Earth Crisis
Album • 1998
The end begins around us The signs are too clear to deny As a new millennium begins Once faint hoof beats become clearer An impassable void's creation Between overlords and consumer drones Rushes towards its completion The constitution's ablaze Freakishness becomes normalcy The inverse of morality Abominations praised and met with open arms Rome and Babylon's rise nears its final stage Conform, accept in silence or die in the mob's rage Hostility generated from above Victims pitted against each other Attention's diverted away from the actual antagonists Afflict with sickness to enforce their cure Synthetic peace carved out of madness Is the stage set for the demonic tyrant's rise? More and more technology seems geared to divide, monitor and terrorize Personal freedoms surrendered The means for self-defense given away Marshall law in a new empire Caesar takes his throne Contain, control, to dominate Contain, control, exterminate Contain, control, to dominate Contain, control, exterminate Contain, control, to dominate Contain, control, exterminate Contain, control, to dominate Contain, control, exterminate Contain, control, to dominate Contain, control, exterminate Contain, control, to dominate Contain, control, exterminate
Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 25, 2026
Third world squalor, inhuman conditions Death stalks the have nots through deprivation Open sewers, polluted water, monoxide consumes the air Crowded into shanty structures, born into a nightmare Starvation and execution Starvation and execution Scavenging in garbage piles, emaciated, malnourished Most turn away from those below Pleading for sustenance The horrors, children suffer below poverty Sickness, fear and ignorance, all needlessly Starvation and execution Starvation and execution Lives that deserve a chance written off as useless Police death squads, disappearances Shots in the night, hidden graves; Their victim's only inheritance Discarded humanity surrounds discarded humanity Starvation and execution Starvation and execution Starvation and execution Starvation and execution The murdered slaved or stole For crumbs or drugs to deaden constant hunger To deaden consciousness to the coldness in which they lived From filthy hands to famished mouths
Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 25, 2026
Designed to deceive myths of supremacy A climate ingrained of fear and disdain Spawning murderers since time began Borders redefined, the aggressors rule Demons have their day of every race in every land Survivors of massacres live on enslaved One half of the world in five centuries has been under European supremacist rule Hatred forced into each of all our minds There's still time to set ourselves free Hatred forced into each of all our minds There's still time to set ourselves free Architects of conspiracies created to subjugate Conquered peoples by believing their oppression is divine will Breed the killers of the lies Unveil the truth throughout the past Until achievements are known Until inventions are known Until contributions are known humanity lives in lies Hatred forced into each of all our minds There's still time to set ourselves free Hatred forced into each of all our minds There's still time to set ourselves free
Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 25, 2026
Near lifeless skin stretched over a prone skeleton An image branded for all time within my memory. Pursuit began Seeking pleasure delivered with a price Though an illusion of instant bliss enticed Toyed with what immediately only Overpowered. Chased the dragon thinking that it would not turn to devour Steel driven into skin. Contamination forced in Jaws of death close together. The haze that surges must not win Wither. Body given to the vortex, awake in a synthetic Dream. Time and meaning fades, life drains far faster than it seems Drawn to the brink by thoughts of invincibility to give Into what beckons constantly. Pulled back across the threshold Loved by the ones who helped bring salvation. The future is In the hands of a once self-made victim. Steel driven into skin Contamination forced in. Jaws of death close together The haze that surges must not win. Wither
Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 25, 2026
Legal channels have been exhausted Uncruel alternatives rejected Awareness created and ignored Direct Action is the last recourse Ultramilitance Ultramilitants Salvation of innocents. Intensified resistance Flooded by sabotage disabled whaling ships Sink beneath the waves Strikes against roving murderers Through destruction, innocents persist A rainforest seen as nothing more than an area on a map To be stripped of resources for corporate profit The indigenous cultures and animals are displaced or destroyed Unless bulldozers are disabled to prevent access Ultramilitance Ultramilitants Salvation of innocents. Intensified resistance Forth from cages into the darkness Mink liberated by masked rescuers Laws designed to protect oppressors correctly regarded as worthless Now this war has two sides... Ultramilitance Ultramilitants Salvation of innocents Intensified resistance. Wreck!
Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 25, 2026
Cut to pierce and flood, held it back as long as I could Coldness spreads within me now. Crushing in and Smashing down. Crushing in and smashing down Grab for myself or endure a living death Into the fray with pure commitment I must, I will. Despite all odds, despite the obstacles Despite all odds, despite the obstacles. Crushing in and smashing Down. Crushing in and smashing down. Cut to pierce and flood Held it back as long as I could Coldness spreads within me now. I must, I will
Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 25, 2026
Instinct, survivalism. One against all, against one The living now envy those who perished in ruins The brutal live on in competition. Death's masterpiece nears its completion Left in the aftermath. World War Four, survivalism One against all, against one. The living now envy Those who...those who perished. Adapt to the harshness or become one with The dust. You adapt to the harshness Adapt to the harshness or you'll become one with the dust Adapt to the harshness or you'll become one with the dust Adapt to the harshness or become one with the dust Adapt to the harshness or become one against all Armies of the world clashed against each other as it had been prophesied Severed heads, adorned pikes stark against the barren land The horror of all horrors when the warheads detonate Will this be mankind's fate brought by hi-tech Barbarians. The law of lead now reigns...
Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 25, 2026
The drug related homicide of a nation as society is plagued by mass addiction The numbers culled eliminates competition Pulling others in as the caskets lower down Caustic chemicals open early graves. Caustic chemicals Open early graves. The drug related homicide of a nation As society is plagued by mass addiction. The numbers culled Eliminates competition. Pulling others in as the caskets lower down Caustic chemicals open early graves. Caustic chemicals Open early graves. Toxins used to numb, to tranquilize Those afflicted left institutionalized. The drug related homicide of A nation as society is plagued by mass addiction The numbers culled eliminates competition Pulling others in as the caskets lower down
Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 25, 2026
Masters in microcosms of instantaneous Program the programmer to program Produce to pay for necessities and Luxuries. Function in every facet in total willing isolation What will become the difference between the operator and the Machine? Until complete automation leaves them obsolete Tracked from the heavens by the gods of this world. Laughter fills Glass towers. All is seen by unseen overseers As boots crush down slowly onto throats All to maximize net gain the Unpoliceable funnel spews misinformation Yet most embrace the invasion, the strangulation of liberty itself Peering forward Into the evolution as the latticework of our future rises around us A cage to imprison the eventual outcome Unknowing inmates on the grid for execution Function in every facet in total willing isolation What will become the difference Between the operator and the machine? Until complete automation pushes them into obsoletion Phased out to maximize net gain Subvert or this will be the end
Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 25, 2026
12/31/99. Well into the "Age of Aquarius" Will humanity correct its wrongs or is it the last light Into a vast reign of darkness? Set into motion, slowly unmasked One transforms into the other. Rights stripped into Nonexistence. Until shackles lock together A labyrinth of plots within plans. Devised for global depopulation Eaters breed eaters no longer, no longer soon Introduced to be transmitted from one to one Germ warfare and death camps, the harbingers Of mass annihilation. Behind it false gods view themselves as divine Morality dismantled through time. Behind it false gods View themselves as divine. Morality dismantled through time To perpetrators, merely numbers unfit to be slaves. Corpses to Be bulldozed into mass graves. Has the death rate solution begun? A labyrinth of plots within plans. Devised for global Depopulation. Eaters breed eaters no longer, no longer soon Introduced to be transmitted from one to one. Germ warfare and Death camps, the harbingers of mass annihilation Has the death rate solution begun?
Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 25, 2026
There's no time to waste, I won't hesitate, too heavy a toll's been paid Their escape attempts were just another trade realized too late Evaluated the cost of their lies. Now no more will be lost All the strength it takes on reserve within to save more than myself A distance waits to be crossed. It's all just begun Alive through straight edge Ten hits rain down for every step that I advance Smashed down again and again to rise to stand. I save my tears for the Living. I hold my rage for the last day. I save my tears for the living I hold my rage for the last day. A distance waits to Be crossed. It's all just begun. Alive through straight edge Ten hits rain down for every step that I advance Smashed down again and again to rise to stand unvanquished Ten hits rain down for every step that I advance Smashed down again and again To rise to stand unvanquished
Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 25, 2026
Silenced in the roar of the flames After the screams and the dying, nothing remains Desecrated, slashed, burned to the ground In the frenzy of greed, cries of protest are drowned The Earth dies - ecocide! The Earth's forests laid forever to waste Thoughts of the future trampled in their haste Corporations with their dollar-sign focus Ravage the Amazon like a plague of locusts Plumes of black smoke ascend into the sky A forest of beautiful creatures senselessly dies Smoking fields of devastation left in mankind's wake With populations left to grow in greed they justify this rape The power of the dollar can't take precedence Over the inevitable detrimental consequence The time to react is long overdue From protest to confrontation by me and by you
Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 25, 2026
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