I have seen them turn to nothing
Still the taste for life’s unfading
Vanishing like thoughts of kindness
Losing everything to numbness

And you embrace the sale
Persuaded through the veil
Of culture
Sensation leads the way
Respect for life decays
Devoured

Vanity prevails
Reveals the blind man’s trail
Truth won’t make you see
Cries won’t make you hear
Doubt won’t make you think
Thought won’t make you feel

I have seen you stealing life
Cheapening blood that flows like water
Stepping on the plank to pleasure
Sacrificing their volition

Bury your head in the sand
Hide it from plea
You’ll never sleep
Falling into dreams

Hauling air
We are just born to stare
We all just take our share
Cracking the will to dare

Your life is my life
My life is your strife
Your strife is my delight
But your right ain’t my fight

Kings will drown
With heavy crowns
Kings will drown
With lethal crowns

Dust off the specks of yourself
Turn the cold cheek
You won’t admit
What came before won’t fit

Hauling air
We are just born to stare
We all just take our share
Cracking the will to dare

We embrace the age-old abyss
Feeding the monsters we dismiss

Deities come and then fade away
None could have changed men’s frozen prey

We embrace that ancient praxis
So evolved, so decayed, charade
We embrace that ancient praxis
So evolved, so decayed, charade

Savage ways take their breath away
Twisted ideals that they must obey

We embrace that ancient praxis
So evolved, so decayed, charade
We embrace that ancient praxis
So evolved, so decayed, charade

Ancient, mindless, primitive
Senseless, barbaric, obsolete
Numb, dark, apathy
Blind, ignorant – evolve!

What should I say or do
To make you see within
The breadth of change in you
I cannot explain
It’s always been your weakest spot
Drowning in the crowd
Turn away, look at them
Think of them to understand

Witness the pain
Break through the veil of delusion

Breaking the chains of routine
That weigh on your weakened neck
The creeping chill inside your heart
Fragile fallacy
It’s always been your biggest fear
To stand out from the crowd
Think again, not the same
Think again to understand

The way you see it
Grey turns to white
The part that heeds
Is truly cracked
Drawn to the spite
The mob and the flame
Arresting guilt
And shifting the blame

The more you peel
The more you conceal
A bitter truth

A grave of the mind
Logic confined
Suppress the decision

The more you peel
The more you conceal
A bitter truth

A shattered plate
Disservice to hate
Begins the transition

Starting to absorb
Swallow the pain whole

The more you feel
The more you reveal
A bitter truth

At last you perceive
What’s hard to believe
Embrace the collision

You cannot ignore
This civil war
A bitter truth

Decision will bring
The simplest thing
An end to tradition

Starting to absorb
Swallow the pain whole

Tell me, show me
What they do to those pure hearts
and behind the walls
The world has lost all meaning

I’ve heard, forever
They serve me, I’m above
Tomorrow holds no place for thee

The less you block
The more you unlock
A bitter truth

Why try to defend
What you must amend
Revise the cognition

Excusing as fate
and quick to negate
A bitter truth

If you see the lie
You cannot deny
You’re caught in addiction

Flip, flip the coin
They can’t see
You fall down
On your face

It isn’t them who saw you dying
It isn’t them who put you down
You won’t know tomorrow
You don’t know today

You won’t be their best friend
That tear does not fall easy

Grain of sand
Razor’s edge
One demand from me
Connection
Dissension
No enemies

It’s over
High time
False benevolent memories
False benevolent memories
Forgotten like friendly enemies

They said they love
You won’t know
Flipped the coin
Coupe de grace

The candle, the candle’s burning
It burns us, searing white
And right now gates are closing
Narrow as the minds

Goodbye to blue sky
We couldn’t justify
Fading, fading mercy

Many years have passed us by
Never stopping to ask why
We could let it go, let it go

Part of the same mold
Welcoming the blindfold
Faking just a blank face of stone

Part of the same mold
Welcoming the blindfold
We have seen the road that lay ahead

