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abandon
00:46
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abandon all hope ye who enter here
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apathy
04:12
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Hypnotized by the life we've always known
Always connected somehow more alone
Will we pretend that we're above it all
When we are left to blame ourselves for the fall
Denial seals the tomb
Complacency, apathy, doom
We are bystanders to our own demise
Brazenly becoming all that we despise
Faith collapsed and crippled drowning in the mire
All resolve melting like a snowflake in a fire
Denial seals the tomb
Complacency, apathy, doom
Conscience blinded by complacency
Sowing the seeds of future's misery
Can we be forgiven for our ignorance
If we trade the world's salvation for our own bliss
Denial seals the tomb
Complacency, apathy, doom
Ivory starts to crack within the tower walls
Shifting sands reveal the foundation's rot
Shaking our convictions in the lies we bought
Still denying truth when the pied piper calls
Say goodbye to all your pleasures once taken for
granted, deprived of all convenience and comfort
forgotten, deny that all your callousness left you
forsaken, decry them all who witnessed the truth and
foretold, the sky will fall the earth will be left for dead
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narcissism
06:24
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Vanity lives at the surface
Concealing what lingers below
Lust to fulfill your own purpose
Causes the suffering to grow
Desire separated from reason
Frenetic the ego persists
Feverish in spite of the season
Furious winds start to twist
Indifferent to the plight of your fellow-creature
Contented with the visage inside of the mirror
Obsessed with the flattery of your own features
Ignorant of the storm that draws ever nearer
Like ripples disrupting the water
Exceptionalism takes hold
Now as the worlds getting hotter
Your soul has already been sold
Arrogant wishes for fortune
Violently blown on the whims
Rent by ethereal torsion
The future begins to look grim
Indifferent to the plight of your fellow-creature
Contented with the visage inside of the mirror
Obsessed with the flattery of your own features
Ignorant of the storm that draws ever nearer
Whirling winds sheer at the psyche
Barbed fragments rip at the flesh
Thinking only of what might be
Ravaged until nothing's left
Gripped in the maelstrom of chaos
Born of narcissistic lust
Bound by this unholy seance
Bones pulverized into dust
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voracity
07:11
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Feasting on fetid flesh
Filling the emptiness
Drowning the pain with filth
Frivolously obsessed
Comfort commodified
Cravings commercialized
Trifles displacing bliss
Carelessly claim your prize
Mass production satisfies the distended demand
Of the wanton waste of resources this lifestyle commands
Once proud beasts roaming free
Reduced to miserable wretches in factories
Pesticides sprayed on fields of feed
Fattening livestock for butchery
In spite the suffering and the blight
The negligence and oversight
Gluttony singularly rash
The banquet's remnants become trash
Buried in noxious slush
Under a toxic gush
Skies crack and thunder booms
Filth has become your tomb
Struggle all that you might
Never escape your plight
Better to hold your tongue
Acid rain fills your lungs
Mass production satisfies the distended demand
Of the wanton waste of resources this lifestyle commands
Once proud beasts roaming free
Reduced to miserable wretches in factories
Pesticides sprayed on fields of grain
Fattening livestock to be slain
In spite the suffering and the blight
The negligence and oversight
Gluttony singularly rash
The banquet's remnants become trash
Struggle all that you please
Never your sins appeased
Better to hold your tongue
Acid rain fills your lungs
Sucking in noxious fumes
Stuck in a poison bloom
Skies crack and thunder blasts
Inexorable collapse
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avarice
05:20
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Chicanery of the masses grows
Royal dyes for common clothes
Subjugated for their sweat and toil
To scour the earth for coal and oil
Exploited populations on marionette strings
Plutocratic machinations purloin the wealth their labor brings
Worker drones in the factory
Operating machinery
Leading lives of a certain sort
Miserable, laborious, and short
Exploited populations on marionette strings
Serving the only creatures that consume without producing
Corporate greed siphons fortunes from the needy
Capitalistic creed measure growth not quality
Ever as the seed is sown seven billion mouths to feed
Avarice the weed ensuring that the paupers bleed
Skies black with smoke and soot
Trash trampled underfoot
Byproducts of the heedless greed
Footprints which we failed to heed
Exploiting earth's resources for an economic gain
Refusing to acknowledge the destruction and the pain
Wall street grinds to a halt
Silicon valley is a sea of salt
Even kings become refugees
When the oceans start to squeeze
Formerly exploiters find themselves within the thresh
Jockeying in vain against the mob they once suppressed
Corporate greed siphons fortunes from the needy
Capitalistic creed measure growth not quality
Ever as the seed is sown seven billion mouths to feed
Avarice the weed ensuring that the paupers bleed
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animosity
04:23
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Animosity across the aisle
Passions burn but actions falter
Partisan sheep marching in double-file
Towards sacrifice upon the altar
Hurling filth allegiances declared
Each carbon copies of the other
Incoherent guidance leaves us unprepared
As our synthetic arboretum starts to smother
Anger breeds discontent
cracks form in the cement
Foundations turn to dust
Eroding civic trust
Anger breeds discontent
Sowing seeds of dissent
Sovereign schemes atrophy
Unleashing insurgency
Entrenched in cruel relentless turmoil
Exiled upon the frozen plain
