On The Hook

[Intro]
E5

[Verse 1]
A dead silver spoon with needles in his skin
Rode a pale horse down from Afghanistan
Tears in the suburbs ,mothers praying for their damned
Death has crept into their zone of the promised land

[Bridge]
D5
But just before each plague
The clearest prophecies
Pandora’s box in backwoods pharmacies

[Chorus]
E5
A contract to die
F5
Prescription for a homicide
G5 F5
A generation on the hook
E5 F5
Addicted and commodified
D5 G5 F5 E5
Prescription for a homicide

[Verse 2]
Narcotic economics for the miner’s sons
The seams went bust so long a-go with nowhere else to turn
Strip mine the veins, drill the abscess dry
Incentives for the architects of their genocide

[Bridge]
D5
We’ve seen this all before
In a different shade
The Dark Alliance shifts to the modern age

[Chorus]
E5
A contract to die
F5
Prescription for a homicide
G5 F5
A generation on the hook
E5 F5
Addicted and commodified
D5 G5 F5
Prescription for a homicide

[….]
E5 F5
Prescription for a homicide
D5 G5 F5
They’re never worth a second look
E5 F5
Addicted and commodified
D5 G5 F5 E5
Your prescription for a homicide

[Interlude]
F#5
A contract to die
A contract to die
A contract to die

[Verse 4]
A contract to die
Die, die, die, die

[Verse 5]
Hippocratic hypocrites
Breaking oaths and cashing checks
Wrote an ocean’s worth of ink
Scripting a nation’s disease

[Verse 6]
A systematic business plan
To broker death, increase demand
So flood the ghetto and starve the hills
Kill them all with crack and pills

[Outro]
D5
Kill them all
Kill them all