Draconian Crackdown

A tragic demonstration of brazen insubordination
My indigenous insurgents, belligerents, degenerates
Imagine my bewilderment at the conspicuous dismemberment
Of all that I had believed
At how we have all been deceived
It was short, sharp, sudden, surprising
Short, sharp, sudden... It was unfathomable catastrophe

There were things no one should ever see
Arrests were made arbitrarily
Evacuations made mandatory
Indefinite detentions, unsolvable killings
Weeks and weeks of agonizing raids
Relentless, unexplained physical attacks
Gout, goiters, plague, anthrax
New and unconventional threats
Simultaneously secretive & violent events

Oh what have they done?
There's no fun to a draconian crackdown
And what will you do when they come for you in the draconian crackdown?

Yes sir, I say no sir and then...
Yes sir, I say no sir again

Something's wrong, oh very, very wrong here
The chaotic nature of the soured atmosphere
We have found ourselves participants in their nightmare
I took the blame, the hatred, then with certainty I said
"I now declare a state of emergency with immediate effect indefinitely"
I lurked, I plotted and I planned, from here
A fearful, vicious, secret no-man's-land

Oh what have they done?
There's no fun to a draconian crackdown
And what will you do when they come for you in the draconian crackdown?