[ Subservience ]

If money rules the world

We burn money

Instead of being held

To the notion it means something

Instead of being programmed

Indoctrinated and numbing

A slave that worships wage

For a nation of nothing

 

An empire of violence

Death and destruction

Soldiers made martyrs

To the thrones of corruption

Praised for their actions

A sacrifice in conjunction

For power and greed

Control and seduction

 

Citizens ready

To turn against their neighbors

In support of a law

That draws the State’s favor

That steals away freedom

All strategically tailored

To step into the role

As humanity’s savior

 

Parading as valiant

To be marveled in sight

Just a show of a force

To seem the greatest in might

Rising in power

Fully in flight

Wings separated

To reach far greater heights

 

Sending bombs sailing

Upon those who oppose

Pillaging lands

For the sake of control

While we pledge allegiance

To the seeds that they sow

Pretending we’re righteous

While we all decompose

 

Eroding our morals

Our conscience devoid

Of care and compassion

We are all unemployed

We are all just a ploy

Factions decoyed

A cheap, worthless resource

For the State to exploit

 

That is our future

The path we have chosen

The rejection of love

Embracing hate as devotion

A vague sacrifice

To be slaughtered and broken

A pitiful speck

To be wiped without notion

 

For you would not separate

Your life from the State

And you’ve given to Caesar

Yourself as a slave

With unquestioned faith

To a system of shame

Becoming the vile

In subservience to the grave

 

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