Fervors ignited as the sea boils
The veil of morals rent in twain
Wracked against the glacial landscape
Bloodshed without compromise
Scorched by the sun the ice is melting
The platform threatens to capsize
Ceaselessly the oceans' tide advances
Partisans paying little mind
Enslaved in strive surrendering their chances
As the council chamber fills with brine
Anger breeds discontent
cracks form in the cement
Foundations turn to dust
Eroding civic trust
Anger breeds discontent
Sowing seeds of dissent
Sovereign schemes atrophy
Unleashing insurgency
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denial
05:24
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Gone are the days when heretics burned at the stake
Shunned for presuming to learn what the gods had forbade
Students of science denounced as occult renegades
For trying to dispel the debris of the faithfuls' mistakes
Gone are the days when philosophers looked to the stars
Sure of a future ordained by the fates from afar
Reason replaces the mystic with objective truth
Time only tells just how ignorant we really are
Knowledge found deficient of its claim to fame
Power impotently lost to the insane
Level heads elect to utilize their brain
Ignorance elects to cast its ballot just the same
Ramparts of ignorance fall to the forces of thought
Slated to supplant superstitions disciples were taught
Still there are those who insist on denying the lot
Blind to the dangers with which their convictions are fraught
Convinced medicine is all poison refusing the cure
Their world it is plain is not turning of this they are sure
But the worst of the neurotic incomprehension is this
Denying our climate's degrading and living in bliss
Knowledge found deficient of its claim to fame
Power impotently lost to the insane
Level heads elect to utilize their brain
Ignorance elects to cast its ballot just the same
The coffin is closing one foot is inside of the grave
Soon there will be nothing left of our future to save
Knowledge alone insufficient for quelling the flames
Powers that be still contented with playing their games
The moment for action neglected and lost long ago
Paradise lying in ruin the embers aglow
Reckless emission is still adding fuel to the fire
The burning bush shows us our time has already expired
Knowledge found deficient of its claim to fame
Power impotently lost to the insane
Level heads elect to utilize their brain
Ignorance elects to cast its ballot just the same
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destruction
04:09
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We tarnish the world by our presence alone
By the adverse effects of the privileged we've known
We poisoned the oceans to suit our desire
Now we drown in the river of boiling blood and fire
We become the trees we saw fit to replace
Devoured by harpies while rooted in place
The world now devoid of the life we expunged
Into the desert of burning sand we will plunge
Deforestation to make room for raising more beef
Tourism ravaging oceans of their coral reefs
Millions of species are threatened with going extinct
Anthropic destruction is driving the world to the brink
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deception
05:00
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Shills! Leeches living off the blood
Of sovereignty's corruption
Dragging honor through the mud
Deception - blinded by malicious light
Lanterns filled with snake oil illuminating only lies
Knowledge suppressed by wolves in disguise
Selling us out as the jackals claim their prize
Shills! Leeches living off the blood
Of sovereignty's corruption dragging honor through the mud
Deception - blinded by malicious light
Knowledge suppressed by wolves in disguise
Driven by their lust for disproportionate
Capacity to satiate their greed
Resentful of the rabble's cries for decency
Consider heresy by tyrants who would rather see them bleed
Shills! Leeches living off the blood
Of sovereignty's corruption dragging honor through the mud
Deception - blinded by malicious light
Knowledge suppressed by wolves in disguise
The state is under siege by corporate lobbyists
Manipulating facts to fit their schemes (narrative/plot)
On behalf of plastic, lead and cigarettes
And their toxic waste polluting our rivers and streams
But of all the wretched perjury imposed
with its ill effects already brought to bear
Is the understated impact of carbon dioxide
Our climate is fucked and our leaders don't care
Undermining evidence through subterfuge and blackmail
Funding their own fraudulent inquest
Bribing academics who reside inside their pockets
While they intimidate and silence all the rest
Loosening their purse strings for public relations
"It's harmless!" so the advertisements claim
Beseeching us to "Trust the dutch boy and shun old man gloom"
All while fabricating scapegoats to circumvent the blame
Shills! Leeches living off the blood
Of sovereignty's corruption
Dragging honor through the mud
Deception - blinded by malicious light
Lanterns filled with snake oil illuminating only lies
Knowledge suppressed by wolves in disguise
Selling us out as the jackals claim their prize
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treachery
08:29
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Behold the wretchedness entombed on the frozen plain
Witness the darkest sins of humanity embodied by their perpetrators
Treachery not merely against ones kin or king
Betrayal of the future promised unto the children of men
Inviting the malignant spirit of entropy as a guest into the parlor
Fissures desolate the barren landscape as the permafrost thaws
Creatures once encased in ice emerge and bloat with decay
Their sins unleashed as a scourge upon the land
As putrefaction claims the mortal flesh
The burgeoning noxious cloud a harbinger of annihilation
Once atop a throne of blood
Colluding to augment their reign
Rescinding oaths requisite for escape
Now gnashed and gnawed within the vulgar maw
Of the prime evil to which their souls were long since forfeit
*Of the prime evil to which our fate is long since forfeit
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