Watchtower - Control And Resistance lyrics
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Tracks 01. Instruments Of Random Murder
02. The Eldritch 03. Mayday In Kiev 04. The Fall Of Reason 05. Control And Resistance 06. Hidden Instincts 07. Life Cycles 08. Dangerous Toy 01. Instruments Of Random Murder
Fast, safe, aspirin-free relief
The simple end to minor discomfort Used by millions for years No association with danger Scattered across the land Arose instances of unexplained deaths Autopsies reveal the presence of - cyanide Cyanide Then by coincidence the facts are revealed Connections between the deaths are made Somewhere in the chain from factory to shelf The capsules were tainted We must question the motive of a killer Who kills without vengeance, without apparent reason And leaves death upon the innocent Was it hatred for the entire human race Or an attempt to destroy a corporation? The small bottle of relief - the discolored capsules The acrid odor of bitter almonds Goes unnoticed into the body It is soon absorbed into the blood And destroys the human system The victim falls to the floor And dies in a matter of seconds The search begins as the shelves are cleared The horror spreads through the press The murderer will most likely escape discovery - And perhaps strike again 02. The Eldritch
Twilight undisturbed - a formidable silence
The mind rampant in its solitary depression Vacuous feelings - the sudden strike of fear Drawn into the nocturnal empire A shadow strikes in the absence of light And molds the terror into insanity Hands claw at familiar faces - running from the unknown Is there now something real? Resist the Unseen - the obscure Resist the Panic - painful foreshadowing Destroy yourself - inflicted apprehension Awaken subconscious to the primal fear! Intrusive misery - the darkness closes in Frantic fit of self-preservation Impulsive action - screaming confusion Imagination overpowers reason Now! 03. Mayday In Kiev
In a nation with a dangerous penchant for secrecy
A dread disaster at Chernobyl was concealed As a poisoning cloud spread over the Eastern Bloc Alarming information was reluctantly revealed An explosion in Reactor Four - a fire refusing to cease No containment walls preventing radioactive release Evidence that peaceful technology had gone awry More catastrophically than Windscale or TMI Alert - Celebration in Kiev Under glowing skies - Soviet lies Alert - In nearby Poland A shower of radiation Children iodized Mayday - A day of rejoice A cry of distress Severe political fallout - toxic exchange of words Soviet obscurantism under verbal attack Abroad, outraged countries appeal for information Met with grudging riposte, hesitant placation At home, TASS reports no danger - nothing to fear As deadly elemental isotopes spew into the biosphere Alert - Celebration in Kiev Under glowing skies - Soviet lies Alert - In nearby Poland A shower of radiation Children iodized Mayday - A day of rejoice A cry of distress "The unleashed power of the atom..." - A warning from the past The benefits of technology are reversed by careless human error Science, once a saviour, now an effective destroyer We must apply our knowledge with care Entombed in concrete, Chernobyl will forever remain A monument to the chilling effects of negligence Alert - Celebration in Kiev Under glowing skies - Soviet lies Alert - In nearby Poland A shower of radiation Children iodized Mayday - A day of rejoice A cry of distress 04. The Fall Of Reason
There's a man of conviction who's all too ready for war
There's a man with a number who cannot commit murder And a fallen idea soon becomes suicide Fallen by a decision made without reason why We soon see that war is much too real We soon find that reality is war War of the senses, war of emotion We soon fail to realize - or do we realize too soon? An idea is fallen A face frozen with fear We sacrifice unity We sacrifice safety By agreement we fail So by murder we swear By a bitter mentality The onset of war Is the fall of reason... WAR - dehumanized WAR - we are fighting machines WAR - attack by command WAR - we fall for no reason WAR - what am I fighting for? WAR - what am I killing for? WAR - what am I dying for? WAR - why am I dying? For a government of deception For a country run by madmen For the wealth of tyranny For the safety of those who condemn The fall of reason Is the end of existence The fall of reason Is the end of existence Is the end... An idea is fallen A face frozen with fear We sacrifice unity We sacrifice safety By agreement we fail - we fail Murder - we swear By a bitter mentality The onset of war Is the fall of reason... 05. Control And Resistance
Human influence shapes human thought
