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Panoptikon Lyrics by Catharsis

Passion

1999

For you who choose bondage, the world is a cage
Paralyzed under their gaze
These scraps of self, they're not enough
But they're all that I could steal
It's easier for you, you don't fucking feel

Do you subjugate our nightmares, bend them to their ends
And they offer to share the dividends?
A place in the shadow of the great guillotine
And are you blessed, in these days of lifelessness?
I'm choking on the rim of your righteousness
Staring through the bars at the worlds we'll never know

Lost in the city, the beaten crowds
Those around you gagged and bound
Smothered, caught gasping in Panoptikon, Panoptikon

Defined by confines, condemned to live these lives
No secrets safe from their eyes
But what goes on in our minds goes on in your hearts
Denied all creation, destruction is our bitter art
We'll slip through the cracks, we're not afraid
For every bent knee too shall break
We'll dance in the shadow of the great guillotine
That does its rhythmic work
On each and every unbowed head
One by one by one

Judgment, are you the sacred and the clean?
One day we'll rise to mount the skies
And tear your gods' towers down
Freedom in the death rows of this machine
No freedom here, living in fear
Until every wheel stops turning
Until every channel goes dead
Until every light goes out
Until every city is burning
Then we'll see some freedom
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"Panoptikon" appears on "Passion" in 1999.

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