Like Drowning

Blindly follow Blindly follow Blindly follow Blindly follow Come one, come all, come pestilence Misplace your faith in ignorance  Feed the beast sat on your back It claws, it bites The centre cannot hold Malignant Self-destructive conditioning  Suffocates us all Pierced the heart like splinters What have we become We swim In an oceans breadth of misery With no hope And no purpose We swim, We swim We swim, We swim Until we sink beneath the surface All of our yesterdays Their false promises Burn like a fuse Things fall apart Like they always do Despair Despair You'll find no mercy here In times of turmoil  Innocence is the first against the wall Call - on your dogs Howl How they come running Addicted to the scent of war We sink In an ocean's depth of misery Seeking peace beneath the surface Flogging a dead horse In a futile performance Hands blistered Eyes sunken Lifeless this feels like drowning Repent Repent Sack cloth and the ashes of the penitent Why seek redemption When there's no one listening anyway Call On your dogs Howl How they blindly run into the mouth of war Into the mouth of war Suffocate Your empathy God forbid you risk your neck To show humanity Here's another hand to bite Here a splinter for your eye Calloused hands wrapped around your throat And a thorn in your fucking side Lie You wear failure like a fucking virtue Lie Blind faith, hive mind, hive mind, hive mind Repent Repent Once again they call We drown  In the depths of misery Find peace beneath the surface When will it end?