Panoptikon

For you who choose

bondage, the world is a cage

Paralyzed under their

gaze

These scraps of self,

they're not enough

But they're all that I

could steal

It's easier for you -

you don't fucking feel

Do you

Subjugate our

nightmares, bend them to their ends

And they offer to

share the dividends?

A place in the shadow

of the great guillotine And are you blessed,

in these days of lifelessness?

I'm choking on the rim

of your righteousness

Staring through the

bars at the worlds we'll never know

Lost in the city, the

beaten crowds

Those around you

gagged and bound

Smothered

Caught

Gasping

in Panoptikon

Defined by confines,

condemned to live these lives

No secrets safe from

their eyes

But what goes on in

our minds goes on in your hearts

Denied all

creation, destruction is our bitter art

We'll slip through the

cracks, we're not afraid

For every bent knee

too shall break

We'll dance in the

shadow of the great guillotine

That does its rhythmic

work

On each and every

unbowed head

One

by one

by one. Judgment

Are you the sacred and

the clean?

One day we'll rise to

mount the skies

And tear your gods'

towers down

Freedom

In the death rows (death

throes) of this machine

No freedom here,

living in fear

Until every wheel

stops turning

Until every channel

goes dead

Until every light goes

out

Until every city is

burning

Then we'll see some

freedom!