The Race - Arch Enemy

I heard there was a place where we’re all one race

Color, gender, age never could dictate

I saw there was a time when we valued all life

Nobody oppressed, everyone had rights

Suddenly

In an age where the distance between us is binary

All we see

Is an internal war, friendly fire in the sky and respect on the floor

Constricting like a heart attack

A mythomaniac on the loose in the streets

Blood boiling with the burning heat

Of caustic defeat, now there’s no turning back

Ha, so we laugh, while the tides all turn

Melting grey matter, voluntarily slaves

Always searching for the one real truth

So we can misconstrue it to suit our needs

Constricting like a heart attack

A mythomaniac on the loose in the streets

Blood boiling with the burning heat

Of caustic defeat, now there’s no turning back

Ingesting, operant conditioning

Divine contamination, like lye on flesh, it stings

Trust your leaders, trust the system, reproduce, repeat

Never question authority, never suspect deceit

Always on the run, can’t remember what we’re running to

Or what we’re running from, but we’re picking up speed

All the books and broadcasts?

Jettison

Without their burden, true ethics are freed

Extract the labels that lobotomize

And you’ll realize, we are all one

Fly or swim, fur or skin

We’re alive!

Abolitionists rise

Constricting like a heart attack

A mythomaniac on the loose in the streets

Blood boiling with the burning heat

Of caustic defeat, now don’t go turning back