Few question, few answer, praising innovation Society seeking conformity Society thriving on regulation Observe and repeat, observe and repeat Maintain the standard Life is simulation, revision and impulse Absence through presence Still there is crime, still there is defiance Conscious and manner scream for diversion Controlled by confusion, confused by control Control and Resistance Control and Resistance Control and Resistance Control! Resist! Control! Resist! At an early age you were forced into submission By your elders and school administration By your peers you are pressed to resist And pressed into rebellion and indecision Now you are food for the mental machine Breeding acts of ignorance and despair Men plotting their own demise Through oblivion, through greed, through hypocrisy Some of us are blind, some of us are frightened And some cynical Contradiction, revolution, controversy, centumacy Self-preservation and malevolence Feed the fear of death Law and restraint in accordance with uniformity In the thick of the fray Yet violence and change by privacy By freedom, we must resist! Still there is crime, still there is defiance Conscious and manner scream for diversion Controlled by confusion, confused by control Control and Resistance Control and Resistance Control and Resistance 06. Hidden Instincts
Maintaining a safe social order
Is one of our system's greatest chores We're afraid to walk the streets alone at night Our society sleeps behind locked doors Lurking beneath the shadow's surface Hiding under exterior silence There exists in every individual The potential for criminal violence Crime after crime - conditioned criminality Timed after time - randomized brutality Reminds us we must live in fear As we are held prisoner by the fear of assault Our freedoms are compromised As we are held prisoner by the fear of attack Our freedoms are victimized A psychopathic killer A common teenage vandal Both victims of instincts They cannot handle A fearful population rests On the brink of insanity An unfortunate aspect of human nature Crime will exist as long as humanity Some find they must resort To predatory ways to survive Some find they must kill In order to stay alive Crime after crime - conditioned criminality Timed after time - randomized brutality Reminds us we must live in fear 07. Life Cycles
One moment's pause
One moments retreat Away from the heat.... The silent surroundings The black of the predawn sky The chilled air of night All give meaning to the sunrise Without darkness What would we know of light? Day turns to night, turns to day A cycle that rules our lives The darkness of night seems distant When the daylight arrives Two steps forward, one step back It's an unbeaten path we tread Sometimes we get blown off track Sometimes we get blown ahead Life's declines precede life's highs Like the lines on a biorhythmic chart Between the lows the beauty lies Don't take your failure to heart We may be dealt some cruel blows By fate's implacable hands Changing the future - changing our goals Laying waste to all of our plans No promises, no guarantees Of a rose-colored existence Progress comes slowly - always met with A measure of ruthless resistance Whether it's the pleasure of success Or the pain of rejection Life doesn't travel just one way In either direction Two steps forward, one step back It's an unbeaten path we tread Sometimes we get blown off track Sometimes we get blown ahead Bitter cold December Spirits - and time - seem as frozen As the icy ground But time will soon fall And march inevitably ahead The world keeps spinning on Seasons come, seasons go As we helplessly watch them fly by But life has cycles we can control In our own hands our destinies lie Life's declines precede life's highs Like the lines on a biorhythmic chart Between the lows the beauty lies Don't take your failures to heart 08. Dangerous Toy
Can a device read your mind?
To be accused of misinformation Is the subject clean, and the machine Guilty of distorted imagination? A psysiological change Assumes relation to the act of deceit Not legally accepted Human judgement is considered obsolete A pleading man resists malicious observation The electric chair misinterprets lies detected A voluntarily accepted examination His freedoms, rights, and privacy neglected Could a dangerous toy be infallible? An assembly in a state of suspense Why should we account for its mistakes And suffer the consequence? A question of control Will produce the fear of anxiety Further abuse of security We ignore implications for a free society The slightest glitch proves fatal - if swallowed Calculated emotions and expressions Claims of accuracy diminish Inconclusive evidence left to its discretion |