Primordial conventions fail and fall No longer gripping the minds of men With knuckles and fangs bared The hands that wrought the bones of belief The lips and tongues that forged our reality No longer gripping the minds of men With knuckles and fangs bared The hands that wrought the bones of belief The lips and tongues that forged our reality These patriarchs maddened with power Stricken septic with a virus A pathogen of fear and misanthropy But the infection is subsiding These patriarchs maddened with power Stricken septic with a virus A pathogen of fear and misanthropy But the infection is subsiding Our feeble monarchs reduced to invalids Have been violently usurped and exterminated Scatting Intellect all but erases ideological error Oral history forced to recant under oath Fascist tools of fantasy Giving way under load-bearing superstitions That have halted progress for millennia Loosening their stranglehold on understanding Fables diminished by philosophy Authority proven to be ruse And leaders revealed as confidence men The legions of drones consume the few The mouths that breathed life into conspiracy Ground between the molars of a sinister contraption A mechanized emotion, intolerant to control The larvae consent to consume their queen