Hammering the Nails - Misery Index

Calls of distress echo through the maze

Whose name on the list is next?

This caustic derision, the abject dearth

As we collapse in this open-ended cage

Now is all we have

Yet blind we dance into the void

As we follow the one who leads from the rear

Hail to the chief, megalomaniac

And we’re hammering the nails down

As we each die clinging to the lies that hold our world in place

One by one, we reach the precipice

As progeny of vice and avarice

Bleak is the vision, the cult end-time

These are the days of the faithless god

And we’re hammering the nails down

As we each die clinging to the lies that hold our world in place

Rivals, not equals, all against all

Compassion rendered null and void

Breach and division, moral charades

Absurd inquisitions, sanity fades

We fake dissent, we breed deceit

Each fuels the other endlessly

And we’re hammering the nails down

As we each die clinging to the lies that hold our world in place

And we’re hammering the nails down

As we each die clinging to our lies