When reason dies behind closed doors   Face down in a cell in a pool of piss   It's time to fear what we should respect   It's time to question cause and effect   Striking with impunity   Hiding behind flags of immunity      When corruption rears its ugly head   The force of law becomes a farce   Personal ambition usurps justice   The rich protected at the expense of the poor   Would you sit on the fence, take no chance?   As those batons fall, turn a blind eye      In an ideal world   There'd be no need for law   No need for police   But in a society so sick   So obsessed with blind greed   Someone has to protect   The old and the weak      Officer down      Can we really afford to be so selectively blind?   If we dig too deep what would we find?   At authority's heart beats a dollar sign   Under such a regime we're all doing time   Striking with impunity   Hiding behind flags of immunity         Never say, you weren't warned   When they come to drag you away   To silence the dissident hiding in us all   They clench the fist of ordained might   From which side of the barbed wire   Do you want to see your life pass by?         When reason dies behind closed doors   Face down in a cell in a pool of piss   It's time to fear what we should respect   It's time to question   Cause and effect   Who teaches the teachers?   Who makes laws for lawmakers?   When they read us our rights   What about human rights?