Universal Deceit Lyrics

Atomized and enervated
we stumble blindly through the haze
induced to languish in alienation
reduced to wallow in paranoid speculation

Constant cross-talk intoxicates
browbeating the beaten-down
at cross purposes prevaricate
riven, futureless, in enmity we drown

Broken the promise of worldly endowment
unshattered life such a callow conceit
broken the mind of a profligate polity
the harrowed embrace universal deceit

Obscured to us, the threads of causality
seized by the hands of covetous men
moths to the flame of alluring conspiracy
perpetuating false consciousness

Wellsprings of knowledge churn foul with their poison
blurred is the line between wisdom and madness
conjuring myths to lay claim to supremacy
over what soon will be ashes

Lambs to the slaughter along with their scapegoats
satanic mills retch forth effluvia
parasites exalted as apex predators
hurtling towards dystopia

Beggars in the shadow of opulence
lepers in the lap of the gods
nothing left to lose but these onerous chains
will there remain a world to gain?