Smear Campaign

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As always, the will and desire Passed off as a fault of the unlearned As always, the will and desire Passed off as a fault of the unlearned Sink fast, let go Sink fast, let go Sink fast, let go Sink fast, let go Sink fast, let go To live this, but not to subscribe (to God) Means we can halt our own rapid decline To live this, but not to subscribe (to God) Means we can halt our own rapid decline Sink fast, let go Sink fast, let go Sink fast, let go Sink fast, let go Sink fast, let go No product of an almighty here Cast in no creators' image Trust in our own complexities To exit, not degenerate What joy to linger Sink fast, let go At behest of the appointed Sink fast, let go Dregs for the appointed No product of an almighty here Life's not precious at its fringes He didn't help you through trials and tribulations So you can't bar the exit door Scream out for shutdown Sink fast, let go At behest of the appointed Sink fast, let go Cling for the appointed Dregs for the appointed Life pushes major choices And this is the most informed We do as we please Dregs for the appointed Dregs for the appointed When all we finally possess Is the shadow of our former self We do as we please Sink fast, let go

Submitted by Pestilence — Apr 24, 2025

Though we later may walk In a valley in a shadow of death What should we logically fear? Perhaps the complacent urge for a deity To make us whole and guide us through To fulfil an image that is cloudy at best Where was the help previously When appeals went unheard? Huge effort expended in devotion For nothing in return Grimly clinging, predetermined To prop up an image that is cloudy at best Resigned rigid, predetermined To covet a vision that is forced on the rest Life becomes an exercise in cutting down your options Existing becomes a joyless parade to the end Life becomes a platform from which to attack free thought Existing becomes a prison where self-discovery's forbidden The fatalist The fatalist Any fool starting afresh would surely ditch this After two-thousand years of schism Only irreligious hearts can do the saving Life becomes a platform from which to attack free thought Existing becomes a joyless parade to the end The fatalist

Submitted by BloodShrine — Apr 24, 2025

Automatons strayed from their flock Cast as the embodiment of ruination Resounding words from God And words are all they ever are Astounding deeds from faith That never quite astound Moral yardstick beats us senseless Observe some wills being broken Blocked: the clear sight Resounding words from God And words are all they ever are Astounding deeds from faith That never quite astound Better an outcast than a forced sycophant Better a head free from religious checks No protection - oh well, take a slow sexual death No salvation through safe birth control (!) Same sex, different habits - who gives a fucking shit This won't make the species unfurl Better an outcast than a forced sycophant Better a head free from religious checks Slavishly steered by redemption Stricken by biblical wrath When solutions lie in compassionate logic Not hearsay but the will of man Slavishly steered by redemption Stricken by biblical wrath When solutions lie in compassionate logic Not hearsay but the will of man

Submitted by NecroLord — Apr 24, 2025

Blindness feeds the world to madness Faith's crumbling, there's no doubt about it Religion and science fighting a new kind of war Helpless - wander the streets in desperation Fearless - to the path they tread Shameless - the powers that butcher Ignorant to the deeds that they commit When all is said and done Heaven lies in my heart No slave to beliefs that propagate pain When all is said and done Heaven lies in our hearts This life is a gift to be lived and loved Fracturing the structure of nature Iconic catalysts to slaughter A stalemate bursting bound by contradictions Heartless - divine blueprints of hatred Selfless - Diseased master plans Shameless - the powers that butcher Ignorant to the deeds that they commit When all is said and done Heaven lies in my heart No slave to beliefs that propagate pain When all is said and done Heaven lies in our hearts This life is a gift to be lived and loved Decoded treachery, shielding the tyranny Black Bible tyrants behind masks of righteousness Relentless - the onslaught of misunderstanding Descending into a unified chaos One more chance for a shot at redemption Lost within, can we summon the might? When all is said and done Heaven lies in my heart No slave to beliefs that propagate pain When all is said and done Heaven lies in our hearts This life is a gift to be lived and loved

