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Traced back to the temples of old
The merchants traded with impermanent paper
Legitimate commerce formalised by the bold
An illusionary order had strengthened its hold
Awaken now, observe the tragedy, calamity
Man made catastrophe
The modern creation of economic digital slavery...
Do we continue cyclic consumption
Or transcend these self-imposed restraints
Condemned to submit to the subjugation
These institutions own our lives
They decide every mans worth and subject him to employment
With the greed of the corporate machine
The elite, like royalty, mitigate their ad diction to acquisition
Keep the sheep clamouring for instant gratification
There's always profits to be reaped in the sale of commodities
Presenting the incentive
Invest in war
Denouncing honour for the sake of profit
Trading life at the click of a button
A unit of labour created at debt
How have you all been so deceived into accepting these things
Awaken now, observe the tragedy, calamity
Man made catastrophe
The modern creation of economic digital slavery...
Do we continue cyclic consumption
Or transcend these self-imposed restraints
Bail out the bankers, maintain the infinite growth paradigm
In the delirium of rampant consumerism
An artificial construct, a pernicious deceit
We caused the atrophy
No thought of sustainability
We are the bane of all creation
Doomed to a life of ruin
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Death of Reason
02:38
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What started out as a movement for peace
Through the ages tainted by humanity as it degenerates
Unfolding through the aeons
Through the phases of dominion
In the eternal pursuit for the essence of being
Anthropomorphising celestial bodies
Assigning deities to the inexplicable
Absolving wickedness from the realm of man to an invisible hand
Keep the masses on their knees and praying for deliverance
Subservient ideology, asinine cultivation
Belief in these absurdities
Only serve as an aid to propagate
Their inherent self-deception
Keep the masses on their knees and praying for deliverance
Subservient ideology, asinine cultivation
Slaughtered for conflicting faith
Inflict an inquisition
Conquerors on a holy mission
All for his glory, for his majesty
In the perpetual search for meaning
Prevailing dogmas are dividing commonality
Behead in the name of our lord, consumed in the great delusion
Devolve into sectarian existence
Behold, the death of reason
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The Vile Maxim
03:51
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Discharged upon this world, a blank slate ready to be filled
Victims of culture, each path has been predetermined
Aberrant structures, groom these complacent loyal subjects
Taught to conform and obey
Another cog in the industrial machine
Trained for lives of subordination
A ceremonial indoctrination
The syllabus decides
Classification based on reward
Trading knowledge for a compliant drone
The broader understanding withheld
The vile maxim
Just another establishment
Manufacturing consent
Altering history to exalt the dominant
Regurgitating on command
Subjects chosen, memorised and replicated
Reluctantly selecting a vocation
Addicted to material gain
These docile automatons
Benighted to the plight of fellow creatures
Never truly reaching their potential
Dreams are merely secondary
Mass public failure by design
The collapse of civic intellect
And so they shape and limit their perspectives
You manipulate the narrative
Re-educate, the only way to escape the apathy
Or succumb to cognitive dissonance
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Gathered at the coliseum, the arena of lunacy
Gazing at the gladiators as they hack at the limbs
A vassal of aristocracy
To observe this human circus, a familiar pastime
Mere slaves dying by the blade
All for the sake of keeping you entertained
No hope in their pleas for grace
Feverishly they welcome death, it elates
Enter the chariots, just another distraction
Every event created to divert the minds of men with the games we play
These principles permeate, seeping within the assemblage
The bloodlust is evident
And it’s ingrained in our nature
For we are born of this malevolence
The deprivation of nurture
Since the advent of the printing press
The masquerade took another form
Exploiting this inherent weakness
Entwining propaganda, the fear mongers promote a new agenda
Proliferating faith
Appropriated by a myriad empires
Bastardised by ill intent
Disseminated to the sycophant audience
The choruses of agony
The scripture is designed to bring forth hate
Commandeering our recreation, to facilitate their deeds
Spoken word, apprehended
With the aid of technological progression
The transmission of radio waves
This beast took flight
Polluting your consciousness
Sowing the divide
Engulfed in the artifice
Behold the television
Disengage and unwind
All of the wasted time
Enthralled by a fictional emotive sequence
Unequipped for the struggles of the daily grind
Over encumbered by reality
This tube is the gospel, the ultimate revelation
Bypassing logic, circumventing our reasoning
Programmed to pursue want as need
Altering brain waves for hypnosis of the hive mind
Oh what stain of an existence
A life spent living in a prison
Constant spectators accepting the tide of impressions
A wretched state of self destruction
An attention deficit
Attention deficit
Preoccupation with this virtual interest, a nonexistence
A hollow truth, simulated subsistence
We're digging our own graves
The timeless art, perversion of the nescient.
