Jack Stafford - Ways to Lose a Country Lyrics

Beware of movements that arise
Painting heaven in the skies
Telling you that they alone have the solution
On the right, on the left
Many roads lead to theft
And they're one of the ways to lose your country

Beware of the new rationale
That boosts popular morale
And schizophrenic logic terrorises
There's a distorted narrative
Where the truth will never live
It's just one of the ways to lose your country

Beware of brazen shamelessness
It's a nasty business
When people are acting up with immorality
Not humble or humane
Then chaos is soon to rein
And it's one of the ways to lose your country

Beware of appointments and dilutions
And attacks on institutions
When the judiciaries replaced with their own followers
A superfluous state
Will sign and seal fate
Another of the ways to lose your country

Beware of model citizens
Who are anointed as the ones
To follow and emulate cos they are perfect
While the rest of us are left
To feel second class at best
It's just one of the ways to lose your country

Beware of laughter in the streets
As they mock their new elites
The only self-defence left is their humour
Some say it's just sequential
And at best inconsequential
But it's one of the ways to lose your country