Tragedy

From hands that beat us senseless come offerings of apparent help From mouths that told judges lies come pleas of disarmament As we lay wounded in growing numbers with explosive fury They fly the white flag at half mast Calling for the laying down of arms...

Clutch our chests and gasp in disbelief Squint our eyes to see, if we missed the fine print to small to read Check our pulses to see if our hearts still beat No help from anyone to help us understand This confusion, this abomination, never ending And as...

beyond darkness + dull despair beneath the sacred plots + fragile thought lay the last vestiges of hope and the loss of defeat no shadows fall at dawn but ash to blackened ground tonight the last light flickers tonight the last light fails black agains...

Mouths hang agape and drool, mumbling incoherent anthems of acceptance and fidelity trained by clever men Hell, hell is here In hidden laboratory backrooms splicing atoms, reducing humanity to a study on a slide with microscopes staring deeper into eyes...

choices are made, their bidding is done capitulation willing, tranquility consumed and so here we are to confront yet again our willingness to accept the fate they are prepared to give pills administered as the i.v. drips the shots are given but the pain...

Born to the sound of gunshot fire, shells scatter the floor and in the distance there's the chiming of bells from empty churches where no one worships anymore and the feeling in the air is a feeling of war You can die in their hands but not of your own T...

When the scientists find our remnants, what will they say? When they find our bloated carcasses ridden with sickness and cancers, what will they find? And what...what will they say? Will they recognize our self-abuse as a product of the abusive hands that...

strung up by the hungry hordes, left to decompose at the feet of sheep, modern day witch hunt barbaric acts, scapegoats for the righteous cause scapegoats for the righteous cause crucifier, crucifier, crucifier, crucifier seek out targets of practice, eac...

embracing the aftershock, prepared for loss stoking the fires of destruction basking in the blistering heat I never think of the future, it comes soon enough we never think of the future, it comes soon enough temperatures rising, storm clouds descend on...

marching in tandem, they come in drones strictly waiting with their strongest intent polishing their guns and boots searching for moments of truth, they wait for direct orders under someone somewhere's sure fire command, polishing their guns and boots an...

like pawns on a chessboard, we are directed shuffled, misplaced and used to build a barrier between madmen and their enemies in the eyes, in the eyes of madmen in the minds, in the minds of madmen peace is a privilege reserved for those who can afford no...

blindly followed out of fear, out of desperation for something more than this the remnants of a life once significant the remnants of minds once thoughtful the remnants of hopes once realized the force of law, the defeating of all life the defeating of a...

Pressure to succeed, pressure Pressures to succeed, depression Pressures to assimilate, pressure to conform Pressures that begin at nine and never end at five Like a vice with a grip so tight we can scarcely breathe With a weight so dense we can scarcely...

they juggle their numbers, they examine their charts the sum of our ignorance, they submit their reports year after year, information is suppressed after years of toil and strife and decades of debate the equation is solved correctly, all scientists final...

pressure builds, ready to blow, flammable device set to explode, ire stabbing, never fades migraine fury, venomous rage, locked and loaded soon the snap, lost sanity, no looking back tolerance running low, day by day impatience grows peddlers of hope prom...

To never give up, to never give in Becomes a vision of impossibility A the bombardment worsens Narrowly defined roles now easier to play To never give up, to never give in To the incessant intoxication of the senses The allure of the machine Is a full t...

Is it violence of our culture of death that keeps us from resolve? Never knowing solace, never knowing peace Or is that culture only a projection of the violence in our minds? Forever seeking fullness but never knowing solace Never knowing peace 

Every last ounce of sympathy, every last bit of emotion Saturated with this bitterness and situations, stacked end on end end on end And tonight there will be no resolve for those who lay awake clutching their children Listening to bombs drop and boots ma...

birthed into a fiery inferno faceless children inherit this hell the modern currency: bomb shrapnel and ammunition shells scattered in the barren dearth and scarred hills where piles of human bones rise up from the arid earth like roots + litter the gro...

Set your channel for imminent collapse no reforms can save us from ourselves a travesty generations old a tragedy written in stone engraved on our tombstones that mark our scars on the earth. Etched in towers threatening to obey the curse the churning c...

No words, no words can explain the anger from years and years of being beaten down No words, no words can relay no words, no words can erase Brainwashed, domesticated, bound in chains No words, no words can relay As the giant steamroller called progress...