Submitted by The Void — Apr 24, 2025

Mandated since none of them knew How to transcend moral codes that are presumed Unthinkable? Inconceivable? Cower in a corner and keep the heresy stowed Freedom is the wage of sin Freedom is the wage of sin No universal (theoretical) force of influence Should dictate behaviour that we can't handle ourselves Freedom is the wage of sin Freedom is the wage of sin Permission - the abdication of our self-determination Think... think for a minute Of centuries of perpetrating Bloodshed, deception, oppression Bloodshed, deception, oppression Bloodshed, deception, oppression Think... think for a minute Of centuries of subjugating Martyrs superstitions Martyrs superstitions The evidence is damning and conclusive - That intervention Is not advancing or easing hardships Still we're strangely so duty-bound Mandated since none of them knew How to transcend moral codes

Submitted by Celtic Frost — Apr 24, 2025

Ethically aligned to the cause - Or so I thought A cause that decried the exploits Where masses are coerced Often, social justice is a cynical smokescreen Only at their bidding, only at their bidding Close-circuit reach - don't overstep my boundaries Such boundaries that crumble under order Sincerely you serve your own ends - Do as I do I can't tell my left from my right - Corruption blurs Face the wrong direction And we risk containment Whilst they sanction murder, whilst they sanction murder Close-circuit reach quickly erases all travesties Such travesties waved away with feeble ease It's adjudged to be uncivil You should be at a lower reach Bound over Because open thinking is an act of complicity Leaders are leading by example 'Rights' and 'wrongs' on a sliding scale Sit atop the order of importance You too can reap the power harvest It's adjudged to be uncivil You should be at a lower reach Bound over Because open thinking is an act of complicity The 'deviant' young get in the way We become suitably distraught Whilst their judges take lives near and afar And reap the power harvest Power harvest Power harvest Power harvest Power harvest

Submitted by Pestilence — Apr 24, 2025

In and out of boxes And herded into packs Get swept away on a current of mediocrity Of mediocrity Forcing pleasure visually, not offending their ears - How tedious Maximum restriction, minimum enlightenment - How tedious Approval to be worthwhile Toiling to make the grade Don't relax on a wide view Seek pardon toward the grave In and out of boxes And herded into packs Get swept away on a current of inadequacy Of inadequacy Swallowing what's 'right' and 'wrong' Grasping the unproven rule - How tedious Approval to be worthwhile Toiling to make the grade Don't relax on a wide view Seek pardon toward the grave Living to actually live Mercy without faith's weight I'll relax on the wide view No apologies toward my grave Drudgery prevails on the checklist of faith So little time given moral restraints Cut loose the sinners who can barely be named Drudgery prevails on the checklist of faith Drudgery prevails on the checklist of faith Drudgery prevails

Submitted by Dahmers Fridge — Apr 24, 2025

Fly their flags upside down Then watch the sky come falling in And ranks will swell to quell These separatists And our identity crisis This great identity crisis Traitor to 'my people' No, you're a traitor to yourself Enslaved by hierarchy Demanding dues Through this identity crisis This clear identity crisis Going down on one knee To bear the load of some inglorious burden Acting accordingly hastens death to the individual Going down on one knee A traitor to yourself You roam in packs Smash the fringes to remind the nation-led Of us 'fifth columnists' And our identity crisis This clear identity crisis Going down on one knee A traitor to yourself Going down on one knee To bear the load of some inglorious burden

Submitted by Pestilence — Apr 24, 2025

Chained and shackled, besieged with mistrust Life a handout that pushes its luck Betrayal a virus that hides in us all Buried deep down where integrity has drowned Oppression ruled by bloodshed Is this the feeling of a shattered existence? Bound and gagged, no value or use Unjust enforcers policing the truth Visceral dictatorship stripped to the nerve Designs of entrapment that fake its concern Oppression ruled by bloodshed Is this the feeling of a shattered existence? Punished or purified - who has the answers? Deliver us from a shattered existence Morality poured down the drain Sickened from the germs of our atrocities Chameleon serpents breed in the corruption Ground down in squalor Their negative bacteria thrives on the innocent Ground down in squalor Cancerous corporate elite Deliver us from a shattered existence Shattered existence Instincts of fear awakening our resistance Marauding hordes Instincts of fear Marauding hordes Deliver us from a shattered existence Shattered existence

