Decline and Fall - Misery Index

Captivate, prevaricate, the worst is the yet to come

Just zero-sum directives, from silver forked tongues

A monumental fall, I stop, stare and contemplate how it ends

Crushed in-between, underneath the wheel

Do I have a future, in this desert of the real?

Slow atrophy, schizophrenic dreams

Do I need a conscience in this nihilist regime?

Sowing seeds of distress

Left, right, through the center

Reveal the hidden hand

As it propagates vicious and false, invective

Decline and fall, the spear of Osiris

Decline and fall, the kiss of oblivion

Decline and fall, the cult of deception

Decline and fall

No ties that bind, except the will to live

Do I have a reason, something more than hate to give?

Apex achiever or food for the worms?

Will I even care once this world begins to burn?

Sowing seeds of distress

Left, right, through the center

Reveal the hidden hand

As it propagates vicious and false, invective

Decline and fall, the spear of Osiris

Decline and fall, the kiss of oblivion

Decline and fall, the cult of deception

Decline and fall

In this dead institution, nowhere to go but down

Another day in the status quo

Another drop in the well of wasted hopes

Orphans in narcosis, longing for a past that never was

You’re all dead to me, as lifeless as a corpse ground to dust

Insects, entombed, the woe of time and doom

I spit and curse each day I walk this blighted earth