The Seed of Destruction
[Intro]
The walls looked permanent
Until the pressure spoke.
[Verse]
They built towers out of hollow steel
Smoked cigars and rolled the dice
Selling futures to the broken
While setting fire to the ice
Every lie required another
Every mask another face
Every layer of deception
Pulled the structure out of place
[Pre-Chorus]
You can cut out every tongue
You can bury every scar
But corruption writes its signature
Into everything you are
[Chorus]
The seed of destruction
Was hidden in the crime
Every fracture growing wider
With the pressure of time
Now the empire’s being shaken
From the inside out
And the enemy was hidden
By the weight of your own doubt
[Interlude]
[Verse]
Synthetic screens kept glowing
Selling dreams and dopamine
People dancing in the ruins
Of ancient Babylon’s machine
Truth became like options
Exchanged on the trading floor
Every soul that still remembered
Was a timeline to ignore.
[Pre-Chorus]
Creation never forgets a debt
Which comes as no surprise
You can distort the field for ever
But distortion can never stabilise
[Chorus]
The seed of destruction
Was hidden in the crime
Every fracture growing wider
With the pressure of time
Now the empire’s being shaken
From the inside out
And the enemy was hidden
By the weight of your own doubt
[Bridge]
Round and round
the vortex’s turning
Everything corrupted
Is made ready for burning
[Final Chorus]
Because corruption breeds collapse
Like rust beneath the skin
A fish rots from the head down
So corruption can never win
The signal’s moving through the field
Like fire through a heap of cotton
And every kingdom built on theatre
will finally be forgotten
[Outro]
The collapse had already begun.
Can you feel it?
Copyright Taun A. Richards 2016