lonely, fragile minds of angry youths 

No sooner was it over 

Than the memory made it nobler 

The selective means by which to point the view 

[Chorus] 

Compelled, but not defeated 

Surrender under protest if you must 

Compelled, but not defeated 

[Verse 2: Cooley] 

If it's all you can remember 

Then it's been that way forever 

And for six long generations it's been told 

But among the fallen was tradition 

That tradition was the mission 

And that the wrongness of the sin was not the goal 

[Chorus] 

[Verse 3: Cooley] 

Does the color really matter? 

On the face you blame for failure 

On the shamin' for a battle's losing cause 

If the victims and aggressors 

Just remain each others others 

And the instigators never fight their own 

Compelled, but not defeated 

Surrender under protest if you must 

Compelled, but not defeated 

Surrender under protest if you must 

Surrender under protest if you must