Age Of Excuse Iii

Out of howling of prophets

And curses of the righteous

In the ivory halls

A new kind of champion is bred

Herostrates for the modern day

High on good conscience

A noblest of sufferers

On disinformation highway

At the end of the day it's the same old script

Do you believe in victory or do you hail defeat

Those finaglers of justice

Expert wrights in deceit

Carvers of the crooked timber

And their finely tuned farce

Proclaiming anger and rage

Under the mortal threat it thrives

At the end of the day it's the same old script

Do you believe in victory or do you hail defeat

Ersatz revolt

Ersatz rebellion

For a new world would come

Every once in a while

Purer, brighter, clearer, better

And the last of misbelievers

Will be trampled in the greatest of marches

Toward the radiant future

Where sheep are promised fangs

And only after the graves are filled

With remains of dissidents

And the frame of reference is torched

Together with forbidden thoughts

Then, and only then

The disciple is relieved

The true believer has overcome the evils

Of engineering of dissent

At the bottom of things it's the same old script

Do you believe in victory or do you hail defeat

Ersatz revolt

Ersatz rebellion

For a new world would come

Every once in a while

Purer, brighter, clearer, better

Ersatz purpose

Ersatz alliance

Ersatz ideals

Ersatz communion