Fucked into the world Broken to obey command Plugged into the stream Programmed as seen on tv No identity syncing to society Slaves to the routine Force fit into the machine Sleepless eyes desensitized Destroy the dreams of our ambition Herded to assimilation Devoted to the preselected Idols, gods and politicians Welcome to the culmination Of centuries buried beneath us Ignoring distant warning signs Deny our imminent demise The past returns to lead the way To drag us down into the grave Welcome to the end of days Welcome to the human race In our darkest age We're arrogant and so afraid Hide behind outrage Passive aggressive ignorance Voyeuristic state Cannibalize our private lives Unsustainable Victims of our own free will Suffering comfortably One on top the other we rip and claw To reach the peak and challenge god The sound of voices echoing Confused, enraged and harrowing Welcome to the culmination Of centuries buried beneath us Ignoring distant warning signs Deny our imminent demise The past returns to lead the way To drag us down into the grave Welcome to the end of days Welcome to the human race Suffer the times Suffer and die Welcome to the culmination Of centuries buried beneath us Ignoring distant warning signs Deny our imminent demise The past returns to lead the way To drag us down into the grave Welcome to the end of days Welcome to the human race We follow and don't even know They’re guiding wherever we go

We’ve exhausted all options Persistence won’t alter our fate The face of damnation our own Pointing the finger but we are alone Now we are searching for answers Which side brought about our demise No trials before execution The blood of scapegoats runs right back to our hands Lead the procession March the backward progression Dig up the bones of our ghosts Excavating the graves where we buried the past The seeds are sown Roots burrow Deep and strong The future is set in the past And has grown from the shit and shadows Now we are turning back We dig in our heels as we look to the past A new generation of reverse evolution We raise bastard children to be afraid And so it remains the same Politics, religion, divisions of hate Their existence discriminates against your beliefs Yet we won’t take a stand when our heroes disgrace Lead the procession March the backward progression Dig up the bones of our ghosts Excavating the graves where we buried the past The seeds are sown Roots burrow Deep and strong The future is set in the past And has grown from the shit and shadows So what becomes of our history What will be told of our legacy Are we doomed to repeat it The backward progression Seeds are sown Roots burrow Deep and strong The future is set in the past And has grown from the shit and shadows

They prey on superstitions The prejudice of ingrained fears Their past casts no reflections In a stain glass broken mirror They come to prey and they come to take They come to guide the end of days We are just pawns as they lead us on They set us up and we go along Show us your faith Nailed to your fate Will you be saved? By the dirt of the grave There are no gods but those who stand in their place And those who worship at their feet praising their names And they pray for the rain As the world goes down in flames they pray And they'll share in your pain When we all have to suffer and die to be saved Our childhood superheroes Flawed identities exposed Our own ravenous egos Feast and pick apart their bones We play a roll believe what we're told We follow close under their control To dominate they separate They plant descent and manipulate Show us your faith Nailed to your fate Will you be saved? By the dirt of the grave There are no gods but those who stand in their place And those who worship at their feet praising their names And they pray for the rain As the world goes down in flames they pray And they'll share in your pain When we all have to suffer and die to be saved Show us your faith Nailed to your fate Will you be saved? By the dirt of the grave Exalt the kings of revelations

This life has come and gone Leading you along Question right from wrong As your final breath is drawn Your faith in disbelief Nothing as it seems Something like a dream But when you wake you will believe You have been deceived Put your trust in me Give your life in faith Counting down your days See the forest from the trees Burning gently in the breeze The shepherd takes away Disciples of the grave A fire's burning bright In heavenly skies Embers fall to ash Glowing corpses light the path Breathing in the air Sulfuric atmosphere The whisper in the wind Brings you closer to the end You have been deceived Put your trust in me Give your life in faith Counting down your days See the forest from the trees Burning gently in the breeze The shepherd takes away Disciples of the grave You sold your soul away Sing praise You lived your life in faith To be raised You bide your time for an afterlife Promised by those who have never even died

Fire trails the sky Above the midday light Death upon a pale horse rides Eyes that paralyze Bring judgment from on high And feast upon the breath of life Flesh stripped naked Mutilated No salvation From god's damnation Stand before the purifier Cast your faith into the fire Nail the words of crucifiers Into the hands of your deniers Tear thine eyes away The wicked hand betrayed Cast them all into the flames We are still alive Disemboweled to hear our cries We will burn and never die Flesh stripped naked Mutilated No salvation From god's damnation Stand before the purifier Cast your faith into the fire Nail the words of crucifiers Into the hands of your deniers Everyone that you condemned Now you join in punishment Looking up as you descend Through the eyes of the damned Stand before the purifier Cast your faith into the fire Nail the words of crucifiers Into the hands of your deniers

