It starts here...
Every year, the same fears
Surround our ears

Cathode
Silver
Liquid
Crystal

How you choose to live?
That's my heritage

How you choose to live?
What you choose to give?
What you lose within?
That's my heritage

How you choose to live?
What you choose to give?
How you fool your kin?
That's my heritage

Each day, a search for what cannot be seen
When one is raised inside a fever dream
Remapping the origin of disease
Just beyond the surface of the screen
Light polution
Smog within the mind
Sonic warfare
Cingulate exised
Spliced together
Taken as perscribed
Resulting message
Over you presides

Pinpointing the bias imbued
The subonscious malice we exude
I'll try to articulate it for you

I'll try to articulate it for you...

Sometimes, to know you is the meaning of endurance

Knowingly expose it for the world to see
An easy, gullible, walking catastrophe
Mistaking a scarecrow for the real mccoy
Well, you're slow to catch on, boy
You're slow to catch on, boy

Don't conclude with a half-second inference
Remain stuck in the privelege of ignorance
Don't just say, "these are the last days"
Your god imbued you with a human brain?

Don't conclude with a half-second inference
To know you is the meaning of endurance
Don't just say, "these are the last days"
Resigned to forever live in decay

I know exactly where you've been
You're the shape of my almost-twin
Would you strip back the armor?
Reveal for whom you'll martyr?
Would you strip back the armor?
Or is this a non-starter?

Knowingly expose it for the world to see
Repeating the malice with a tone of glee
Don't you know you're seated with the hoi polli?
Well, I'm sure you'll catch on boy...

How you choose to live?
What you choose to give?
What you lose within?
That's my heritage

Cross my heart
And hope you die
At the hands of those
Who you decry
C'est la vie
For those who plead
When you respond,
"You're oh so free"

How you choose to live?
What you choose to give?
What you lose within?
That's my heritage

I don't believe in your precidents
And I defy your "evidence"
Just an amnesiac elephant
Trampling us just for the hell of it

How you choose to live?
What you choose to give?
What you lose within?
That's my heritage

Cross my heart
And hope you die
At the hands of those
Who you decry
C'est la vie
For those who plead
When you respond,
"You're oh so free"

It starts again...
Every year, the same fears
Re-ink the pen

Cathode
Silver
Liquid
Crystal

How you choose to live?
What you choose to give?
What you lose within?
That's my heritage

How you choose to live?
What you choose to give?
Every war within?
That's my heritage

How you choose to live?
What you choose to give?
Every single sin?
That's my heritage