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Indoctrinate
03:22
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Hand over heart, then we proceed to recite the words barely knowing what they mean
Chauvinistic national identity that we breed through every single pedigree
Feeding inhibition
Rejection of analysis
Not the intended vision for the maintenance of progress
They wrote our history on single sided pages
Fed it to us war by war
Had us all persuaded
America “the brave,” America “the free,”
Somehow could do no wrong and we followed it blindly
Hand over heart, then we proceed to recite the words questioning priority
Chauvinistic national identity spread throughout American history
Spread control through biased information
Rhetoric and propagation assert itself into our education
I won’t accept, start the confrontation
America – false representation
Progress halts when criticism is met with pride
Dogmatic, pretentious, diluted
Open your mind
Hand over heart, then we proceed to recite the words even though we don’t agree
Chauvinistic national identity and I swear to god, it will end with me
Bow to no man.
Pray to no god.
Pledge to no flag.
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Misled
04:00
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Men marked as kings by dollar signs with the intent to multiply
No regard for life, so violence prevails as long as money provides
They place a call to arms through fear and propaganda
Speaking in tongues – inflating their lungs
Crying for war
They promised you valor, but it comes with a price
They promised a future, but it may cost you your life
What of the soldier?
What of their plight?
Target the desperate
Forge them from fear
Force them to murder
Forbid them to heal
Cannon fodder for war profiteers
In the midst of a tragedy they garner support through nonsense ideology
Protect freedom – Spread democracy
But is there truly liberty when mass casualties are the means?
Induce panic under false pretenses
Claim a moral binary
Dehumanize your enemy
And hail a hero for a righteous deed
To line the pockets of kings
Sadistic liars filled with greed
They promised you valor, but it comes with a price
They promised a future, but it may cost you your life
What of the soldier?
What of their plight?
Target the desperate
Forge them from fear
Force them to murder
Forbid them to heal
Cannon fodder for war profiteers
And if they make it home draped in guilt or locked in pine
We’ll hang a yellow ribbon and claim everything’s fine
Ignore the blunder and deprive aid to those you’ve deceived
All in the name of American dreams
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Detest
02:45
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A shameful endeavor
Narcissistic interests
A self-made prophecy set to sacrifice the rest
Innocents are murdered or bend to their force
Peaceful occupation is a myth in our discourse
I can see that there’s no fucking end in sight
The flames fan through pride and greed
They glow too fucking bright
What sort of sadist could instigate such violence?
Presumptuous greed by violent means
A shameful endeavor
Peaceful occupation is a myth
There’s only narcissistic intentions
A self-declared prophecy
I detest
I detest
I detest
I detest
I detest
I detest the brutality sold in my name
No fucking explanation could wash the shame
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4. |
Day 6
03:36
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Exhausted, yet we persist
Leave no stone unturned and all the earth desecrated
Strip the resources for the sake of progression
Carelessly pushing forward despite impending ruin
And we have lost our claim to ignorance
The powers that be perpetuate our selfishness
Reject – Deny
The consequence right before their eyes
Reject – Deny
Then the Earth will eat us alive
We’ve rejected our Mother to be a mirror for the father
He demands hollow repentance and she seeks her vengeance
End us. We deserve it.
She worked to the bone preparing an Eden
And he sabotaged it all with a serpent’s fruit
Vilified until his ego is the one and only truth
And if we adore him
We are forgiven
For taking – Pillaging
Exploiting – Desecrating
But undeserving
We are not exempt from our Mother’s ending
We rejected our Mother for a narcissist father
He demands abiding affections
She just wants respected
But it’s too late for that now
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Begotten
01:18
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Constructed in the image of a tyrant
Encouraged to spread his word begets violence
Cheapen morality with promised prosperity
Embody the architect. Peace through brutality.
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Deicide
02:45
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Cling to obedient meekness or risk bringing challenge to God
Assemble in Bad Faith
Prolong the misery that you’ve bought
Or sell it to anyone weaker and take your place as a master
You will suffer no longer if you cling to the keys that give power
Kill God
Make Him suffer
Exhibit authority
Impose suffering
Extol God in the process
You are granted forgiveness
Kill god
Make him suffer
And if you take the mantle, the masses will strip it from your back
There’s no benevolence in anything but Godlessness
Kill God.
Kill god.
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Veritas
03:41
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Unending suffering
No solace, just callous
Bound to contrived notions of purpose because they offer peace
Misguided by selfishness
Burdened by freedom
Disguised in complacency
Avoid any anxious display
And I know we’re of nothing
There’s no absolution – no binding
But if there’s nothing to fear, maybe it’s existence I’m fighting
But I’ll suffer the day, though tempted to chase it away
But I’ll suffer the day again and again
Vacant. Incomplete. Unforgiven. Obsolete.
Separate. Disconnect. Soothe my hatred. Ill effect.
Obscure my panic in empty pursuit
Deliverance is only a prize in the eye of a fool
Bear my crimes; saturate them in my mind
No reprieve, not for me
I’d rather soak in this bleak reality
Vacant. Incomplete. Unforgiven. Obsolete.
Separate. Disconnect. Soothe my hatred.
Immersion. Agony. Damaged. Set me free.
No relief
Just one truth to believe
I am alive and I will die.
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Justify your place in the dichotomy
Destroy or create, there is no in-between
Selfishness embodies the spirit – awareness be damned
So choose the path least harmful
Let no blood stain your hands
But everywhere I look I’m confronted by our vile urge to destroy
Compulsive inhumanity to advance a foolish legacy
We are hopeless.
Rectify our stagnant state of apathy
In disgust and despair we are caught between
Dissociation beckons the spirit – awareness be damned
I choose hate to console
And crush these idle hands
More than a simple lapse in nature
This endless fate we endure
A crux that torments to the core
Our moral compass impure
A tragic failure in our structure
We beg and plea for a cure
We live and die for something more
With mind at peace there is a noble path
My body is ready to walk hand in hand to extinction
A crux that torments the core
We beg and plea for a cure
A crux that torments the core
We beg for a cure
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9. |
Interlude
02:06
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Empathy slips from me when I saw God, remiss, buckle at His knees
Now doomed to face uncertainty – I’ve reached an impasse
Good will is lost on me
Mount my defenses – disperse the blame
I am god now
Kill me in body and in name
I am detached, violent and apathetic
I am calloused and hopeless and selfish
Narcissistic – impure and arrogant
Chained to my ego
I embody what I resent
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10. |
Cleanse
04:53
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Condemned to covet comfort
Desperately seeking its grace
Though it’s out of reach I ache for a taste
A fleeting moment of peace
Accentuated by a disdain that I cannot ease
A fickle state of relief
Sacred for its blissful presence but it’s sure to retreat
Then the silence is shattered
The faint voice of protest becomes a staggering shriek
I’ve no right to reap contentment when the seeds I sew are bleak
Lingering pain cuts the path to serenity I seek
Condemned to covet comfort
It slips away without a trace
I still ache for it
A delusion I must face
A fleeting moment of peace
Accentuated by a disdain that I cannot ease
A fickle state of relief
Sacred for its blissful presence but it’s sure to retreat
Suspend obsession
Embrace discomfort
Seek compassion through all the pain endured
With no solace to cling
We might finally be free
Free from the tyrants that impose a fear of lying in dirt
To rid the pain I’ve been fighting since birth,
Cleanse this world of me – Cleanse me of this Earth.
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