The Shortest Straw

Suspicion is your name
Your honesty to blame
Put dignity to shame, dishonor
Witch-hunt, modern day
Determining decay
The blatant disarray, disfigure
The public eyes' disgrace
Defying common place
Unending paper chase, unending

Deafening
Painstaking
Reckoning
This vertigo it doth bring

Shortest straw, challenge liberty
Downed by law, live in infamy
Rub you raw, witch-hunt riding through
Shortest straw
The shortest straw has been pulled for you
Pulled for you (shortest straw)
Pulled for you (shortest straw)
Pulled for you (shortest straw)
Shortest straw has been pulled for you

The accusations fly
Discrimination, why?
Your inner self to die, intruding
Doubt sunk itself in you
Its teeth and talons through
You're living Catch-22, deluding
A mass hysteria
A megalomania
Reveal dementia, reveal

Secretly
Silently
Certainly
In vertigo you will be

Shortest straw, challenge liberty
Downed by law, live in infamy
Rub you raw, witch-hunt riding through
Shortest straw
The shortest straw has been pulled for you

Pulled for you (shortest straw)
Pulled for you (shortest straw)
Pulled for you (shortest straw)
Shortest straw has been pulled for you

(Shortest straw)
Pulled for you (shortest straw)
Pulled for you (shortest straw)
Pulled for you (shortest straw)
Shortest straw has been pulled for you

Behind you, hands are tied
Your being, ostracized
Your hell is multiplied
Upending
The fallout has begun
Oppressive damage done
Your many turned to none to nothing
You're reaching your nadir
Your will has disappeared
The lie is crystal clear
Defending

Channels red
One word said
Blacklisted
With vertigo make you dead

Shortest straw, challenge liberty
Downed by law, live in infamy
Rub you raw, witch-hunt riding through
Shortest straw
The shortest straw has been pulled for you
Pulled for you