Tear down the sun in the sky Descending endless night Bring down the moon and the stars Suffocating the light The fires rise burning bright Blood boils flesh ignites Consuming our dreams with decomposed hellish sights Eternal sleep coils around as it holds you tight Nothing remains It goes away Everything fades It burns away There is no salvation By fire light The mountains reduced to dirt Devoured up by the earth The ground gives under our feet See what awaits beneath The fires rise burning bright Blood boils flesh ignites Consuming our dreams with decomposed hellish sights Eternal sleep coils around as it holds you tight Nothing remains It goes away Everything fades It burns away There is no salvation By fire light It burns away By fire light

Born in the blood that courses our fate With preexisting limitations Programmable flesh and bone Created in our own image Raised to submit Learn where you fit Through subliminal indoctrination Dividing us all by our own free will With calculated manipulation Through emotions Through devotions To love To hate Obey Defy the preconceived Exist outside beliefs We are the architects Of the advent paradigm The meaning of our existence Burns on the promises of our beliefs We created the gods and the devils beneath To make believe we are inferior beings Reinforced acceptance ingrained Within the hive mind mentality Persecuted because another exists Their truths are our lies And will bring our demise Through emotions Through devotions To love To hate Obey Defy the preconceived Exist outside beliefs We are the architects Of the advent paradigm We dreamed of our creation Discovered the bounds of our universe Inside the mind of the beholder's eye Slaves to our own flawed design Defy the preconceived Exist outside beliefs We are the architects Of the advent paradigm The advent paradigm

Shadows shape manipulate The dreams of fears conquered are reborn They dissipate as day breaks But they won’t ever go away You can stare into their eyes Confront the demons of the mind Or satisfy their appetites But you won’t see the other side We build these walls we climb alone Just as high as we will fall We Survive this fragile life Just to die by our own hands It comes to us in dreams It comes when we awake It comes to take us away It's just a matter of time We keep silent Hide in plain sight We face the day and the night As we run for our lives Looking to the sky to find the reason why Try to justify unanswered cries So we cut off the world and sever all our ties All while reaching out through drowning eyes This life gives and it takes everything away Unrepenting moments caught in time You can watch the world leaving you behind From beneath the current of passing time Animal survival Left to fend for ourselves in this world They can see we are drowning But turn and walk the other way We can live forever in The darkened prison of our mind But our own pride is still alive And won’t let us reach to confide We build these walls we climb alone Just as high as we will fall We Survive this fragile life Just to die by our own hands It comes to us in dreams It comes when we awake It comes to take us away It's just a matter of time We keep silent Hide in plain sight We face the day and the night As we run for our lives Looking to the sky to find the reason why Try to justify unanswered cries So we cut off the world and sever all our ties All while reaching out through drowning eyes This life gives and it takes everything away Unrepenting moments caught in time You can watch the world leaving you behind From beneath the current of passing time

Where do we go from here There's nothing more to fear There's nothing left for us out there We face another day Find another way We are all that still remain Of another time Another way of life We can leave it all behind There is more than we know Between our flesh and bones That has still not yet been shown And the day has come With the setting of the sun By our hands, thy will be done And what will we become When tomorrow never comes My god what have we done All the signs all this time We walked blindly into the light We follow one and all Embracing the fall And what comes after it all Those who sell you dreams Promise inner peace The morality of belief And those who sell you fears To make you insecure Doubt yourself when you're unsure So we follow a straight line That gives us peace of mind Never knowing what we left behind The meaning in our lives A heaven in the sky They were always in plain site And the day has come With the setting of the sun By our hands thy will be done And what will we become When tomorrow never comes My god what have we done All the signs all this time We walked blindly into the light We follow one and all Embracing the fall And what comes after it all And all the graves that lie in wait What seems like fate was always preordained

This is the bright future we were promised American dream preserving the impoverished De-education generation dominant Deaf, dumb and blind arrogant and proud of it Suffer the child that's born any different Tortured and beaten learns to have to tolerate it Anger that grows inside of frustration Hidden from sight manifests aggression Lay them all to rest In the earth's caress Pay your last respects Blessed is he who dies for god and country Praying to make it home to friends and family Sacrificial lamb lead out to slaughter Piece of the soldier shed over and over Bleeding the hand that reaches for salvation Guilting weary souls into confession Exploiting the trust ingrained in blind devotion Accepting this life that's theirs is not their own Lay them all to rest In the earth's caress Pay your last respects Close your eyes Find yourself before the crosses We still deny The horrors they serve to remind Death is not blind It only takes what it left behind So bear your crosses And then some sunny day The rain comes down And washes it all away Now there’s no one left To mourn the graves Of all that still remains Dust and bones Ash and stone Overgrown We reap what we have sown Left to roam We grow old Cast aside Until we're outgrown So what's to follow And what becomes of this Are we so hollow That we can't change what is These lines we've drawn out They can be erased Following heartbeats Of our past mistakes We still deny The horrors they serve to remind Death is not blind It only takes what it left behind So bear your crosses Close your eyes Find yourself before the crosses We still deny The horrors they serve to remind Death is not blind It only takes what it left behind So bear your crosses This is the bright future we were promised The american dream of the impoverished The suffering we have always tolerated This is the god damn american way