We don't want to be the next in line used and abused then disposed of in you assembly line of mass produced homogeneous dreams. We believe none of your promises and follow none of your backhanded schemes. We take none of your offerings we hear none of...

Only a fool truly believes education to be bought and sold yet still we worry about make believe ivy leagues and secret societies of hallways and arches where everyone wins Down here we are assumed insignificant Down here we are assumed defeated 

a barren landscape of a ravaged world forgotten remnants of a savage war vultures scatter, buzzards swarm darkness descending from the heavens' scorn the caches of riches mean nothing now a scalpless skeleton wears the crown empires fall and all are equa...

We have waited, weak + lone for your coming, mighty one our pockets empty, our spirits cold give us glory for blood + gold to the earth their power fades like a dying prayer almost silent whispering: we have been triumphed and anarchy, the skeleton bow...

No motivation, defeat No time left for passion , dictation Pictures in magazines, dissection Pictures in magazines, defeat Lives remain incomplete Defeat 

my mind shut off like a switch on a machine rejecting all pleasure, denying all pain numbing of senses, body decays panic! panic! rabid panic caught in a shadow of doubt and confusion panic coursing through panic veins eager patients, we swallow with eas...

You came for us as children, while we slept Robbed us of our youth, our innocence Don't think that we've forgotten, don't think that we'll forget You, you've got a number, you've got a name You can run, you can hide but never close your eyes Beware the s...

Iam the face of the despondent neighbor I am the face of the disparate masses I bear the weight of my dormant anger I am the bomb that must explode I am the grasp of a malignant system I am the craft of profit addiction I am all attached within us I am...

The skin hangs from bodies that tried to run from a blinding flash The children have no mouths with which to speak, were they ever alive? An empty shell now stands where yesterday a hospital stood, medicating the sick with more sickness? An empty shell now...

This is the end of the last days of mourning One more sad song will be sung The only children of the lost generation Are restless and angry and armed We've watched our loved ones Lose all life and passion Another lifetime is spent chasing The prospect o...

victims shrieking execrations thousands dead from heat prostration frightened by the beast on the other side a mirrored nightmare poisoning blight remedies from the speeches of fools who gave us bandages to cure our disease there will be no morals only...

like prisoners in the perfect jail the workers needn't be watched because they watch themselves not only those who give the orders but those who command what orders to give we are guard and guarded at once status, position, competition, reward we are gu...

a fire sparks inside after a drought was declared ashes once dormant react and ignite chain reaction follows, reaction follows distraction on distraction, no tears will flow tonight the corpse of the vanquished fight comes to life comes to life, what was...

Conditioned inside and out to the point of no return to what we may have been without all this shit we were born into: Poverty, depression, power and despair Conditioned inside and out to the point of no return by a world not crafted by hands of our own y...

Handcuffed and gagged, bled until dizzy Consumed with fatigue Acquired from years of crawling Closer to the edge of the abyss Only to be kicked in the knees Dismantled again Our eyes strained, their muscles stretched taut Teased by visions of escaped V...

with step as soft as wind it passed over the heads of men so fast that they felt the presence there and looked and all was empty air and the prostrate multitude looked and ankle deep in blood, trudged along without aim, trudging through the freshly slai...

As we find ourselves barely conscious,we struggle to our knees Looking for a sign that says this is life, and not a dream There is a sign and it read: "hope is the leash of submission" Moral bondage forges its cage, once again filling us with guilt and sham...

discarded rubbish left to dissolve like a castaway stamped as a reject, sworn to reject, you're a castaway no one will have you, nowhere to call home, you're a nameless stray, rules don't apply, no i won't follow i'm no master's slave scarred at birth, blo...

You came for us at birth with your proven techniques for molding model citizens, forced us into compartments where we didn't fit in Brought us with a full schedule of television and revised history classes that had us believing this is "just the way it is"...

the wail of sirens falls upon deaf ears the bombs fall silent but for all to see with eyes wide open we watch in suspended motion we pray as their bombs fall loudly where our silent bodies lay we hug our children + say we hug our sisters + say in plain...

We comprise the backbone of this leprous body, of this life(less) from Ambiguous and vaporous, it moves through us all Saturating all with its foul odor of stale blood and sweat from our tired hands that took out your garbage and swept your floors, fille...

Scientists and profiteers sweat out another year of almost and maybes keeping secrets under lock and key Filed neatly away from those who need, from those who bleed You are a fucking experiment as they claim no cure for their designer disease and while mi...