Destroy the Machines

Humanity devours itself alive Forced march down this path of sorrow to an end That doesn't justify Hands chained, running driven upon those that fall they tread Conditioned by a warped value system to not look back, just push ahead Lives of excess, lust and material greed A slave to their own desires, apathetic to those in need Devoid of love, no peace inside Blinded by their manic greed Thoughts consumed with the words of the worthless This is their reality Devoid of love, no peace inside Blinded by their manic greed Thoughts consumed with the words of the worthless This is their reality I have to free myself from all this madness in my struggle to survive As time progresses time reveals the answers At last I break through the surface and come to life Minds filled with turmoil, nothing pacifies Forced march down this path of sorrow to an end that doesn't justify Hands chained, running driven upon those that fall they tread Conditioned by a warped value system to not look back, just push ahead Lives of excess, lust and material greed A slave to their own desires, apathetic to those in need Devoid of love, no peace inside Blinded by their manic greed Thoughts consumed with the words of the worthless This is their reality

Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 25, 2026

Strength, born from pain, beyond that of my flesh Betrayed, robbed and beaten, but not defeated Through my search for allies, I've found myself Persistence is the answer to regain all that was taken Hatred drives me onwards Across the desolation Of dying dreams and failure To find I am my own salvation From the experience of injustice From the horror that I have witnessed Comes the knowledge that freedom Must be won Strangled by frustration No longer will I be my victim My patience is waning, now all it takes Is one spark to set me off I got to try to find some peace And hold that peace inside Before it gets too late Emancipate my mind Breathing life into my visions Forcing them into reality From paradise into the inferno Into paradise, into paradise

Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 25, 2026

Destroy the machines that kill the forests, that disfigure the earth Ecotage when efforts to reason fail and no longer have worth Direct action––the only choice when wild lands are faced with destruction Now is the time for counter-aggression With every day that passes, the assault on Nature accelerates For the industrial nations' excessive ways, this world they devastate Every biome on every continent is under man's attack With everything to lose, we've drawn the line to hold them back New bridges, roads, and dams pave the way to develop what wilderness remains All must be prevented or destroyed for the wild lands to sustain Fighting to save the animals, their freedom is our peace For their habitats' preservation, for the violence against them to cease Earth liberation Through ecodefense To halt the insanity Of the yellow death machines' advance

Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 25, 2026

This is the new ethic Animals' lives are their own And must be given respect Reject the anthropocentric falsehood That maintains the oppressive hierarchy Of mankind over the animals It's time to set them free Their lives reduced to biomachines In the factory, farm, and laboratory Dairy, eggs and meat, fur, suede, wool, leather Are the end products of torture, confinement, and murder I abjure their use out of reverence For all innocent life Wildlife's right to live in peace In their natural environment Without this civilization's interference Can no longer be denied Must no longer be denied To make a civilization worthy of the word civilized The cruelty must end Starting within our own lives Reject the anthropocentric falsehood That maintains the oppressive hierarchy Of mankind over the animals It's time to set them free Veganism is the essence of compassion and peaceful living The animals are not ours to abuse or dominate I abjure their use out of reverence I abjure their use out of reverence I abjure their use out of reverence For all innocent life

Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 25, 2026

Straight edge - the discipline The key to self-liberation is abstinence from the destructive escapism of intoxication I separate from the poison - a mindlessness I've always abhorred Usage will only increase the pain, a truth I constantly see ignored The pollutants that kill the body breed apathy within the mind The substances that once brought release in the end will always confine From drug-clouded lungs and veins, motivation dissipates Imprisoned within addiction Abuse increases until death overtakes Enslaved by concupiscence Promiscuity leads to despair Victims used and abandoned By liars who professed to care Self-exiled from their insanity Striving to attain higher levels of purity The beauty in life is mine to know Amidst the ruin, I survive I've got to stay free Damage everywhere - infections at every turn Through my refusal to partake, I saved myself Abstinence was the beginning What's important is what's done with the freedom Step by step I overcome Alone I climb the staircase to edification

Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 25, 2026

From birth, an existence of agony begins That ends with execution Intentionally infected with diseases To then try to find cures for human Fractured skulls, broken bones, scalded flesh, and blinded eyes For medical research and cosmetic testing animals suffer and die Walls conceal the tortured victims of vivisection Nothing of value can be gained for science or medicine When the price Is a helpless animal's life An animal becomes a subject, their pain a mere reaction Harmless testing alternatives ignored, they refuse to end their profit system The suffering benefits mankind, the excuse for demented scientists Whose brutalization of the innocent denigrates humanity's existence When education and peaceful protest can't bring their liberation The strategy for their rescue changes to militant intervention Every action has an impact, every life saved is a victory The truth known by the caring few who wage guerilla warfare to end this atrocity Severed locks, doors wrenched from hinges The animals' deliverance from torment and captivity Vivisectionists dragged into the street and shot As flames engulf the laboratory Justice's hammer falls again and again until it ends When the price Is a helpless animal's life

Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 25, 2026

Destroyed in the hands of the deranged Mankind's will has been imposed upon the earth As though we were alone and if our actions had no consequences Man crushes all that bars the way On this path to annihilation Taking for themselves while the other inhabitant's lives are given no consideration Inherit the wasteland! Spilled oil contaminates the sea Inherit the wasteland! Poisons fill the atmosphere Inherit the wasteland! Toxins infect the ground Inherit the wasteland! Deforestation scars the earth The rainforests burn Countless animals die We must regain control or there will be nothing left to save The harmony of nature twisted into discordance Left to die in the aftermath of their destructive sightlessness Time is running... Time is running... Time is running... Time is running out

Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 25, 2026

Dependance consumes Controlled and distracted by a self-inflicted sickness With every breath of the poison the habit intensifies and the attempt to stop weakens Filth smoulders in the ashtray as you draw the vileness into your lungs Killing yourself and subjecting others to the air that your smoke defiles Cashing in on a cash crop Cashing in on your slow death for their financial gain They create then feed a carcinogenic addiction that leads to self-destruction Cancer ravages the throat and lungs, a diseased heart fails The pain was avoidable and yet this insanity is accepted as normal The first genuine moments of remorse may be the last seconds of life Coughing up blood, gasping for breath Each one was a nail in your coffin Inhale Asphyxiate

Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 25, 2026

Night of justice, knight of justice Liberation's crusades begun Your laws will have no meaning Past the setting of the sun Demons feeding off of The innocents' pain Generations of oppression One generation will break this chain Emancipation from the Hands of the deranged Vengeance for the dead Freedom for the enslaved From love comes this hatred Feel the rage Antagonist of the helpless Tormented inside a cage I refuse to turn my back I refuse to shut my eyes Steadfast against the deluge Of evil of man's device The quest for their freedom won't cease Until it's won Reconcile your sins Or your blood will have to run You have no respect for life Violence you can understand Your turn to feel the pain Retribution, from my hand! You have no respect for life Violence you can understand Your turn to feel the pain Retribution, from my hand! A bullet for every demon Only your blood can cleanse you of your sin Your actions proved you value Profit over other's lives Images of your mutilated victims As I line you in my sight The wrath of sanity unleashed Justice on Judgment Night

Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 25, 2026

Encircled. Sodom's children on every side Feeding their selfishness with no regard for the pain that their actions bring Forked tongues spill promises of release through submission Through carnal thoughts, their greed or a drug-induced deadened state Pain awaits the fools who fall prey to the lies Time melts their false idols into pools of worthless lead Exhume myself from the wreckage to drag my body free Crawling through the ashes as their profane creation Collapses in upon itself Unscatched. I have not partaken The X symbolizes my lifetime commitment to live free from their poisons I've built myself to last Fortress Time melts their false idols into pools of worthless lead Time melts their false idols into pools of worthless lead Time melts their false idols into pools of worthless lead Time melts their false idols into pools of worthless lead Encircled. Sodom's children on every side Feeding their selfishness with no regard for the pain that their actions bring

Submitted by johnmansley — Feb 25, 2026