Great Acceleration
Grant-Lee Phillips
Popularity ยท Low
YouTube
Searching YouTube...
Lyrics
Tyranny steps lightly
One foot before the next
You never hear the marching
Till it coming up the steps
The temporary measures
Of a nation in distress
A choice between two evils
One of duty or regret
Tyranny advances
Like the darkening of night
When it is for the greater good
You don't put up a fight
If blind to the beginnings
You cannot see the end
This is the nearsightedness
Of ordinary men
And then a great acceleration
A beating of the drum
The awful recognition
Of all you have become
Tyranny speaks calmly
As it offers up a deal
Even as it presses you
Underneath its heel
A temporary measure
Do you wonder what it meant
What you have surrendered to
Without dissent
And then a great acceleration
A beating of the drum
The awful recognition
Of all you have become
All you have become