Belial was created next after Lucifer.
He comes in the form of two angels sitting in a chariot of fire.
He distributes presentations and senatorships.
He causes favor of friends and foes.
He must have a sacrifice or offering.
He always gets one.
They call it foreign policy.
[VERSE 1]
The ICC issued the warrant and the flights were rerouted
The immunity clause was written by the ones it was about
From Nuremberg they built a law and then exempted themselves
The whistleblower got twenty years, the war crime's on the shelf
Drone strike civilian casualty reports — classified and filed
The soldier who reported it was prosecuted, the order-giver smiled
[PRE-CHORUS]
The law was built with a door in it
The door was always theirs
Every nation, every treaty
Built on their terms
[CHORUS]
Belial sits above the charter
Above the court, above the law
Created next to the first fallen
With the deepest oldest maw
Call his name into the Security Council
Where the veto lives and breathes
The demon who answers to nothing
Is the one who holds the keys
[VERSE 2]
The rendition program had a legal memo blessing it
The torture was enhanced technique and lawyers were professing it
From Pinochet's immunity hearing to the Yemen strike reports
Every empire writes the rules that keeps its crimes from courts
No left, no right, no north, no south escapes this architecture
The sovereign above the law is history's oldest specter
[BRIDGE]
This is in the ICC public docket
This is in the Senate torture report — redacted but released
This is in the UN special rapporteur findings
Belial doesn't fear the court
He helped design the exemptions
[OUTRO]
They will call this unpatriotic.
Patriotism is not immunity.
The Nuremberg principle said so.
Then the architects of Nuremberg exempted themselves from Nuremberg.
Belial sat in the room.
He drafted the exception.
He has never faced a charge.
He never will.
Unless you learn to read his name.
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