Dancers to a Discordant System (15th Anniversary Remastered 2023 Edition)

Listen to the hit and tell

The essence harmonizing and still find

As we dance to the dance of X-ray

The choreography refined

We're all subdued and shackled

Reason washed aside

Pledging our love to the chase

Our ignorance ever amplified

Blooded hands leave the walls

We're trapped in the atom to spoil

Still we set the show

A continual mold

And dance to a distorted system

We accept the nails that fed

Lives sharpened to bleed us silent

Muted from the pains

Defiance employed in vain

Any attempt to leave the dance

Invisibly suppressed

Questions unasked, we learn the steps

Eyes shut like all the rest

Unsuspecting, willingly controllable herd

Born cynical, we gain contempt by our true trust

Dominate, compliant and deceptable

Convinced that we matter, we then seek and crave our best

Coveted to lie, we're carefully

Cannot no longer comprehend

We're all asinine drones

Kept in the dark, kept in line

Confined to the rots of wasted

Withering in toxicity

Condemned the ships of deceit

Now we are reek of complicity

Barred from breath to unleash

By the weight of our own guilt

Our hands unfeast the callous to injustice

And inhumanity

We dance to our pleas

Complete in stupidity

A cured traitor, toilet plate

Now pushed back to the machine

Still we stand in line for the next show

The human mind, liquified

Worn away but stupefied

Dance to a distorted system

We believe, so we're misled

We assume, so we're played

We confide, so we're deceived

We trust, so we're betrayedWe believe, so we're misled

We assume, so we're played

We confide, so we're deceived

We trust, so we're betrayed