Then without a whisper The skies of the Earth turned black ♪ Cracks in the order appear As the end-time call resounds All logic swept away Just so their profits can be made Still, their ships set sail On plastic seas exhaled And death fuels the dream As children slave in sites unseen Luxury exceeds And above all, wealth decrees "This land is yours to reap And human life is always cheap" Still, their stocks will rise As billions swarm immobilized with dread ♪ On their behest, rights of men Arcane laws, dividends Septic cults, cryptic tools Praise the palace fools Sycophants toe the line Speak in tongues, orphic rhymes Black and red, bleeding cash Nothing here will ever last ♪ And each and all must know their place Nothing here to contemplate Fear and death, death and rot Few will have, and many will have not It's necessary suffering From servitude to severity This sacrifice and savagery It's necessary suffering ♪ Scorched earth, bread lines Shenzhen suicides Caustic, dead frost Insects holocaust CO2, salted wounds Surplus opportune Work drones, solar winds The work of progress has no sense nor end It's necessary suffering From servitude to severity This sacrifice and savagery It's necessary suffering ♪ All lives disposable Like cattle for the abattoir So it goes Ashes to embers all ♪ Embers to ashes It's necessary So necessary Suffering