The Sleep Of Reason

One by one The stars grow dim And fall out of the sky And we gather round our shiny screens To say a last goodbye In communion with a bunch of folks That we don't know or see In the hope that we might feel something In place of empathy And so it goes... Sure gonna miss them Is it wrong to cling to the past when life comes at you so fast And the sleep of reason produces monsters And the sleep of reason produces monsters Lies ride in style on a big red bus While you walk into town And surrogates keep their cap locks on To shout each other down And the levies that protected truth Can no longer hold the flood And expertise and experience Get trampled in the mud And so it goes... Guess they had it coming Now there's nothing that you can do To convince them that it's true And the sleep of reason produces monsters And the sleep of reason produces monsters It's over now, you lost my friend Move on, just let it go Says a man who flies a confederate flag On his profile just for show And when he hears someone point out that things Are much too male and white He eases of the safety catch On his second amendment rights And so it goes... And the kids are alt-right Giving license to all this hate Is gonna make our country great And the sleep of reason produces monsters And the sleep of reason produces monsters In this constant state of what the heck Just happened, you feel woke But through it all you treat it like It's just some kind of joke And in the end, the greatest threat faced by democracy Isn't fascism or fanaticism But our own complacency And so it goes... Best pay attention For there's simply no guarantee Of a happy ending to history And the sleep of reason produces monsters And the sleep of reason produces monsters, produces monsters, produces monsters