Draconian Crackdown Lyrics - Rasputina

A tragic demonstration 

Of brazen insubordination 

By indigenous insurgents, belligerents, degenerates 

Imagine my bewilderment at the conspicuous dismemberment 

Of all that I had believed 

At how we had all been deceived 

It was short, sharp, sudden, surprising 

Short, sharp... 

It was an unfathomable catastrophe 

There were things no one should ever see 

Arrests were made arbitrarily 

Evacuations made mandatory 

Indefinite detentions, insolvable killings 

Weeks and weeks of agonizing raids 

Relentless, unexplained physical attacks 

(Gout, goiters, plague, anthrax) 

New and unconventional threats 

Simultaneously secretive and violent events 

Oh, what have they done 

But there's no fun to a draconian crackdown 

And what will you do when they come for you 

In the draconian crackdown 

Yes sir, I say no sir, and then 

Yes sir, I say no sir, and then 

Something's wrong 

Oh very very wrong here 

The chaotic nature of the soured atmosphere 

We have found ourselves participants in the nightmare 

I took the blame, the hatred, and with certainty 

I said, "I now declare a state of emergency 

With immediate effect indefinitely" 

I looked 

I plotted 

And I planned, from here 

A fearful, vicious, secret no-man's land 

I looked 

I plotted 

And I planned, from here 

A fearful, vicious, secret no-man's land 

Oh, what have they done 

But there's no fun to a draconian crackdown 

So what will you do when they come for you 

In the draconian crackdown 

Oh, what will you do 

In the draconian crackdown 

Spectacular suicide explosions 

Of enemies significantly weaker than a year ago 

And their influence continues to wade