Switching Sides
A fast, aggressive, and furious industrial metal track. Features heavily distorted, down-tuned guitars playing a chunky, driving riff, loud and aggressive drumming with double bass, and a clanky, distorted bassline. The male vocals are a raw, powerful, and enraged shout, full of accusation and contempt.
Switching Sides
A fast, aggressive, and furious industrial metal track. Features heavily distorted, down-tuned guitars playing a chunky, driving riff, loud and aggressive drumming with double bass, and a clanky, distorted bassline. The male vocals are a raw, powerful, and enraged shout, full of accusation and contempt.
Lyrics
Verse 1
Got your medals all polished, your pension is set
A flag for your service, a debt of respect
You talk about honor, you talk about pride
With a nice little nest egg tucked safely inside
Verse 2
But next Monday morning, a whole different suit
A golden hello and a whole lot of loot
In a boardroom of glass on the fifty-first floor
For the company that you were the client for
Chorus
You didn't retire, you were just SWITCHING SIDES!
From the Pentagon office to the company that provides!
You didn't step down, you just cashed in the game!
Where the profit and bloodshed both go by your name!
Verse 3
That billion-dollar fighter you swore we must buy?
Now you're selling its spare parts and watching stocks fly
The contracts you signed with the stroke of a pen?
You're the one taking bonuses off them again
Chorus
You didn't retire, you were just SWITCHING SIDES!
From the halls of the senate to the war profiteers!
You didn't step down, you just cashed in the game!
Trading our blood for your best fiscal years!
Bridge
Can you look at that medal? Can you sleep in your bed?
With the ghost in the blood still fresh in your head?
Does the black rain fall on your nice corner view?
Did the long drive home ever happen to you? NO!
Solo
Chorus
You didn't retire, you were just SWITCHING SIDES!
From the Pentagon office to the company that provides!
You didn't step down, you just cashed in the game!
Where the profit and bloodshed both go by your name!
Outro
SWITCHING SIDES!
SWITCHING SIDES!
You were just... SWITCHING... SIDES!
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