Electric Red - Meshuggah

Humanity peeled from our bones

Deprived of integuments that make us real

Shadows of flesh to maintain the system

Our own blood splashes as we kneel

So meticulously machined

Into these obedient devices

Puppets, fine tuned, submissive drones

Replicas of each other, clones

We’re dormant accumulations of flesh

In a crimson filtered twilight

Mute witnesses to the game

Wrenches to keep the bolts of lies tight

We’re the fabric concealing the stains

The red tainted existence

The gullibles to bless your sins away

Rags to wipe your blooded trails

We give in to the atrophy

To the twining of self-thought knowledge

The purpose of the human mind reviled

Everlasting ignorance realized

The scarlet flood that inundates our powerless thoughts

Defenseless minds with the lies overfed

Every thought stained, defiled

Painted the color, the shade of electric red