A History of Cages and Broken Bones Lyrics

Every line we have ever drawn
has been one made of blood
The flesh price paid for the scant liberate
And the exploited
die in the mud

The reason to use cages
Is to deny them humanity
Debasement is control
Commodified suffering
Ultimately discarded detritus.

We wear this cage upon our brows,
A last reminder as we devour these babies
We snap their bones, showing our amnesty and grace
Devour the defining marrow
Our history is cages made of brittle broken bones

These children
We will eat them,
And vomit forth their skeletons
to build our walls

It's not just their bodies and hearts that we feast on
It's the future of their souls
The fight in their eyes.
This is what we eat

A history of cages and of brittle broken bones
A lineage writ of black boiling blood
The mirror of humanity,
A stone thrown towards a skull,
The lapping tongue upon
Spilt and splattered dreams.