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Scales Fell From My Eyes
05:03
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I watched in disbelief,
Beheld the horror of a crumbling reality.
The world I thought I knew dissolving before my eyes
And leaving nothing but confusion to fill the void
The day the scales fell from my eyes
The veil was ripped away
I watched them shed their skin,
Become the instruments of vile and malicious men.
And far too easily they gave up integrity.
The pain of vision and unblemished reality.
The scales have fallen from my eyes.
And now the world that I inhabited is some forgotten dream
And now the faces of my friends are warped and unrecognized by me
There was a separation made between the sighted and the blind
We have been marked forever by the things we witnessed on that day
If you had seen what I have seen,
You would be terrified to sleep
If you had seen what I have seen,
It would deprive you of your peace.
We have been marked, the threshold was crossed
There can be no return to ignorance
Our integrity lost, our naivete gone,
What we wouldn’t give to get it back
I watched them abdicate,
Abandon dignity for lies and conformity,
Abandon all pretense to value autonomy
The lines were drawn and there were choices made on that day
That now forever haunt my mind
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Destroyers
05:55
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You came to us as a savior,
A beacon of hope and transformation.
We waited too long to resist you.
Now we’ve dearly paid for our indulgence
Of your dream.
And after all you’ve wrought, you still play messiah,
Saving us from ourselves.
And after all we’ve lost, we reject your promise.
We’re taking it back for ourselves.
We saw your brave new world,
We saw your brand new sky,
And we lost our minds.
Awake from slumber, and the spell is broken now
You played the part of the prophet
And we followed the path of your vision.
But we’ve seen the shape of the future you would have made.
Your utopia dies.
And after every failure, you won’t be shaken.
You’ll follow your dream to the end.
And after what we’ve seen, we can’t let you triumph.
Indifference will be our death.
Awake from slumber and the spell is broken
Now we see what you would bring.
Alive in spite of what you tried to realize.
Now we see your true face.
We’re reasserting and reclaiming what you tried to steal
Our right to be
And after all you’ve wrought, you still play messiah,
Saving the world from itself.
And after all we’ve lost, we reject your promise.
We’re taking it back for ourselves.
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Shines Forth
04:07
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There’s a phantom that’s always just ahead of you.
There’s a mystery always just beyond your view.
There’s a longing that’s never been satisfied.
There’s a dream you’ve had every night all of your life.
There’s a question that defines the very heart of you.
There’s an answer that forever has eluded you.
There’s a voice that speaks but never is discernible.
Since the day you’re born, always you have felt the pull.
When you’ve chased the sound, you’ve found it only dissipates.
When you’ve gotten close, it suddenly evaporates.
You have tasted it in moments of serenity
You have heard the whispers at the edges beckoning in.
Follow it.
Further in.
When the meaning shines forth, follow where it leads.
Don’t believe the lies that tie you to the natural,
Or the voices that deny you of the spiritual
Don’t resign yourself to listlessness and emptiness
Don’t surrender to indifference or hopelessness
When the forces of faithlessness come to you,
When the worshippers of reason try to weaken you,
When the merchants of nihilism lambaste you,
Don’t renounce your claim on that which you know to be true
When the meaning shines forth, follow where it leads.
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This World (the Serpent)
05:27
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The serpent eats it own tail.
Conceived in frustration,
It breeds only chaos,
And dreams of the end.
This never-ending upheaval is by design
The mission creep of the righteous never subsides
Don’t believe that it ever can be satisfied
The snake devours itself
The movement feeds on its own.
It masquerades as defender of the oppressed
It claims to speak on behalf of the weak and helpless
Preying on your compassion, demanding your life
The most committed disciple will be sacrificed
The snake devours itself
The movement feeds on its own.
A creature borne of resentment
And hatred is fated
To consume itself
Conflict is the lifeblood of the
Endless social revolution
Hatred and resentment feed the
Drive for so-called “social justice”
Ignorance of history
Enables them to push their dogma
The advocates of equity
Are satisfied to watch the world burn
The snake devours itself
The movement feeds on its own.
