To Those That Lead

Thu, 07/10/2014 - 01:11 -- Akston

Leader’s Speech: Follower’s Thoughts

 

Reason is treason : Or so the leader said

Don’t think just feel : That only makes me feel dread

Don’t search your mind but your heart : All I found was blood

Promise land awaits any who follow us : Yes beneath the cypress mud

 

Have faith in those that lead : Should we pray to you as well

I assure we have the best intentions : Then this is surely the path to hell

But disaster is waiting behind every turn : Then should we walk it so blind

Don’t question just obey : So surrender the body by surrendering the mind

 

Sacrifice is what we request : Demand is a more accurate word

A few among you have much to give : So cannibalize the individual for the herd

Love thy neighbor : Even if it's unearned

And love thy Leader : Or at a stake you shall be burned

 

Our way of life is threatened this I’m sure you know : Better so than you

We need your help to protect it : You forget from who

Now remember we have enemies everywhere : Most of them here

But we shall beat them to oblivion : That is what I fear

 

We shall spread our message all across the world : No

Force them to accept it for sake of the boys and girls : No

We know we are right and follow a holy way : No

First though it is cold logic we must slay : No

We : No more No More

Need : Two and two shall make four

Your : Logic shall not be put upon a cross

Help : For individual morality would be our loss

 

To :  I now know why Brutus did fight

Make : To slay the slayer of men’s right

The : The right to think and be free

World : Not simply become a dictator’s puppetry

 

G : We must and shall be freed

O : To harm no one or be harmed by their need

O : So keep your heaven if I can’t keep my mind

D : For I’ll never help to enslave mankind

 

To those that lead without consent

It’s my voice that will dissent

Your morals are yours I know that now

But my own morality shall never bow

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