Falling down, heavy’s the crown
Falling down, when will we drown

Waiting for the storm
To find us in our homes
Crazy, this is crazy
All those fears are creeping by
Calculating when we’ll die
We can’t let it go, let it go

You’ve lost the witness
The one who made you see
You’ve found the illness
That warped reality

Do you feel it now
Do you hear the crowd
They don’t speak but they plea
Hopeless silent cries

Sleeper, downwind seeker
Disdain preacher
Death-bound creed

Why, why are you surprised?
They cannot see inside
No, you don’t feel them too
How would they know you strayed

You sway and you come again with another tale
If only the truth could match it
You slay the moments that lead to a better way
And cast doubt away
Grey is the forever mask

Doves won’t fly back to you again
Is this all a shadow play
Until we break
Until we ache
Until our deeds see the strings on which they’re hanging

Human sight has been missing
Bouncing off those concrete walls
They are gone now, the last cash cows
And they cannot make a sound
New blood’s here, dreary eyed
Their turn comes, the cage bound

Beasts in men’s clothing
Preying on the weak
That’s all they’ve known

There’s no judgment, no one’s watching
All are bastards of no lord
They are fragments , only infants
And they cannot live for long
New blood’s here, dreary eyed
Their turn comes, the cage bound

Beasts in men’s clothing
Preying on the weak
That’s all they’ve known

Broken, replaceable vessels
Of fake necessity
Known, collateral damage
The taste of conformity

The cold white floor
Shines red bleakness
There’s no way back
There’s no way out

Gone is the sun
gone are the fields
Weight turns to gold
and scraps of souls

Breeding, feeding,
Weighing, herding,
Culling, tagging
Fertilizing, agonizing,
Brutalizing

We always walk
Where they lead us
We always trust
The laden path

We are the pawns
Of this planet
But what is won
When we are gone

He was born inside a square
And everyone came by to stare
There’s a reason, they would say
And wouldn’t let him go

He was tamed and beaten down
For mindless tricks and guiltless fun
The world outside has been denied
What pride was left was cast aside

He has lived inside a square
And everyone just didn’t care
There’s a reason, they would say
And wouldn’t let him go

Then one day the square fell down
And he was out but wouldn’t run
The things outside are just not clear
What’s near is far and what’s far is near

Use me as a trick
Use me just for fun
I’m in every place
I’m in every time
I’m not yours to keep
I’m not mine to have
Who does really care
If I’m inside a square

Our comfort spills over edges
We live a cozy, simple life
But something is happening out there
Done in our names
And it never happens to us

Always looking away
embracing the blind spot

Truth is a sad fact we try to ignore
We left the dirty work to others
Whatever happens out there
We are just the consumers
And it never happens to us

An ancient tale of enslavement
Evolved into a modern affair
Where condiments and blood
Are on a plate side by side

Cruelty disappears beneath tradition’s dust
Empathy bows down to taste glands that lust
Bones forever gone from morality’s eyes
Those without tears sound their final cry

This is the lab
This is the world
Science has moved on
Without us

This must be hell
This is the truth
Science has moved on
Without us

Am I part of the fold
Trampling a voiceless crowd
Am I part of the mold
Keeping on being cowed

Habit and tradition
Convenience and taste

Can I shed my fallacy
Finding what’s left to find
Can I contest the decree
Ignore the mines of the mind

You say a god created us
A tool to feed believers
Who cut our flesh
And wear our skin
And test our mind

We’re no bleeding hearts
We bleed for real
No clergy prays for us
When blood is spilled

It’s a crooked world we live in
A life that’s not our own
With a destiny
Set in stone
Our shrieks are but a drone

We are gathered
Here in this place
Gathered but still alone
We are the voiceless
We are the weak
Our words are not here

You can only save
What you can never let go
Don’t let us go
If heaven is yours
If heaven is yours
What’s left for us?

These are the feedlots
Take off the blindfolds

We have been hiding
In the shadows of time
Hiding and still alone
Lost in plain sight
Lost in plain sight
Open your eyes