Hold Your Fire

LOCK AND KEY

I don't want to face
the killer instinct ‹
Face it in your or me

We carry a sensitive cargo
Below the waterline ‹
Ticking like a time bomb
With a primitive design

Behind the finer feelings ‹
This civilized veneer ‹
The heart of a lonely hunter
Guards a dangerous frontier

The balance can sometimes fail ‹
Strong emotions can tip the scale ‹

Don't want to silence
a desperate voice
For the sake of security
No one wants to make
a terrible choice
On the price of being free
I don't want to face
the killer instinct ‹
face it in you or me
So we keep it under lock and key...

It's not a matter of mercy
It's not a matter of laws
Plenty of people will kill you
for some fanatical cause

It's not a matter of conscience ‹
A search for probable cause
It's just a matter of instinct ‹
a matter of fatal flaws

No reward for resistance
No assistance ‹
no applause...

we don't want to be victims
on that we all agree,
so we lock up the killer instinct ‹
and throw away the key...

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