Submitted by Corpse Defiler — Apr 24, 2025

Don't look upon the spoils with accusing gaze Don't insinuate that this stranglehold should really break Don't jab conspiratorial fingers in that direction Don't hold up to the light their dregs of purified poison Gently you'll be dissuaded, brought around Don't work out that the suffering mind knows when to die Don't drink from jewelled chalices and wonder why Don't steal back from exploiters that stripped you bare Don't arrive back to thinking that he's got your share Somehow you've been dissuaded and shut out Objections raised all softened to a murmur Wanton blasphemers shrink down in this vacuum Loudest base pleasures stifled to a whimper Colour and shade is so bland in this vacuum Loudest base pleasures stifled to a whimper Colour and shade is so bland in this vacuum Repentant - you've been muzzled in their open arms Repentant - you've been muzzled in their open arms Repentant - you've been muzzled in their open arms Repentant - you've been muzzled in their open arms Repentant - you've been muzzled in their open arms

Submitted by NecroGod — Apr 24, 2025

Absorb this, relent Approach this in a trance Monoliths raised - oh aching faith Monoliths blotting your landscape They'll try to coax you in But they'll never snare your mind They'll try to cast aspersions On your failing, godless life Stare with indifference into the invisible eye Who so died for many sins - Those were theirs, not mine They'll try to flail you With a blast of righteous air They'll try to break your stride Until you really walk the path of the damned The Pentecost, no testament Could complement my consciousness They'll move to turn you Against yourself and where you stand They'll isolate you To the point where non-compliance equals banishment Theorise, marginalise, chastise Theorise, marginalise, chastise Theorise

Submitted by Grave666 — Apr 24, 2025

Believing is deceiving The Earth is to be scorched Doctrines crushed underfoot - The very doctrines that perpetuate your cult Archaic ways that would take the place Are just an inverted spin on the regimented code Divisive and regressive from the harmony of all Must shoulder the fallen The weak are not mere fodder And that's what's called free-thinking - Distanced from all gods Demagogue, demagogue Distanced from all gods

Submitted by Infernal Flame — Apr 24, 2025

Roll out a yarn incessantly Tracing the thread to where? Deaf and dumbstruck - Plugging up holes with dead air Gone deaf and dumbstruck More piety to dumbfound us When they can't wave the head of the prophet Natural life needs some spin Deaf and dumbstruck - Inanimate myth gets an in Gone deaf and dumbstruck More piety to distract us Deaf and dumbstruck Try to walk with some proof before you can run On all the conjecture embraced with aplomb Try to walk with some proof before you can run On all the conjecture embraced with aplomb Come enthrall us Come enthrall us Miracle workers - these false orators Set back life itself with fairy tale laws Miracle workers - these false orators Set back life itself with fairy tale laws Come enthrall us Come enthrall us Gone deaf and dumbstruck More piety to distract us Dumbstruck

Submitted by MetalElf — Apr 24, 2025

Trodden down like shit underfoot Be the downside to others upsides Last one to the table - just starve You'll get what you're given You'll get what you're given This is set in stone from the ivory towers Perception above all - When you're face down in the dirt Irreversibly persona non grata - A figure off ill distinction Persona non grata - The place for blame diversion No matter the plaudits I earn The whoring and scoring for points To strive to be superficial I'll live by your status This is knowing your place beneath the ivory towers Not a going concern But a lowly beast of burden Irreversibly persona non grata - A figure off ill distinction Persona non grata - The place for blame diversion

Submitted by Morgoth — Apr 24, 2025

Cheated the way from fringe to elite Clique of stylists Rounded illogic skipping a beat To a dead cert Dry-heaving charges and bursting the abscess With a forked tongue Bloated with courage And spewing with cloying self-importance Drop your targets Aim sights lower Leave unblemished those with real power Drop your targets Aim sights lower Leave unblemished those with real power Smear campaign Cheated the way from fringe to elite Clique of stylists Rounded illogic skipping a beat To a dead cert Stroke two faces Nests to feather Leave unblemished those with real power A thousand cuts Beat yourself proud Leave unblemished those with real power

Submitted by Cyberwaste — Apr 24, 2025