Something’s wrong with the world
Something’s wrong with the view from here
It’s so hard to explain
The Visions I see are rarely clear
Just below the lie I am sure of hides the real
Reality-We feed machines-with minds in need of worth

Contact made with the truth
Through lines of code on my computer screen
Binary diamonds of proof
Shining stars unlock doors made of dreams
Beyond required imagination hides the hive
Born from AI We live the lie cocooned in lieu of life

With dreams we feed reality
Your fantasy a fallacy?
Imprisoned by your memory…a memory?

There’s no promise of peace
There’s no comfort and no guarantees
Once the systems been killed
We’ll have no choice; we’ll have to rebuild
And life won’t be the pretty picture you recall
But it will be reality and you’ll be free

With dreams we feed reality
Your fantasy a fallacy?
If you could see what I have seen-would you destroy The Matrix?
If you could see what I have seen-would you destroy The Matrix
and try…try…try?
live or die?
live or die?

The god sighed and silence was born
A tortured life is spared of vision
And it’s painful when it’s worn
The cloak of shame spares no protection

His world is made of steel
In his hands he bent the fire
To mold a thing so real
A burning world born of desire

[nakarat:]
His hope was not enough
To fill an empty cup
He simply let it drain into the nowhere
There is no reckoning
There is no bargaining
In symbol rain will fall as he lays weeping

We stand below rinsed by the tears
Unlike rain they bring no healing
Rust corrodes the souls
Of children wrought to match his image
Abandoned with all of his cares
No choice but to wait for the kindness of time
To erase us one and all
To flow like a river with no beginning

Head in hands and weary eyes
The failures scratch and carve the lines
Into the face of one
The lines into the face of none
He sees the world
He sees his dreams
And nothing’s ever as it seems
The promise was so real
Now all that’s left is crumbled steel

No prayers are said in his name
Nobody knew that he ever existed
Alone he accepts all the blame
Plaintively wonders how dreams become twisted
And he waits for another to come
Another, a chance to revive from the nothing
The fabric to weave once again
To forge from the fire his vision of man

Do they lie to you?
Are their fingers bloody?
If you asked questions would you feel the fool?

Mass acceptance
Feeds the flame of propaganda
Do we trust them or are we their tools?

Painting pictures watch them
With their bloody fingers
Smear the message
in our supple minds

Are you sure you’re thinking?
Are you sure you’re seeing?
Would you know the truth?
And could you smell a lie?

Conscious – And the world is dreaming
The dream is death – The dream is death

Official words are spoken
Do you – do you hear the message?
Brace yourselves they say
So you try

When the time comes soon now
Will you wear their colors?
Will your blood spill for them or will you realize?

Conscious – And the world is dreaming
Freedom – Demands an equal price

I’ll fight
I’ll fight
In an Insurrection
You’ll taste the steel of the back of my hand
I’m not dying slowly

I’ll fight – I’ll fight
In an Insurrection
None are free with a king in the land
I’ll fight forever

[solo: JG, BV]

And the godz are sworn to treason
Let the battle rage until the world is free of chains
When the wicked fall may the clouds roar in triumph
And the lightning laugh as it basks in their shame

I’ll fight – I’ll fight – For an Insurrection
I’ll fight – I’ll fight – For an Insurrection