Ravaged by their words and into their open arms
Like thieves they'll steal your mind and use it to control
An endless sea of faces, an endless sea of loss
Take your plave in line and serve them until the end

Do you think you follow greatness
Do you think you follow the divine

Do you think you are the chosen
Do you think you are the few

A genocide of faith
The faithful wait their turn

Just like slaves... hand in hand
Just like ghosts... souls in hand

You take their lives
You take our hearts
You have no shame

You shake the world
Dramatic stage
For your own gain

You say you're men
We know you're cowards
You pitiful fools
The true strong remain

I feel such pity for what we've become
Our needs and desires... our weakness, our pain

Our need to fulfil, the urges we feel
It weakens our will, it brings us great pain

A flood of hatred surges inside
Control it, deny it... let it run free

I can't run away... I can't hide from myself
It is what I am... it is what we are
Look around and see... pathetic human beasts
We have written our own ending

How can we live with ourselves
Our jealousy, our tyranny
The lives we make, the lives we take
The fools we serve, the fools we are

Brazen in our final days
Our time on top is near an end
It's clear to me we'll never change
It's clear that I will never change
The tragedy of life we live
The tragedy of life we'll see
We call it human nature
The seducer of mankind

Our curse is our own, I know we're to blame
We're born into shame, to live in despair
A flood of hatred surges inside
Control it, deny it... let it run free

I can't run away... I can't hide from myself
It is what I am... it is what we are
Look around and see... pathetic human beasts
We have written our own ending

Don't try to think... Don't try to live your own life
We have you for keeps... Our ways are sewn deep in your hearts and minds

The colours have faded... everything's black
Darkness around me... Darkness inside me

Your blood line stops here... We are your family now
Prepare for the end... a new life awaits us beyond

Like a shadow over mankind
Towering over the light
Love for abuse, can't they see
Humanity struggles to be free

Are you willing to die for us
Are you willing to die with us

Strip us down to nothing and use us as you wish
Like little pawns you move around at your fingertips
We beg to serve and serve you well, you keep us in the dark

Hold us close and suffocate the souls you've led astray

The cycle's complete... the pieces for ruin are in place
Our subjects are ready... to seal our date with infamy

Pull you close to me... I will make you see
Spit my fears into your hearts
feed your minds with my disease

I'll make them doubt themselves
I'll make you loathe yourself

I am the one... creature of moves
Sending my pack out into the world
Those loyal to me grow like a plague

They'll bow in praise of me... they will be slaves to me
I will bring them to their knees
Devoured soul by soul

I'll make them fight for me
I'make them die for me

You'll feed me your young and I take them with pride
I'll offer you some guilt and a lifetime of lies
Let me tease you with wonders and surround you with me
For I shall be your life, and your life shall be for me

Such distance between us, but we know you're here
We feel your presence, it guides us along
But why won't you answer or send us some hope
We'll just keep searching for what we know is there

Why has our day not yet come
We've sacrificed our fathers and sons
We spill blood but shed not a tear
Our anger grows, but so does our fear

Speak to us...
What have we done wrong
We just want to believe
In something larger than life itself
Speak to us...
Let us know your voice
We just want you to see
Our faith is true

The kingdom falls and with it goes the shadow that is cast
It's king alone, to stand in shame, a symbol of the past
The pulse that beat for centuries had died out long ago
And now divided the people see the truth behind the show

Watch them scramble for cover
Watch them try to hold it together
Frantic to stop it's colapse
But change has finally come

Divided it will fall
It's fabric rips and tears
The beating of it's heart
Will never again be heard

Foundation built on the flesh of the past
Twisting its purpose through years of neglect
Conflict of power, true soldiers are scared
A kingdom divided will not stand

Maybe you're no so smart
To look outside yourself
Maybe you've chosen unwisely
In the God you've made your own

I'll be my own leader
I'll be my own saviour
I'll be the strength that carries
I'll be the light that guides... me
I will make you see
Your devotion is in vain
I'll be the one left standing
When all of you are kneeling
And smiling, so content
I'll wipe the smiles off your faces

Don't you dare pity me
I've made my choice and I'll prove you wrong

The greatness you feel, so smug on your throne
Your view of it all is clouded and warped
Clearly you'll see how it unfolds
Brought down from above to see how it is

Don't you feel passion
Don't you know ove
The bitterness that drives you
Will hurt us all

Down with the righteous, down with the liars
Down with the leaders who rape their own men
Down with your idols, down with your ideals
Down with the thieves who rob us of life

King to king, so hungry for power
Fortress to fortress with no ground to gain
On missions of hatred thet lead us to ruin
A course that would change if we bring them down