Necessary Suffering

Then without a whisper, the skies of the earth turned black

Cracks in the order appear, as the end time call resounds

All logic swept away, just so their profits can be made

Still their ships set sail, on plastic seas exhaled

And death fuels the dream, as children slave in sites unseen

Luxury exceeds, and above all, wealth decrees

"This land is yours to reap, and human life is always cheap"

Still their stocks will rise, as billions swarm immobilized with dread

Their behest, rights of men, arcane laws, dividends

Septic cults, cryptic tools, praise the palace fools

Sycophants, tow the line, speak in tongues, orphic rhymes

Black and red, bleeding cash, nothing here will ever last

And each and all must know their place

Nothing here to contemplate

Fear and death, dearth and rot

Few will have and many will have not

It's necessary suffering

From servitude to severity

This sacrifice and savagery

It's necessary suffering

Scorched earth, bread lines, Shenzhen suicides

Caustic, dead frost, insect holocaust

CO2, salted wounds, surplus opportune

Work drones, solar winds, the work of progress has no sense nor end

It's necessary suffering

From servitude to severity

This sacrifice and savagery

It's necessary suffering

All lives, disposable, like cattle for the abattoir

So it goes, ashes to embers all

Embers to ashes

It's necessary, so necessary

Suffering