The Game Was Rigged From the Start

from The Longest Year: So Help Me God by Anywhere Welcomes You

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6. The Game Was Rigged from the Start
Narrator: Floyd Martin

If home is where the heart is, this place is going dead. We’ll flatline all the streetlights on our quest to get ahead. Cut veins of bloody vanity, your storefronts turning. You never listened to us once your power overspread. Take aim and ignore your compass. You are not one of us. You traded your heart for sin. You killed the last of our people. We’re snuffing the evil. The revolution begins. These flags will cross your coffins then get folded, you’re not going home. We’ll burn you down. You’re on your own. If home is where the heart is, this city will be bled. We’ll mummify what’s left of you, then desecrate your dead. Slit throats of blue intolerance, the ever present pigs. You never cared to save us. From the start, the game was rigged. Take aim and ignore your compass. You are not one of us. You traded your heart for a gun and a badge. You took all that you could. There is blood on your hands, so our violence is understood. These flags will cross y our coffins then get folded, you’re not going home. Present this to your loved ones, but the truth is you are no “hero”. You took my brother away from me, the least I can do is make you bleed and breathe your last. You’re on your own. If home is where the heart is, tell me why you are so heartless?

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