The Last Act Of Defiance
Exodus

The prison system, inherently unjust and inhumane
Is the ultimate expression of injustice
and inhumanity in the society at large.
Those of us on the outside do not like
to think of wardens and guards as our surrogates, yet they are.
And they are intimately locked in a deadly embrace
with their human captives behind prison walls.
By extension, so are we.
The terrible double meaning is thus imparted
to the original question of human ethics
Am I my brother's keeper?

The second of February, 1980
Began three days of misery
A scene of retaliation
Epitomizing violence, horror, and vindication
Thieves, murderers, and rapists
Inundated their prison like homicidal sadists
Guards and convicts alike would pay the price
To them the electric chair would look like paradise
Only degradation, torture, and cremation would suffice

A sea of agony rolled in like the coming of the tide
The more fortunate escaped the insanity through suicide
The screams of the dying would haunt the living to the grave
Survivors of the riot relive the nightmare every day
The last act of defiance

With a never-ending appetite
Barbiturates set them off like dynamite
Eradicating informants
Acetylene torches dealt the punishment
Melted from skin to bone
The fire silenced their screams to moans
Smoke filled the air from bodies set aflame
Begging for mercy, but their words were spoken in vain
They weren't allowed to perish until they cherished all the pain

Guards they had taken hostage
Were to blame for pushing them over the edge
Their brutality would be their demise
Like sharks in a frenzy they lashed out at their prize
When the madness had ended
The gore was too intense to be comprehended
No one explained the real reason why
For cruelty of a few, so many should die
They knew of the flaws, but still insist the cause was justified


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  'Til Death Do Us Part   'Till Death Do Us Part   44 Magnum Opus   A Lesson In Violence   A Lesson In Violence (Re-Recorded)   A Perpetual State of Indifference   A.W.O.L   A.W.O.L.   Altered Boy   And Then There Were None   And Then There Were None (Re-Recorded)   Architect Of Pain   As It Was, As It Soon Shall Be   As It Was, So It Soon Shall Be   Battle Cry   Bedlam 1-2-3   Bedlam 123   Beyond The Pale   Bitch   Black 13   Blacklist   Bless The Lord   Blood In, Blood Out   Body Harvest   Bonded By Blood   Brain Dead   Btk   Burn, Hollywood, Burn   Cajun Hell   Changing Of The Guard   Chemi-kill   Children Of A Worthless God   Choose Your Weapon   Class Dismissed (A Hate Primer)   Climb Before The Fall   Collateral Damage   Corruption   Count Your Blessings   Culling The Heard   Culling The Herd   Deathamphetamine   Deliver Us To Evil   Deliver Us To Evil (Re-Recorded)   Democide   Deranged   Downfall   Exodus   Fabulous Disaster   Faster Than You'll Ever Live To Be   Faster Than You'll Ever Live To Be   Feeding Time At The Zoo   Food For The Worms   Force Of Habit   Forward March   Fuel For The Fire   Funeral Hymn   Garden Of Bleeding   Going Going Gone   Good Day To Die   Good Riddance   Hammer And Life   Heads They Win (Tails You Lose)   Honor Killings   I Am Abomination   Iconoclasm   Impact Is Imminent   Impaler   It's Naughty To Push In   It's Naughty To Push In   Karma's Messenger   Karma's Messenger   Like Father, Like Son   Low Rider   Low Rider (War Cover)   Magnum Opus   March Of The Sycophants   Me, Myself & I   Me, Myself & I   Me, Myself And I   Metal Command   Metal Command (Re-Recorded)   My Last Nerve   Nanking   No Love   No Love (Re-Recorded)   Now Thy Death Day Come   Numb   Objection Overruled   One Foot In The Grave   Only Death Decides   Open Season   Overdose   Overdose (AC\/DC Cover)   Parasite   Piranha   Piranha (Re-Recorded)   Pleasures Of The Flesh   Pump It Up   Radiant Light   Raze   Riot Act   Salt In The Wound   Salt The Wound   Scar Spangled Banner   Sealed With A Fist   Seeds Of Hate   Shovel Headed Kill Machine   Shroud Of Urine   Shudder To Think   Strike Of The Beast   Strike Of The Beast (Re-Recorded)   Tempo Of The Damned   The Atrocity Exhibition   The Ballad Of Leonard And Charles   The Garden Of Bleeding   The Lunatic Parade   The Sun Is My Destroyer   The Toxic Waltz   Thorn In My Side   Thrash Under Pressure   Throwing Down   Toxic Waltz   Verbal Razors   War Is My Shepherd   War Is My Sheppard   Warlords   When It Rains It Pours   Within The Walls Of Chaos   Wrapped In The Arms Of Rage

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