Persisting Coup d'etat or conquest Call it what you will Whatever it may be Is making me ill Taking its toll on me This vulgarian Authoritarian Kakistocracy Is not for me I see And seeing the rest Of it being depressed I can feel the chill Of dystopia now This is it somehow But if I can persist Not a lesser-than A now or never man However I can If I can not give up If I can live up To what I have lived for Like never before At a time to insist Persisting I resist Steven Curtis Lance