Chiaroscuro of oppression and indignity To live amongst this predatory world A reaction to a reaction to a reaction While the army of enucleated observe An aristocracy of misfortune dominates The emergence of despotic machines A sword suspended above the rabble fraying The burning dog bites with stolen teeth The absence of evidence Is not evidence of absence Guilt and innocence, arbitrary details Acquiescence to panopticon ♪ Yoke the invisible hand, usurp oppressive idolatry Omit anything predicate on a revelation The paranoic omniscience Needed to maintain the reigns On the great silence of the terminal commuter Thought is a cancer in the bowels of regime Under draconian sadists, infest Only in death are we free ♪ Yoke the invisible hand, usurp oppressive idolatry Omit anything predicate on a revelation The paranoic omniscience Needed to maintain the reigns On the great silence of the terminal commuter Thought is a cancer in the bowels of regime Under draconian sadists, infest Only in death are we free ♪ Marching straight into the jaws of the primitive gears leaping Hand in hand to extinction The more offensive the lie, the more you'll believe, shackled The debt of existence Better a terrible end than endless terror, resist Face your own execution The final nature of man is never What he wills himself to be ♪ In the sleep of reason All the world's a slave Usurpation of the apex, ransom denigrated Permanent obedience Never again, cowering, tortured, inhumane The hands of roiling hatred Anticipation of damnation, unyielding, perpetual Mocked in triumphant contempt Under the eye of the abhorrent tyrannical empire Life is a memory, then it is nothing but pain