Songtext On the hook Lamb Of God

On the hook

A dead?silver spoon with needles in his?skin
Rode a?pale horse?down?from Afghanistan
Tears?in the suburbs,?mothers praying for?their?damned
Death has crept into?their?zone?of?the promised land

But?just before?each?plague
The?clearest prophecies
Pandora's box?in backwoods pharmacies
A?contract?to die

Prescription?for a homicide
A?generation on?the?hook
Addicted and commodified
Prescription for?a?homicide

Narcotic economics?for?the?miner's sons
The seams?went?bust so long?ago?with?nowhere?else to turn
Strip mine the?veins,?drill the abscess?dry
Incentives?for the architects of their genocide

We've seen this all before
In a different shade
The Dark Alliance shifts to the modern age
A contract to die

Prescription for a homicide
A generation on the hook
Addicted and commodified
Prescription for a homicide
Prescription for a homicide
They're never worth a second look
Addicted and commodified
Your prescription for a homicide

A contract to die
A contract to die
A contract to die
A contract to die
Die, die, die, die

Hippocratic hypocrites
Breaking oaths and cashing checks
Wrote an ocean's worth of ink
Scripting a nation's disease
A systematic business plan
To broker death, increase demand
So flood the ghetto and starve the hills
Kill them all with crack and pills

Kill them all
Kill them all

(Vietnam, Iran-Contra, Park Avenue, OxyContin)