A creature borne of resentment
And hatred is fated
To consume itself
It self-destructs by design,
It cannot be pacified.
Don’t apologize
Or renounce or claim
On the truth you know
Stand defiant to the end.
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In Longing
04:58
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Torn away from the past, no future.
Set adrift on the waves in chaos.
Middle children without hope or voice.
Predetermined to live without choice.
Left alone to pursue fantasy.
Bred and raised to believe in nothing.
Underneath a veneer of anomie
Something vital awakes in longing.
Find a burden to bear
And then freedom awaits.
Take a step and behold
Then the path is revealed.
Strike a match in the dark
You are never alone.
Speak a word to the void
And then meaning will come.
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Recognize when you’ve been beat
Realize your time has past
You’re a useless relic,
Expendable and standing in the way
So your time has come and gone
You’re irrelevant and weak
Though we needed you, you’ve
Served your purpose. Welcome to the end.
We invited you to change,
To renounce your dignity.
But you obstinately refused to crawl
And worship at our feet
There’s no room in our future
For the backward and obscure
You are relegated to the fire, so
Abandon any hope
Underneath the gears of progress,
We crush every reprobate rival who gets in our way
If you cannot evolve,
Destruction is all you deserve
There’s only one fate for your obstinate kind
Surrender to darkness and quietly die
The graveyard of history beckons you in
And your extinction you cannot resist
Refuse your extinction
We defy you to resist
Deny us at your peril
It’s in your nature to be a slave
So it seems that you still stand
You’re determined to go on
You’re the thorn in our side,
Arrogant and clinging to your pride.
This was not supposed to be
Your revolt should long have failed
You were never meant to
Rise again and
Reassert your will
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Here I stand. I can do no other.
Here it ends to define the struggle.
The catastrophe didn’t ruin me.
The collapse is here, but I’m not afraid.
I have chosen this hill to die upon.
If the end is here, I say let it come
Here I stand. I can do no other.
Here it ends to define the struggle.
Every choice I made culminates today.
Every step I took has led up to this.
I commend myself to the hands of fate.
When the moment comes, don’t avert your eyes.
When you take your stand, take it all they way.
When this day is done, tell them what you saw.
What is my voice made for
If not to speak for this?
What better use have I
Than to confront the storm?
I've got enough strength in me left for the fight
Got enough left for one last run
Here I stand
Here I draw the line
This is where it ends
On my honor, come whatever, I will not be moved
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Cut Your Strings
09:26
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We march in lockstep
And call ourselves unique
We’re unified in
Our nonconformity
We are the vanguard of subversion
We are the hive mind of free thinking
You can’t persuade us
Our knowledge is complete
You’ll never shape us
We’ve ossified
We perfectly mimic each other in being distinct
We are the doctrinaire enforcers of heresy
Champions of the diverse, you can’t tell us apart
The dogma of total inclusion demands that we
Hate those who disagree with us
We take our orders
Like faithful dissidents
We’re self-appointed
The priests of unbelief
We are the arbiters of free speech
We are the silencers of those we fear
We can’t be bothered to suffer the unenlightened
We perfectly mimic each other in being distinct
We are the doctrinaire enforcers of heresy
Champions of the diverse, you can’t tell us apart
The mantra of tolerance spews from our lips as we
Kill all cognitive dissonance
We hate those who disagree with us,
Stifle all of the excellent,
Kill all cognitive dissonance
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Break from the pattern
That defines the crowd,
That would steal your voice,
That would steal your soul.
And cut the strings
That can’t be seen
Then find your voice
And speak the truth.
Notice the walls inside
That would stifle you and deprive
Refuse their control, stand on your own,
Stand and then cut your strings.
When you awaken from atrophy,
Rediscover your sovereignty
Feel the sun on your face, cold light of day,
Giving you back your name.
So escape your captivity
And reclaim your own sovereignty
Depart from the hive, bid them goodbye,
Cut your goddamned strings
Find your voice
And speak the truth
You know your name
So cut your strings
When you find your voice,
Then you’ll speak the truth.
And you’ll know your name,
So cut your strings.
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