"New Salem" lyrics - MISERY INDEX

Sharpen up the guillotine as fashionistas clean the scene
You're socially bewitched with narrative affixed
Tried and executed with no due process

[Chorus:]
Do you fight the good fight? Or instigate the fighting?
It's a fucking witch hunt
Somebody's head's gotta roll
In New Salem

Burn the books, rename the streets
Nothing is safe, suppress the speech
A virtual conflict, binary logic
Who the fuck is the straw man now?

[Chorus:]
Do you fight the good fight? Or instigate the fighting?
It's a fucking witch hunt
Co-opted activists divide and conquer us
Somebody's head's gotta roll

[Post-Chorus:]
New Salem
New Salem
New Salem
Co-opted activists, somebody's head's gotta roll
New Salem
New Salem
New Salem
Co-opted activists divide and conquer us
Somebody's head's gotta roll

In a pacified endemic state, it's another echo-chamber slave
Addicted to extremes of ideologies
Where left and right amalgamate and hang us from their tallest trees

[Chorus:]
Do you fight the good fight? Or instigate the fighting?
It's a fucking witch hunt
Somebody's head's gotta roll

[Guitar solo]

In an echo chamber no one can hear you scream
Burning the straw man in this knee-jerk nightmare
Roiling in all your virtue valor, awakening as a victim martyr
Freedom fighter, or bald-faced instigator?

[Chorus:]
Do you fight the good fight? Or instigate the fighting?
It's a fucking witch hunt
Somebody's head's gotta roll
New Salem
New Salem
New salem
Somebody's head's gotta roll
New Salem
New Salem
New Salem
Co-opted activists divide and conquer us
Somebody's head's gotta roll