Clinging to illusive notions Counting listless years you've lived through Attending your shame Fiction deceiving struggle Eyes condemn scrutiny Performance should dictate your life False community sustains you Frail belief in superstition sustains you Apothegm, in lieu of question, sustains you Cult apocrypha, heavy as mist, sustains you Wavering creed sealed in the coffin of a nation A spent imitation God's accomplice is reaction Imagined purpose feeds the aesthete A silent god's accomplice is reaction A last imagined purpose feeds the aesthete Foul sophistry No measure, no model, torn fabric of thought Shields the bare aberrant pith of demonstration Artistry and disregard as a form of refinement Nothing but forged simulacra of awareness Held in reverence God's accomplice is reaction Imagined purpose feeds the aesthete A silent god's accomplice is reaction A last imagined purpose feeds the aesthete Foul sophistry