[Verse 1] When the state decides the law is what it says Emergency powers override what's in the text Schmitt said the sovereign is who decides the exception Legal forms remain but lose their true protection Judges bow to power, courts become a tool Bureaucrats weaponized, breaking every rule It's legalism dressed up, but the rule of law is dead State of exception means the constitution's bled [Chorus] Laws without limits, courts without spine Emergency powers cross every line Bureaucracy weaponized, justice redefined Legalism without rule of law combined Forms stay the same but the meaning's gone Exception becomes the rule from dusk to dawn [Verse 2] Carl Schmitt theorized the sovereign's ultimate call Who decides when normal order has to fall Political theology, the state becomes divine Legal procedures hollow, just a thin disguise Institutions captured, serving one man's will Courts rubber-stamp decisions, justice standing still Emergency never ends, becomes the normal state Legal system twisted to consolidate and dominate [Chorus] Laws without limits, courts without spine Emergency powers cross every line Bureaucracy weaponized, justice redefined Legalism without rule of law combined Forms stay the same but the meaning's gone Exception becomes the rule from dusk to dawn [Bridge] Constitutional crisis manufactured for control Legal frameworks gutted, playing the sovereign role Institutions hollowed out from the inside Democracy's corpse with legal forms to hide [Verse 3] Bureaucrats become soldiers in the culture war Courts lose independence, that's what they're there for Legal precedent crumbles under political weight Rule by decree while the lawmakers wait Emergency measures that never seem to end Constitutional order too broken to mend The forms remain standing like a movie set But the rule of law is something they forget [Chorus] Laws without limits, courts without spine Emergency powers cross every line Bureaucracy weaponized, justice redefined Legalism without rule of law combined Forms stay the same but the meaning's gone Exception becomes the rule from dusk to dawn [Outro] Schmitt's dark vision of the sovereign's call When exception swallows rule of law Remember this warning from history's page Legalism without justice builds the fascist cage
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