Self‐Will Run Riot Songtext
von Jersey Calling

The familiar dread of Sunday night
Sleepless threats of morning′s light
Bones withering; so tired
Of self-will run riot
Medicating to succeed
Suicide seems guaranteed
Disheartened & disquiet
It's self-will run riot
Mounting interest rates accrue
Trade our lives for revenue
Society swears by it
Our self-will run riot
Push the limits to surpass
Sacrifice the working class
Our desperation′s quiet
It's self-will run riot
Sell us headlines, Sell us war
Watch movies that we've seen before
It′s weaponized nostalgia
Feeding on a fever dream


Sell us short & sell us lies
Parading toward our own demise
Give up your flesh and spirit
With a patriotic scream
Our hearts are hollow, calloused tough
Falling short of good enough
Force-fed a steady diet
Of self-will run riot
Cheap promises led us astray
Blue skies have turned a hazy grey
We stubbornly deny it
Our self-will run riot
Sell us headlines, Sell us war
Watch movies that we′ve seen before
It's weaponized nostalgia
Feeding on a fever dream
Sell us short & sell us lies
Parading toward our own demise
Give up your flesh and spirit
With a patriotic scream
Grind, grind, grind, ingenuity resigned
Seek solace in decline
Undermined, profit over humankind
We suffer by design
Accelerating rapidly
Careening toward catastrophe
The people deify it
It′s self-will run riot
Panic-slamming on the brakes
But the lines were never put in place
White-knuckling, we try it
It's self-will, raging self-will run riot
Self-will run riot
Self-will run riot