[Verse 1] Driving down blistered severe The rapacious maw of our despair Black dog follows, strip club echoes The raven's shadow across the ghetto Up the hill in an unmarked grave The mother of American darkness lays Liberty or death to start the battle There's nonesuch place for human chattel
[Chorus] Hanging by a threat Now you can choke on it Hanging by a threat So go and choke on it This is a reckoning You hear the raven's scream Hanging by a threat So go and choke on it [Verse 2] Across the devil's own half acrе There's rusted gallows for an angеl The ghosts that built this city scream Of commerce and inhumanity Cancer rides the freeway's edge