Instruments of Persuasion

[Mitch Harris/Greenway]
 A farce - so sincere
 A farce - so austere
 A farce - hartfelt pleas
 A farce - shock and awe to force a retreat
 Ten thousand corpses in the wake of his whims
 Count many thousands more on the way to obedience
 Duty - to uphold
 Duty - to make bold
 Duty - purity so skewed
 Duty - break out the arms, don't spare the rod.
 Ten thousand corpses in the wake of his whims
 Waves and flashes smiles, with the gall of an unmarked man
 Instruments of persuasion
 Instruments of persuasion
 Instruments of persuasion
 Rallying calls to the wilfully blinkered
 Hands on the heart and heads in the sand
 Instruments of persuasion
 Instruments of persuasion
 Stand shoulder-to-shoulder and win the bonanza.
 A sweetener from death to get back in the good books
 Instruments of persuasion
 Instruments of persuasion