BENEATH THE MASSACRE LYRICS

1. Rise of the Fearmonger

Falling victim to
A usurper reaching the highest rank
Elevating his privileges to new heights

Rise of the fearmonger
Thriving on misery
Prowling and searching for victims, weak minded
Fear caused immobilism
Embracing escapism

Spreading fear while preparing for war
Deceiving a captive audience
Hanging
Hanging on every word that slips from his lips
Trusting a traitor
But the narrative suits them so well
Falling victim to an upstart with a fitting narrative
Falling victim to hate
Falling victim to an upstart with a fitting narrative
Falling victim to

Rise of the fearmonger
Thriving on misery
Prowling and searching for victims, weak minded
Fear caused immobilism
Embracing escapism

Oh, the demagogue's endless speeches to
Excuse the
Incarceration by millions to protect their peace and security
Confinement is the costly price that is paid
The price that is paid
The price that is paid

Falling victim to
A usurper reaching the highest rank
An upstart with a fitting narrative, falling victim to

2. Hidden in Plain Sight

A manipulated opinion
Meticulously directing reactions towards a patsy
An easy prey to the vultures
What shall be the sacrifices?
A manipulated opinion
A stretch of the truth leading to preemptive strikes
Proxy wars in a post-colonial chaos
Intentions hidden in plain sight

Perpetual war
For perpetual profits
Peace is nothing but the time war takes its breath
As long as armed conflicts generate profits for the belligerents
And the blood spilled never their own
The blood they spill is never theirs
Perpetual war
For perpetual profits
Peace is nothing but the time war takes its breath
As long as armed conflicts generate profits for the belligerents
And the blood spilled never their own
The blood they spill is never theirs

Reactionaries
Fulfill
Their ever so predictable role
Reactionaries
Fulfill
Their ever so predictable role and believe
A lie so colossal
No one could have the impudence to
Distort the truth so infamously
Introducing the new enemy of the free world
What shall be the sacrifices?
Another funeral
Ritual for collateral casualties
Intentions hidden in plain sight

Reactionaries
Fulfill
Their ever so predictable role
Reactionaries
Fulfill
Their ever so predictable role
Another funeral
Ritual for collateral casualties
Intentions hidden in plain sight

Whether the conflicts are real or not
Their casualties are
Whether the conflicts are real or not
Their casualties are

3. Of Gods and Machines

Ignorance became strength
Synthetic standards, bastardized existence
Dystopian nightmares became reality
A reinterpretation of wisdom
Speaking tongues, newspeak, speaking nonsense
Without the words to define the framework, a
Slave to numerical empires
Stock index dictatorship by unknown
Incorporated identities

An illusion of structure without future
What's influenced by whom never been so enigmatic
While
While building machines
Repressive technologies of control
While building machines
Repressive technologies of control

Mechanistic
Mystical structures
Scream your ignorance louder
Won't make it right
The logic
The last one to talk is always right
No? Now isn't it how it goes?
Scream your ignorance louder
Won't make it right

An economy of ignorance
An education in mass destruction
Specialized in bio-uniformity
A reinterpretation of wisdom
Speaking tongues, newspeak, speaking nonsense
Without the words to define the framework, a
Slave to numerical empires
Stock index dictatorship by unknown
Incorporated identities

An illusion of structure without future
What's influenced by whom never been so enigmatic
Empty knowledge to facilitate thought control
Abusive concepts
Instructed to accept domination
Empty knowledge to facilitate thought control
Enforcing mechanistic mystical character structures to better feed the masters
Of gods and machines
Gods and machines
Gods and machines

4. Treacherous

Late night abduction
Succumbing to the whispers
In an unknown language
Yet you understand
And walk the path his hand indicates
Destination unknown
Should you know, you'd be more scared
To follow is unsafe
To resist is futile
There will be

No justice, no peace
No freedom without equity
A deconstruction of
Your notion of free will

Complete self-revolution
It lives deep down inside
And feeds off your hopes, passions
And yearns for freedom
It's stronger than this
Than this normalizing power
It lives deep down inside
And feeds off your hopes, passions
And yearns for freedom
It's waging a war at this normalizing power
It lives deep down inside
And feeds off your
Not to listen, it would be treacherous
Not to listen, it would be treacherous

Now that you hear it
Let it heal you
Now that you listen
Let it consume you

5. Autonomous Mind

A hymn to the rarest of all
One who dared to descend
Survivor of depths
Perhaps not even born yet
Perhaps never will

Just another failed attempt at realigning realities
Visceral disgust follows all day and haunts the sleepless nights
Dissociation
Deprivation of anything worthwhile
Existential crisis
Exhausted mind from cultural lifestyle
Equilibrium between excess and selfish apathy

Survivor of
The deepest of the mind
Resurfacing
Empty handed

A paradigm shifts
A paradigm shifts

Survivor of
The deepest of the mind
Resurfacing
Empty handed

Gods are long dead
Killed by the hand of mankind
Now witness the death of man (Death of man)
Inaugurating nothing
The act of killing
A mythology before creating a new causes an
Ideological vacuum
Don't fear the void
All alternatives long gone
Fill this void with (This void with)
With everything there is
To reach awareness
Of whom you're subjected to
Is to become an
Autonomous mind

6. Return to Medusa

If your eye causes you stumble
Gouge it out and throw it away
Ignore self-amputation
Find out what causes you pain

Witness biological degeneration
And rigidity of the body and mind
Contemporary inflicted stigmas
Self-made obstacle to self-acceptance

Through a mutual agreement
Liberated from an indoctrination
A psycho-sexual warfare
And who are they to say what's immoral?
With such an abusive past
Who are they to say?

