Malignant entity; hand in hand with death Created a God to ease the guilt of all our ills Created a Devil to take the blame for all our sins An imaginative safety blanket for when we cease to exist It seems living as who we are has no more meaning There's nothing that shows stronger when we give up so easily Burned away into the void's endless days With only a cynical hope to remain A maddening infection to the brain Existing solely in the imagination And with this virus we are broken And with this illness we are gone We are broken, we are gone Minds lost to the madness within Never to return to what they held at the beginning So deluded in our quests to be known by name You do not see the truth of our submissive plague Birthing our defenceless offspring into life as slaves Trading their lives away One step closer to satisfaction One step further for gratification One step closer to satisfaction One step further for gratification All were basking in the overconfidence and selfishness that sees these acts as divine But now we've had enough, it's time for the machine to die Because you've finally realised you now mean nothing more than a lie Here we lay; aware of the coming pain Pleading for God to take us away Yet there is no answer to our shame (to our shame) Even for those who do not believe An urge to find out why goes on Searching what feels like forever and a day For that last caress of death's embrace Fanatical devotees consistently falling to their knees Shouting to the heavens Crazed and full of a life of the wrong kind Rioting with an endless frenzy in the streets With this faith we aren't chosen In this place, oh, we are broken It is not until the world goes to war yet again This time with destruction at the touch of their fingertips That a means to an end finally becomes reality Melted, imploded by the searing heat Region after region of the Earth bombarded over and over again There will be no safe places left after this Cracked and deformed are the spirits that dwell within Just the same as what lies beneath Cracked and deformed are the spirits that dwell within Just the same as what lies beneath Will the time come after so long in waiting? Billions of voices, hands and eyes to the skies, wanting Standing upon the barren ground they destroyed, yearning Crying, screaming, longing for the ultimate end Cracked and deformed are the spirits that dwell within Just the same as what lies beneath God; please The pathetic cries seem to go on forever into the sky When will these creatures realise and recede? That forever does not exist here nor in the heavens They are amiss (They are amiss) Missing from existence Even for those who do not believe They'll still go on fucking crying out Searching what feels like forever and a day For that last caress of death's embrace Fanatical devotees consistently falling to their knees Shouting to the heavens oh lord take me Finding their feet only to keep begging Finding their feet only to keep begging Absolute insanity striving to always believe Even though they know their afterlife is a lie And yet hands remain together in disbelief Inevitably losing what remains of their sanity Leaving these last vestiges of clarity Praying, hoping, crying, begging endlessly Placing all their faith in nothing An uncontrollable sensation begins to take over These conscious minds able to hold themselves no longer Feeling our heels leave the ground beneath All look down to see they stay fixed, still standing on their feet Yet there remains this feeling... Disembodiment of guilty and innocent on a massive scale The final remnants of humanity torn from our bodies All souls will fade into nothing