Citizen Lyrics - The Adversary - Ihsahn

Citizen! 

Whence came your voice 

Your right to speak? 

Is there a purpose to your tongue 

And gnawing teeth? 

I ask thee; 

How deep and hollow 

Is your mouth? 

What lie is too decayed 

For you to stomach? 

With humility and obedience 

You pride yourself 

Evasive and lukewarm 

Until the end 

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Citizen! 

The interdependent morality 

Of your collective 

Made too soft the bed 

In which you lie. 

I ask thee; 

Do you acknowledge 

Your own fragility 

When you sleep 

To server the "Great Good"? 

United in fear 

Lives "hard to bear" 

Illusions that "we are all peers" 

I preach not for understanding 

In you I have no faith 

I spit at you my truth; 

That you are the burden of my heritage. 

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For herein lies the irony 

There is neither room 

Nor air 

For the wakeful fire 

In your precious world 

Of equality 

Citizen! 

You are truly faithful 

To tradition 

When you crucify 

Those whose voices burn 

Alas 

A hundred years from now 

You recite and corrupt 

Their epitaphs 

To crucify another.