it was a gradual deterioration and we were slow though the technology was racing it was almost not perceptible in the cryptic coloring of fake hope and change

til everything we did in the world started homing in on us and it happened here and it happens today like a wake like we woke at our own wake too late for change for democracy was the profoundest sleep from which we could not awaken until oh shit it's over it is really truly done and over.