Lyrics

There was a time we dare not rustle a whisper
When fear of speaking thoughts inside made a man disappear
Wiser now, the words we read make it much clearer
All aware the show is staged, for the machine we rage

Invoke a trial, legitimacy’s the oil pumping
The churning machine of all that we have ceded to the state
Look in your eyes, face the chasm of spiritual demise
Do not stray from the herd, do not stray from the lies

And you cry, “but what can we do? We haven’t the strength!”
But the circle’s not closed, there’s one thing to do
A pathway to truth in our days


Live not by these lies
Open up your eyes
End this compromise
Open your eyes (open your eyes)
No compromise (no compromise)
Live not by lies

Complicity implied in your daily deceit
Permitting their rule hold through all the lies laid at your feet
Like parasites, surviving only tethered to a host
Do what helps them the least, do what hurts them the most

Inside beats a worthy heart deserving to feel cleansing rain
If we consent to evade the truth, then let us cease to complain


Live not by these lies
Open up your eyes
An endless compromise
Open your eyes (open your eyes)
No compromise (no compromise)
Live not by –

“And as for him who lacks the courage to defend even his own soul, let him say to himself plainly: I am cattle, a coward; I seek only warmth and to eat my fill”

Eat your fucking fill
Cattle
Eat your fucking fill
Cattle
Eat your fucking
FILL
CATTLE
FILL
CATTLE
FILL
CATTLE
COWARD
CATTLE

All the breath that I have left I will commit to choose
To reject the chances every day to distort the truth
Only way we have left to live a remedy
Let these lies, let lies hold not through me

Live not by these lies
Open up your eyes
We’ll end this compromise
Open your eyes (open your eyes)
No compromise (no compromise)
Live not by lies

Live not by lies

Live not by lies