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Chemical Straitjacket
05:30
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Oh lord Asclepius, the bearer of the serpent
Our surgeons long for thee
Erudition lost to time
Great skills of the physician are now immutably forgotten
Devoured by superstition
Psychosis confused for demonic
Science expelled
A mistaken curse upon your flesh
They leave the maggots to feast
Regress to savagery
Introduce a new incentive
Healthcare a mere by-product
Crude methods of medicine
Subjected to barbarity to discover the cause of all our afflictions
Research sponsored and absorbed by industry
To induce a lifetime of disease
The helpless patients just kept alive by a thread
Over medicate them, create a childlike dependence
Generate diagnosis, to big pharma’s delight
Sowing sickness, to reap the returns
Treatment has been formulated to trigger a casual nexus
Entrapped within a chemical straitjacket
Left to wade through the blank crevasses of a mind, now contaminated
Waiting for a saint to promise the panacea
This is an assault on the mind an attack on your body, a broken oath
Depersonalised condition
Designed to profit from blight
Oh lord Asclepius, the bearer of the serpent
Our surgeons long for thee
Erudition lost to time
Great skills of the physician are now immutably forgotten
They could not put a patent upon nature
They engineered it and took over the biosphere
With every bite
You're steadily approaching death
Noxious concoctions leading to a sense of emptiness
Consciousness bombarded by intoxicants
Genetics modified, perturbing this mortal coil
With open arms, we welcome the approaching abyss
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War Prestige
06:11
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Malice, a characteristic
Encoded in our genes
All of this hate and aggression needs directing
Throughout the annals of our history, we've glorified conflict
Settlements form in defence
Safety from the bandits
With the ever-bigger threat
Fortifications constructed
Agriculture thrives
Nourishing the soldiers
Populations explode
Resources depleted
Neighbouring towns exposed
Violently invaded
Surpluses stockpiled
Populace deleted
And so they strive for conquest with their empires
The infamy of war prestige
The mythic tales of the monarchies forged in battle
Dynastic rule claimed sovereignty
Dominion gained by expansion
Discord ensues
From chiefdoms to kingdoms
We've pillaged and plundered
Punished the enemies
Pre-empt the aggressors
Inclined to obtain any asset beneficial to the state
Evolving the weaponry of infantry
Resulting in fire
The shield and blade yield to gunpowder
The introduction of the iron canon unleashed horrors unimaginable
Redrawing borders
Forcing nobility into nation states
And so they strive for conquest with their empires
The infamy of war prestige
The mythic tales of the monarchies forged in battle
Dynastic rule claimed sovereignty
With colonisation
Artillery brokered modernisation
The mercenary
Marching to combat wilfully
The craft of metallurgy
Recreated at an industrial scale
Create a coalition and wealth will accumulate
Rebuild what you have destroyed, strife is lucrative
Remove all signs of dissidence, install their constituents
Riches are ripped from the land. Gold, oil and iron ore
For centuries incursions orchestrated, fooled by the common foe
Brothers in arms, bound together
Unaware of the causality, as they unleash an epoch of nuclear winter
Famine befalls as life fades to ash
The aftermath of blotting out the sun
Smoke rises from our burning cities
Fallout envelops the stratosphere
Spreading the darkness of night
Mass extinction at our own hands
Total annihilation until the light returns
To a barren earth devoid of life
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