::you are being lied to:: -(Words)

A Voice To Preserve

Take every word as a voice to preserve
This mystery that remains for me still

Here's another day,
One more hour to while away
And sit. And think.
And do nothing for no one

I'm tired of this.

You Are Being Lied To

This is the sound of a culture being drowned in it's own scum
This is the sound of a culture being drowned in it's own scum

You're being lied to by those who should protect you

This is the sound of kicking and screaming into the night
This is the sound of kicking and screaming into the night

You're being lied to by those who should protect you

A parachute for the cliff that comes with your tomorrow

You're being lied to by those who should protect you

Everything You Thought You Knew To Be

You're running in circles
Not choosing your battles
You thought it was simple, but it's not
Forget what you've been told
And take off your blindfold
Just see things for what they are and nothing more

Fall away from everything you thought you knew to be
And be free
Now

The same conversation
Just a different person
Believing in your own impotence
Not knowing the limits
A plant here without roots
We are asleep now, like you even cared

Fall away from everything you thought you knew to be
And be free
Now

Principles Are A Luxury

Why care for anything but your survival?
The whims of fools will serve to stroke our egos
Somebody prays for violence
Somebody's gonna die
Somebody craves forgiveness and
Some of us will be denied

It's all gone, they've all gone
Thank everyone, now I can be left alone

(Self) Principles are luxury
(Love) Only those who let you down
(Is) Disciples of an accident
(True Love) Selflessness is a lie

Do you care for anything but your well-being?
It's the same rain that dampens the old and the fresh-faced
And something's bound to give way
Something burnt at the stake
Something like the nothing of before
But will you listen to a word I say?

It's all gone, they've all gone
Thank everyone, now I can be left alone

(Self) Principles are luxury
(Love) Only those who let you down
(Is) Disciples of an accident
(True Love) Selflessness is a lie

Perception Management

What were we fighting for?
A simple view obscured
It's out of our control
I'll whisper then I'll shout
There's comfort in my name
It's something never owned
Lies numb beneath the waves
Of what we have been told

Black is closer to white
Than it has ever been
I guess you must be right
When two and two is five
I never said a word
How could you lie to me?
I guess you must be right
Perception management

A rainbow redesigned
In subtle shades of grey
Tomorrow seldom shines
So sing for yesterday
There's comfort in the hope
That something can be gained
From loosening the ropes
And breaking down the chains

Black is closer to white
Than it has ever been
I guess you must be right
When two and two is five
I never said a word
How could you lie to me?
I guess you must be right
Perception management

Like Vultures

Breathing in the city life eternally
Drowning in a sea of vacancy
Ideas are dangerous when it comes to success
Your quick fix leaves me pitiless

And you announce your beauty
Like vultures 'round a dead beast
A play on your fear
Your saviour is your fear

The malaise of the loner is reality
The group smiles common treachery
The race to appear the most faceless
A blunder of a smile, you're useless

And you announce your beauty
Like vultures 'round a dead beast
A play on your fear
Your saviour is your fear

Have My Sympathy

Scream, hoping someone will hear
Cultivating our fear
And sell it right back to us
Breathe, like each breath is your last
Leave this land to the past
And hold on tight to what you have

Have my sympathy
Ask no more 'why?'
And crawl right back to comfort
Be my everything
Ask no more 'why?'
A mirror is a crystal

Sleep, with a sword by your side
Fertilising denial
And lending it authority
Drown, in a pool of desire
Spitting out your anger
At something that you call your own

Have my sympathy
Ask no more 'why?'
And crawl right back to comfort
Be my everything
Ask no more 'why?'
A mirror is a crystal

On and on and on and on
Dry your eyes, it doesn't change

Rainbow In The Night

I see it in your eyes
A violent desire
For completion
A final act of
Desperation

Might as well not exist
Like a rainbow in the night

Fade away
When silence is spoken the facade remains
Always
The death and night and the spilt blood

Always and never
Flowers harvested
Just like hope
I dream of
A sleepless night

Your hands tied at the wrist
An arrow in your side

Fade away
When silence is spoken the facade remains
Always
The death and night and the spilt blood

Chairman of the board, come on board
You're like a rainbow in the night
A frightful parasite
But back to the brown moor
And the grey dome that feels like home
And back to the pitch black
Of the tunnel where you saw the love you craved for
And back to the viaduct
Over which so many live have been cut short

Fade away
When silence is spoken the facade remains
Always
The death and night and the spilt blood

A Prayer For Death

Just remember we are your vacancy
Just remember we are amnesia

A prayer for death at the Vatican
Electroshock any ill feelings
Insomnia will plague your dreams and
What you have is what you are
(Blood and puss, two pigs fucking
A sudden rush when no-one's looking
You'll never miss what you will never have)

Just remember we are a consequence
just remember this is no coincidence

The Question Has Changed

Everything you've ever done and all you hope to be
All of the plans you make
Restless as you lie awake
The book collection on your shelf you'd hope she'd see
And all the hours spent searching for something to believe

I heard a story that this wouldn't always be
Something would happen that would shake these city streets
I don't know how or when, but surely it must be
By war or by disease

None of this will matter in a thousand years
No-one's gonna sing this song
As civilisation disappears
Don't be so serious
When nothing's changed
Just keep on playing all of your favourite games

So picture all your passions being buried in the sand
Labeled incorrectly in a language you don't understand
It takes much more than clever words to show you care
So when that day comes best be sure that nothing's left unsaid

You'll find that time is growing faster every day
You'll see the barriers are standing in your way
You'll find the answer, then you'll find the question's changed
Well isn't that the way?

None of this will matter in a thousand years
No-one's gonna sing this song
As civilisation disappears
Don't be so serious
When nothing's changed
Just keep on playing all of your favourite games