The Fall of Man

Subliminally-induced mass hallucination

Distorted views confuse a lax population

Whose facts are gained from news feeds

Programmed to guide the weak mind to specific conclusions

Their weapons of mass destruction are not nuclear

But chemical and electric, a deadly compilation

Of false flags and threat levels

An imaginary timeline of the oppressed citizen versus

The foreign devil, media produces just enough propaganda

To breed internal indifference, desensitize the masses to murder

They take control, insisting they know what's best, reinforcing this state

Of impotence, a population that thrives on victimization

We wave our white flags, they sound the war drums

We slave away our last hope for enlightenment

Shattering a nation built on defiance, implying only they

Can rebuild it, they glue together shells, and without our souls

We dissolve our rights in an effort to absolve ourselves of responsibility

For the crimes of our government, and grant ourselves empty titles

Such as patriot, united, while we remain divided

By ignorance and fear, these years are a stain on

What was once great, now a fate resigned to follow

The trains, they'll take us 'cross the globe, fulfill our manifest destiny

And we'll pretend the roads weren't paved over in our own blood

We'll contend that liberty is the desire of the criminal mind alone

And stay home, comforted by our own obedience

To the norm, they'll not come for me, we'll say

When we watch our brothers and sisters on television

Sacrificing dignity for a note from their captors

Practicing indecency for a shot at the great American nightmare

Of success through accumulation of meaningless paper

Of false smiles worn while they lead us through the door

To slavery, the true thieves remain comfortable in their seats

As their authority strips them of humanity

There are no shortage of whispers telling both the same story

You are powerless to stop them, you'd be a fool not to give in

Perpetuate what you can't change, for your own personal gain

The corruption of the soul begins at home

The destruction of the world will not come from a bomb

But from silver tongues, who disarm the young

Before they know what is missing, assimilate the whole

Of her citizenry into the machine, we feed and breed and believe

Every filthy lie that passes their lips

A subliminally induced mass hallucination

The dehumanization of the individual

The criminalization of dissent

It is naught but the death of our consciousness

Free thought lies down on the sword, that consent may

Walk over the corpse, without concern for the blade of the revolutionary

Occupied by electronic divergence, by chemical alteration

That leaves us pretending to be sated

By the civil wars waged within arbitrary borders

They smile, stand tall at their podiums, offer a shovel full of shit

To trick the sheep into feeding his brother to the wolves

To save his own flesh, by then

The flock has already been fleeced

And convinced the only warmth they need

Is beneath the sheets that their uniformed shepherds are all too willing to provide

To the freshly dead.