Origin and destination
Return to Medusa
Abandoning self to life
Origin and destination
Return to Medusa
Abandoning self to

Refused biped commodity
Obscene gesticulation
Exchange of body fluids
A prehistoric cure for a modern disease
If your eye causes you stumble
Gouge it out and throw it away
Grotesque self-amputation
Is what causes you pain

7. Bottom Feeders

Burning bridges and building walls
Weakened by individualism
Victim of mass paranoia

Short leash and thick walls
Nothing can penetrate their primitive intellect
Carrying
Carrying dead men's luggage
No hate and no love
No passion and no pulse
An envelope without its content
Both hands busy carrying
Carrying dead men's luggage

Black or white and Manichaeism
A comforting over-simplification
A nightmare for everyone to see
Another victim of absolutism

They're brutal behind the social mask
They wear at their mundane events with enemies
And they'll sink like a rock thrown into the sea
Their destructive lives will be forgotten

Somewhere between a monster and a coward
They once were victims
They once were victims, now executioners
And it's far too easy
Far too simple to hate what they don't know
They fear what they don't know
They don't know what they
Devour
All the pleasure they encounter
And mistake
Mistake it for well-being

Black or white and Manichaeism
A comforting over-simplification
A nightmare for everyone to see
Another victim of absolutism
Let them sink
For they are bottom feeders
Let them sink
For they are bottom feeders

8. Absurd Hero

Aware of the absurd without opting for death
An absurd hero
A cursed level of consciousness
The certainty of a crushing fate
Doomed
And realize that it hurts

Oscillating between absolute unknown and this harsh reality
Condemned to this vile existence
Yearning for unity and cohesion, facing silence
Unreasonable silence of the world
When facing its tragic accomplishments
Conscious and convinced it is worthwhile
Tantalus' grasp does not reach
Scratching this itch endlessly

An absurd hero
The certainty of a crushing fate
Doomed
And concede that it hurts

Yearning for unity and cohesion, facing silence
Unreasonable silence of the world
When facing its tragic accomplishments
Conscious and convinced it is all worthwhile
It's all worthwhile
Worthwhile

Exhale
Inhale death
Exhale
Inhale death
Tantalus' grasp does not reach
Scratching this itch endlessly

An absurd hero
The certainty of a crushing fate
Doomed
And accept that it hurts

9. Flickering Light

The brighter they shine, the darker their shadow
In which wealth is created
Industrious efforts conceal, protect returns on investment
Aiming at perpetual growth
With the foolish belief one day it'll trickle all the way down
The brighter they shine, the darker their shadow

Overabundance for a chosen few
While global impoverishment
The tragedy unfolds while some make profit on it
The baseness of mankind has another chance to shine

An unheard plea for cleansing by fire
In these desperate times, one can now only hope
That the higher they will get means the harder they will fall
The harder they will fall

Aiming at perpetual growth
With the foolish belief one day it'll trickle all the way down
An uprising is awaiting
Time waits for no man and tides are now slowly turning to black
The brighter they shine, the darker their shadow

Up till
Up till their downfall is provoked
Set ablaze
Up till
Up till their downfall is provoked
Darkness

Hostages of a destructive ideology
Outnumbered oppressors
The brighter they shine, the sharper their teeth
They used to abused the oppressed while they sleep

An unheard plea for cleansing by fire
This flickering light is the glimmer of hope
That the higher they will get means the harder they will fall

The harder they fall
The harder they fall
The harder they fall
The harder they fall
The harder

10. Tarnished Legacy

As you unconsciously run towards your bitter end
Oblivious of what you are
Oblivious of what you've done
The end didn't always seem to justify the means
Your tarnished legacy

Denial
Living your life in denial
To preserve
Your lifestyle, you preserve this pain
Violence, empty promises, false hopes
And venerate fake idols leading towards extinction
Towards your extinction

Now are you willing to read between the lines?
A last glimpse at your wasteland will convince you
Your patrimony is evil
Your fear of death brought you to your knees
And your last prayers fell upon deaf ears
And your bloodstained heritage
Will speak for your whole existence

As you know he can't be fooled
And you sure reaped what you sowed
But you can't fool yourself any longer
Where you're going you can bring none
Bring none
And so it ends
In a free fall going nowhere fast
Enjoy the calm
Stare at the blue sky in the eye of the storm
Eyes wide open
Passive passenger going nowhere fast
Blue sky
Nowhere
Embrace your self-delusion
Embrace your self-delusion
Embrace your self-delusion
Embrace your self-delusion







BENEATH THE MASSACRE LYRICS