The Unbridgeable Chasm - Misery Index

These images of the television heads

Spouting promises that disappear in days

Move and shift as we cross the Styx

And the carnival slips out of town

Past ideas never did us anything

The rolling stone of progress flattened us

We move and shift as the Rubicon laps

At the fast of the masses that never return

You quench your thirst with ashes

You plant your seeds in sand

And watch as weeds devour

You pride these institutions that glorify disease

One thousand knives have stabbed

The backs of those you’ve deceived

You can’t get there from here

The beaten path’s a dead end road

Burning bridges coming down again

We hope and pray for a leader to come

Our new world man realized

Is the jackal enthroned with his suit and phone?

The financial demon’s arrived

Hype and praise for the avaricious way

All sacrifices must be made

Get in line and put the noose on your neck

There’s plenty of rope for us all

You think you make the difference

Yet you ingest their gruel

And reek with stench of profit

You pride these institutions that glorify disease

One thousand knives have stabbed

The backs of those you’ve deceived

You can’t get there from here

The beaten path’s a dead end road

Burning bridges coming down again

The crowd is shifting the target’s getting closer

The bastard smiles with his sinister grin, yeah

It’s retribution, no mercy ever given

The wolf is howling as the sheep devour