Listen to the feet pound upon the stone
Listen to the screams from our own
Feel the breath catch in your throat
Feel the paralysis seize your bones
Hear them say we will be safe in our homes
Safe from the unknown
That beats upon our gates
That makes our weak knees shake
That will lay us to waste
If we do not obey

(What?)

Acquiesce, little one, to those who speak through speakers
And lead us along
For they know best, little one; I am weak, you are weaker
But they are strong
And rhetoric is their weapon for our protection
From control of our own fate
Brick by brick they build such defenses, control our senses
And teach us to hate

(Hate keeps us in fear and in fear we are safe
In fear we are safe for in fear we obey)

We put our faith in weapons and walls
And our gates splinter and shake
We just wait
We isolate to strengthen resolve
And our hate feeds the flame at our feet
But we don't see

We don't see

(We listen)

We listen, rapt, to the words that they say
And live out our lives in fear and hate
We believe that we are all kept safe by this panic at the gates

We listen, rapt, to the words that they say
They polarize, hold our eyes closed; so they stay
We're divided to sides from the cradle to the grave, knowing no other way

We listen, rapt, to the words that they say
They know that fear's an obedient state
And they know that they are all kept safe by this panic at the gates

By this panic at the gates